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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 isostatic on Friday October 13 2017, @07:28AM (3 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Friday October 13 2017, @07:28AM (#581615) Journal

    I haven't watched Discovery, but it sounds like it is canon like LOST is canon with Gilligan's Island because... Island.

    Actually Discovery refers a lot to the canon. Some visuals have changed, the biggest complaint seems to be about a one-off line from TOS that TOS itself contradicted on multiple locations.

    Shows should be produced by people who have watched and understand Firefly.

    They'd be cancelled after 13 movies then finally return for a disapointing movie.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @03:15PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday October 13 2017, @03:15PM (#581794)

    They'd be cancelled after 13 movies then finally return for a disapointing movie.

    Wrong. That only happens when you make the mistake of having your show on FOX.

    CBS is doing a lot of things really wrong here, but let's not equate them with the idiots at FOX. It takes a special kind of stupid to show a sci-fi series completely out-of-order, and then when it's extremely popular despite that ridiculous blunder, cancel it mid-series.

    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday October 13 2017, @03:26PM (1 child)

      by isostatic (365) on Friday October 13 2017, @03:26PM (#581803) Journal

      I used to have sympathy for Joss Weedon over firefly. Then he did Dollhouse with Fox too - I never watched that due to how firefly was treated.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @03:36PM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday October 13 2017, @03:36PM (#581809)

        Yeah, you gotta wonder what he was thinking there. Didn't he ever hear the saying, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"? (Or the updated version, "...won't get fooled again"...)

        Maybe he was desperate and no one else was willing to pick up his new show.