Star Trek: Discovery

[cybershot]

If you get mega desperate they are on dailymotion. The picture is flipped and the audio slightly higher. I guess to fool anti piracy shit.

 

[Ax^]

I'm using Chrome on a PC. Followed the instructions but can't find the 'trailers' section anywhere.

did you mistakenly download the app for chrome?

you have to log into the main website



slightly old school but the only way to see the extra content

*shrugs*

 

[DexterTCN]

Some people here are making my 24 year old daughter very angry.

She's swearing a lot.

"It's so incredibly simple how could you not understand this?"

"IT'S NOT EVEN A QUESTION OF FUCKING UNDERSTANDING IT....OMG!"

I think she's from the Mirror Universe.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Some people here are making my 24 year old daughter very angry.

She's swearing a lot.

"It's so incredibly simple how could you not understand this?"

"IT'S NOT EVEN A QUESTION OF FUCKING UNDERSTANDING IT....OMG!"

I think she's from the Mirror Universe.

I've been using computers of various sorts for nearly 40 years. I used to play around as a kid with 6502-series assembly language, I've been paid to be an actual ALGOL programmer, I've built complex financial institution software, I've managed the migration of gigantic amounts of data from one corporate platform to another. I've used a soldering iron on more than one motherboard! (Not always successfully, mind)

And yet, the most frustrating task I've found to date is looking for something to watch using Netflix's fucking terrible UI. It is awful. It's worse than Lotus Notes, ffs.

 

[danny la rouge]

And yet, the most frustrating task I've found to date is looking for something to watch using Netflix's fucking terrible UI. It is awful. It's worse than Lotus Notes, ffs.

And the interface is not the same for everyone everywhere: it varies depending on what you’re using. If you’re using the PC app, those shorts are just not there.

 

[Fosters Mackem]

I've just checked on Netflix and they are at the bottom of the episode list on series 2

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Does anyone know what time the last episode is likely to arrive on Netflix? Off for the Easter weekend and that...

 

[agricola]

Spoiler: episode 14

That was great but poses so many questions about what Season 3 is going to be like. Some form of proto-Voyager in which they never get home?

 

[mwgdrwg]

Spoiler: episode 14

That was great but poses so many questions about what Season 3 is going to be like. Some form of proto-Voyager in which they never get home?

It's gonna be shit.

Oh how I wish we could also never speak of it again, and continue the further episodes of Captain Pike and the Enterprise.

 

[cybershot]

Fuck the spoiler tag. Don’t read the thread until you’ve watched the episode......

It's gonna be shit.

Oh how I wish we could also never speak of it again, and continue the further episodes of Captain Pike and the Enterprise.

Ditto. I’d much rather see this, but season three is confirmed.

Personally if the last episode was a movie I’d have thought it was an absolute mess. As a tv episode it still kind of was and overall the story arc for the season was actually quite weak with tons of holes. The final 5 minutes justifying canon and the reason discovery never gets mentioned again etc etc.

Pike the only really good thing to come out of it and probably doubt we’ll see him again now.

I know we’re getting the Picard series that finally moves us on after TNG movies finally but really would now prefer they just did a proper series based 25+ years after nemesis so all the modern tech wonders don’t look out of place. It’s time to leave the world of TOS behind.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

wtf was that blast door made of?

"That photon torpedo is going to destroy half the ship and kill everyone on board!"

"Don't worry, I'll close this plexiglass door and watch from the other side, no problem."

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Series 3 really needs to address the problem of the lead character being the least interesting. Burnham is so dull (and often poorly acted) that you almost want to skip past her scenes to get to something good with one of the 'supporting' characters.

Also, is it just me, or is Michelle Yeoh just awful in this? I don't remember her delivery being that stilted in her film work, and it doesn't fill me with confidence for this planned Section 31 spin-off series.

 

[cybershot]

Also, is it just me, or is Michelle Yeoh just awful in this? I don't remember her delivery being that stilted in her film work, and it doesn't fill me with confidence for this planned Section 31 spin-off series.

If she was on Discovery, then I'm guessing she won't be in it. The end pretty much set up Ash as the lead for that series imo.

 

[steveo87]

Also, is it just me, or is Michelle Yeoh just awful in this? I don't remember her delivery being that stilted in her film work, and it doesn't fill me with confidence for this planned Section 31 spin-off series.

I think the dialogue is just terrible at times, especially when she's trying to be 'evil', it works better when she's getting frustrated with 'prime' morality.

That said, I'm not looking forward to the Section 31 series, either. But only because the mystery that surrounded them was what made it cool, which will be lost if they're in a stand alone series.
A bit like the Borg in Voyager.

