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Star Trek Discovery

What's amusing is, if you look at pics of Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, or... well, really, any Democrat, they all have that Charles Manson Stare. Go ahead and doubt me on that, I can demonstrate it in about 15 minutes of searching, for all of them.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Hey we're finally going to get to see it.
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First episode was okay. It's definitely a Trek show, so the oldes can shut up about it being too different. If anything, it's too close to the old formula in tone and dialogue. But actually I ain't mad at that, because that's Trek to me. It only resembles Abrams Trek in the look and production values.

I still have to watch episode 2 (already out on All Access and your favorite private tracker) and After Trek, the discussion show without Chris Hardwick.
 
So:

I can see why CBS shut Axanar down. CBS was also making a big budget fan film. A big budget Galaxy Quest fan film with Star Trek's name on it. They didn't want Axanar showing them up by making an actual Star Trek production.
 
It was okay? Bit slow. It looked pretty. Not as good as The Expanse. Main character was fairly good, I was worried she'd act all Vulcan all the time.

Biggest issue for me was the Klingons. The make-up just makes them look like Orcs or Remans. It's hard to imagine them ever having any depth as character, especially in that restrictive make-up. Can you imagine one of them getting drunk or singing or teasing Riker about needing breast fed or smiling when Kirk tells them to go climb a tree.

Disappointing lack of Jason Isaacs.
 
Nice video, shame about the song.

How the klingons looked was only half the problem, they all sounded like they could barely talk over those goofy teeth.

So they don't want a war with the klingons, and they don't want to make their leader a martre, but they will blow up the ship while they are gathering their dead, and they will shoot the guy to death as soon as he kills the captain, when he is basically fighting for his own life on the bridge of his own ship.

I mean don't get me wrong, the guy was a dick, but if your plan is to take him alive, maybe leave your gun set on stun.
 
Yeah it was definitely... okay...

It felt a bit weird as the start of a series because I have no idea what the actual show will look like on a week-to-week basis based on this. I get that they're not doing an episodic story but it's a bit strange to have two episodes with one crew and than change it all up the next week (or so it looks like).

I don't get why the Vulcan guy had to be Sarek when it could have been literally any Vulcan.

I liked the production values, it's cool it see cool space stuff in Star Trek. I wish the cool space stuff could be the point rather than just a background for yet another fight with the Klingons but hey that's not what TV is about any more.

Yeah the Klingons were awkward and didn't really have any personality. I did appreciate that all the aliens spoke Alien but it's really hard to actually get any character from someone when they're speaking gibberish. This is why the Klingons in the films and post-TOS shows spoke a mix of both!

It might be really good from now on, but these episode don't really give you a good idea of that one way or another.
 
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