Star Trek: Discovery

[LonnieFisher]

My top two favorite Trek shows...the original and Deep Space 9.

Mine are the original series and the animated series. Then 'Star Trek Continues'.

[palitoy]

I like the original series, most of the movies and the animated show, that's about it.

The Continues stuff is fun and they should be proud but I don't get why everybody thinks it's the second coming. It's a decent tribute band.

[Bruce Banner]

For me it's the Original Series, the Animated Series, then (some of) TNG.
(DS9, Voyager and Enterprise I can take or leave to varying degrees. They all have several standout episodes amidst a lot of forgettable ones.)

[SKotK]

So far I'm really liking Discovery. I think I'm in the minority here for that, but despite my misgivings about CBS/Paramount I really do enjoy the show.

That said, here's some thoughts:

- It's so much more Abrams than anything else, but not as guilty of some of the worst Abrams excesses.
- The Klingons seem a bit over-wrought and I wish they hadn't changed them yet again, but I do have to say they've finally made Klingons scary again. After Worf they just seemed like comical, aggressive clowns.
- I really, really like the Saru character. That actor and that makeup sells it right off the bat.
- Each show is like a movie production rather than a TV episode, kind of like Game of Thrones. It's impressive.
- The opening credits were fine with me, although I think I'd prefer them to be more classic starfield style.
- The captain of the Discovery is fantastic so far. He's a tough captain of a type we haven't seen before.
- Sonequa Martin-Green is a little one-dimensional in her acting (having seen her in Walking Dead as well). It makes it tough to like her characters. But I'm beginning to like her character more as things unfold.

That's about it for now. I took the free subscription to CBS All-Access and then immediately cancelled after the first two-parter, and wrote comments explaining exactly why. But my girlfriend has a subscription, so we've been watching it on hers. So I'm both an unsubscriber and able to legally watch the show - best of both worlds. Hopefully CBS listens to the inevitable negative feedback about forcing people to use their streaming service in the US.

--SKot

[SKotK]

Well, they were on a roll there...but then last night's episode was a real turd.

*** SPOILERS ***
- A forced and very unconvicing romance.
- A vicious and murderous Harry Mudd.
- Following up their DISCO shirts with...actual disco. The Bee Gees, even (okay, that was kind of funny).
- Party with very contemporary-sounding techno-disco and hip-hop. Yeah, yeah, Beastie Boys and all that in the JJ films too, I know.
- BEER PONG. 'Nuff said, that killed it for me right there.
*** SPOILERS ***

I guess even the Original Series had some clunkers, and certainly TNG did as well, so I'm not definitely not giving up. I just hope this episode is the exception.

--SKot

[Bruce Banner]

That one almost felt like an old Moore/Braga style episode in many respects.
Except with added death and violence.

[LonnieFisher]

Unfortunately, my mother says that it has been renewed for a second season. That really sucks. Star Trek is filling the septic tank...

[rykerw1701]

I like the original series, most of the movies and the animated show, that's about it.

The Continues stuff is fun and they should be proud but I don't get why everybody thinks it's the second coming. It's a decent tribute band.

Ha! Well said. My feelings exactly

[rykerw1701]

I enjoyed "Magic to Make the Sanest Man." I thought it was better than last week's mediocre episode. Nothing new there with the time loop, and the MacGuffin about Harry was doing it, but still, once I accepted that I had fun with the episode.

Mudd is far more diabolical than he was in TOS, and while that bugged me a bit, it's a different time. He's still flip and cavalier, and the sequence where he kept killing Lorca was pretty funny.

The romance didn't feel forced to me at all. They've been setting it up, and took a couple steps this episode. I'm good with that, and getting to know Burnham when she's not so morose all the time. Stamets is basically a new character now, so that part is a bit weird and I wish they'd address the change than just assuming he's spore happy.

[JRT!]

SO happy it got renewed for a second season!! But guess I'm the only one. I love this show and can't wait for more.

[Hector]

I’ll watch it when it’s free. I already pay $250 a month for premium X-1 cable, four DVR’s, internet, landline, Netflix...I’m not paying a dime more for one more show.

[thunderbolt]

I’ll watch it when it’s free. I already pay $250 a month for premium X-1 cable, four DVR’s, internet, landline, Netflix...I’m not paying a dime more for one more show.

how long till the fragmenting of streaming services implodes.

[palitoy]

how long till the fragmenting of streaming services implodes.

Yeah, that's a really good question and a fascination of mine.

[Mikey]

I just have no interest in ANYTHING Trek lately

Been rediscovering my first Sci Fi love Lost In Space

Also been rewatching Blake's 7

[thunderbolt]

Yeah, that's a really good question and a fascination of mine.

I wonder if the upcoming Disney one will be the start of it, and probably another nail in Netflix coffin