Star Trek: Discovery

[Prime Clone]

Re: New Star Trek TV Series in 2017!

Well about those theories...

Spoiler

It appears that at the very least Capt Lorca is from the mirror universe or at least his ship is. In a released publicity pict of Lorca in his ready room the wall plaque for the ship reads "ISS Discovery". Interesting.

Spoiler

Yes, Jonathan Frakes let slip recently that the Mirror Universe will make an appearance.

That would clear up my only complaint about the series: that the spore drive technology seems too advanced for its place in the Prime Timeline.

The only other explanation was that it turned out to be so dangerous it was deleted from Starfleet records and never spoken of again.

Also, the writers are obviously expecting big things from Elon Musk, naming him alongside the Wright Brothers and Zefram Cochrane!

 

[Scareb]

So they just dropped two F-bombs on star trek.........interesting.

 

[RIDDICK]

So they just dropped two F-bombs on star trek.......

 

[a-dev]

So they just dropped two F-bombs on star trek.........interesting.

And here I thought the F word had been phased out of the space-time continuum.

 

[DiFabio]

And here I thought the F word had been phased out of the space-time continuum.

STD isn't canon.

 

[a-dev]

That is correct suh.

 

[Python]

I'm no prude, I probably swear way too much. But that F-bomb felt desperately out of place and unnecessary.

 

[DarthIndy]

Agreed.

 

[RIDDICK]

felt desperately out of place and unnecessary.

Just like the whole thing, it bein' another TOS pseudo prequel and all.

 

[thecapn]

I always thought the vernacular on Trek was off to begin with. Over the centuries, we'd come up with new swear words, new slang. We'd adopt pieces of foreign languages into one Federation standard, and moving past that, probably add some Vulcan, Andorian, and other languages in with it too.

Firefly was the gold standard in that - all of a sudden they'd drop a word in conversation and you'd have to use context clues to figure it out. That was pretty accurate to how it SHOULD be...

 

[Python]

Yeah, Firefly did a lot right...

 

[a-dev]

I was expecting it to come from the Captain during his imprisonment by the ''Klingons''. It would have been less forced in a scenario like that.

 

[RIDDICK]

I always thought the vernacular on Trek was off to begin with. Over the centuries, we'd come up with new swear words, new slang. We'd adopt pieces of foreign languages into one Federation standard, and moving past that, probably add some Vulcan, Andorian, and other languages in with it too.

Firefly was the gold standard in that - all of a sudden they'd drop a word in conversation and you'd have to use context clues to figure it out. That was pretty accurate to how it SHOULD be...

FF was a realistic take, plus completely different genre of cinema.
There's no "gold standard" for sci-fi.

 

[a-dev]

Why did they change the look of the Klingons so completely and yet Vulcans look the same as they've always looked....

 

[Prime Clone]

Vulcans have always been human-looking so I guess there was no need. Klingons have had multiple changes, so I guess one more doesn't hurt.

Spoiler

Unless these are Mirror Universe Klingons!

 

[a-dev]

Vulcans have always been human-looking so I guess there was no need. Klingons have had multiple changes, so I guess one more doesn't hurt.

It does though. It's probably the single biggest reason I cannot accept this show as canon unless they have a damned good explanation for it.

 

[Prime Clone]

Well we've already had to reconcile the TOS Klingons with the movie ones, then the Kelvin Timeline versions.

 

[Python]

The recent episode was one of the more enjoyable ones since the opening two. Predictable, and done before (x files, groundhog day etc) But entertaining none the less.

 

[a-dev]

Well we've already had to reconcile the TOS Klingons with the movie ones, then the Kelvin Timeline versions.

I disregard the latter altogether. Didn't happen. As for the change that started with ST:TMP - that really became the default Klingon - followed for years thereafter. Eventually they acknowledged and explained it. But changing it again is just really pissing in the soup to me.

 

[Khev]

They should just change the Klingons' designs from shot to shot, even during single conversations they can repeatedly cut to a human and then back to the same Klingon that looks different every time. Then just play it straight and don't have the characters in the show ever acknowledge it, lol.