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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:59PM (2 children)
Exactly! The entire point of STNG was generally positive message. There were no wars, in general. The conflicts were internal and between characters. But then they fucked it up, with DS9 (a clone of Babylon 5, if anything), Voyager was 1-superwoman-captain that solved everything (Picard was nowhere near Janeway's ubiquitous genius, not even Data), and then it went from there. STNG movies generally had very thin plots ...
So yeah, we have TOS and STNG and then nothing, just one disappointment after another. Well, I guess Star Wars managed to get milked too, even though they had no story in the first place.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:21PM (1 child)
It's not just about the positive message. It's about elevating those who are often seen as being at a disadvantage. Look at how the shows portray the emasculated male. An example of this is the character of Ensign Harry Kim in Voyager. Despite being half the man that Lieutenant Tom Paris was, and despite being only about 1/10th the man that Commander Chakotee was, and despite being about 1/30th the man that Captain Janeway was, Ensign Kim was still a valuable member of the Voyager crew. He wasn't excluded. He wasn't shunned. He was there with the rest of them, whether they were fighting Borg or whether they were exploring comets and nebulae. While emasculation can be seen as a serious handicap even in today's society, in the future it becomes a non-issue.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:05PM
TIL being polite and a novice == emasculation. Explains so much about RWNJs.