[Star Trek: Discovery] New Star Trek Series 2017

[caze]

they jumped forward a few years or something. I can't remember exactly, the whole thing was pretty dumb.

[Silent Member]

Yup, this we can agree on.

[Rubin Farr]

I always thought a ST show based on time travel like Dr Who would be a logical progression. They even set up that tangent on a few episodes of Voyager, the 29th Century Federation timeships. Might be a good place for the Picard show to explore.

[Rubin Farr]

[Salvatorin]

i checked out the second season premiere with my brother. too fucking action movie. not going to watch anymore

[Lada Laika]

Second episode felt like classic Trek, even if the show still needs to slow the fuck down in its pacing. Still, much happier with this season so far than last. Although next week it looks like the Klingons are back, so who knows.

[Nebraska]

 

makes sense: but why then not set the events further in the future (beyond the events of VOY) rather than in the past (before TOS) ?

 

because they didn't want to

 

 

[WeAreOceans]

Star Trek in 1997: Jake wants to find an antique baseball trading card to cheer up his dad

 

Star Trek in 2019:

 

L'Rell pulls out a severed baby's head to a court of cheering Klingon

 

Edited February 19, 2019 by WeAreOceans

[Nebraska]

 

argh- this doesn't look good

Edited May 16, 2019 by Nebraska

[BCM]

how can you possibly tell anything at this point?

[azatoth]

While shlocky and badly written at times, I can appreciate it as a very slick looking show and having classic sci-fi tropes and went all epic and crazy. Captain Pike was on point and I want a show about him and crews adventures on the Enterprise. Discovery can fuck around in the far future like some Mass Effect game because some of the episodes could have been a Mass Effect DLC because I like shlocky scifi and when it's well produced it's even better.

Edited May 16, 2019 by azatoth

[Lada Laika]

16 hours ago, Nebraska said:

 

argh- this doesn't look good

Yes a title card and a screencap of Patrick Stewart... plenty to judge a series on.

[bitchroast]

mass effect was more star trek than star trek discovery was. the show is now just a bad annoying hangover of its former self that just won't go away. 

[bitchroast]

i also hate how.. star trek TNG had a crappy first season but eventually got good, and Star Trek DS9 had a crappy first season but eventually good. 

it kind of gives all the new shows free passes to be crap and people will keep forgiving it with a sentiment of "maybe the next season will be better!". 

there's also plenty of tv shows, in the history of tv shows, that started crap.. stayed crap, then got forgot about cos they were crap. 

if it's crap = it's crap. if it's good = it's good. i'm sick of giving everything a free pass all the time in the hope that next year's efforts will be better. someone page me when the show's actually good... ain't noone got time for this crappy garbage crap. 

Edited May 17, 2019 by bitchroast

[azatoth]

Perhaps it not being so Star Trek-y is why I like it. Never was a big fan of ST to begin with. Sure I watched TNG and Voyager when it was on but that's because I like sci-fi in general. With that said Discovery could do with better writing. It's rare TV shows are good straight out of the gate, it usually takes a season for it to find its legs and voice. Discovery changing showrunners mid-season probably contributed to the mess.

[bitchroast]

my rant was probably largely directed at my co-worker star trek fan who keeps recommending it to me more than anyone on WATMM, BTW FWIW 

[Rubin Farr]

"Gee, what do we call it?" - CBS Executive

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-official-title-of-the-picard-star-trek-show-wont-sh-1834795926

[zkom]

20 hours ago, azatoth said:

While shlocky and badly written at times, I can appreciate it as a very slick looking show and having classic sci-fi tropes and went all epic and crazy. 

TNG has to be the best looking and most aesthetically pleasing sci-fi show there is. The visual design is just spot on and the look has aged very well.

[bitchroast]

DS9 on the other hand looks like a kids game show set where you have to run around and find hidden items and avoid having "green goo" dumped on your head for being the losing team. 

[Rubin Farr]

 

[Rubin Farr]

Hyped for this.

[Joyrex]

2 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:

Hyped for this.

I hope that's not his doggo who recently died...

[Rubin Farr]

I guess there's a new animated Trek series as well?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks

[Joyrex]

6 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:

I guess there's a new animated Trek series as well?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks

Yeah, supposed to be a comedy... eh, I dunno...

The doggo in the show is named No. 1!

[Lada Laika]

Kurtzman will greenlight anything at this point. There's a total of 5 shows in development right now (including DISCO).