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Watch The Exhilarating Opening Scene Of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
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You crack me up! Oh wait.........are you serious?
For the people here.
Why wouldn’t I be? The Enterprise episode where they capture the Defiant was awesome.
So was "Trials and Tribble-ations" but I don't want a whole series about it.
Unless we just want Trek to remain a completely self-isolating niche franchise. In which case, yes, do that.
If it’s set in that time period, then yes. They should have added to that, not create something entirely new that isn’t as interesting to look at.
I’ll be very disappointed if the 32nd century looks like Discovery.
I think that's kind of the problem with any science fiction show set in the distant future. You can only do so much that the audience will buy into or relate to. Have everything made of light or something and no one will buy into it.Replace the sound effects and you’ve got Star Wars.
The tech looks awfully Discovery era level for a show in the 32nd century
Set a show 50 years into the future, or 100 year into the future, and you can do something that's incredibly believable and realistic. Because, y'know, something like 2001 still holds up today. Or rather, it still holds up in comparison to something like The Original Series, whose tech we passed up in, what, the late 80's or early 90's. And The Next Generation era tech looks old now, we're past that now too. (And yeah, Transporters and warp drive and the like is not what I'm talking about.)
It seems like it's almost a rule: Star Trek really only shows us what the future will look like about 20 years from now. Because in 20 years we'll be past whatever the writers dreamt up for [insert whatever Star Trek series here].
As for the Star Wars comparison, yeah, can't argue that. Almost everything space-related looks like everything else nowadays. The only real way around that is to do a hard-science fiction show. Star Trek does that from time to time, but it's still space opera or space fantasy. I suppose they could still do 90s TV Star Trek space battles, but yeah, no...
I do personally wish though they would cut the space battle stuff in half... or more. It's nice, but I don't think they really need to do it that much. And they don't really, but they could even do less than what they currently do, I feel.
Agree to disagree then. Even Rodenberry distance himself from that look and on purpose with TMP.
There is no rule, despite fandom's insistence upon adhering to it, that mandates that everything from a Trek time period look identical. In my opinion, fandoms in general are so adverse to change that there is no room for anything to be included. TOS, for all that it means to me, is not the look that DSC had to use. Now, would I have used that aesthetic? Nope, but that's OK. It's interesting to me to look at it and try to understand how it fits in the world. It's different and that's OK.
And, I have feeling that those who don't like Discovery already will be disappointed in S3 regardless.
I suppose you're too young to remember when tie-in novels typically came out a month or so before the movie ? When U.S. releases were typically months ahead of us. I remember U.K. newspapers detailing Star Wars plot point by point weeks before it was released here.
The concept of spoilers hadn't been thought of...
Honestly, I loved the novels. I could determine if I wanted to bother at all with a film (Lost World was among the several I did a hard pass on).
I read a reasonably coherent piece a while ago that postulated that as faster than light travel was most likely impossible, not too distant future "us" will probably be able to upload ourselves into an incredibly detailed and accurate virtual environment where they can break the laws of physics and be able to explore the universe that way.
Doesn't sound like a great premise for a show.
Oh, God. I thought this shit was behind us now that DSC is in The Future.
Meh. I'm somewhat optimistic and I'm certainly going to watch, but I don't actually care yet.
Get your head out of the past.
Star Trek: A show about humanity's future whose fans prefer the show's past.
The 29th century looked pretty identical to the 24th.
The changed look of the Mid-23rd Century is a fair discussion to have, but it's a discussion for SNW now.
It's a dead issue for DSC and doesn't matter anymore in the new setting.
EDIT: Now, with that said, watching the opening scene for DSC S3 again! I'm a hopeless addict.
It's a dead issue for DSC and doesn't matter anymore in the new setting.
EDIT: Now, with that said, watching the opening scene for DSC S3 again! I'm a hopeless addict.
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I remember being a little kid and reading the entire plot of TSFS in a Starlog Poster Magazine weeks before my dad took me to the movie. I never again ruined it for myself!
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