Phoenix666 and looorg have both written in with stories about 'Star Trek: Discovery':
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).
star-trek-discovery-starfleetIt'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?
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
(Score: 5, Funny) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:35PM (3 children)
I was leaning against this show after reading and seeing reviews about it, with the main problems being that it focused entirely on one very unlikable character instead of the crew as normal ST shows do, and that their take on the Klingons is so awful, but after finding that they speculate a future where starships are running on Windows, forget it. Fuck that shit. This just turns my stomach.
Honestly, if humans think that Windows is somehow appropriate for running starships, then we don't deserve to leave this planet.
(Score: 5, Informative) by theluggage on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:41PM
Suggest you try watching it before jumping to conclusions.
Its not like Clippy popped up on the bridge viewscreen - Burnham was given a pile of code to debug which flashed past unintelligibly on the screen unless you were an anal nerd who freeze-framed it and tried to identify it - and if you did, it turns out that it was actually the Stuxnet virus which (given the show is basically about Starfleet black ops) was almost certainly a deliberate "Easter egg".
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Friday October 13 2017, @12:51AM (1 child)
I probably would have watched it if they didn't get all greedy by making you sign up for some new shitty "monthly service" while still serving up a metric fuck ton of commercials.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @04:04AM
Yeah, that's really bad too, as are many other things about this show, such as killing off the only likable character in the 2nd episode in an incredibly stupid way. But none of that is as remotely bad as the very idea of a starship running Windows, even if it is somewhat obscure. It's simply unforgivable.