Well they are deep into their team meetings on the 50th-anniversary celebration planning. So I would give them a bit of slack.

I’m not here to say anything about the merits of your comment, just to marvel at the mind-blowing curtain-lifting your username has given me.

I am happy about this-I am really enjoying the show. I love Star Trek, especially TNG, and I think this has the potential to grow into great science fiction given enough time.

“How about prosaic? Workman-like? Too on-the-nose? Forgettable? Generic? Flaccid? Bantha poodoo?”

So easy to spot the people who haven’t owned VR :)

Q might me a good releaf from every single scene being a tense interaction.

Series ends similar to Enterprise. The entire story is actually a holo-novel written by Barclay.

A hard fought gain in the War on Christmas

Tell that to Doctor Who, who have been admirably and consistently making tech, costumes, ideas, and special effects looks as similar to their 1963 counterparts as they can and STILL develop a rabid fanbase since the show returned in 2005.

Criticising blandness is far from hate. It’s just an expression of dissapointment of something that has the potential to be good, just because a few parts of the whole are letting it down.

Eh, there’s modern tech, and then there’s design language/aesthetics. The showrunners seem to have neglected putting recent advancements in the chassis and livery/colors of the original series despite those not being things that have changed on the technology front. Compare to TNG, which converted the jewel-tone…

Prequels always work. I can literally not think of a single sci-fi franchise with the word Star in the name that has had a misstep with a prequel, or trilogy of prequels.

While I get what you’re saying, I think Zack has a very good point here.

For better or worse, Star Trek: Discovery is part of a much larger franchise. And for the show to make constant references to Star Trek’s mythology while simultaneously ignoring or rewriting other parts of that mythology is hardly “seeing what…

As a gamer and child of the 90s, I will never, ever understand the streaming thing as anything other than a rather sad indication of how lonely everyone has become.

I tried. I really did. I’ve watched one or two “lets plays” over the years... but mainly for practical reasons - games that didn’t have demos and I was…

Yep. Just 30 minutes ago, I called this network a self-parody of liberalism, where even the most innocuous shit gets shredded for being offensive.

I just skimmed this, but I’m intrigued by the idea of putting Philadelphia inside a hole on the moon.

I said ‘with help from the Vulcans’. Which is all part of the cannon.

The story of how the Federation found its moral center is supposed to be rooted in the post-war 21st century and the era immediately following First Contact... a moral center that we found with a great deal of help from the Vulcans.

While I agree with your premise I’m not sure I do agree with the underlying morality of it. Trek has always presented us with the idea that morality, optimism, diplomacy and hope can win the day, especially during ambiguous times. DS9 is ultimately a testament to that - if Section 31 had had its cynical way, Odo would…

Everything about the spore drive and the portrayal of the Klingons, from their ships to their look, is just terrible. This show is taxing to watch as a Star Trek fan. It sure feels like the people who are making it really, really hate Star Trek and its philosophy.