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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: 4, Interesting) by bradley13 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:27PM (5 children)
"the ONLY white Klingon on screen is going to be the bad and evil Klingon while the hero of Star Trek is going to be a black woman, subtle ..."
Second that. The Klingons are stand-ins for the deplorables, all nationalistic and shit. The Federations stands in for the SJW diversity wet-dream. Add in the "white male" vs. "black female" aspect. Add in the question as to whether or not "Michael" is transgender - that cannot be accidental. Yep, progressive politics all the way. I'll pass, I'm not even going to bother pirating it.
I watched the first two episodes of The Orville. The humor starts off a bit corny, but seems to settle in (or maybe you get used to it). It's a hell of a lot truer to what I consider the Star Trek spirit.
I wish I could get The Orville legitimately where I live, but I can't ("this content is not available in your location"). Idiots.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:51PM (4 children)
The only people more whiny and victimized than SJWs are the people who use the term SJW.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)
"Communist" is a much better term to use to describe such people.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:05AM (1 child)
"Communist" is a much better term to use to describe such people.
Which ones?
The ones that refuse to watch a sci-fi show because it might disagree with their politics?
Or, the ones that don't actually exist in any meaningful sense?
I guess it must be the second since communists also don't actually exist in any meaningful sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:28PM
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:18PM
Does that not include you?