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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 Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @04:23AM (3 children)
Not only that, at this time the Klingons have to look like they did in ST:TOS (i.e., like middle easterners with goatees). One of the 4th-season episodes of ST:Enterprise "explained" how Klingons got to look like that due to a genetic experiment gone wrong. This doesn't fit into the canon at all. They should have just picked some other species, like Enterprise did for much of their show (first the Sulabon, later delving into the Andorians and Tellarites), the former never being seen before or after in ST, and the latter two only barely being shown on other ST shows, leaving lots of room to explore those races and their interaction with the humans.
Sadly, it's all too apparent that this show is a complete disaster in many, many ways. Every Star Trek show has started out a little rough around the edges for the first few episodes, or even the whole first season in the case of ST:TNG, but they were just a little clunky, not the completely unwatchable abomination that so many reviewers are describing about Discovery.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday October 13 2017, @07:30AM (2 children)
People had exactly the same complaints when Enterprise launched and Klingons looked like they did in the 24th century.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @03:12PM (1 child)
That's because the TOS Klingons looked goofy and ridiculous, basically like middle easterners with evil-looking goatees. It was a low-budget product of the 1960s, after all. By TNG and beyond, people were used to the much more believable Klingons shown there (and also in the TOS movies); they didn't want their show to look campy. But they did have an episode in season 4 where they made up an explanation for the human-looking Klingons of TOS. It was honestly the best they could do.
This show's Klingons are just too much; they're completely different in every way from the Klingons we're used to, both in looks and behavior, and the plot doesn't even make sense (supposedly no humans have seen them for 100 years, nor have they seen any humans in that time, even though they somehow killed Burnham's parents (???), but suddenly they're all worried about their culture being diluted by the Federation and want to start a war over this?).
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday October 13 2017, @06:57PM
No, they haven't been around on the galaxy-stage for 100 years, but there have been a few raiding parties - a bit like vikings used to do to Britain. Could even fit in with Picard's statements in "First Contact", which discovery re-first contact (in the same way that we consider Columbus being first contact between Europe and America, despite Leif Erikson
The point with the Enterprise look of Klingons changing to TOS look is there was no explanation to start with, but one was provided that fitted what we saw (and really it's only Bashir's "Those are Klingons?" line that had to be explained as visual differences aren't really continuity)