October 15 Official release date

[BillJ]

I don't like the idea of throwing out the entire premise for something in the far future.

The Spore Drive and exploring time and space should’ve been the premise from the get go.

Discovery was a loving homage to the Original Series with modern special effects and analysis.

We’ll have to disagree there. It felt inferior to TOS and that it simply glommed onto it to sell subscriptions. I hope with season three the show can develop its own Trek voice.

 

[Charles Phipps]

The Spore Drive and exploring time and space should’ve been the premise from the get go.

I was in for the Klingon-Federation politics in the pre-Kirk era. Back when space was not entirely settled or safe but after Enterprise.

We’ll have to disagree there. It felt inferior to TOS and that it simply glommed onto it to sell subscriptions. I hope with season three the show can develop its own Trek voice.

I liked it a lot when I thought it was a one season thing. But now it just seems like they're stealing Andromeda's premise.

But maybe they'll prove me wrong.

 

[BillJ]

I was in for the Klingon-Federation politics in the pre-Kirk era.

Never much cared for politics in Star Trek. Lots of shows about politics out there. Not too many about exploring space.

. But now it just seems like they're stealing Andromeda's premise.

Stealing a Gene Roddenberry premise for a Star Trek show seems appropriate, maybe they’ll do it right this time.

 

[Tuskin38]

Shouldn’t really be affected by the switch.

In fact, I think someone said in an interview that we will see more Kelpiens in season 3.

 

[Lord Garth]

Stealing a Gene Roddenberry premise for a Star Trek show seems appropriate, maybe they’ll do it right this time.

Basically my stance on this issue.

 

[Orphalesion]

Stealing a Gene Roddenberry premise for a Star Trek show seems appropriate, maybe they’ll do it right this time.

Early Andromeda had a lot of good in it, including excellent design and world building, it just went belly up when the show runner left.

 

[BillJ]

Early Andromeda had a lot of good in it, including excellent design and world building, it just went belly up when the show runner left.

It was on for five years and I made it through, maybe, ten episodes. Just found nothing compelling about it.

 

[Orphalesion]

It was on for five years and I made it through, maybe, ten episodes. Just found nothing compelling about it.

There you see how tastes differ. If it had managed to survive its behind-the-scenes problems and avoid it's drop in quality, I think I would have liked it a lot better than Star Trek.
Or at least I think I like the universe/world building better (until it went off the rails late in the series)

 

[Mudd]

Roddenberry's involvement with the premise of Andromeda was exaggerated. Wolfe took his own blue sky premise for a "Fall of the Federation" Trek series and tacked on a couple of elements from Roddenberry's failed Genesis II pilot.

The chance of this bunch "doing it right" is nil.

 

[BillJ]

Roddenberry's involvement with the premise of Andromeda was exaggerated. Wolfe took his own blue sky premise for a "Fall of the Federation" Trek series and tacked on a couple of elements from Roddenberry's failed Genesis II pilot.

The chance of this bunch "doing it right" is nil.

I'll give them a chance to engage me. I hope they can succeed.

 

[Tuskin38]

The chance of this bunch "doing it right" is nil.

You don't know that until it airs.

 

[Replica Picard]

If they don't stick with the 32nd century (which I'd be fine if they do), then I'd like to see their time there wrap up with needing to come back to the time of Picard to correct something to keep the future they're leaving from happening, perhaps in a multi-series crossover that includes plot elements developed in Picard, SNW, maybe Lower Decks, and maybe even in a brief series of Short Treks featuring actors/characters from the other series, like Archer or Sulu.

And then I'd want to see their ability to do that destroyed in the process, unless another very good and canonically careful plot that involves using it is already on the table. Leave something like that too easily accessed, and it's just a matter of time before some crap episode writer will "2nd-appearance-of-Species-8472" the heck out of it.