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'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @08:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the boldly-go dept.

Phoenix666 and looorg have both written in with stories about 'Star Trek: Discovery':

'Star Trek: Discovery' Producers: Be Patient With Us

Phoenix666 writes:

The Fine Article contains spoilers for those who haven't seen the show:

The lightness and easygoing chemistry among the "Discovery" cast present a stark contrast with the characters of "Discovery." In the first few episodes, the show has turned Burnham into a shunned mutineer, introduced a suspicious skipper in Capt. Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and given us an arrogant and snappy scientist in Lt. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp).
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It's the darkness of the characters and the background, which is set amid a war with the Klingons, as well as potentially continuity-bending aspects like Burnham being the adoptive daughter of Sarek, Spock's dad, that have some longtime Trekkies nervous.

If you're among those worried about the changes brought on by "Discovery," the producers have some advice for you: Just wait a little bit.

"We are canon," executive producer Alex Kurtzman said in an interview Saturday. "You'll have to be patient with us."

Kurtzman addressed the notion that the show would be grittier, assuring fans that the core themes of Star Trek remain.

Is it Game of Thrones in Space?

Windows into the Future

looorg writes:

So this is a sure sign of the apocalypse. Windows will still be around in 2256 according to Star Trek. Guess we have to wait for that year of the Linux desktop for a few hundred more years.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/10/3/16412372/star-trek-discovery-cbs-windows-code-command-line

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday October 12 2017, @09:41AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 12 2017, @09:41AM (#581052) Journal

    So this is a sure sign of the apocalypse. Windows will still be around in 2256 according to Star Trek.

    The good news is that, 200 years into the future, command line and - by extension - the keyboard will continue to exists, in spite of:
    - Wii controllers
    - MacBook Wheel [theonion.com]
    - hololens
    - Siri, Alexa or Ok (yes, the "Ok, google" one)
    - touch screens
    - kinect and other, minority reported or not, hand-waving/monkey jumping gesture-recognitional interfaces
    - auto-correct, EEG and other mind reading interfaces

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:36PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:36PM (#581170)

    Just looked at the Windows code photo in TFA....

    They need to make a time-travel trip back to the 1980s AND PICK UP AN ANTI-GLARE SCREEN!