Taking a true statement and rewording to sound like it’s from a dumb-ass doesn’t make it any less true...

Probably more than you learned from watching the “ground breaking Sci Fi”, right?

This show is only 10 years before TOS. The Prime Directive is way older than that.

I’ve said this in reply to other comments—it’s the show’s fault. They are the ones that pre-biased viewers by making this a Star Trek show, a prequel 10 yrs before the TOS, and are reusing characters like Mudd.

So you fill you life watching crap that other people hate. Good for you?

Yeah, I was expecting this show to fail based on its use as blackmail to buy a streaming service, but now I’m mostly rooting on it to fail to show that this isn’t what the world (of sci fi tv watchers) wants from Star Trek.

And that’s why you watch Star Trek? For the rad cussing?

That’s not true. Kirk may have helped define it for the audience and the world throughout TOS’s run, but in-show the Directive was firmly in place by the time Kirk and Co were skirting it.

Yeah, and I know we’re not ‘supposed’ to watch/read stories that way, but it’s really hard not to once you get older than around 12-16.

Good point. Although the confusion here is their own fault. If they wanted the viewer to be unbiased about the character they shouldn’t have made it a ‘cameo’ of a Star Trek fan favorite character.

I agree, but at the same time disagree that this is isn’t what I want out of Star Trek and it’s just another reason why the first new show in over a decade shouldn’t have been a prequel.

This might be the first Star Trek post that Trendacosta has posted that I completely agree with.

Interesting review, thanks. Still don’t know if I agree, but it’s nice to see a Star Trek fan that liked the show and then gave actual Star Trek reasons for liking it.

Elom Musk is hardly pop-culter namdropping though. I know he’s new and current but the dude made modern electric cars and private space rockets. His name is not just going to fade away in a few years.

Interesting catch. Although I don’t think its that simple. We only have one human-intelligent species on earth, so whether we would include other human-intelligent species in our definition of cannibalism is an interesting Sci-Fi topic. Probably more interesting than anything they’ll actually ever cover on ST:D

This is going on nothing but my pessimistic gut, but I think you are big-time out of luck if you are hoping the ‘Klingon bullshit’ to be over soon. I was done with this show after the first ep—as in part 1 of the pilot (I would have watched both parts, but hey, CBS didn’t think I needed to see both parts before asking…

No offense to this story’s author, but I kind of just skipped the article and read along with the comic strip. I’m fairly certain I’ve read this in the past, it’s very good. It doesn’t really need the deconstruction, as with any good story, it stands on its own.

So if I’m reading you right, you’re saying all they need to do was include that song in this new version and BOOM, total linkage of all important parts.

Wow, that kind of sounds like the first 3 eps of Helix...

Yeah, look how great it worked for Stargate!