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Star Trek: Discovery

CGI. Space scenes ace. Federation ship being crunched was wonderful excess for the geeks. Hull plating shearing off. Awesome. Battlestar Galactica really revolutionised pitched battles in space. The exploration craft looked like the Reliant from Star Trek 2. Cool. CGI on the planet a bit dodge with certain backdrops.

Klingons looked cool and anyway they were always being redesigned from TOS to the movies to the later series. Nice baroque regalia and jewellery. Someone's crossed Lynch's Dune costumes with Flash Gordon.

New captain and crew fine. Vulcan/human intersection always at the heart of Star Trek.

Great to see Nicholas Meyer associated with it. Eugene Roddenberry, too. Got him in just for the name?

Now, fuck Netflix. The sound quality is shite. Netflix sound always sucks compared to Amazon (even though Netflix is hosted on Amazon Web Services. Guess they cheap out.) Far too compressed with poor resolution of the centre channel and a lack of dynamics in the surround channels.
 
Yeah it looked like a million bucks for sure. The High Dynamic Range looks great on my OLED TV. The Klingon interiors especially;all that gold really glimmers.
 
Picard's enterprise looks more domestic :)

Not sure the holographic communications wouldn't be somewhat excessive in terms of bandwidth ... :hmm:
 
gentlegreen said:
Not sure the holographic communications wouldn't be somewhat excessive in terms of bandwidth ... :hmm:
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Teleporting a human being would require 10^45 bits of information. Simultaneous transporting two 30,000 kg Humpback whales would take 8.56*10^47 bits. Transporters seem to take a couple of seconds. I think the Federation (or Kligons) have sufficient WiFi for holograms.
 
Hopefully they will have dropped the passing of small tablet devices from person to person to simulate printed memos and documentation.

I was watching an old TNG the other day where Troi's mum sweeps masses of them off the centre console in engineering to make room for a picnic ...

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gentlegreen said:
Hopefully they will have dropped the passing of small tablet devices from person to person to simulate printed memos and documentation.

I was watching an old TNG the other day where Troi's mum sweeps masses of them off the centre console in engineering to make room for a picnic ...

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is it the one where Picard ends up reading a Shakespeare love sonnet to get her back from a ferengi?

troi's ma lol
 
DotCommunist said:
is it the one where Picard ends up reading a Shakespeare love sonnet to get her back from a ferengi?

troi's ma lol
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No it's the one where she falls in love with a man who's going home to euthenase himself because he's turned 60...
(played by Major Winchester out of MASH)
 
I have seen the first two episodes and now wish to pass judgement, brace yourselves.... erm, not really sure tbh...

I desperately want to like it, and there's some good stuff there, but the jury's definitely still out. The Klingons aren't very intimidating, and they're wearing way too much makeup - Worf in TNG was more convincing. The Michael character is quite compelling, but I'm struggling to believe she was raised by Vulcans - half the time it looks like she's giving an Oscars speech & is struggling to hold back the tears. I think she would be far more believable if the character was a Star Fleet reject-made-good type, a little like Kirk in the reboots - then her acting & direction would make a lot more sense.

I think it's too early to draw any definitive conclusions yet, and I shall remain optimistic, but it's got a bit of work to do to convince me it's worthy of the ST name.
 
Having watched the third episode I think the only logical explanation is this is set in the mirror universe. I've heard they're doing a mirror universe episode but at this point it would be hard to see who the bad guys were. Everyone is a massive dick, the federation treats prisoners like shit (despite previous federation gaol being like a spa), Burnham continues to be anti-social and violent, the obviously evil captain just happens to have a war injury that means he must be lit meancingly at all times and of course he has an evil pet dog. And i don't know who thought having the ship have a power mushroom based warp was a good idea.
 
I liked the third episode a lot more than the opening two parter, no its not star trek as we know it but its close enough to keep me there and the story just got interesting- take the crap klingons away from the screentime and its not bad. Yes everyone is way more hostile and inexplicably cunty but its not 100%. the idea
that its some grey area research vessel re purposed to war tech and gone rogue, organic nastiness. That shot of the dead captain with his face all twisted and ribs poking out of his back was grim
well that works for me.

Lets see where it goes.
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
Why is there a tribble in episode three? Starfleet doesn't encounter the tribbles until TOS episode... *shoots self*

Anyway, I'm liking this a fair bit. If I gave a shit about continuity I might not be, but eh.
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They also have holographic communication, which I'm pretty sure was a new thing in a DS9.
 
also: phasers have a menacing powering up noise. Its the sci fi equivalent of cocking the glock and never fails to please me
 
captainmission said:
Having watched the third episode I think the only logical explanation is this is set in the mirror universe. I've heard they're doing a mirror universe episode but at this point it would be hard to see who the bad guys were. Everyone is a massive dick, the federation treats prisoners like shit (despite previous federation gaol being like a spa), Burnham continues to be anti-social and violent, the obviously evil captain just happens to have a war injury that means he must be lit meancingly at all times and of course he has an evil pet dog. And i don't know who thought having the ship have a power mushroom based warp was a good idea.
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Sounds about right for our interesting times we are living now.

I do take exception to this though.

Burnham continues to be anti-social and violent
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Burnham was correct, they are now a prisoner, why shouldn't they have an attitude?
 
snadge said:
Burnham was correct, they are now a prisoner, why shouldn't they have an attitude?
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It was really her disproportionate violence she showed to the other prisoners and the general dickishness to her cabin mate.

Maybe it's just fight scene on TV have move on a bit and are a bit more visceral than this
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Apart from Mikey Burnham's eyes being nearly filled with tears of emotion too many times (must've been shit Vulcan training), it's great!

The first episode proper has set a great tone for the rest of the series.
 
Didn't mind Enterprise but it feels pretty dated now. Archer is 2009 Star Trek film canon as his dog is referred to.
 
gentlegreen said:
Hopefully they will have dropped the passing of small tablet devices from person to person to simulate printed memos and documentation.

I was watching an old TNG the other day where Troi's mum sweeps masses of them off the centre console in engineering to make room for a picnic ...

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Nope. Mikey was passed a small orange tablet like device with her work on. Was like an N64 cartridge which she plugged in to the 'console'.
 
captainmission said:
Having watched the third episode I think the only logical explanation is this is set in the mirror universe. I've heard they're doing a mirror universe episode but at this point it would be hard to see who the bad guys were. Everyone is a massive dick, the federation treats prisoners like shit (despite previous federation gaol being like a spa), Burnham continues to be anti-social and violent, the obviously evil captain just happens to have a war injury that means he must be lit meancingly at all times and of course he has an evil pet dog. And i don't know who thought having the ship have a power mushroom based warp was a good idea.
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Nah. It's not a mirror universe, it's Section 31 innit.
 
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