Star Trek Discovery

[CaptainWacky]

Well that changes everything!

 

[The Question]

Everyone's sleeping on the fact that Akiva Goldsman joined the production in a supposedly major capacity.

The writer of Batman And Robin.

We weren't sleeping on it. We were ignoring it for the sake of our sanity.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

The cost of building so many different standing sets would probably make a Trek anthology series near impossible in today's climate.

They could always use greenscreen and CGI for the majority of backgrounds, as they did for Sanctuary and Battlestar Galactica's Blood and Chrome spinoff. Both worked pretty well visually (not sure if they hampered the acting) and presumably cut costs.

 

[whisky]

Star trek canada, here we come.

 

[CaptainWacky]

They could have a lot of episodes set in caves.

 

[CaptainWacky]

http://trekmovie.com/2016/11/22/unc...ery-may-have-its-first-star-in-michelle-yeoh/

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I've already read about 30 Trek/Yeoh puns at AV Club alone.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Specifically, Deadline’s sources state that her character’s name will be Han Bo and she will captain the U.S.S. Shenzhou, a vessel that will “play a big role in Discovery’s first season.”

So she isn't the captain of the Discovery probably who knows.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I wonder if that's supposed to be an all-Chinese ship?

Like there was the all-Vulcan ship Intrepid in TOS.

 

[whisky]

For races that make up a third of the worlds population, there really arent that many chinese and indians on star trek.

 

[CaptainWacky]

They're all in the Beta Quadrant.

 

[gturner]

Variety story

[Michelle] Yeoh, whose addition to the cast was reported last week by Variety, will play Captain Georgiou, the Starfleet captain aboard the starship Shenzhou.​

Shenzhou is China's version of the Soyuz, and the name translates as something like "Magic Boat" or "Divine Vessel of God."

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I just watched Gravity the other night, as Sandra Bullock bounced from the ISS to the Soyuz to the Shinzhou.

 

[gturner]

That whole movie was a wild violation of orbital mechanics.

 

[CaptainWacky]

http://trekmovie.com/2016/11/29/bre...in-michelle-yeoh-onboard-star-trek-discovery/

A gay character and an alien but not a gay alien.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

All aliens are gay for Hugh.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Astromycologist? He gonna be growing shrooms up there?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe they're at war with a race of mushroom people.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

They will be racing Mario to the Peach System.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'd rather be in Rosalina('s new galaxy.)