Star Trek: Discovery - New series on Netflix
Discussion
ben5575 said:
Obvs, because THAT is STARFLEET. I quite enjoyed the whole I'm Spartacus bit
After last week’s episode, I was expecting this week would be a mutiny against the new Evil Captain when the crew find out what she’s planning. Lead by Burnham, but this time with the backing of the whole crew. And for a moment I really thought Suru was going to mutiny against the Admiral. Before I watched a single episode - I was expecting a 2 out of 10.
We have had some corkers - and some less impressive ones.
In the end - I think a solid 7.5 -8 out of 10.
It can't be all things to all men/ women/ LBGT whatever it is now...
Plenty of easter eggs/ references to existing series.
Most expensive actor dies - check.
Despite everyone and their dog being a critic, I thought they did well.
Or put it another way... I'm not angry/sad/etc etc/ enough to have watched every episode and posted up week on week - how it fell short.
It was good feet up on the sofa telly.
Roll on Season 2.
We have had some corkers - and some less impressive ones.
In the end - I think a solid 7.5 -8 out of 10.
It can't be all things to all men/ women/ LBGT whatever it is now...
Plenty of easter eggs/ references to existing series.
Most expensive actor dies - check.
Despite everyone and their dog being a critic, I thought they did well.
Or put it another way... I'm not angry/sad/etc etc/ enough to have watched every episode and posted up week on week - how it fell short.
It was good feet up on the sofa telly.
Roll on Season 2.
Rumblestripe said:
Mushroom12 said:
This episode was all over the place...
I just want to try and make one thing clear thought. The grand plan was to turn the war ending WMD over to someone who was held as a PoW for weeks and had the crap kicked out of them recently, just hoping she would 'do the right thing' instead of sitting by, sipping port and watching Earth get destroyed? That was the plan right?
Err, no. That was the Admiral's plan. And no, she didn't expect her to do "the right thing", she expected her to blow the planet to bits.I just want to try and make one thing clear thought. The grand plan was to turn the war ending WMD over to someone who was held as a PoW for weeks and had the crap kicked out of them recently, just hoping she would 'do the right thing' instead of sitting by, sipping port and watching Earth get destroyed? That was the plan right?
Edited by Mushroom12 on Monday 12th February 19:56
Robster said:
GravelBen said:
Robster said:
Don't know how to do spoiler tags , so just going to say , latest episode was...... Mega !
Careful, people have had posts deleted and accounts suspended on this forum before for posting 'spoilers' like that.JamieBeeston said:
Rumblestripe said:
Mushroom12 said:
This episode was all over the place...
I just want to try and make one thing clear thought. The grand plan was to turn the war ending WMD over to someone who was held as a PoW for weeks and had the crap kicked out of them recently, just hoping she would 'do the right thing' instead of sitting by, sipping port and watching Earth get destroyed? That was the plan right?
Err, no. That was the Admiral's plan. And no, she didn't expect her to do "the right thing", she expected her to blow the planet to bits.I just want to try and make one thing clear thought. The grand plan was to turn the war ending WMD over to someone who was held as a PoW for weeks and had the crap kicked out of them recently, just hoping she would 'do the right thing' instead of sitting by, sipping port and watching Earth get destroyed? That was the plan right?
Edited by Mushroom12 on Monday 12th February 19:56
Vipers said:
I personally can't see them doing this, not when we've had an alternative timeline create so recently with the JJ movies. It could be seen as a bit of a cop out, a la 'a wizard did it'...They have picked a very difficult time period to set Discovery in; making a prequel is always hard, especially with something as complex and with the amount of material as Star Trek, but at least Enterprise set itself far enough back to have some wiggle room.
Speaking of which, there was a very heavy discussion on Reddit yesterday about Discovery and it's place in the Trek universe. A few people saying that most fans are viewing Discovery in the wrong light; that it shouldn't be viewed as a precursor to TOS, but as a follow on from ENT...
With that it mind, maybe the idea of a timeline split/reboot isn't so far fetched....
GravelBen said:
Felt quite anticlimactic to me too, didn't find it particularly riveting.
Yeah, bit of a let down/cop out after such an excellent build up. The resolution made absolutely no sense other than to reinforce the hackneyed 'Starfleet are a bunch of right on people who always do the principled thing' mantra that Trek likes to trot out.Also, they totally dropped the interesting plotline of the Emperor posing as Georgiou by having her more or less give away her identity by being a total biotch to everyone else the second she got into the captain's chair.
Still, despite all that, overall a good first season that exceeded expectations.
Co-creator Alex Kurtzman has explained that season two won't land until 2019 at the earliest. "Breaking story is, in some ways, the easier and faster thing; it's the ability to execute on it that's much harder. We want to take the right amount of time and don't want to rush," he outlined.
SlimJim16v said:
Yep, me too. Best bit was seeing the Enterprise. Captain Pike was Kirk's predecessor, but by how many years?
It will be interesting.If we see an interior shot of the Enterprise, will it be 60's low tech or Discovery high tech?
Will young Spock be there as science officer or is this before he joined Starfleet?
If so, what age will Cap'n Pike be portrayed as?
Nice to see Clint Howard, who was in the original series, as the iffy Orion slipping Tilly some Roofies in the Klingon strip club,
LoonyTunes said:
Co-creator Alex Kurtzman has explained that season two won't land until 2019 at the earliest. "Breaking story is, in some ways, the easier and faster thing; it's the ability to execute on it that's much harder. We want to take the right amount of time and don't want to rush," he outlined.
He's an idiot if he thinks they've built up enough support and momentum to have a break like that between seasons.This isn't Westworld or the last season of GoT. It's an adequate TV grade Star Trek.
Dragging it out because you 'don't want to rush' is self indulgent w
kery and I wouldn't expect any studio support for it. HD Adam said:
SlimJim16v said:
Yep, me too. Best bit was seeing the Enterprise. Captain Pike was Kirk's predecessor, but by how many years?
It will be interesting.If we see an interior shot of the Enterprise, will it be 60's low tech or Discovery high tech?
Will young Spock be there as science officer or is this before he joined Starfleet?
If so, what age will Cap'n Pike be portrayed as?
Nice to see Clint Howard, who was in the original series, as the iffy Orion slipping Tilly some Roofies in the Klingon strip club,
People really have to get over the whole visual thing. This a show made in 2018, it cannot look like the 1960’s! If I tuned in and saw this I’d be miffed
Much better!
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