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Star Trek: Discovery (Speculation/Discussion/Spoilers)
I'll also need to find another way to watch it. I don't want to pay for a service if there is only one show I want to watch on it. Maybe another place will pick it up, or why can't CBS air it?
Discovery will be set about a decade before TOS, and its lead character will be a female who is NOT the captain of the ship--making this the first Trek series to be centred on someone other than the captain.
Fuller also says it will involve 'an event that has been mentioned but never seen before' in Trek.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
In terms of plot plots, he noted, "there's an incident, an event, in the history of Starfleet that has been talked about [in previous Star Trek series] but never fully explored." He didn't elaborate, but added that digging into the incident was "tantalizing."
WOOOO... So any trek fans wanna gossip about what that could possibly be?
I can't see it being the Earth-Romulan War as that ended before the founding of the Federation in 2161 and this new show takes place in the 2250's. All Star Trek: Discovery can do is just talk some more about a war that has been over and done for around 90-years. The real place that war should have been explored and experienced should have been in Star Trek: Enterprise.
My first thought was actually the Battle of Axanar, and if this may be why the Paramount/CBS lawsuit has been so uncharacteristically vehement.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
My first thought was actually the Battle of Axanar, and if this may be why the Paramount/CBS lawsuit has been so uncharacteristically vehement.
That is possible. I believe that the Battle of Axanar took place in the 2240's so there may be characters in Star Trek: Discovery that took part in that and were affected by it. Some flashback sequences to it would be exciting to see.
I saw that.. And the design from the 70's that it's based on is the same one that eventually became the Enterprise D..
It's an ugly brown triangle with a saucer stuck on the top right now.. They might be going for a "golden glow" but when there's nothing but the empty black nothingness of space to reflect it just looks like brown..
There's nothing to connect the different elements of the ship. It's just a bunch of random shapes stuck together.
I saw that.. And the design from the 70's that it's based on is the same one that eventually became the Enterprise D..
It's an ugly brown triangle with a saucer stuck on the top right now.. They might be going for a "golden glow" but when there's nothing but the empty black nothingness of space to reflect it just looks like brown..
There's nothing to connect the different elements of the ship. It's just a bunch of random shapes stuck together.
At least they say they're still working on it..
Yes, and I'm very relieved that they're still working on it too. I don't like the colour or the fact that, as you say, it is at its basic level just a bunch of random shapes stuck together.
One other thing...the deflector dish design on the USS Discovery is also of Star Trek: The Motion Picture era of ships (2270's upwards) so that right away is 20-years too early for when Star Trek: Discovery is set (2250's). That needs to be changed to reflect the satellite type of dishes used on Enterprise NX-01 or the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (pre-refit obviously).
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