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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

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

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: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:47PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:47PM (#581149)

    What does Jonathan Frakes have to do with this show? I just looked through his IMDB profile and there's nothing there linking him to Discovery in any capacity. However, he did appear on one episode of The Orville.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:19PM (#581387)

    He directed episode 5.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @03:34PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday October 13 2017, @03:34PM (#581808)

      Yes, I see now after a Google search. Interesting that IMDB doesn't show that at all, but I guess they wait until something's aired/released before putting such credits on someone's bio.

      This still won't fix this trainwreck of a show. At the very best, they could try to salvage the Klingon mess by claiming these Klingons are from some parallel universe and that's why they're so different, but that's pretty weak (this didn't have just one Klingon ship, there were a bunch). And the real problem with the show is the main character, the lousy writing, and also the fact that there *is* a "main character". Star Trek isn't supposed to have singular main characters, it's about a team. Even TOS didn't have a single main character, it had 3 (Kirk, Spock, Bones), plus 3-4 more almost-main characters (Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, sometimes Chekov). TNG had 7 (Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, Beverly, Troi, Geordi) after they settled down and dumped Wesley. This is a big part of what was so great about ST: it wasn't about one totally fucked-up "flawed" person and their struggles of self-discovery, it was about a team encountering the unknown and dealing with it. Even Firefly used this formula to an extent.