New Star Trek series - 2017

It's the worst thing about STD.
Klingons makeup makes them character less. They went toooo much on it.
 
TNA said:
Yeah, they pretty much look and act like a different race. Silly move.
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The only explanation is that the Klingons have been taken over by the Goa'uld hence the ornate Ebyptian flair of their current stylings, and the reason why their new Birds of Prey look like Death Gliders...
 
Efour said:
It's the worst thing about STD.
Klingons makeup makes them character less. They went toooo much on it.
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Oh, I'm not sure about that. There's lots of stuff about Discovery that's worse. The unlikeable characters, the disregard for continuity/canon, the pants-on-head stupid 'science' behind this never-before-seen FTL drive...;):p

A lot of my objections to this series begin and end with the writing. It's just so all over the place in terms of quality. For every halfway decent scene that has been written so far, there's at least one that is just beyond stupid. For instance, the bit where the security chief is killed. I loved this bit from an otherwise fairly positive review of episode 4:

...sets up the series' dumbest scene so far, where the stunningly brazen, hostile stupidity of Landry gets her killed in swift and stupid fashion. She ignores all of Burnham's well-reasoned warnings and even simple, obvious things like "exercising caution around a creature already known to be very deadly" and just opens the force-field and starts firing phasers at the thing. Because, you know, reasons. She's killed immediately - which is good for the series because it means we're done with this terrible character, but boy is this ham-fisted and contrived. When you are rooting for a character to die for being so inexplicably hostile and inept, the writing has failed.
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Emphasis is my own.

Also from the ineptitude of the writing staff, we have the whole premise of that episode - namely that the dilithium mines on Corvan II which supply 40% of the dilithium for the Federation are under attack and only the Super Spore Drive™ on Discovery will allow a rescue in time to stop the Klingons destroying the facility. Now, it already stretched belief in past series and movies of Trek that the Enterprise was 'the only ship in the sector/quadrant/whatever' available to deal with whatever was going on that week. But this? A production facility that produces nearly half of the dilithium - the crystals that make matter/anti-matter power cores work and thus are used by damn near every warp capable vessel - for the entire Federation, and it's not guarded???? I mean...what????

Oh yeah, and has anyone here watched the aftershow discussion programme yet? After Trek, hosted by Matt Mira. A mate of mine showed it me as I hadn't even heard about it, he'd gotten part of the way through the first episode of it and ragequit, I understood exactly why after a few minutes. Damn is it bad...an utterly horrendous fanboyish circle-jerk.
 
Well that was ermm, errr, whats the word I'm looking for?, oh yeah a word I can't use with out getting a smack from the ban hammer, so i'll just settle for utter unmitigated garbage, still, at least the Klingons are speaking English now, hopefully, they'll stay that way as well.
 
I think I finally figured out why I dislike Discovery, it's because it has nothing to do with Star Trek lol.

Seriously, if the good guys weren't a member of an organisation called "Starfleet" and the bad guys weren't called "Klingons" then there would be absolutely nothing to tie it to any of the other series/films/etc. It shares none of the visual design/art cues (it looks more like Battlestar Galactica than Enterprise), none of the types of stories, it's basically like the creators skim read the Star Trek Wikipedia page and said "yup, let's make us some money".

This really hit home in the last episode when got ambushed by a D7 class battlecruiser which looked absolutely nothing like a D7 class battlecruiser, it's like they just Googled Klingon ships from TOS and then did their own thing haha. I mean what was the actual point of trying to make the Discovery look vaguely like a federation ship when you're not going to do it for ship designs that have already been established, it's stupid >.>
 
Great ep - Klingons speaking english, what an improvement!

Can't for the life of me figure out what was going on with the cliffhanger though.
 
Only parts I liked were the Lorca and random guy parts, hope the new guy sticks around as he seemed pretty handy and has potential.
 
I'm actually quite liking this now, basically because of this latest episode. My hope is that at last we can move past the whole anti-Michael thing and actually get some character development - I haven't found her character has developed but because of her we almost haven't, up until now, seen much from others that clearly should become key characters in the show.

I do think the show has potential but the key ingredient to any good show, particularly Star Trek, must be a very good character development as ultimately it will get pretty boring if there are only superficial interactions, interspersed with a few exploding Klingon ships.
 
Oh no, the worlds worst
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security officer is dead
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what a shame...

Nice that they've managed to pretty much put an end to the spore drive, all that needs to go now is the Klagnuts that don't speak proper Klagnutees, spinny saucer
sections..

I agree with the above, if it wasn't called Star Trek - Discovery (think they learnt from the "Enterprise" thing and added Star Trek so people knew it was Trek?!?) then would we really know it was Trek, its meant to be Prime, yet the Klingons are wrong, ship design is wrong, the principals of the Federation are wrong, its just not Trek imho...
 
Nice that they've managed to pretty much put an end to the spore drive
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Well, not really.. now they've shown a human can do it, they can still use it in theory. There's obviously some side effect but I wouldn't say it's currently out of action.
 
I can't get the magic roundabout theme tune out of my head whenever they start up the SSD.

Finally good to see the Klingons actually do something other than stand around drinking tea discussing tradition after throwing it all out of the airlock.

Still amazed they leave the keys in the shuttle ready to be stolen, there's no procedure on these ships to stop unauthorised launches and there's no kill code to bring them back in

Hopefully the cliffhanger does introduce "dark universe" alternatives, or in this case we're already in the dark universe
 
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