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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:18PM (#573407)

    Technology fail: pointlessly narrated observations of the mystery object; I guess this spacesuit has a voice recorder but no video?

    Setting up a contemporaneous voice recording is good. What if the (as happened) the video failed? What if a detail was noticed by the person but not the camera? Sure, it's hopefully redundant, but it also costs very little.

    It can also be useful for after-action reports. Why did you do stupid thing X? Oh, you thought you saw a Y, then it makes sense.