Can you imagine if they could pick different captains. Sisko hologram telling them to go F themselves. Kirk trying to get them to fly to intergalactic brothels. Michael slapping down their ideas and holding hug fests during battles.
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Can you imagine if they could pick different captains. Sisko hologram telling them to go F themselves. Kirk trying to get them to fly to intergalactic brothels. Michael slapping down their ideas and holding hug fests during battles.
Sisko hologram gently counseling the children into a duplicitous murder plot in the name of the greater good...
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Discovery started last night. On the good side, they really cleaned up and simplified a lot of the backgrounds and effects so it doesn't appear as chaotic.
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Book has become the most likable character in the series, though there's a serious lack of chemistry between him and Michael.
The problem is still the main characters. It was once again Michael to the rescue while everyone else sits around wringing their hands.
The whole exchange between the new Federation President and Michael was just awkward.
President - "I'm not giving you command of this new super ship because you're wreckless and can't let people go when you need to"
Michael - "I want to know why argue argue argue"
President - "You're just not ready yet"
Connor McDavid (Michael) - "Maybe I'll just shut up about it"
Actually no
Michael - "We'll pbbbbbtttt I wouldn't have taken your super ship anyways, this ship is my family"
Looks like they're going to rush Saru back after one episode away.
This years enemy is a gravitational world crushing event, so its the burn x10,00000. What does that make it? Nobody knows.
While I think the dialogue stuff was better, its still the same flawed structure. For the most part the crews are there to say yes sir, no sir, hell yeah, drop an Fbomb. But you just feel like they're on the bridge as pieces of useful furniture.
They had a chance to do something with the tension between Stamets and Michael based on his feeling of betrayal last year. But instead they upped his nervous tweeks and left it there, he actually had very little to do except scream that the shields were failing. Or basically doing that annoying simultaneous science $$$$$ style dialogue that they've been doing for the last few years.
Oh that whole opening scene with the butterfly aliens, just felt so awkward and they were playing Michael's terrible diplomatic skills for laughs.
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Watching this is not good for my blood pressure. Not sure why I do it anyways.
I thought it was abysmal. Didn't expect anything less. The writers are still intent on ramming star trek jesus down our throats, and no one else on the ship really matters at all.
Yeah, this series is focused around Burnham, the crew doesn't matter, they're pretty colorless, even in Tilley's big moment in crisis, it was like Michael will save us. And where they could have done something big with a Detmer or the other helmsperson or anything is put them into the pod to save the day. But I guess its back to the whole Michael is a bad captain because she's not willing to sacrifice the few to save the many. So we've seen very little character development in Michael and its always her as the focal point for any heroic scene.
The other side was the argument with the President was so goofy.
The third thing is its the second year in a row where we're dealing with a mass extinction spacial anomly type of scenario that just feels like the Burn but bigger. Its kind of boring at this point, they needed to break this up, there are a lot of things they could focus on in rebuilding the federation, I mean not all species are going to be happy with it. And for example where are the Borg in this.
I thought that there were some good moments in the episode but those moments aren't based around character or plot.
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Yeah, this series is focused around Burnham, the crew doesn't matter, they're pretty colorless, even in Tilley's big moment in crisis, it was like Michael will save us. And where they could have done something big with a Detmer or the other helmsperson or anything is put them into the pod to save the day. But I guess its back to the whole Michael is a bad captain because she's not willing to sacrifice the few to save the many. So we've seen very little character development in Michael and its always her as the focal point for any heroic scene.
The other side was the argument with the President was so goofy.
The third thing is its the second year in a row where we're dealing with a mass extinction spacial anomly type of scenario that just feels like the Burn but bigger. Its kind of boring at this point, they needed to break this up, there are a lot of things they could focus on in rebuilding the federation, I mean not all species are going to be happy with it. And for example where are the Borg in this.
I thought that there were some good moments in the episode but those moments aren't based around character or plot.
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Personally I really liked the President's speech but for the opposite of it's intent - it put Burnham in her place. I know the viewers are supposed to think that the Prez was the antagonist and be on Team Michael all the way through but at every point I was like "She's absolutely right! Burnham is an awful captain".
That scene was actually pretty decent because it seemed like actual Trek. I could see Picard talking like this to Wesley or whomever.
What was awful was the scene where Michael suddenly decides to have a personal conversation ON OPEN COMM over whether the President was a politicking liar all while dodging some space crap, instead of say doing her job and waiting for a free moment.
I keep going into this show with an open mind, then I hear the awful dialog (like Detmer and the other one who's main purpose is to make unfunny snide remarks to each other) and the nonsensicle spinning camera shots, and just cry at how bad it is.
There are so many scientific explanations for what they keep seeing as Gravitational Lensing. Why don't they actually mention them?
I liked that episode, but I wish they would use a little realism whenever the ship takes damage.
It highlights the main thing I hate about sci-fi which is overdramatizing damage inside the ship. Realistically you’re not going to be seeing computer displays and turboshafts blowing up and showering sparks all over; it would be more like a disappointing blue screens of death everywhere. Like don’t they have surge protection on ships in the future?
I liked that episode, but I wish they would use a little realism whenever the ship takes damage.
It highlights the main thing I hate about sci-fi which is overdramatizing damage inside the ship. Realistically you’re not going to be seeing computer displays and turboshafts blowing up and showering sparks all over; it would be more like a disappointing blue screens of death everywhere. Like don’t they have surge protection on ships in the future?
The best is when pipes come down from the ceiling spewing steam and smoke.
Uh huh. Okay. What are those typically for?
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"Who's stupid idea was it to put a waste pipe over the bridge"
Seriously the thing that made BSG just stand out was the effect of battle damage. Even at its worst Star Trek ships never really look completely damaged except in Wrath of Khan.
I remember the video game Klingon Academy and I loved it because you could basically blast the hull away and see the inside of the ship, or blow the nacelles off.
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Everybody knows particle beam weapons create residual antiprotons that are immune to fuses.
Montgomery Scott is the head of the Galactic Engineer's Union and purchased all fuse manufacturing capacity in order to keep them out of Galactic circulation in order to maintain work and repair requirements for it's membership.
Typical tactics to keep that sweet overtime gravy-train flowing...
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