Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

I'd take cable or satellite if I could just cherry-pick a handful of channels and pay maybe five bucks a month. Hundreds of dollars a year subsidizing junk just so I can watch a few baseball and hockey games, maybe the occasional football game, and catch Doctor Who as it comes out? No. No thanks.

I'm not paying for this All Access thing either. If it were up to me we'd just have Netflix, and honestly maybe not even that. I've gotten to be less and less of a movie and TV watcher over the years and I've seen precious little to draw me back.

I'm not a cable TV watcher, either. There are some original shows on Netflix and Amazon that I really like (The OA, House of Cards, The Man in the High Castle), but new TV on cable and network TV simply has not kept my attention for more than 10 minutes into the episode. I'm going to watch the free episode of Discovery. If it piques my interest, I'll sub the first month. If I end up liking what I'm seeing, I'll stop subbing, and wait until every episode is released for that season (they're doing a weekly episode program, so no instant seasons like Netflix). Then I'll resub, watch them, and decide whether season 2 is worth a shot. I think most people will do what I did, because if you're only subbing for Trek, you're going to stay unsubbed until you can watch every episode at once, instead of paying $7 a month for one TV show.

I thought the deal was that episodes that come out on CBS All Access will be up on NetFlix a week later?

No. That would be pointless. They'll be in all access for an exclusive period at a minimum.

No one in the US is getting ST: Discovery on NetFlix. Only overseas.

Yes.

Then I'll only watch the series premier I guess. Unless some of it gets put on Youtube.

Duke Nukem agreed!

channel flipping is basicaly the only thing keeping me on cable, that and not being sure about how to watch different programs on different TVs - but I'm also in the crowd that is waiting with bated breath for a device that solves those concerns where I can bail

On another point, if what is speculated here about Moonves fucking things up is true, I REALLY hope that the show implodes before airing rather than adding something truly insane to the canon.

If he were smart he'd cut bait and sell the whole TV side of the franchise to Netflix (or Amazon) and cash his mega-check and move on.

Then those (smart) companies could send an e-mail to Fuller and say "it's your baby, call us when you get done"

I actually kind of enjoy the thing about not knowing exactly which episodes of a series you're going to be watching at any given time. And commercials are often extremely creative and funny. I guess I'm just too much of a traditionalist.

Are you living in the 1970's?

Yes.

Star Trek: The Original Series (70s is when I saw it). Battlestar: Galactica. MASH. The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Quincy.........

And it was great strategizing how to get your parents home from church as soon as possible so you could see a program you liked.

There was a whole lot to love back in the 70s.

We even had better presidents back then

If it helps your understanding let me put it this way. Arkansas in the 70s was more like the 50s were everywhere else.

And my parents and two of my grandparents were alive.

Yeah, I don't mind watching the random episode of TOS, TNG, MASH or whatever if it happens to be on.

THIS!


So true!

Did you own black people growing up?

No. I lived in an all white community.

Oh. So they were all dead by then. Gotcha.

Actually most African American families moved to the southern part of Howard County. For better job opportunities perhaps. At any rate, Dierks was never a Sundown town.

For those not familiar with the reference "Sundown Towns" sometimes referred to towns where blacks were "smart to get out of town by sundown" or presumably becoming victims of violence.

.....

Cast photo.

Rainn Wilson from 'The Office' to play Harry Mudd.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/03/3...sts-rainn-wilson-as-original-series-character

I could see that working. Although Mudd would have to be much older based on the series stated timeframe.

Word I've heard from alleged inside sources is that this thing is going to assrape canon in all the ways Enterprise critics were inordinately scared of.
The tech is going to look way more advanced than even the JJ timeline, yet we'll be expected to accept this as being in the prime timeline.
Word is that even the licensees who've gotten a look at materials for making the toys have said "the fans are going to hate this".

So...Mudd's age being messed with is not a shock.

I hope they're wrong.
I like the casting, and the behind-the-camera people, but a lot of horror stories are leaking out.

Oh, boy!



I really want this to succeed and move past the shit that strangled any potential that UPN!Trek may have had, and hoped the CBS online platform would have given them some room to do that. But, no.

But then, TIIC are all about bleeding Trek fans for money. They couldn't get up a proper 50th anniversary celebration despite having a new Trek film that was coming out, ffs.

By contrast, one of CBS's daytime soaps just had a 30th anniversary this month and they did it up with a big media blitz (for daytime TV), including a trip to Sydney and several meet-and-greet events for its surprisingly huge fanbase there, a couple veterans had cameos on Australian soaps and vice versa and made a very meticulous recreation of the original opening title sequence with the current cast. For a show that sees less than 3 million viewers on any given week here.

Yet, for a franchise like Star Trek that's inspired a generation of scientists and engineers and POCs who had little in the way of positive representation on TV in the 60s?

That just makes me even less enthusiastic about this.

I've seen the Klingons in great detail (and not that shitty smartphone pic that was leaked). They look really cool... kind of reminiscent of the alien design from the Ridley Scott films. But their appearance is so far from Trek canon, the geeks are going to shit.

Also, I've heard the violence is fairly extreme and unlike anything ever seen before in Star Trek. Makes sense since it's on a pay-service.

Essentially, this is Trek for millenials and the Game of Thrones crowd.

It sounds like the show is designed to kill off all the long-time hardcore nerds by giving them a brain aneurysm. JJ Abrams apparently didn't go far enough with his reboot so CBS finally wants to cull the Trek fandom herd. If that's the case, then I'm in.

The combination "AfterMASH", "Golden Palace" of Star Trek.

Will it have race of lesbians?

More importantly, does it have enough space battles to satisfy Dayton.

Dude was vain, and had access to drugs that could alter your appearance. Who knows how old he was or what he really looked like?