Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

The Klingons look awful. If they are gonna change up the race that much, why even bother to call them Klingons? Just invent a new race. It's a big galaxy.

Yeah I know people are gonna bring up the changes to the Klingons between TOS and TMP, but we all know TOS had a shoestring budget. We've been used to the Klingons looking a certain way since 1979. Why change it now for no good reason?

I still don't like the idea of this being a TOS prequel. I think it will have the same pitfalls as Enterprise. I was really hoping they would take this opportunity to start fresh and show us an entirely different era far in the future, maybe even in another galaxy.

Or just call this an alternate universe like the JJverse and I'll shut up and just enjoy it for what it is.

Never realised until now how much that abomination looks the bastard child of an Enterprise and Serenity.

It's a business thing.

If you own the IP for Brady Bunch, yes, artistic wise, you COULD do a story about the descendants of the Bradys 300 years in the future, but who wants to see that?
Some fanfic writing nerds might, but they don't buy enough tickets.
So, you reboot the main characters of the originals.
But, what if you've already done that?
Well, then you go prequel.
What happened to the original spouses?
And hey, let's see the fucking that made all those kids.
And did Alice get to listen with a glass against the wall?
If I'm writing it, Hells yes.

Well, they eliminated the cheap little pylons that attach the engines to the rest of the ship on better-looking models, you have to give the enemy something obvious to shoot at.

It's also just possible that the inner section houses dangerous experiments.

Discovery phaser.
It's got rotating heads like a Hollywood budget movie camera.
I like it.

Funky.

I like it, too. Looks futuristic but almost as retro as the pistols from The Cage/Menagerie.

Phaser rifle.
It's got the same turret barrel, but looks like a shotgun version of the ENT phase pistols.



More pics here.

http://trekmovie.com/2017/07/18/star-trek-discovery-phaser-rifle-revealed/

What's the big deal about how the phaser rifles look?

Do you want news, or not?
That was today's news dose, like it or lump it.

I don't know.

Less than two months out, something about PLOT or STORY ARCs might be nice.

In other words. Real news.

They're obviously saving the juicy cuts of meat for Comic-Con.
All these prop reveals are just appetizers.
Enjoy them as such.

One could say the same thing about other totally inconsequential details that having nothing to do with the plot, but often have a whole thread started about them.

for example?

I hope the phasers actually disintegrate people again. That would be cool.

Or an old TV camera:


I think that's a young @shootER operating it.

I've never been that cool.

I'm still severely lacking in the HYPED FOR THIS department. I have a completely indifferent feeling about it. Weird but the bits and pieces I have seen just don't get me psyched. Either it's a severe case of Morbus Prequilitis or I have simply outgrown Star Trek. Also, that ship design. There is no getting used to the abomination.

I wonder if CBS has lost all hope too. startrek.com does peddle Data lapel pins on its front page. There is an ST: D () subsite but it's all of two lines, the trailer and nothing more (except for peddling action figures). Really, Netflix has more information. Four lines on the show's page.

Because CBS is the "Crime Broadcasting System". Their bread & butter, and steak and potatoes, have been crime dramas and police procedurals. It's been that way for nearly a generation now. Chances are that few people in positions of power at CBS have worked there at a time when crime dramas were not the heart of the CBS television line up.

So its pretty likely they don't have much background in handling a science fiction series.

Tricorder pics.
DAYTON!! Look at them!!
Look at the tricorder!!
LOOK AT IT!!!
TRICORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where did the name "tricorder" come from anyway?

Was it like "dilithium" and "phasers"? Where the producers on the original series wanted to make existing elements (lithium) or devices (lasers) sound more futuristic and exotic.

In this case "recorder" becoming "tricorder"?

Tri-function-recorder.

Hopefully, he'll be more useful than Troi was.

If they don't give us something good at ComicCon, they truly don't care.

on the whole, I still don't like the look of the ship (based on what we've been shown) but I do think the saucer part (completely ridiculous though it is) LOOKS good.

I believe I read that those are a particular sect/cult/monks something-something sort of Klingon, not the sort you might encounter on the street commonly.

Or, you know, Neelix.

I’m of two minds about this. New and interesting aliens are always appealing, but does Saru’s existence:

• Diminish the later “alienness” of Spock as “the first Vulcan to serve on a human vessel” (because comparatively he’s not all that alien), or
• Enhance Spock’s alienness because some crew members are freaked out by a Vulcan in their midst? (“Remember that Saru guy? Weird! I hear this one’s a telepath. How weird is that?”)

Depends on how far along the autism spectrum Saru is in relation to Spock.