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Star Trek: Discovery
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emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
What I don't get is why he would want to go back? It's not as though he is going back with some massive advantage that will let him win this time. He has one ship and crew against an empire.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
But he has Burnham and the Discovery, cutting edge tech and our version of the mirror universe's badass captain. He wants to be Emperor, I'd say anyone with their sights set on that in the mirror universe must be pretty driven, even if partly from the point of batshit insanery.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
That ship can wipe out anything when it's running properly. Single-handedly was winning the war against the Klingons.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
did they not choose to scan the Klingon cloak as that was the war winning technology after they lost the 3 previously mentioned star ships
also now that you mention it was Vog around Lorca Tribble...
might of been sloppy writing if he was
also now that you mention it was Vog around Lorca Tribble...
might of been sloppy writing if he was
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yes. But they chose not to run coz they were protecting the planet, they'd been ordered to leave. They used the spore drive to figure out the cloaking, hacked it then blew the ship(s) up.did they not choose to scan the Klingon cloak as that was the war winning technology after they lost the 3 previously mentioned star ships
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
also now that you mention it was Vog around Lorca Tribble...
might of been sloppy writing if he was
No. The tribble was, we generally assumed, Chekhov's Gun. It's certainly one of the things that added to the "oh yeah, Tyler is so Voq" for me—I was convinced we'd get a scene with him being rumbled by it. That's what makes it all the more amusing—the tribble was a total red herring.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I'd say a fully-functioning spore drive would be pretty damned handy if you wanted to overthrow an Emperor. Especially considering no one is ever supposed to see her. Security must be tighter than a duck's arse. A spore drive would be super handy indeed.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Especially if the Emperor's ship is the Defiant, which is at least a decade more advanced than anything else and which probably has a cloaking device by now.
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Still hating this as a Star Trek fan. It's perfectly fine television, just not Star Trek.
Care to voice a slightly fuller opinion? Not star trek as opposed to all the other series before, which were so similar.
sleaterkinney
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It's the best trek since TNG. By a mile.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
whoa whoa whoa what's all this stuff about Lorca?
The Voq/Tyler bit was obvious from the outset - massively telegraphed.
but I failed to spot anything about any evil Lorcas. What? How? He did smile weirdly at the end, granted, but how are people getting that he's from a mirror universe? He's ruthless, but what else?
The Voq/Tyler bit was obvious from the outset - massively telegraphed.
but I failed to spot anything about any evil Lorcas. What? How? He did smile weirdly at the end, granted, but how are people getting that he's from a mirror universe? He's ruthless, but what else?
A few episodes ago he looked in the mirror and his reflection stayed there after he left.
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I don't think it's that controversial an opinion - it's got the lowest audience approval rating of any Star Trek series on rotten tomatoes, only 55%. The 'twists' are so obviously telegraphed that there are barely any surprises, and the lack of any continuity with the already established Star Trek universe just grates on me more and more with each passing episode.
I'm a huge Star Trek fan, but if you compare this against other contemporary sci-fi on TV at the moment like The Expanse, this pales in comparison.
maomao
普費斯
I think the Rotten Tomatoes thing is a bit of a red herring. There are very few series that come with the baggage that a new Star Trek series does. People who review The Expanse (for example) on Rotten Tomatoes are people who've mostly enjoyed it enough to sit through the whole thing and write a review. The 45% negative reviews of Discovery will mostly be TOS, TNG and DS9 fans who are upset at the lack of Kirk, Picard or Sisko. This is currently the fastest moving thread in the U75 tv & film forum, suggesting that a lot of people are watching and enjoying it. I'm not sure what else a tv programme can aspire to other than to be widely watched and enjoyed.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
That was Stamets, not Lorca.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Stamets is the key.
Isnt that a criticism of the quality rather than its inherent star trekness. There is continuity of estabished star trek universe as well.
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To me it's unrecognisable as something that will become the Original Series and then The Next Generation. They've changed too much of the continuity, visually it doesn't look like Star Trek, and it's lost all of the optimism that every Star Trek series has had up to now.
cybershot
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My mate has this problem, and I tell him to just let it fucking go.
It's 2018, you can't make a show now and make it look like something from the 1950s. Technology has moved on in the real world, we just have to accept the subtle changes and move on and use our imaginations to fill in the blanks. It's TV at the end of the day.
However, it does annoy me they decided to do another prequel. Trek needs to move on beyond Kirk and co, and even Picard. Let's move on, another 80+ years from TNG. Let's deal with the aftermath of Romulus destruction in the prime timeline just before Spock jumped into the Kelvin timeline. New species, new tech. That's what I really hoped for when they announced a new series.
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If they'd set this 20 or 30 years ahead of DS9 and Voyager, I'd have been much more fine with it. Also, Kelvin timeline is shit. Just tell a story in the universe that already exists and stop fucking about with alternate timelines and mirror universes.
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