Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

*buys shares in the owner of kleenex on the off-chance someone says yes*

Hopefully the regular set.

I mean, if there's a beaten-up redshirt, whose crappy day has just gotten worse as the ship warps off thinking they're dead, I want to see them screaming "Fucking planet, fucking captain, fucking Starfleet, fucking fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck *kicks stone, hurts feet* arrgh! Cuuuuuuuuunnnnnnttttt, fucking twatty rock and fuck it's hard, moving... Uh moving? Oh, go on, just go the fuck on. Day I've had? Death would a fucking mercy, go on Rocky Ballsack-boa, do it, kill me, and then just fucking do one you Klingon felching shitheap"

If they start going "gloppity, flick, twitting planet of wonk" I'm going to assume the bad guys are Oomah-Loompahs.

What would be the purpose of that? I don't even know someone who talks that way in real life.

in terms of profanity and where it's found - does ScyFy broadcast something different that what I see when I watch The Expanse streaming? Because Christian will toss of a "fuck" or a "god damn" in a heartbeat.

People talk differently in stressful situations.

I wouldn't expect the Captain to dial up Starfleet Command and to be warmly welcomed with a "How the fuck ye doin' ye daft cunt? Got Space Clap yet ye saggy-arsed wanker?" by Admiral Krankie, conversely mid-battle I might expect to hear the captain scream at engineering "get those shields up or we're all fucked, the bastards are coming round again and the hull won't stand another barrage. That last one knocked us on our arses."

Especially in the first two seasons when the writers were trying to convince us of how French he was.

I think Star Trek needs some actually GOOD writing much more than it needs more tits, profanity, and graphic violence.

Making it "gritty" or "edgy" means nothing if the writing isn't there.

Both, would be fine with me.

Back when the show was still pretending he was French.

To be fair, neither do 90 percent of fanfiction writers.

But seriously, I've written fanfiction off and on since high school...theres no official way of doing it. Just go for it, I say.

That's how we got the Transformers movies, and the Trump Presidency.

Alien race of lesbians.

I don't really see track having much appeal in a Trek series.

io9 thinks the show is screwed.

The repeated delays and missteps do seem to speak volumes

Boy, they really nailed it and nailed CBS. I agree 100%, sadly.

Some more cast members.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/396063-the-star-trek-discovery-cast-grows

I'm only familiar with the first two (Rekha Sharma from nuBSG; can't say the role gave her much range). Shazad Latif played Tariq in MI5/Spooks.

Cast is already too large.

Here's the full cast list for "Broken Bow".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286610/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Lotta names on there.
I don't recall feeling too overwhelmed by characters.

It's code for "too may brown people."

I prefer a smaller regular cast (5 or 6) and a larger group of recurring characters.

Of course Garamet finds racism where none exists.

I refer back to the "Broken Bow", cast list.
How many of those were regulars, how many supporting, how many background players?
How many supporting were in the regular series past the pilot?
Answering all of the above, how are you so sure you know how it shakes out for Discovery?

Clare McConnell

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMm_o7Ubos7-vacv3P-gmYw/videos

I kind of agree with io9. This show is in hell. From CBS' unprofessional production and marketing to the weirdness surrounding the POV (really, lower decks? What's there to see?!) this looks completely doomed.

I'm guessing 13 episodes and that's it. Embarassing given how much great TV there is at the moment to draw from.

And they'll blame the audience, and put Trek on ice for another decade.

I would say 3 seasons and 39 episodes or so. Even if the show is as badly handled as we fear there will likely still be some good episodes among them just as there were with Voyager and Enterprise despite the overall poor quality of those shows.

And three seasons makes it more likely to generate more lucrative things like DVD sales and licensing deals.

Plus, I think CBS will be reluctant to be known as producing the shortest lived Trek series in a half century of franchise history (aside from the animated series).