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    Originally posted by Annoyed View Post
    Blue Klingons? Maybe an aquatic variant? Are his hands webbed?
    either that or the product of a period of interbreeding between Klingons and Andorians?

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      Tons of stuff from Comic-Con at TrekMovie. Costumes, ships, weapons, new trailer, etc.

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        Trailer 2 extended:

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          after watching the second trailer I have mixed feelings about this, it looks like they just turned the latest films ideas in to a tv series, action packed but star trek is suppose to be more intellectual, don't get me wrong this looks really good but it doesn't look like what star trek originally was about, i guess maybe they are just trying to appeal to a younger audience but it's pretty disappointing tv shows have to be "action packed" to be successful.

          In saying all that we only have trailers to go off right now and even if I'm right I guess we can't always get what we want, shows need to change to stay relevant which I think is why SGU was so different.

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            I'm pleased with the trailer. Very much looking forward to seeing what they do with the show!
            "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

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              Originally posted by tomaso88 View Post
              after watching the second trailer I have mixed feelings about this, it looks like they just turned the latest films ideas in to a tv series, action packed but star trek is suppose to be more intellectual, don't get me wrong this looks really good but it doesn't look like what star trek originally was about, i guess maybe they are just trying to appeal to a younger audience but it's pretty disappointing tv shows have to be "action packed" to be successful.

              In saying all that we only have trailers to go off right now and even if I'm right I guess we can't always get what we want, shows need to change to stay relevant which I think is why SGU was so different.
              I don't know, there's a lot of action (for a 1980's style trailer) in The Next Generation's trailer

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmsI07AMsE

              Season two's trailer starts with the Enterprise firing torpedoes...then lots of phasers.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlz2-opV08k

              Keep in mind that in the past before widespread internet, tv trailers had to actually tell you who the people in the show were. Take that out and replace it with voiceovers....

              Season six gets closer to Discovery's style. Lots of action and voiced parts denoting drama and suspense. Just look at their episode trailers for the season.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpzrefyrZk

              The stakes are higher for season 7

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cs33wltli8

              Here's an Original Series one given a modern treatment...

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_WryYuRNw

              My point is that it really is hard to make that assessment through this trailer...
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                Originally posted by aretood2 View Post
                I don't know, there's a lot of action (for a 1980's style trailer) in The Next Generation's trailer

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmsI07AMsE

                Season two's trailer starts with the Enterprise firing torpedoes...then lots of phasers.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlz2-opV08k

                Keep in mind that in the past before widespread internet, tv trailers had to actually tell you who the people in the show were. Take that out and replace it with voiceovers....

                Season six gets closer to Discovery's style. Lots of action and voiced parts denoting drama and suspense. Just look at their episode trailers for the season.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpzrefyrZk

                The stakes are higher for season 7

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cs33wltli8

                Here's an Original Series one given a modern treatment...

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_WryYuRNw

                My point is that it really is hard to make that assessment through this trailer...
                Yeah I def agree that's why I said in the end "In saying all that we only have trailers to go off right now ". I'm looking forward to seeing it and seeing what they come up with, been so long since we've had a trek tv series it will be interesting what new ideas they can come up with and what old ideas they'll bring back

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                  Originally posted by aretood2 View Post
                  I don't know, there's a lot of action (for a 1980's style trailer) in The Next Generation's trailer

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmsI07AMsE

                  Season two's trailer starts with the Enterprise firing torpedoes...then lots of phasers.

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlz2-opV08k

                  Keep in mind that in the past before widespread internet, tv trailers had to actually tell you who the people in the show were. Take that out and replace it with voiceovers....

                  Season six gets closer to Discovery's style. Lots of action and voiced parts denoting drama and suspense. Just look at their episode trailers for the season.

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpzrefyrZk

                  The stakes are higher for season 7

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cs33wltli8

                  Here's an Original Series one given a modern treatment...

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_WryYuRNw

                  My point is that it really is hard to make that assessment through this trailer...
                  Damn I got all nostalgic there, Tood.
                  Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.