 

[danny la rouge]

Spoiler

That was 45 minutes too long. I’m afraid Discovery has been the first Trek to reverse the trend of getting better after the first series. In fact, Spock losing his beard was symbolic: during season 2, Discovery lost its beard.

 

[danny la rouge]

Also, is it just me, or is Michelle Yeoh just awful in this? I don't remember her delivery being that stilted in her film work

The only other thing I’ve seen her in was Snoring Tiger, Boring Dragon. I lasted about 20 minutes of that.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

If she was on Discovery, then I'm guessing she won't be in it. The end pretty much set up Ash as the lead for that series imo.

All the press about it has been around it being a vehicle for her.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

The only other thing I’ve seen her in was Snoring Tiger, Boring Dragon. I lasted about 20 minutes of that.

I've actually never seen the film but liked for obvious visceral hatred of it

 

[DexterTCN]

Well I enjoyed that.

The whole thing basically took place during one long battle, with lots of long takes, some of the scenes were more reminiscent of ER or a show like that. Lots of special effects, expensive ones...and it was the longest episode too at over an hour afaik.

The shot with three panels early on...that's new for ST I think as well. The Inceptiony fight with Georgio, Leyland and Number 1 was really well done too (for a tv show).

"Yum Yum" will stick with me forever.

Tilly was being Scotty.

They've lampshaded a bit but they've tied everything up so it doesn't conflict with canon.

And now Discovery is going boldly where no-one has gone before.

Chen Chang has been cast in Dune btw.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've actually never seen the film but liked for obvious visceral hatred of it

Cheers.

To be fair, fight scenes don’t do it for me. A fight or battle starts, and I’m immediately wondering if I’ve got time to make a cup of tea. So if slow-motion-flying-through-the air-martial-arts is your thing, you’ll probably like it.

 

[cybershot]

Cheers.

To be fair, fight scenes don’t do it for me. A fight or battle starts, and I’m immediately wondering if I’ve got time to make a cup of tea. So if slow-motion-flying-through-the air-martial-arts is your thing, you’ll probably like it.

This so much, the same with space battles, and the main reason I don't bother with Marvel films anymore. I'm dreading the so called '90 minute battle' espisode of GoT

 

[donkyboy]

just finished it. Yes, Michelle Yeo is terrible.

what also makes me roll the eyes is the need for this series to have characters have god awful last minute dialogues between themselves (like the one between Burnham and Spock after Spock lets on his engines are disabled) whilst people are dying in a huge space battle behind them.

 

[donkyboy]

Must also add, the episode looked stunning in HD. Movie quality. must have cost a few millions to film this. Enterprise bridge looks gorgeous. Way better than discovery.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Well, I liked it.

Apart from the usual grumbles about space combat being portrayed like an 20th-century Earth-based naval or air force encounter. But eh, maybe Star Trek universe vessels cleave to the vacuum of space as if it were water or air

 

[donkyboy]

It is amusing that they couldn't just beam the admiral who sacrificed herself, out of the room once she manually opened the door

 

[krtek a houby]

Awesome finale and that line

Spoiler

women, stop talking!

So, it wasn't

Spoiler

the Borg, after all? Guess we'll find out at some stage

Now we know why Michael/Discovery/spore drive is never mentioned in TOS. Clever, dropping all that baggage and really going where nobody has gone before, they manage to break free from all the constraints a prequel can have.

5 stars.

 

[cybershot]

Awesome finale and that line

Spoiler

women, stop talking!

So, it wasn't

Spoiler

the Borg, after all? Guess we'll find out at some stage

I suspect it will somehow go down that route still, probably explaining why the ship in one of the shorts hides itself, in order to not be assimilated into Borg tech. It probably wouldn't at all surprise me if the Discovery crew end up being the first 'humanoid' borg and why they become obsessed with assilimating Earth, what with Section 31 nanobots and what not.

 

[donkyboy]

the rumour is they have gone 900 years into the future. So season 3 gives them licence to come up with completely new story line. Should be good.

 

[SpookyFrank]

wtf was that blast door made of?

"That photon torpedo is going to destroy half the ship and kill everyone on board!"

"Don't worry, I'll close this plexiglass door and watch from the other side, no problem."

And all their techno crap and the only way to shut it is by pulling a handle from the inside?

 

[Lord Camomile]

And all their techno crap and the only way to shut it is by pulling a handle from the inside?

I think that was a case of having an analogue, mechanical backup for when all the tecnho crap fails.