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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 tangomargarine on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:16PM (3 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:16PM (#581195)

    The tone of the show is really jarring. First two episodes were fluffy and lighthearted, 3 and 4 take a hard left turn into serious issues, then 5 is back to less serious.

    That said, I'll continue watching it for now.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:48PM (#581213)

    Other series in Star Trek also had jarring shifts too. For example, the end of season 3 was a Troi's mother visits, then they save a non-corporeal life form, then they barely survive the Borg. Or season 4, where we go from Barclay becomes a super-genius, to dancing around in tights, to Picard charged with treason, to an alien not wanting to commit ritual suicide, to Crusher has a boyfriend. And those are the two examples that immediately come to mind.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:31PM (#581231)

    But they basically played off The Union as a bunch of expansionistic assholes pushing their ideology onto everyone they meet.

    Taken from that stance, they are NOT the federation. However the episode with the floating ship where the 'Taken' guy cameo'd as the former captain (who was the 'god' in their local religion) actually did set out that they tried to minimize interference with more primitive cultures, but since they were on a spaceship it was assumed they already knew the basics. Which it turned out, they didn't, although some heretics believed it so.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:30PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:30PM (#581268)

      But they basically played off The Union as a bunch of expansionistic assholes pushing their ideology onto everyone they meet.

      Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa.

      expansionistic

      The heck? How could you possibly get that impression? They're not conquering or invading anybody as far as we know. Other than fighting the Krill (or whatever), which we don't really know anything about.

      pushing their ideology

      Well, one or two specific people on a single ship, anyway. As a general rule, have we seen any indication of that as a Union tendency?

      onto everyone they meet

      It's the third episode, god damn! It's happened one time!

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