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Star Trek Discovery

(Discovery is a prequel to the 1966 original series)...

...Doug Jones (Hellboy) as Lt. Saru, a Starfleet Science Officer and member of a new alien species in the Star Trek universe...
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That's not how prequels work. :no:
 
"My people were biologically determined for one purpose alone: to sense the coming of death" is a really bad line. Does he just stand around the Brridge all day telling people when death is coming?
 
Also: Phlox 2.0. "All new alien species never seen in any story that comes later than this series in the overall franchise continuity! Wheeee!"
 
As a sci-fi series it looks entertaining and like it's had a bit of money spent on it. As a Star Trek series it looks like style over substance that doesn't fit into the existing universe, but we'll see.

I reckon most of it can be explained away if anyone's really determined enough. You could even say the Klingons are just a different, minority race from the ones we've always seen.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
As a sci-fi series it looks entertaining and like it's had a bit of money spent on it. As a Star Trek series it looks like style over substance that doesn't fit into the existing universe, but we'll see.

I reckon most of it can be explained away if anyone's really determined enough.
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Oh, it can be explained away really, really easily; no determination necessary.

Post-VOY bridge in the trailer? Post-VOY ship in the trailer? Bumpy headed Klingons in between the smooth headed Klingons that went from the end of Enterprise all the way through to TMP?

Come on. You know the answer to all that.

Time travel. Again. Bumpy-headed Klingons time travel back to 10 years before Kirk -- possibly to kill Kirk, who knows. The post-VOY ship we saw in the trailer follows them back trying to stop them. Discovery ends up in the middle of it. Discovery gets the never-before (or after) seen alien (Phlox 2.0).

There ya go. Slap-bang, explained, it's Enterprise 2.0.
 
Actually, DS9 half-explained why Klingons grew bumps and stuff in the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Worf acknowledged that something happened on the planet at some point to cause it, but "we do not discuss it with outsiders!"

It's silly, and yet still more plausible than anything else that may come along.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Actually, DS9 half-explained why Klingons grew bumps and stuff in the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Worf acknowledged that something happened on the planet at some point to cause it, but "we do not discuss it with outsiders!"

It's silly, and yet still more plausible than anything else that may come along.
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Actually, IIRC, Bashir was the one who set it up by asking (paraphrasing here): "What was it? Genetic experimentation? Viral mutation?"

Manny Coto's answer, brilliantly, was to make it a combination of the two.

Oh, and that plot call I made just a bit upthread there? I'm calling it -- that's exactly what we're getting.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
As a sci-fi series it looks entertaining and like it's had a bit of money spent on it. As a Star Trek series it looks like style over substance that doesn't fit into the existing universe, but we'll see.

I reckon most of it can be explained away if anyone's really determined enough. You could even say the Klingons are just a different, minority race from the ones we've always seen.
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I think they're supposed to be "ancient Klingons" that are dug up somewhere.
 
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