The Doctor's voice

[ScottJ85]

Sure, an “average run of the mill middle aged guy,” who is a two time Pan American Jiu Jitsu championship winner, and worked as stunt coordinator, that is to say one in great shape.

I don't think he's out of shape at all, but it's a good demonstration of how the camera seems to add ten pounds.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

• Consistently better nutrition and sleep patterns result in healthier looking skin.
• Superior stress reduction techniques extend actual vitality not to mention vital appearances.
• Cosmetic/"plastic" surgery becomes increasingly cheaper, easier and more comprehensive.
• Genetic screening removes the possibility of a host of hereditary illnesses.

At the very least, everybody in the future is going to have perfect teeth and will probably be a bit more symmetrical (which most folks interpret as attractiveness) due to fewer illnesses and probably better genes.

You know what would just scream "future healthcare"? Better mental health. That's probably the one area where Trek has consistently failed to imagine a better future.

 

[Campe]

And Paramount + needs to do something about the frequent buffering. It's annoying as hell.

Rarely have problems myself with P+.

 

[Yistaan]

I don't think he's out of shape at all, but it's a good demonstration of how the camera seems to add ten pounds.

I heard M'Benga lost a fight against Timothee Chalamet on some desert planet just before running off to the Enterprise. It must have happened during his internship on Vulcan.

 

[Ragitsu]

You know what would just scream "future healthcare"? Better mental health. That's probably the one area where Trek has consistently failed to imagine a better future.

Miles O'Brien is one noteworthy example .

 

[ScottJ85]

I heard M'Benga lost a fight against Timothee Chalamet on some desert planet just before running off to the Enterprise. It must have happened during his internship on Vulcan.

I totally forgot he was in Dune, what a great movie that was.

 

[johnnybear]

How does he compare to the original M'Benga? I don't have my Blu-Rays on hand and it has been ages since I saw the one episode (were there in fact two?) that featured the doctor specializing in Vulcan medicine; YouTube is no help in this regard, by the way.

He's nothing like Booker Bradshaw who appeared in two episodes of the original series. I don't know why they have to reuse these old characters and have such different actors cast. Apart from that he seems okay in the role.
JB

 

[Ragitsu]

He's nothing like Booker Bradshaw who appeared in two episodes of the original series. I don't know why they have to reuse these old characters and have such different actors cast. Apart from that he seems okay in the role.
JB

Their temperaments/personalities are radically different, you mean?

 

[fireproof78]

*laughs in Robin Curtis *

 

[johnnybear]

Yes the Curtis thing though I get but it was still with the Shatner Kirk and the Kelley McCoy rather than a completely new cast!
JB

 

[fireproof78]

Yes the Curtis thing though I get but it was still with the Shatner Kirk and the Kelley McCoy rather than a completely new cast!
JB

Well, we can't really bring back the dead, now can we?

Recasting must be hard when we'd rather have the dead back.

 

[johnnybear]

Why bother messing with perfection?
JB

 

[fireproof78]

Why bother messing with perfection?
JB

Sorry? Are they damaging something somehow?

 

[johnnybear]

The original series sets and canon weren't good enough? Yet Continues gets the chop?
JB

 

[fireproof78]

The original series sets and canon weren't good enough? Yet Continues gets the chop?
JB

Who is say they are not good enough? This is storytelling, not historical reenactment.

Nothing about TOS is being damaged. Also, as much as I love TOS it was not perfection.

 

[johnnybear]

No not perfection I may have exaggerated somewhat but for me it is the best of Trek!
JB

 

[fireproof78]

No not perfection I may have exaggerated somewhat but for me it is the best of Trek!
JB

And it is for me.

And? What part of TOS is being damaged? What is being taken away from it?

All I see is a lot of fan assumptions and a lot of hand wringing over minutia that is not as important as the characters in the stories and what we learn about them. If you want the dead back, by all means please watch TOS.

 

[johnnybear]

Okay I sure will!
JB

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes the Curtis thing though I get but it was still with the Shatner Kirk and the Kelley McCoy rather than a completely new cast!
JB

And does that turn Curtis into Alley?

 

[fireproof78]

And does that turn Curtis into Alley?

It did, actually.