Ok...sorry this is kinda far afield. I’m watching a rerun of Boston Law at the moment. I suppose the particular episode doesn’t really matter for my purposes. Which is - to note that Shatner as Denny Crane is a stroke of sheer genius. He’s great in that role.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Discovery discussion. Thank you.
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams
I am pretty sure that a significant amount of story is being poured into a reasonable explanation of why the spire drive doesn’t exist in the tos timeline.
in the last few episodes, there is a subplot that involves Tilly being possessed and then abducted by a being from the mycelial network. In theblat st episode, it is revealed that Stamits accidentally pulled the dying Dr Culber into the network with him, where he still exists and is poisoning the network from within. They then manage to rescue both Tilly and Culber. I suspect that the spore drive is going to be completely decommissioned to avoid furth incursions and damage to the network, and thus explain why they didn’t use the tech later on.
I also think the whole debate over the differences in look are a little silly. I doubt you could effectively make a Trek series that looked lower tech then TOS that people would actually watch. Remember, a significant portion of the look of TOS (at least colour wise) had more to do with having to produce effects that people with black and white televisions could appreciate than it did for the technology of the time.
Warin posted wrote: I am pretty sure that a significant amount of story is being poured into a reasonable explanation of why the spire drive doesn’t exist in the tos timeline.
in the last few episodes, there is a subplot that involves Tilly being possessed and then abducted by a being from the mycelial network. In theblat st episode, it is revealed that Stamits accidentally pulled the dying Dr Culber into the network with him, where he still exists and is poisoning the network from within. They then manage to rescue both Tilly and Culber. I suspect that the spore drive is going to be completely decommissioned to avoid furth incursions and damage to the network, and thus explain why they didn’t use the tech later on.
I also think the whole debate over the differences in look are a little silly. I doubt you could effectively make a Trek series that looked lower tech then TOS that people would actually watch. Remember, a significant portion of the look of TOS (at least colour wise) had more to do with having to produce effects that people with black and white televisions could appreciate than it did for the technology of the time.
Yep, I don't think I saw TOS in color till the 80's. My parents were rocking an old B/W TV well into the 70s and idn't finally get a color set till after I moved out.
Not even duct tape will fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.
Metacell posted wrote: The main reason I'm against premium Star Trek is because it's supposed to be for everybody, and thus represents major fail of humanity.
If you're going to be that strict about it, Star Trek has always been a major fail. It was always for those wealthy enough to pay for luxuries like entertainment. Roddenberry sure wasn't above cashing in, remember the IDIC was invented specifically to be sold, and he wrote wasteful lyrics to the theme to get a writing credit and royalties.
I have figured out how to enjoy STD. I just keep telling myself that "it's not Star Trek". Now that I have brain washed myself I can enjoy it as just another whiz bang SciFi actioner.
Not even duct tape will fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.
jkahless posted wrote: Aaaaah, a whole episode on PTSD. Love it.
Also, the trill joining visuals were phenomenal. The visual effects team does a lot of psychedelics.
STD has it's moments but overall the art direction is a stick fiddling mess. It keeps whipping back and forth between sharp and over saturated to soft and foggy, to tinted blue and blurry, to lens flair absurdities. Head ache inducing is what all that is and ends up with STD just not having what every decent show or movie has which is a unifying pallet of effects, lens' and lighting.
Not even duct tape will fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.
I do have to say seeing Tig Notaro as a regular makes me happy. I have been a fan of hers for a long, LONG time and she has had a seriously hard time of things with lots of horrendous medical problems and personal losses, all the while struggling to maintain a middling stand up career. I like knowing that she is making some decent money and I hope, living a comfortable life after all the human waste I have watched her go through, she has earned that.
Not even duct tape will fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.
I'm up to S1-E10, and I'm really liking it so far. I'ts hard to place this as before TOS in my head, because the technology of DISCO is so much more advanced that that of the Enterprise, so I kind of just ignore that and let it play out on it's own. I like Lorca. His bad-assery and dedication to duty and his crew tempered by a soft spot that he only reveals in private one-on-ones with Burnham and Staments. I like Saru. This series resident super smart non-human held back by his paranoia and self doubt. I hope Burnham loses that chip off her shoulder as the series progresses. Bingeing to get caught up would be great, but I remain reluctant to sign up for another streaming service.
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"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts." -Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I think of the tech level as sort of like the old explanation for klingons. “They always looked that way, we just didn’t have the budget to do it properly.”
