Star Trek: Discovery - new series in 2017

When I first saw this episode, The creature scarred the hell out of me and didn't feel bad for it when McCoy shot it. Now seeing it years later. The scene Mccoy shots it and wounded and it assumes Nancy Crater form and begs McCoy not to shoot. McCoy finishes it off. When I watch this scene, It bothers the hell out me. It was wounded, why didn't McCoy stun it?:unsure:
 
BAYLOR said:
It's going to 15 episode season.
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At least that shows that the studios have confidence in this. It also means that the constant negative 'fan reaction' that @Cathbad complains about, must have been positive to the trailer and other promotional releases. Even if I hate it myself (and I am not saying that I either will or want to) my fear was that this would tank, get cancelled after showing 6 episodes, and we would never ever see new Star Trek on TV again. I think we are over that hurdle now. If they were worried at all, it would be 6, 10 or 13 episodes.
 
Seriously! 2 pages and more of "fashion?" Some people should turn in their man card! The real tragedy here is that there will be NO new tech.
 
Without stories tech is simply tech. But I love new gadgets! I could easily love this series without new gadgets, but they are a reason that I like S.F. in the first place.
 
BAYLOR said:
The Man Trap. I find myself feeling more then a bit bad for the creature . It wasn't really evil . It was the last of its kind and all it wanted was salt and to survive.
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Watched it when it first aired. I had been reading SF for 5 years and was disappointed with a monster episode. Fortunately Trek got better. But years later I learned what the story was with The Cage. That was a better episode.

psik
 
psikeyhackr said:
Watched it when it first aired. I had been reading SF for 5 years and was disappointed with a monster episode. Fortunately Trek got better. But years later I learned what the story was with The Cage. That was a better episode.

psik
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The Cage would have made a great feature film. In fact, it had better production values and special effects and writing then many of the cinema science fiction films of that era. I wish Jeffrey Hunter had stayed involved in Trek in some capacity.
 
Dave said:
At least that shows that the studios have confidence in this. It also means that the constant negative 'fan reaction' that @Cathbad complains about, must have been positive to the trailer and other promotional releases. Even if I hate it myself (and I am not saying that I either will or want to) my fear was that this would tank, get cancelled after showing 6 episodes, and we would never ever see new Star Trek on TV again. I think we are over that hurdle now. If they were worried at all, it would be 6, 10 or 13 episodes.
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You are right @Dave ordering extra episodes is usually a good sign, and CBS All Access is apparently doing extremely well. According to my analysis since Chicago Justice was cancelled at NBC, but The Good Fight lives on at CBS All Access for season 2's that shows the strength the platform has. Those two shows are direct competitors and possibly the only legal franchises on TV atm. I think the global deal they have with Netflix will help too and hopefully, CBS sees fit to bring it to US Netflix when the season is over. I don't know many people who will pay for CBS streaming and all I have asked have said they wouldn't. So Netflix is where the show needs to go if it wants to be a household name, but seeing a Season 2 seems likely. Even at this point.
 
I'm beginning to think that maybe this show has a chance to succeed .
 
Having just seen the trailer, I'm....assuming it'll crash and burn. The visuals look a little too JJ-Trek to me, but at least there weren't any half naked women this time, so I'm hoping this will be the right angle for once.

But those Klingons...the face prosthetic looks a little too restrictive, I'm fearing they'll make it too difficult for the actors to emote, which might mean we'll end up with a bunch of perma-frowning Remans again.
 
Watching the trailer again, and I can't shake the impression I'm watching a fan-made film with a great budget. I suspect that's more because the trailer has been rushed out to negate existing negative publicity, but if so, I don't think they've done a good job of trying to counter that.
 
Cathbad said:
Really? I thought the trailer was great.

And by now, both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises are well-accustomed to fan-base hatred of everything they plan.

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Apparetly they are going to allow character conflict. That just moved this series up a few notches.:cool:
 
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Star Trek: Discovery tells a story of two Federation ships — the U.S.S. Shenzou, and the titular U.S.S. Discovery. Now, showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have revealed how the ships relate to each other — and to the larger plot.

The connection between the ships all comes down to main character Sonequa Martin-Green's First Officer Michael Burnham, according to Harberts.

"Burnham [has] spent a lot of time on Vulcan, but she's human," Harberts told Entertainment Weekly. "Sarek [Spock's father, played by James Frain] plays an important role in her life, which has been completely planned until she makes a very difficult choice that sends her life on a very different path. When we meet her, she's the First Officer on the Starship Shenzhou [captained by Philippa Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh]. And Burnham's choice that we're alluding to is most difficult choice you can make — it affects her, affects Starfleet, affects the Federation, it affects the entire universe. That choice leads her to a different ship, the Discovery [helmed by Captain Lorca, played by Jason Isaacs] and there we begin what Gretchen and I call our 'second pilot.'"

Star Trek: Discovery premieres September 24 on CBS before moving to the CBS All Access app for the remainder of the season.
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Star Trek: Discovery's Two Ships Explained
 
Burnham [has] spent a lot of time on Vulcan, but she’s human. Sarek [Spock’s father, played by James Frain] plays an important role in her life, which has been completely planned until she makes a very difficult choice that sends her life on a very different path. When we meet her, she’s the First Officer on the Starship Shenzhou [captained by Philippa Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh]. And Burnham’s choice that we’re alluding to is most difficult choice you can make — it affects her, affects Starfleet, affects the Federation, it affects the entire universe. That choice leads her to a different ship, the Discovery [helmed by Captain Lorca, played by Jason Isaacs] and there we begin what Gretchen and I call our ‘second pilot.’

The joy is in the journey. The advantage to her not being in charge of the bridge right now is we get to tell stories from a very different point of view. It’s a fresh feeling because we’re not on the bridge all the time. We get access to more parts of the ship.
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'Star Trek: Discovery' Storyline Revealed

IF they haven't filmed anything yet, it's going to be difficult to show anything on the small screen come to end of the September.
 
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