Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Kenneth Mitchell, ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Actor, Dies at 49

I remember him more from the excellent but cancelled-too-soon series Jericho.

He was in that show? I remember watching that show back in the day!

I forgot who he played...was he the brother of the main guy or the best friend guy?

He was the brother of Skeet Ulrich's character (the main guy).

oh yeah, the guy who was cheating on his pregnant doctor wife! Now I 'member!

The first time I watched that show when it first aired, I thought there was no way on God's green Earth that these people could be that far up their own asses about their own personal melodramas after nukes took out most major cities*.

Then I watched it again when it was added to Netflix a month into the pandemic and...yanno what, 2007 me owes them all an apology, they understood human nature quite well.

*New York was spared for once, cuz I guess it was still too soon after 9/11 to do that to the poor city. F in chat to San Diego tho.

Discovery Will Be the First Star Trek Show in 50 Years to End Without a Jonathan Frakes Appearance

OR SO YOU'D THINK

If Walter Koenig can be Anton Chekov, Frakes can be William Riker VIII.

Go Frakes yourself.

A horny, 1/8th Betazoid.

You only get half your DNA from each parent. Unless Riker's progeny like to backcross to Mom's species, by Riker VIII it's more likely 1/16th.

Ha! You thought Tom Riker was the only result of that incident but ACTUALLY Bill Riker was displaced hundreds of years into the future and now waits for his special moment.

I don’t have an issue with the actor, it just seems like they wanted an Idris Elba lite.

No spoiler review of the first four episodes

Anytime I've seen something related to Disco S5 (which is thankfully rare given the show barely makes a blip, so am only likely to see something if perusing trekmovie.com), this scene springs to mind:



From what I've gleaned from some of the erm - fairly generous reviews - if you've always had Disco fever, then this is going to hit the mark for you once again. If not, then it's more of the same tripe.

Not even worth mustering up the energy for a hate watch.

Well, maybe. It is after all the final season of this disgrace, so there's something worth getting behind.

Easiest method IMO is: endure episode 1, then check back in for episode 9 where All Is Revealed™. The start of episode recap should get you up to speed on all the important beats from the season - emotive whisper crying etc.

I really hope the series ends with Lt. Barclay from the "Hollow Pursuits" era showing up and saying, "computer end program". And then Riker shows up and admonishes him: "Have you been indulging in stupid fantasy shit again, lieutenant?"

De-canonize the whole goddamn thing. It would be awesome.

it ended after season 2.

the new look worked for me. (well, the klingon ships were shit, but otherwise...

even the new klingons weren't so bad once they grew their hair back.

Pike era and MU.

Decent enough ret conning of just about everything, really. It wasn't perfect, but they at least tried to clean up or set up the 23rd century of TOS and explain away some of the more egregious shit in that pile of room temperature g'agh

Hey, they could have Marina Sirtis pop in as Ketra Riker VIII !

Come on now, don't be sexist

Has this been posted here before?
Came up in my recommends, and I hadn't seen it before.
Tried to share it a couple weeks ago, but we lost power for days in a storm, and I forgot.
We're about to be destroyed by another one, so now's the time.

It came up in my suggested list, I watched five minutes and had to turn it off.

Apparently the first two episodes dropped yesterday. Huh.

Shows how much I'm paying attention to this series.

Even Enterprise was appointment viewing for me. Can't manage to give a shit about STD. Put it out of its misery already.

Because you don't like it? I'm sure they'll get right on that.

So the first episode was too Star Wars for me and the way they stopped the avalanche was stupid. The villains are lame, but I surprisingly liked Captain Cylon. I see the magic camera crew that apparently was filming the crew of the Enterprise D for a documentary is back. Episode two had a little more character development, but boy do I hate Book. Both episodes were just meh.

I'm sure I'll end up being exposed to a long list of reasons why I shouldn't like it but...

I liked it.
I mean, within the context of several things Disco does that naw at my suspension of disbelief like those personal teleporters, which I know going in I just have to set aside and watch the story ... I liked it quite a bit.

I like the premise, I like the callback, I like the use of the recurring guests, I like where they are going with Rayner, I liked Fred and how he served the plot, I liked the...maturity? ... of Bernam, and most of all I liked the callbacks in the score - yes it's kinda manipulative but in a way which I enjoy being manipulated.

I'm not sure yet how I feel about Moll and L'ak

the same magic camera crew that followed Pike around in the Cage for later review during "the menagerie"?

I watched about the first 10, so I'm not even gonna pretend to be curious of why you turned it off. Two people of colour celebrating each other's achievements, the franchise creating the opportunity for them, AND they're women! The nerve of them, not catering to you.

There it is. "If you don't love it, you're RAYCISSS!!!111"

The Cage is the unaired pilot and in The Menagerie it’s explained to Kirk that the Talosians were showing him everything.
As for that meet up, it was obnoxious from the beginning so I turned it off. It has nothing to do with race or sex.
By the way, most of Paramount’s promotions for Star Trek are horrible.

never said that... just pointed out-and quite reasonably based on his history of being triggered by "WOKENESSESES" in trek that it should beggar the question if he turned off Shatner's "The Captains" self aggrandizing schmooze fest as quickly?

besides, feddy being a low key racist isn't exactly news to anybody anymore than your being unabashedly so at times.