Star Trek: Discovery
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Swear Trek! 
ruffneck23
front left
so fucking cool
ruffneck23
front left
Erm.... 
bemused
Well-Known Member
I'm enjoying the show, it has an added benefit that if you look on youtube there are numerous halfwits moaning about it being very right on with gay characters, a female call Micheal etc. Knowing each episode annoys stupid people is amusing. I'm hoping that they start exploring some of the other people on the bridge, I use to enjoy the soap opera vibe Star Trek had.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
theres loads of right wing trek fans, blithely singing away to bruce springsteen....
Watched the four episodes currently on Netflix this weekend. Although there was a few bits that piqued my interest i'm not hopeful long term. I generally like 'dark' and grim shit but for some reason I prefer my star trek to be somewhat....cosy? My favourite trek times always involve character interaction no matter how cheesy, basically I want Friends in space
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Thought this week's episode was the best yet. It still has elements I don't enjoy, but now the crew are starting to coalesce, it's feeling slightly less awkward. And we have a little of that Starfleet idealism seeping in too.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
better now
quality episode. I hesitate to say found its feet, but finding for sure. Klingon prison bits ftw.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
blates a lead into the evil mirror universe story at the end.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
given what we know of Klingon mating rituals it is standards for the pair to beat the shit out of each other first...
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Swear Trek!
data said shit in Generations
who ever is writing this show, clearly liked battlestar
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
How so?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
how come the klingon guns vapourise a body whole when you get a square shot but somehow managed to cause klingon woman a minor burn
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
this agrees
To the audience Tyler is so obviously a spy that Lorca’s not just callous, he’s a fucking moron. Tyler is played by Shazad Latif, who also plays the albino Klingon Voq. (Edited, 11:05: At some point between writing this and publishing this, the line that Latif had a dual role vanished from Wikipedia. But this theory has been floating around for a while, based on the name given to Voq being attached to an actor with no other credits and Latif’s birth last name being the same as the credited actor.) We do know Voq went to learn skills from the House Mokai—a house with matriarchs, and this ship was captained by a female Klingon who said she trained as a spy and that’s how she speaks English so well. L’Rell also told Voq he’d have to give up “everything” to win the war, and having to look and act human is that, especially for a Klingon who rages against assimilation and who comes from a time when “Remain Klingon” is the slogan of the day. (Also, “The Trouble With Tribbles” featured a Klingon spy made to look human—it’s not a new trick of the Klingon Empire’s.) It’s too ironic for writers to not be setting it up. And so the problem is that telling your audience this much that they figure out the twist early means, for weeks, we’re going to be screaming bloody murder at Lorca.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Star Trek: Discovery star teases character deaths
This says he was originally cast as a klingon but re-auditioned for Tyler, and is happy because it means he doesn't have to faff around with prosthetics.
This says he was originally cast as a klingon but re-auditioned for Tyler, and is happy because it means he doesn't have to faff around with prosthetics.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Gore, guts, deaths, swearing, high production values, untrustworthy characters, lots of subtitles, no obvious good guys.
Stuff like that.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Its a shame the high production values didn't extend to nebulae; that looked like they'd flown into a washing machine filled with shellsuits.
Though whoever came up with the Lorca storyline in this latest episode should get an award, it was as good and as sickly funny as some of the best Hound moments in Game of Thrones.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Enjoyed episode 6 quite a lot. I like that there's a bit more humour, I'm warming to both Michael and Tilly, and Lorca is increasingly interestingly deranged. One and a half
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