Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Okay, assuming you are right, how does that work? In TOS you see them saying, “Kirk here”, or “Kirk out.” Then in TNG-VOY it’s, “Picard to Data.” I assume there’s some kind of Bluetooth technology because that’s how the modem day props work in real life. So the chips in DSCare implants in the brain and if you join Starfleet you have to consent to having them?

In the novelization of Star Trek: The Motionless Picture, it's mentioned that Kirk has a brain implant, and Starfleet sends him the images of V'ger wiping out the Klingons via the implant.

Not canon. Also, doesn’t answer the question.

Yeah, so? I think that there might actually be a scene in TMP, where Kirk calls Starfleet after the Klingons get absorbed/destroyed and he's asked if the stuff came through on his implant. This would make it canon, but fuck if I'm gonna rewatch the movie or dig around on YT looking for proof for that shit.

Sure it does. You asked

If in the late 2200s Admirals have them, then by the year 3000 or so, probably everybody, in or out of Starfleet has them. After all, just 20 years ago, a majority of people did not have cellphones, and now, damned near everyone on the fucking planet has them.

this came up:


1:30 the personal transporter is in the com badge, how it interfaces is unspecified though
I'm gonna go with neural impulse receiving.

Season 5 episode titles.

Episode 1: “Red Directive” (Michelle Paradise)
Episode 2: “Under the Twin Moons” (Alan McElroy)
Episode 3: “Jinaal” (Kyle Jarrow & Lauren Wilkinson
Episode 4: “Face the Strange” (Sean Cochran)
Episode 5: “Mirrors” (Johanna Lee & Carlos Cisco)
Episode 6: “Whistlespeak” (Kenneth Lin & Brandon A. Schultz)
Episode 7 “Erigah” (M. Raven Metzner)
Episode 8: “Labyrinths” (Lauren Wilkinson & Eric J. Robbins)
Episode 9: “Lagrange Point” (Sean Cochran & Ari Friedman)
Episode 10: “Life, Itself” (Kyle Jarrow & Michelle Paradise)

Huh, I seriously thought this show was over

Hmm. Will "Mirrors" be a Mirror Universe episode?

No, they've just really dragged their heels getting season 5 out, so it feels like 4 was the end.
The strike didn't help.

it ended after S2.

Since then it's been Andromeda (maybe Sorbo is mad becasue he got recast as a Black woman?)

That sounds like the noise I make after watching another disappointing episode of Discovery.

Close, it’s the episode where they go back in time and prevent Howard Dean from being President.

it should be.

I've never seen Andromeda because it initially didn't interest me at all and, since then, fuck Kevin Sorbo, but I can't disagree with this.

The first two seasons were much more compelling to me than the last two have been (and the last one looks to be the same).

I've kept watching watching Discovery, hoping they'll recapture some of the mojo from the first few seasons. Heck, even the first few episodes of the third season (after the time jump) were half-decent. But after that I've been consistently disappointed. I'll watch season five but I really don't have high hopes.

OTOH, to this day I don't think I've seen every episode of ENT. It started out as a pile of shit and never showed any promise. I did watch a lot of season four because the nerds said it was a return to classic Trek, but they were delusional. Season four sucked just as hard as the other seasons.

YMMV.

Surprise, surprise, surprise, it’s another mystery box.

https://trekmovie.com/2024/01/11/st...-in-march-premiere-episode-synopsis-revealed/

Star Trek: Discovery Star Sonequa Martin-Green Teases a Burnham and Book Reunion, Plus a ‘Big’ Twist in Final Season — Watch

If the twist is Riker and Troi watching from a hologram program, I will pick up Federal Farmer personally and drive us both to Alex Kurtzman's house.

To talk, of course

I know people will defend the "it takes two seasons for Trek to get good" but to the ground, but honest? No. TNG came into an entirely different TV landscape than every other show that followed it. DS9 and VOY took time to find it's footing, but their first seasons were nowhere as bad as TNG's. And while I'm grateful for ENT as my gateway into the franchise, there was no excuse for the first seasons to be THAT trite and derivative.

Frankly, there's too much TV out there for anyone to spend time watching something they don't enjoy, not even a franchise they've followed since they were kids.

Riker and Troi are long dead by the 32nd century.

Now, Pelia and Guinan, that's a whole other matter.

Riker and Troi somehow managed to get to the 32nd century. Written by JJ. Abrams.

It’s a holodeck.

It’s a plot device for writers to write their characters into situations they wouldn’t normally belong.

@Shirogayne, pick me up on the way back AFTER picking up FF.

As a big TNG fanboy, I will say that S1 was not as bad as it generally gets graded. Yes, it had some truly pitiful episodes, but I think after my rewatch about two years ago, I would rather watch it on the whole than S7.

I also think that it's hard to compare the type of storytelling in the broadcast era to now. In part that's because it should be easier to put together 8 good to great episodes when you only have 10ish to do in the course of a year than to put together 16 or so good to great episodes in the course of a year when you're obligated to do 22-26 in that same time frame. It's also both easier and harder to do a story arc in different ways. Having a singular through line both means that it's less complicated to know what you have going on, but it also means if something falls flat, it really falls flat. And it also means sometimes things just seem like treading water.

I dunno man, I watched TNG for the first time in 2003 and I nearly tuned out because those first two seasons were rough.

I'm not a particularly snobby fan or anything, I mean I sat through ENT after all and followed soaps operas all my life....but man, season 3 was a breath of fresh air by the time I got to that.

Unless I'm watching something else, most nights I have the Trek bloc on H&I playing in the background while I do other stuff so I regularly "see" TNG from start to finish. While there are some okay episodes in the first two seasons (I still enjoy "11001001" simply because if was literally the first TNG episode I watched), the improvement in quality between S2 and S3 is still startling even all these years later.

OTOH, I enjoyed DS9 from the very beginning, even if the first season or so was pretty "slow."

What muppet does Supersized Tilly remind you of?

Oh. Here we go.

Unless a woman magically appears to be the epitome of what a man considers perfect beauty, then she either doesn’t exist or is … something to be made sport of.

Yea, this is why women hate men.

Wrong. The correct answer was a less professional Miss Piggy.

Miss Piggy has a better haircut and knows karate.


The placement of the characters in that poster is weird too. It looks like they sorted them in order of blackness rather than rank or the prominence of the actors.