Star Trek: Discovery - New series on Netflix

[Vipers]

Haven't read all posts so may be a repost, just found this if it's of interest.


https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a25923224/star-trek-...

[sparks_E46]

Latest (and final of the season) is one of the best Star Trek episodes I have ever seen. A lot makes sense now.

Edited by sparks_E46 on Friday 19th April 15:46

[SpudLink]

It really was. So much going on. So many questions answered.
If that was the last ever episode, it would have been a perfect ending. But apparently another season is in the works. It will have a very different feel. Familiar characters in a whole new setting.
At some point I will find the time to watch season 2 again.

[sparks_E46]

SpudLink said:

It really was. So much going on. So many questions answered.
If that was the last ever episode, it would have been a perfect ending. But apparently another season is in the works. It will have a very different feel. Familiar characters in a whole new setting.
At some point I will find the time to watch season 2 again.

Season 3 is green lit and happening. Hopefully January 2020? We should have the Picard show before then. I’ll be buying season 2 Blu-ray as soon as it’s out and watching again.

With major continuity loose ends tied up now, the haters have a lot less to moan about!

[irish boy]

sparks_E46 said:

Season 3 is green lit and happening. Hopefully January 2020? We should have the Picard show before then. I’ll be buying season 2 Blu-ray as soon as it’s out and watching again.

With major continuity loose ends tied up now, the haters have a lot less to moan about!

Is the Picard show Netflix too?

[sparks_E46]

irish boy said:

sparks_E46 said:

Season 3 is green lit and happening. Hopefully January 2020? We should have the Picard show before then. I’ll be buying season 2 Blu-ray as soon as it’s out and watching again.

With major continuity loose ends tied up now, the haters have a lot less to moan about!

Is the Picard show Netflix too?

I can’t see a reason why not.

[SpudLink]

By the way, does Pike’s first officer have any name other than “Number One”?

[ben5575]

Absolutely incredible episode. As above, it silences the critics.

The mixing of the two themes in the final credits was a very nice touch.

Top 10/10 Trek.

[carl_w]

SpudLink said:

By the way, does Pike’s first officer have any name other than “Number One”?

Una//Noona I think

[stuarthat]

That was spot on .

[Flip Martian]

SpudLink said:

By the way, does Pike’s first officer have any name other than “Number One”?

His 2nd in command in The Cage (or Menagerie flashbacks) was known only as Number 1...same character, given the similar appearance.

Best episode of the series by some distance. They still had Burnham talk too much while saying goodbye to Spock, while the battle raged and people were dying/waiting for her to get going...but otherwise they tied it up really well. Left me wishing the show was Pike and Spock on the Enterprise from now on though.

[carl_w]

Watching it you'd think it had been cancelled but apparently it's been renewed for season 3.

[Lucas Ayde]

Entertaining final episode - definitely looked fantastic and lots of action. At least they attempted to give some answers but many came off as pretty corny/ contrived.

Was expecting some kind of post credits scene ... could easily have been the conclusion but I guess they will be taking the show in a completely different direction in S3 which probably will be better received as it won't need to be jammed into Star Trek Cannon.

[BenjiS]

Lucas Ayde said:

Was expecting some kind of post credits scene ... could easily have been the conclusion but I guess they will be taking the show in a completely different direction in S3 which probably will be better received as it won't need to be jammed into Star Trek Cannon.

And to cater for all the original critics who whinged that they weren’t doing a new series in a post-Next Generation world, this gives them to ability to show a Federation and human race 700 years post-NG.

[Flip Martian]

carl_w said:

Watching it you'd think it had been cancelled but apparently it's been renewed for season 3.

They did a good job of tying up the story just in case it wasn't renewed - but also leaving room for a S3.

Edited by Flip Martian on Friday 23 August 12:12

[colin_p]

Brilliant, amazing stuff.

Is Discovery S3 going to be Voyager'esque? I know they went hundreds of years forward, but where did they end up? I'm sure they will magic something up but I can't really see where it will go. It would be nice see more of Pike, the Enterprise and NUMBER ONE!

As well as the Picard series, does anyone know more about the rumour of there being a Georgiou spinoff as well?

All we need now to make the SC-FI universe whole again is some sort of Stargate re-boot! That and Star Wars not continuing to be utter tosh.

[Arklight]

So..

With the next series being confirmed for the 31st century doesn't this drop them in around the time of Daniels from Voyager? Also this was the timeframe for the proposed series for Star Trek: Federation so we may get some ideas from that series bleeding across?

Am wondering how they will get on with discovery tech wise, it'll be like a caveman bringing a stick to our time now

[glazbagun]

Arklight said:

So..

With the next series being confirmed for the 31st century doesn't this drop them in around the time of Daniels from Voyager? Also this was the timeframe for the proposed series for Star Trek: Federation so we may get some ideas from that series bleeding across?

Am wondering how they will get on with discovery tech wise, it'll be like a caveman bringing a stick to our time now

If they still have spore drive then they'll still have the fastest ship, but that'll be about it. I'd rather watch the adventures of Pike from what they've shown us- Discovery with him gone will be like the kids running the school.

[glazbagun]

I thought it was a great looking episode but felt a little contrived, using an admiral and a command officer to defuse a torpedo broke the suspension of disbelief a little, but if Bones can have a play I guess anyone can.

They will be obsolete in the future but have sphere knowledge as a get-out.

Overall though a great season and visually jawdropping- the opening to the battle when they were blasting each others fighter/drone cover looked immense and Burnham going through the wormhole the first time was like nothing I've seen in Trek.

[Catatafish]

Lucas Ayde said:

Entertaining final episode - definitely looked fantastic and lots of action. At least they attempted to give some answers but many came off as pretty corny/ contrived.

Was expecting some kind of post credits scene ... could easily have been the conclusion but I guess they will be taking the show in a completely different direction in S3 which probably will be better received as it won't need to be jammed into Star Trek Cannon.

So many things kicked me out of suspension of disbelief this series. Everyone has their own personal threshold for this. It depends on what you are presented with on screen, and which elements of that grab your attention.

For me most of the plot devices were epically lazy writing to shortcut the mysteries and artificially pump up "Drama". Really nothing to do with ST canon or lore. It's a shame as there are clearly talented people working on the visual stuff, albeit a bit too much going on and too colorful. Some kind of consistent cinematography would be good as well.


There were a lot of painfully slow filler speeches followed immediately by just a few seconds to do whatever.

Whilst I think the sporedrive is a turd concept, it is the perfect way to evade Bad Guys. You can even go to other dimensions and travel in time with it. Have to forget about that whilst watching the finale.

Not much effort expended to destroy the Discovery. It let them back onboard after attacking it (why?) and so just blow it up from inside... anyway Michelle Yeoh moved the data around anyway.

Where was the rest of starfleet during this battle for their very survival?

All small spaceships have to flip 360 at random intervals.

Don't worry about photon torpedos going off, just stand and watch it pop off from behind a door.

I thought they would at least erase Michael Burnham from history with the time travel plot instead of that shockingly contrived explanation of the mysterious signals.

Thankfully, they didn't flesh out the Borg stuff. I don't want or need an origin for the borg.

Also glad that Spock was much less punch-people-in-the facey than the JJ Abrahms version, although his suggestion at the end was a lazy contrivance, out of character.

Number One's name isn't actually number one FFS


Season 2 overall 5/10*

Hopefully the prequel stuff is over, they change writers, and they can do something interesting in the future, preferably killing off MB in the first episode.

• Presumably people are older than five and have witnessed first hand that people have diverse opinions. Hence, if you're moaning about people having negative opinions of STD, have a good long look at yourself.