Some Random Guy
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No it isn't.
Star Trek : Discovery
- Thread starter HebburnMackem
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jacko100
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yeah I enjoyed it too, its funny and a different take on Star Trek
They really are flogging Trek to death these days though, theres another new series Star Trek Prodigy starting on nickelodeon soon. That would be 4? Current series.
gards2
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It was
Some Random Guy
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Discovery is made by CBS, which isn't owned by Disney.
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The Exile
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Chinned it off after episode 2. Too hyper and shouty. Rick and Morty with a Star Trek skin on doesn't work for me.
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Some Random Guy
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I like Rick and Morty so didn't bother me. It's a fair comparison, if you don't like R&M you aren't likely to like this
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The Exile
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I think Rick and Morty is a great show.
These new Trek shows are going to age horribly, they're too rooted in this time period when it comes to language and attitude.
HebburnMackem
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Lower Decks has been better than the car crashes that are Disco and Picard, even if it's lower brow cartoon stuff, at least it feels like 'Trek
Here's hoping S3 of Disco fixes a LOT of things.
Here's hoping S3 of Disco fixes a LOT of things.
Dark Traveller
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Indeed, although I think it seems a bit lazy of the writers to have Discovery jump far ahead so they not hindered by Star Trek canon.
Isn't there another Star Trek series in the works? Something to do with Enterprise/Pike?
Edit: Found it - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Some Random Guy
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I'm looking forward to it. I wish instead of Picard we had another "traditional" St series set after the Dominion war too.
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I'm hoping that's so far down the road we might get Frakes in charge of Trek by then. He's to Trek what Favreau is to Star Wars these days.
A good game to play during these new shows is 'count the producers'. All the shows so far have had more producers than regular cast members, so no wonder it's all over the shop a lot of the time.
Frakes is directing more and more now. Just been reading an interview with them all.
Seems to have canny sway now.
Is it lazy? I think it was to free them creativity wise. They were absolutely certain they needed to do something to 'explain' discovery. Ie how the fuck no one had heard of it, why spock had a sister, a f***ing Shroom Drive etc.
Of course that was cos they backed themselves into a corner going down that route, but i think this is the best way.
Looks like Disco is going to be a bit like Andromeda (show with Kevin sorbo) ie rebuilding the federation.
After what I'm hoping turns out to be that the burn is
a due to a massive explosion of Omega particles (from Voyager) which destroyed space travel as we know it and the federation was shattered due to planets now being centuries travel apart. Hence how you see in the trailer planets have mixtures of species on.
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HebburnMackem
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They constantly fucked things up with canon and that's why they went to the future. Thing is, the damage is done.
Yup I'm hoping ST:SNW is a lot better, they have said it will be more in the mould of TOS, but it's the same shitty Kurtzman team, so we'll have Klingons from LoTR
Some Random Guy
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Yup. I always thought Andromeda was based was arguably a retooled potential ST show.
From what we know its deffo going that way. The promo pics of Burnham with the flag, the (presumably) president of the federation saying they had hoped they'd arrive (which suggests to me discovery maybe slipped into myth).
Interested which planets remain on the flag. Is it 3 stars?
I'm assuming earth and possibly Andor & tellar/vulcan
Dark Traveller
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Well it was a conveniently unused Gene Roddenberry idea that was developed by his wife, Majel Barrett.
Albay3037
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Also Enterprise
When Book mentions the temporal wars, possibly the Temporal Cold War from Enterprise
Canny episode I thought, looks they are not going to totally ignore canon like people assumed.
