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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: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:34PM
Why do practitioners of Islam wear that sort of garb in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and other non-desert environments? Clearly such garb is related to the religion, rather than to any practical concern.
It's for the same dumb reason that Jews won't eat pork or shellfish: back in ancient times when the religion was started, such a rule made good sense (they didn't know how to make pig meat safe to store and eat apparently, and people got sick), but back then people were stupid and superstitious, so I guess the leaders couldn't just tell people "Don't do this, it's unsafe", and instead then had to tell people "God said not to do this, or else!!!". Well, since God supposedly said this, obviously we can't have God changing his mind now that we have better technology and better knowledge of food safety, so the believers refuse to update their practices, and we get stupid shit like laws forbidding the mixing of fibers.
It's also worth noting that not all Muslims wear that crap. The ones from Malaysia, Indonesia, etc., don't wear desert garb; the men wear whatever, and the women wear whatever plus just wear a headscarf for "modesty". And not all women wear headscarves; that too varies by both culture and preference. Some that I've worked with from India and Pakistan don't. Similarly, not all Christians dress like this [activly.com] or this [mapministry.org] or this [pbs.org], though certainly the number of Muslims who adhere to dress codes is a higher proportion than Christians.