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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:27PM (3 children)
I was calling him Chris before (Like Tolkien's son) because I couldn't remember his damn name and because he was kind of an asshole.
I don't remember if it was one of the fanfiction things or something else, but he doesn't care about pushing anything but copyright law with Star Trek. He's one of those second generation IP whores who doesn't have a real idea in his own head, but the money is good and he's willing to suck on whatever to get more of it.
Orville kind of jumped the shark for me with the Time Travel episode. Mostly because of him closing the wormhole with that lady still on his ship, rather than throwing her through first then closing it, since either the event happened and she existed and should now be stuck in their timeline, or she existed and should be trapped in her own now-modified timeline with the wormhole collapsed, but by having her disappear like that either he blatantly murdered her knowing she would be erased when it collapsed, or he didn't and time should have reverted with no knowledge of the events, and thus the events not happening, which means they were destroyed in that 'dark matter storm'.
This is why it annoys me when they choose to throw in time travel without taking the time to think of all the logical issues it causes to the past, future, and present of the episodes/show.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:06PM
You're right. That is THE hallmark of time travel: it's logical consistency. It simply doesn't make sense once you get rid of that. I mean, come on, we've got years of time travel experience to base that on!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:30AM
Gene Roddenberry died in 1991 (hence the quote from his obituary).
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:01AM
My mom asked me the same question. I answered, since she was from the future and that future no longer exists that doesn't mean she doesn't exist in the future. It just means the future changed and so did the past. She may very well be alive 900 years from then. Or, maybe her great great great (10 times) grandparents never ended up meeting.
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