Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

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  1. Aurora

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    Money, money, money. You can't see this from a fan perspective. There is no emotion in this business like shame for cancelling a well loved franchise. Such shows are being sold before production begins (to Netflix in this case). If nobody watches it because crappy, they won't sell more seasons and cancel it. DVD sales are becoming irrelevant quick. Netflix and Amazon are throwing billions at exclusives.

    Question is, how many seasons have been sold beforehand.

    I'd have marketed this differently: It's a 10 episode special like the X-FILES, for the birthday or something. You can always produce more if successful.
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    Imagine the laundry on Kirk's ship. Weird stains on the red shirts and weirder stains on Kirk's uniforms . . .
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  3. Diacanu

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  5. Sean the Puritan

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    How sad is it that every time I see this thread bumped, I half expect the newest post to be news that this thing has been cancelled?
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  6. Zor Prime

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    A prequel... to the original series?

    Why?

    We already had Enterprise which covered (poorly) the era before the Federation.

    And we had the reboot movies which covered the early days of Kirk and Spock (albeit in a different universe, sidestepping continuity violations).

    Why another one? They will almost surely screw up the continuity with TOS like Enterprise did and long term fans will dislike it out of the gate.

    I don't want to see Sarek again and Harry Mudd again and whoever else they plan to recast from the original series.

    I want something really new. IMHO a new Trek series in 2017 should be looking forward.

    Are they incapable of new ideas? Even Voyager, which was supposedly in a different part of the galaxy, often just felt like leftover TNG stories that were warmed up and tweaked for a slightly different crew. The last time I was really excited about new Trek was during the DS9 Final Arc.

    The new movies are exciting as popcorn entertainment but I don't really think of them as any sort of extension or evolution of the classic franchise.

    I would have been much more interested in a post Nemesis Trek series, maybe a couple hundred years later... maybe in a different galaxy altogether. Different technologies, diferent races, different types of conflicts... not more Klingons and Vulcans and recasted characters.

    Will likely be skipping this. Especially with that CBS exclusive service crap. Not paying for a new service, especially when there is plenty of good stuff to watch on Netflix and standard cable.
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  7. Minsc&Boo

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    Anyone wondered if all these fits and starts regarding Star Trek: Discovery might be deliberate and calculated? I don't but I have wondered if CBS is deliberately drawing out the process because they think it will help hype interest in the show when it finally premiers.
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    @Zor Prime hits a grand slam out of the park with his post tad upthread.

    Trek should move forward.

    Also moving forward allows Trek canon/continuity, CANONUITY , to remain ~free from being violated.

    Of course another direction a new Trek could go in is seeing what things are like in the 24th century in the Abramsverse.
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    Easy. Everyone likes to look backwards. It's South Park's Memberberries.

    We have a 70's revival every few years, an 80's one... Look at the rehashes of shows of the time.

    TOS is well loved and well remembered, TNG is liked and the rest kind of fade away in the public conscience. DS9 was my favourite, but if you show a picture of William Shatner people will coo "Captain Kirk!", show them Avery Brooks and they'll ask if he was the guy who stole their car last year.

    So yeah, they want to mine the past, even if it is a future past.

    Of course, if rumours are to be believed they're taking everything comfortable about that past and binning it - which is either genius subversion of nostalgia, or stupidly not getting that it is nostalgia they're serving up
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    The Star Trek awakens...
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    I can't wait for the trailer. Will the ship be made out of yellow Legos this time? Maybe some pre-TNG special effects of a nebula in the background!
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    you seem awfully cynical about Star Trek.

    Why?
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  20. Diacanu

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    Aaaand TRAILER!

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    If that's the ship coming through the dust clouds, I like the look a lot better than the one they used in the teaser thing from last summer.

    Don't care for the "updated" Klingon look, though.
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    Like the wire-frames in the transporter effect.
    They're finally visually acknowledging it's a massive download.
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    Why do I get "This video is not available"? Is it a region thing?
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    There'll have to be another episode of whatever show is on in the 2020's to explain them.
    :lol:
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    I'm pretty uninterested. :'(
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    So...have I got this right? Michael Burnham is half Vulcan, but her human half dominates?
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