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'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @08:56AM   
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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• Re:It is Trek (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:59PM (#581248)

  I caved and subscribed to all access last weekend. Discovery is actually quite good. For those of you blathering about it not being Trek-like....well, do we really need another Trek-like Trek? No. It's been done, several times.

  So why have it be Trek at all? If it's not Trek-like, make a new Universe, call it Game of Stars and go crazy. Why go into the past of an existing ST universe and mess it up? (I'm going with lazy, bad writing)

  Yes, the Klingons are different. I'm not entirely turned off by what I've seen though. It almost feels like they invented a totally new alien species,

  Yep, so if they didn't want to use Klingons, why not just make them a new species? (I'm going with lazy, bad writing)

  Yes, screw CBS for tying this to their new streaming service. But if you can get over that,,/quote> and you can get past ST's past and enjoy something new, this isn't all that bad.

  In the short term, I personally will get over their streaming service by just not watching it. The way they are pushing their streaming service in this case is a gamble that I hope they lose. (At least the sleazy network culture is consistent)

  and you can get past ST's past and enjoy something new, this isn't all that bad.

  I'd get past the ST changes far more easily, if they had just not made it ST and actually made it something new! I'd love something new! Instead we get the cynical money grab of using the successful name ST to make something not ST. (Surprisingly, I'm going with lazy, bad writing all covered in that sweet, sweet network sleaze)

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