Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Well, didn't T'Tits on ENT diminish the whole Spock-was-first concept anyway. Yes I know they wiggled around that with semantics. But still.

You actually watched ENT?

'Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.' - somebody said that. I forget who but that about sums it up.

I just finished watching it again on a cable channel that runs episodes from all five Trek series Sunday through Friday.

It's not great television, but I like ENT far more than VOY (which runs right before the Bakula series).

I like that H&I does that, even if you don't get to chose what episode you watch.

for me, I rather like what Enterprise did in at least pretending that the alien was a "liaison" type rather than replay the "here's the first X to join Starfleet" trope.

Also, I feel like "sensing impending death" is a pretty ridiculous distinction to have.

But we'll see.

Klingon gear.



















Federation Gear:








More pics at the link.

Trailer.

So the main character is Spock's adoptive sister and Kurtzman has a "reason" it's consistent with canon.

My guess is something tragic happened and Spock's memories of her is erased via mind meld.
https://www.google.com/amp/io9.gizm...n-character-has-suddenly-becom-1797161552/amp

Here's a bit of a different trailer (from Netflix)

I'm not impressed.

as long as it's ceremonial/EVA I'm fine with the Klingon gear but between this and JL, there's entirely too much armor overkill in stuff lately.

It keeps armor makers employed.
Why aren't you against job creation?
Why do you hate America?

No one cares.

I care.

And as far as I'm concerned I'm the only one that matters.

whatever his "reason" is, the simplest one is this: Vulcans are private people and the subject never came up. Hell the man's parents had to be standing in the same room with Kirk before he mentioned that probably the most famous Vulcan in the Federation, or #2 at least, was his dad.

This sentence took me 4 seconds to type
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it took 18 seconds to appear. I don't know how much more of this I can take

space battles tho!

Not the kind I like though.

So Spock, you have a sister?! Roddenberry was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete.

Spock has an adopted human sister now?



And y'all thought Sybok was bad.

Whether it's soap operas or any other kind of fiction I've always hated the "spontaneous discovery" of previously unknown family members being used to ramp up false drama.

Star Wars: Attack of the Klingons? But dammit if this doesn't look cinematic. I mean it's total BS for people with the attention span of a common house fly but it does look visually impressing.

I wonder if it will be all comic-like action or if they'll make time for some actual discovery and strange new worlds and stuff.

If you squint.

I'm still not liking the idea of yet another "prequel". With such a rich universe to draw from, why go back again?

I'll give the show a shot, but I'm still very skeptical.

The trailer is pretty intriguing, but like WAB the prequel bit is going to end being a problem.

The 'ancient' Klingons look good, as does their gear, but are we going to have an explanation as to why they'll never be mentioned or referred to again in Star Trek's timeline?

If the stories can match the visuals I can forgive a lot of things, but I'm expecting a few things to still be jarring.

So yeah, intrigued rather than stoked.

OK, Harry Mudd has my attention.

I must have missed Mudd.

Anyway, the dialogue is no good. The universe IS always logical. Whoever thinks otherwise really shouldn't narrate a Star Trek story.

Depends on the reference, the messy alive bits of the universe cannot be relied upon to be logical and even physics can defy logic as it is known at the time.

And Trek has always had an element of there is more than logic at play - "tell mother I.. feel fine"

Bears. Beets. Star trek discovery.