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CBS premiered its new Star Trek series "Discovery" on Sunday. The first episode was made available on OTA (over-the-air) CBS stations — but it and all subsequent episodes are available strictly on CBS's All Access streaming service. Cost is $6/month with ads, $10/month ad-free. (NOTE: The second episode was made available immediately after episode 1 aired. Episodes 3-7 will be released weekly, there will be a break, and then the remaining episodes will again be released weekly early in 2018.)
Ars Technica has a review that mostly praised the new show. (There were at least two technical inaccuracies in the review concerning the first episode.)
For those who may not yet have seen it, I kindly ask folks who comment on this story to make liberal use of the <spoiler>don't show this unless they click here</spoiler> tags.
What did you think? Was it entertaining? Did it hold closely [enough] to existing Star Trek canon? Was any 'ideology' change you saw sufficiently warranted?
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:59PM (4 children)
Neelix was a special case, as they were stuck in the middle of nowhere and needed a guide. Also I don't think he was ever officially part of Starfleet, either. He was a cook, counselor, and ambassador of sorts.
Tom Paris was given a field commission in that show, too, and it sounded pretty doubtful he would've been given that second chance normally, as he was a felon.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:57AM (3 children)
Do you really think that they'll have feudal things like felons? Even in the 21st (and at least a good chunk of the 20th) only 2 countries still have felons.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:20PM (2 children)
What? I'm confused what you're talking about.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Punishment/Maximum-length-of-sentence [nationmaster.com]
From that link it looks like only about a bazillion countries have prison sentences longer than a year for *some* crime.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:56AM (1 child)
Sorry for not replying sooner.
I'm thinking more of the legal definition, basically a class of people who have their rights permanently, or close enough, curtailed. Not its use in culture, which is mostly American culture where it is used.
eg, being a felon in America means,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony [wikipedia.org]
In most of the free world, serving your sentence means that you are once again a regular citizen and most of those rights have to be removed by a Judge as part of sentencing rather then as a letter of attainment passed by the legislature. Here, restrictions on firearms, only happens if a Judge says, usually due to being stupid with a firearm. Put on a sex list, only if a Judge considers the crime deserving of it. Most of those others seem barbaric though deportation is pretty usual for non-citizens.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday October 02 2017, @02:56PM
Aha. Okay that makes more sense.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"