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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).
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?
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
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:26PM
So far, it's:
Original Star-Trek: Socialist. Lead by explorers and scientists chain-of-command. Explores the universe while sometimes fights against the military-industrial complex (Romulans and Klingons) but pursuing peaceful solutions.
New Star-Trek: Partially post-scarcity meritocracy (theft is still a motivator for crime as discussed in the prisoners transport so something is rotten somewhere). Lead by military officers conducting secret weapons research. Patrols federation borders while fighting against space Jihadists who hate our freedom.
And that Elon Musk name drop along with the Wright-brothers suggests certain continuity changes and values that depict a very different future:
Original Star-Trek: The scientific discovery of the warp drive was by an oddball researcher building a rocket in his backyard. And the proceeding rescue of humanity by the logical and scientific Vulcans from its post-apocalyptic wastes following the resource depletion caused by current capitalism and militarism and the genetically engineered caste-system that collapsed following the deposing of Khan. A Khan, btw, that while a dictator, was leading a quarter of humanity in relative peace and prosperity until he was back-stabbed and forced to flee.
New Star-Trek: The continues operations and success of the Mars colonization backed by private enterprise and big government. Despot and terrorist Khan that was and is trying to genocide the rest of humanity like some cartoon villain.
But hey, Discovery does have better production values and acting. Moreover, the news show seems to address what I always criticized the original for: The white-washing of the federation's conflicting interests in research, exploration, expansionism and militarism as well as not doing enough to cover the personal conflicts that would arise when placing soldiers and scientists under the same hierarchical command-structure with such a complicated mission statement.
Still, the new show is a far-cry from its subversive original that depicted a futuristic socialist utopia at the height of the cold war. While there's still time to go 180 and plot around how the ideal of discovery is in conflict with the increasingly militaristic federation as the Klingon war rages on, it's far more likely we're looking at an Orwellian rewrite in favor of the present political agendas.
Overall, I'll keep watching it but, like the new Battlestar Galactica, I'm expecting something between light entertainment and industrial SWJ propaganda rather than what Star Trek used to be.
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