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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: 5, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:20PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:20PM (#573343)

    All that said, no fucking WAY am I watching this. DS9 was a stretch, Voyager was meh, Enterprise was extremely disappointing, so trend says this one will be complete shit.

    Oddly enough "Star Trek Continues" is actually pretty good, ruining the trend. A little quirky, a little political, but better than most stuff on TV. You might want to check out STC on youtube or whatever.

    STC doesn't suck primarily because of who's NOT involved in it, which sounds crazy but is true. Who hasn't done entryism to hijack it politically, who isn't financing it, etc. Its good because of who wasn't involved. As Spock would say, "Fascinating"

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:33AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:33AM (#573724) Journal
    STC doesn't violate the trend, it's simply not part of the trend. The trend is that everyone who has controlled the Star Trek brand since TNG has made something worse than the person before them.
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