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Star Trek: Discovery Premiered Sunday Night - Thoughts?

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-boldy-go? dept.

martyb writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:01PM (5 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:01PM (#573322)

    "Homestead" is the 169th episode of Star Trek: Voyager and the 23rd episode of the seventh season. One of the final episodes of the series, it marks the departure of Neelix from the crew of the Starship Voyager.

    Holy selective quoting, Batman!

    So he was given an honorary position RIGHT BEFORE he left.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:06PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:06PM (#573327)

    Goddamn it, it's not an "honorary position"! Neelix is the Official Starfleet Ambassador to the Delta Quadrant! Show him some respect, damn it!

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:10PM (3 children)

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:10PM (#573333)

      Considering the nearest Starfleet presence to him is a couple decades away at warp speed, I might as well declare myself King of Proxima Centauri, for all the good it'll do.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:16PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:16PM (#573340)

        What part of Official Starfleet Ambassador to the Delta Quadrant do you not understand?

        • (Score: 2, Touché) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:42PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:42PM (#573372)

          How it means anything

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:00PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:00PM (#573385)

          *sigh*
          And what right does a Captain have to make an ambassador.