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Star Trek: Discovery is an agonizing almost year away, but here's something to help hold us over until May 2017: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh has been cast as a Starfleet Captain, Deadline reports.
Though Discovery's main character will have a female "Number One" serving as lieutenant commander on the Federation starship Discovery -- don't look for Yeoh on that vessel. She'll reportedly play Han Bo, leader of the ship Shenzhou. That means the lead character, rumored to be another non-white female, may be second in command.
That wouldn't be the first time the main character isn't a commanding officer on Star Trek -- Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, rose through the ranks after starting as commander -- but then, this iteration of the franchise is expected to explore all kinds of new dimensions, including having at least one gay character.
Do Trekkies approve?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Celestial on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:22AM
The first two reboot movies were like that. Beyond was better. It was about the place of post-war military in the world after the conflict is over, and their (attempted) adjustment to a post-war life. To say much more would spoil it, but it really felt like a TOS episode to me.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:00AM
Beyond was marginally better than the Wrath of Khan ripoff, but as with most things these days, it just felt so vapid and empty. Here's the bad guy, oh he's got magic life-sucking powers from... well, somewhere, it doesn't matter really, as long as it explains this, this and the other thing. And also lets him do this. Oh, and don't forget to spend all of 30 seconds exploring why he's so angry at stuff. And now some FIGHTING! And a motorbike!
The disappointing thing is I really liked the first of the reboot movies.
But then I want them to remake The Motion Picture (V'Ger must be out there in this universe, too, and the whales), so what the hell do I know.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:10AM
Beyond was the Whom Gods Destroy ripoff. Krall was Garth in all but name, a former war hero who went criminally insane after gaining magical powers.
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:14AM
IDW publishes semi-canonical Star Trek reboot comic books. A few issues focused on Nero (the villain from the first reboot movie), and what he did during the twenty five year period between the time his ship arrived in the Kelvin Timeline and the destruction of Vulcan. In it, his ship the Narada was shown to be semi-sentient. V'ger felt the Narada's presence and thought it something of a kin, so it called to it. Then V'ger attempted to meld with Nero like it did with Matt Decker in The Motion Picture, except V'ger was utterly repulsed by Nero's seething hatred of both Spock and The Federation and couldn't understand it. So it broke off the meld with Nero, and fled.
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:20AM
Pardon, Will Decker, not his father Matt. Just re-watched The Doomsday Machine episode last week. :P