Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

We live in Hillcrest.

Well good for you.

You're not my type.

No. He’s a fag.

For calling Troy aikman a fag?
Fine.

Troy is queer. Sorry I’m not PC.

Disregard. I misread as you calling Dayton that.

Warning deleted.

Evidence?

After all just a cursory look at his personal life is that he has been married before, has kids, and is engaged to be married again (to women of course both times).

to get this Dayton-fest back on track....

http://io9.gizmodo.com/hey-remember-the-last-time-spock-had-a-secret-sibling-1797344547

there are a GREAT many things wrong with STV - the fact that a notoriously private Vulcan never choose to mention his black-sheep half-brother to people who didn’t need to know is probably the very least among them.

Whatever is good or bad about ST: D - the fact that there’s been no previous (on camera) reference to this woman will not be among the concerns, or put another way - if that’s our biggest concern we’ll be too busy watching an all time classic to be thinking about that.

also, some British outlet which I assume to be an idiotic tabloid had a bit this morning citing folks who were convinced that Burnham is trans because "the character has a male name"....

Any of you Brits who encounter such a dumbass please do two things for me: Say "Two words - Bill Potts" and second, slap some sense into them.

Or the (male) host of the BBC Radio program Laurie Taylor. Or hell, Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.

Yeah he’s gay.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ou...37/troy-aikman-gay-choice-lifestyle-boyfriend

Only gays say that.

I just think it's dumb and unnecessary.

Or Sean Young or Stevie Knicks or Glenn Close.

I'm sure Roddenberry would have approved of this http://comicbook.com/startrek/2017/07/29/star-trek-discovery-god/

This is just absolutely, staggeringly stupid.

It seems like these folks have never actually watched the original series and are just going off stuff they read in a book or something.

Gary Mitchell calls himself a god in the very first episode. And I'm pretty sure McCoy used the phrase many times.

Even TNG used the word god... like in Who Watches The Watchers. And of course DS9 had a lot of episodes involving religion.

This is yet another reason I wish they hadn't gone the prequel route. They have to thread the needle between adhering to canon and telling good stories.

What the fuck have I done Bones?



-star trek 3 written by Kirsten Beyer

I think it's MORE fitting to use religious based curses when you're humanist/atheist/agnostic, because you know you're not going to Hell for it, and you get to tweak the tits of the superstitious ninnies.

I'm not even sure what they're trying to accomplish here. Are we to assume that in 200 years from now all traces of religion will be gone, not likely. Even if it were, it wouldn't mean we'd stop using the word god. Even if all people are secular, there's several scenarios where the word is invoked in a non religious sense. Are you telling me orgasms don't happen in the future? I just keep seeing red flag after red flag and it hasn't even aired yet.

Openly gay and probably transgender characters, they're overplaying the secular progressive hand and it's gonna backfire on them. They're trying to make up for 50 years of what they see as non representation in 13 episodes.

Kind of like what the DS9 producers did the 7th season with Ezri Dax. They basically wanted to "establish" her as a main character so they made her the focus of far more episodes than they should have.

So far, there's not much that's making me interested in this show.

All of this stupid shit just screams Alex Kurtzman. After the disaster that was The Mummy, why is he still getting work?

Oh and now word is the Klingons are a proxy for the alt right. What's next, the Klingon chancellor has orange skin and a weird haircut and the ships are T shaped?

Well, to be fair, if the traditional Klingon ships traveled mainly dorsal side forward then they would indeed look "T shaped".

Anyone remember the Star Trek movie era DC comics where Kirk and crew for a couple of years were given the U.S.S. Excelsior?

Chekov was tasked with running computer simulations of attacks on the ship to keep the crew sharp. He programmed in alien ships that resembled the U.S.S.R.'s "hammer & sickle " later when asked by Kirk where he got the design he said it was from an "obscure political party on old Earth".

Given that in the TOS/movie era (q.v. The Undiscovered Country) they were a proxy for the Russians, it's appropriate.

Trek has always featured political controversy.

I don't understand why in Trek when they discuss the twentieth century, they act as its ancient times or something. I mean we all know who the Whigs were. Everyone in Starfleet should have a basic knowledge of aviation history, they should know who the Wright Brothers are or Noel Armstrong. The communist party and the idea of communism should be well known.

America < United Earth < United Federation of Planets.

Yes and they should remain that or the Chinese.

At the rate we're going, China may turn out to be the real-world founder of the UFP.

Didn't Tom Cruise ruin The Mummy? That's what I've heard.

No one person alone ruins a movie or tv show. George Lucas is largely responsible for the prequels, but the people on his team were complicit even when they knew it was shit. Same thing with Crystal Skull, Spielberg knew it was dumb to include aliens, but he fucking did it anyway.