Exactly. Who wants to see the heroes of their youth be sad and miserable? I just don’t get who this show is for. Picard is miserable, Troi had a son but he died, Riker was a captain for 5 minutes before his son died and he quit, Seven of Nine is miserable, Icheb got slaughtered... Ugh. And that’s just the known…

So - I was right the assole Vulcan is just an asshole Vulcan and not a Romulan. Because all Vulcans are assholes in new Trek unless they’re Spock. And even he is a douche.

And despite your corporate overlords telling you to stick to sports, I hope Deadspin never does because

and I can’t emphasize this enough

I come to Deadspin BECAUSE YOU DON’T JUST STICK TO SPORTS

Note to the guards: Suicide watch does not mean, “watch someone commit suicide.”

Every day I grow closer to being a conspiracy theorist. 

Things we need government oversight on: People commenting on the internet.

Things we don’t need government oversight on: People purchasing guns specifically designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

Fucking way to fucking go.

It’s a fucking spinoff. Let them experiment. 

Can you back up the claim that it can be terraformed within a century? Especially the magnetic field part.

One thing I didn’t mention in this piece is how, after Mars, the list of other viable places to set up colonies falls off sharply. Realistically, we only have the moons of Jupiter and Saturn to consider, which present their own challenges, including the tremendous amount of radiation pouring out from the gas giants.

What gets me abut the show is that the crew of the ship act like idiots, and you can’t even handwave it off as the writers being bad at their jobs, because there’s that one episode where they thaw out the backup xenobiologist and he explicitly calls out the main one for being bad at his job!

The first episode is truly one of the most godawful things I’ve ever watched. What moron at Netflix gave this absolute freakin’ rubbish the green light? Has *anything* else original from Netflix *ever* been this bad? (Admittedly, I’ve never seen Hemlock Grove. That has a pretty bad reputation.) This is appalling. Poor …

I saw the trailer for this on Netflix and it looks laughably fucking awful.

The spaceship’s crew makes Prometheus’ crew look extremely competent and professional, and Prometheus had biologist who was first afraid of a dead body, but then decided to pet an alien snake.

That wasn’t in the first episode, so I will never see it =P

No, but watch this show for a few episodes and you’ll suddenly think it made a lot more sense than you did before, lol

I was particularly enamoured of the “Let’s flood the ship with Gamma radiation to kill off the virus!” moment.

Nope.

Watched episode 1 tonight, and good lord was it dumb. I knew in the first five minutes the writing was going to be average at best, but kept going because I’m a sucker for spaceship shows, but God damn.

in the world inhabited by these characters, i could imagine the following exchange:

“We’ve been visited by an alien species. We have a craft that can travel faster than light. We’re going to make first contact with these aliens... on their home turf. Now we need to find the right crew.”
“Got it. Let’s send the cast of…

I’m 25 minutes into the first episode and am already bored. Even Katee and Selma cannot keep me watching this show.