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                    Originally posted by P-90_177 View Post
                    Damn I got all nostalgic there, Tood.
                    Then brace for all the movie trailers for up to 2009
                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLseLSMlzsk
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                      Originally posted by aretood2 View Post
                      Then brace for all the movie trailers for up to 2009
                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLseLSMlzsk
                      I always love stuff like that because it's a really good look at how movie trailers have changed over the years.

                      However for true nostalgia I always look to the old Star Trek CIC VHS trailers.

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7l4d3am3o

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghIOoO2F2lk

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szk1Kp_Hm5o
                      Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.

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                        Bryan Fuller on his Star Trek: Discovery exit: 'I got to dream big'

                        Bryan Fuller candidly discusses his exit as showrunner from Star Trek: Discovery in this week’s Entertainment Weekly — including his original ambitious pitch to CBS All Access.

                        The Hannibal and Pushing Daisies showrunner initially wasn’t envisioning a single Trek series, but multiple serialized anthology shows that would begin with Star Trek: Discovery (a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series), journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean Luc Picard and then go beyond to a time in Trek that’s never been seen before.

                        “The original pitch was to do for science-fiction what American Horror Story had done for horror,” Fuller says. “It would platform a universe of Star Trek shows.”

                        CBS countered with the plan of creating a single serialized series and then seeing how it performed. Still, the project was a dream come true for Fuller, who worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager and long publicly lobbied for a return of the franchise to television — specifically with a woman of color at the helm.

                        “I couldn’t stop thinking about how many black people were inspired by seeing Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of a ship [as Lt. Uhura in The Original Series],” Fuller says. “I couldn’t stop thinking about how many Asian people were inspired by seeing George Takei [as Sulu] and feeling that gave them hope for their place in the future. I wanted to be part of that representation for a new era.”

                        Yet after starting work on the show, Fuller’s relationship with CBS became strained. He objected to the network’s choice of David Semel, a veteran of procedurals like Madam Secretary and Code Black, to direct the Discovery pilot (Baby Driver director Edgar Wright tells us he was among those Fuller approached instead).

                        There were also squabbles over the Discovery budget, with the production eventually going over CBS’ original plan to spend $6 million per episode (a number that’s either on high side for an original drama series, or a bit lean for an ambitious genre show, depending on who you ask). But perhaps the toughest issue was trying to launch Discovery by February 2017, a date which some felt was unrealistic given the unique world-building demands of a premium sci-fi show.

                        From CBS’ perspective, sources say they were frustrated that, given the ticking clock, Fuller was spending so much time on his equally ambitious Starz show, American Gods, which was simultaneously shooting its debut season. “It wasn’t just a little teeny side job he had over there,” one insider noted. “It was a massive undertaking.”

                        Fuller felt he found the crucial piece of the puzzle when he met last fall with Sonequa Martin-Green to play his lead, Michael Burnham — the Vulcan-raised human Starfleet First Officer who serves under the command of Michelle Yeoh’s Captain Philippa Georgiou. “Her audition was fantastic,” Fuller recalls. “I found her incredibly insightful as an actor and delightful as a human being.”

                        Yet even that decision ran into a seemingly insurmountable roadblock because AMC would not release the actress until her Walking Dead character died on screen in May. The only way the production could hire Martin-Green was if the show’s premiere was delayed, and it had already been delayed once already.

                        In October, after months of backstage tension, CBS asked Fuller to step down. The company announced he would leave the show to focus on Gods and his reboot of the anthology series Amazing Stories. The captain’s chair was filled by Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg, two writers Fuller had worked with for years.

                        Some of Fuller’s ideas were tossed — from the more heavily allegorical and complex storyline to his choice of uniforms (a subdued spin on The Original Series trio of primary colors). “I got to dream big,” Fuller says. “I was sad for a week and then I salute the ship and compartmentalize my experience.”

                        Yet the piece of Fuller’s vision he was most specifically passionate about for so long — casting a woman of color to lead a Trek revival — was achieved. Producers hired Martin-Green a few months after Fuller left. Ironically, it was the production delays that made her casting possible.

                        Many months later, Fuller saw the Star Trek: Discovery trailer. How did he feel watching that? Fuller pauses. “What I can say is…my reaction was that I was happy to see a black woman and an Asian woman in command of a Starship.”
                        "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

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                          Originally posted by Alan View Post
                          The original trailer CBS released was geo-blocked. CBS News have made it more widely available:
                          Now that makes it look better than i thought it would.. So far at least.

