The Star Trek Thread, V5.0

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Watched an episode of Enterprise last night, from the first season.
It's so charmingly about exploration and discovery. The last time ST was ST.

So long ago

 

[JDragon]

That spoken intro by Burnham should be the Discovery intro

 

[JDragon]

There's one simple way to fix Discovery. Make exploration the key focus. And substance over style.

 

[Jesus X]

DSC

Star Trek Discovery

 

[JDragon]

Star Trek Discovery

DSC

 

[Jesus X]

DSC

that isn't how acronyms work

 

[JDragon]

Omfg the latest Orville episode.

Major spoiler:

Spoiler

Lt. Tyler is a Krill agent. LOL, what an hommage and fuck you at the same time for Discovery.

 

[JDragon]

that isn't how acronyms work

Yeah you know TOS disagrees with your logic.

Also Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was called STDSN by no one ever.

 

[Loiosh]

This affects all shows. Even those among the all-time greats such as Buffy had horrible first seasons. I think it is everything: from authors to actors to producers not totally understanding the characters, the actors and their strenghts, and the interaction of both. Unless you have a heavily serialized story and great actors, I think this is inevitable. (Lost IMO had a great first season. Cannot bring myself to watch it again considering the horrendous ending, but the beginning was spectacular.)

Season one of Farscape was fantastic.

Almost as good as season one of Galactica.

 

[JDragon]

Season one of Farscape was fantastic.

Almost as good as season one of Galactica.

Gotta admit I never got past the first episode. Should I watch it?

 

[Loiosh]

Gotta admit I never got past the first episode. Should I watch it?

Yes.

Farscape or Galactica, my answer is yes.

 

[JDragon]

Abbreviations of Star Trek series according to the logic of those insisting on the STD thing for DSC...

ST
STT
STD(SN)
STV
STE

 

[JDragon]

Yes.

Farscape or Galactica, my answer is yes.

Farscape. Galactica I watched.

 

[Loiosh]

Farscape. Galactica I watched.

Yeah.

Until Galactica, Farscape was my favorite science fiction show.

 

[Philo-Publius]

Star Trek Discovery

Personally, I think there is some underlying homophobia in choosing a name for the series that has the same acronym as Sexually Transmitted Disease

 

[Philo-Publius]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but this video is worth the watch...



They had better hurry up with that Picard spin off because the future of STD seems a little uncertain.

 

[sverre054]

Star Trek Discovery

Star trek Voyager, known as VOY, not STV
Star trek Enterprise, known as ENT, not STE
Star trek Deep Space Nine, known as DS9, not ST9

many examples

 

[sverre054]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but this video is worth the watch...



They had better hurry up with that Picard spin off because the future of STD seems a little uncertain.

That lawsuit is going nowhere. This week, the plaintiff posted evidence that a Star Trek writer, had joined the gaming Service STEAM, so she must have found this obscure game, and stolen the ideas for the show. But unfortunately, she joined steam, about 6 months after the series was into production with the characters and plot already largely decided, and was a junior writer on the series.

This was there hailmary, that she plays video, so she must have clearly stolen the ideas for the show.

 

[sverre054]

There's one simple way to fix Discovery. Make exploration the key focus. And substance over style.

That's the way there going. Off to solve a mystery.

 

[JDragon]

That's the way there going. Off to solve a mystery.

Watching Orville yesterday, I recognized two further ingredients:

1) having one episode morality plays that can stand on their own
2) providing a ship and crew I would like to work with

Actually taken together with the deep space exploration aspect, those may be key for me. I wanted to be on the Enterprise as a kid. I wanted to be on the Enterprise-D. I even wanted to be on DS9 despite its darker leaning.