                          Originally posted by jelgate View Post
                          The CBS All Access thing is why I probably I won't be watching it. I can't justify paying the subscription for one show
                          Me neither. Guess i will wait till it hits CBS.com regular OR goes to dvd.

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                            Originally posted by garhkal View Post
                            Now that makes it look better than i thought it would.. So far at least.



                            Me neither. Guess i will wait till it hits CBS.com regular OR goes to dvd.
                            This is one instance where it's good to be abroad as it's going straight to UK Netflix.
                            Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.

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                              So...this is interesting. I don't know if I like all of it, but it's interesting.


                              Klingon Head Ridges Will Finally Be Explained on Star Trek: Discovery, with Science


                              How did zebras get their stripes? No one knows, except maybe zoologists. But in Star Trek: Discovery, we’ll find out why the Klingons got their forehead ridges, and they actually serve an important biological purpose.

                              During a panel at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention (as shared by Trek Movie), Discovery creature designers Neville Page and Glenn Hetrick chatted about the show’s version of Klingons, which look remarkably different from earlier versions. Mainly, they’re bald. According to Page, there are two reasons for this: It was a mandate from original showrunner Bryan Fuller, and because they heighten Klingons’ senses. Wait, hold on a second.

                              That’s right, Discovery is introducing a genetic reason for the ridges. Traditionally, they’ve been viewed as part of each Klingon House’s lineage, showing other Klingons what families each person belongs to. While that’s still true, Page adds that the ridges have extra-sensory receptors, running from the top of their heads to their backs. This is because Klingons are “apex predators,” so this is something that helped them get to the top of the food chain. Actor Mary Chieffo, who plays L’Rell, clarified a bit:

                              Obviously the hair was the biggest thing people noticed, or the lack thereof. And I will attest to the fact there is a reason my ridge goes back the way it does. There are sensors and pheromones…There is a whole reasoning behind it that is adhering to what has always been true in Klingon canon…So I deeply believe we are in line with what has come before but is also adding a new kind of nuance.
                              On the surface, this actually seems like an okay idea. We haven’t really gotten a reason for the forehead ridges (although we do know makeup artist Michael Westmore based them on dinosaur bones) so it doesn’t change or destroy anything we already understand about the show. The bald thing is new, though. It could result in some interesting storylines, especially between the Klingons and Starfleet. Plus, I’ll take any excuse to make Klingons even more badass than they already are.

                              However, it does raise a lot of questions. These Klingons are bald to better access their senses, so is their hair loss genetic or do they shave? Why would some Klingons evolve to have hair and others wouldn’t, and would that affect their abilities? Also, what about the Klingon Augment Virus? Did losing their ridges mean those Klingons lost their extra-sensory abilities, and when they got their ridges back, did they return? And is that virus the reason that they have hair AND ridges later on?

                              Most importantly: Why would anyone pierce their forehead ridges if they contain extra-sensory receptors? That just sounds counter-productive, and really painful.


                              Star Trek: Discovery has had some issues during its production, to say the least, but it’s clear the team isn’t dicking around in regards to Klingons. They’re having the actors speak Klingon with subtitles, working with a dialogue coach and translator to make sure it looks and sounds accurate. And the costumes, props, and creature makeup look interesting...even if some of it doesn’t match what we’ve seen from Klingons in the past. However, Page said that’s entirely on purpose.

                              “The Empire is very big. They don’t all grow up on Qo’noS. They don’t all live on the same planets and certainly those different planets would have different environments. So how would the cultures have evolved differently?” Page said. “We tried to come up with cultural axioms for each house so each looks different and they bear a cultural patina like our cultures do here on Earth.”

                              Star Trek: Discovery debuts September 24, with extra ridges.
                              "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

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                                Originally posted by DigiFluid View Post
                                Most importantly: Why would anyone pierce their forehead ridges if they contain extra-sensory receptors? That just sounds counter-productive, and really painful.
                                And Klingons avoid pain? We've seen a number of rituals where they embrace it.

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