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Yeah, I'd rather you do that, too.Will you watch?
I'll probably watch the opener out of curiosity but won't pay money to CBS to see the series. The premise is not fresh beyond the lady Captain and XO.
'Star Trek: Discovery' to Tackle Trump-Era Political Divide
I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a rusty icepick.
The new series sucks. It's suppose to take place before ST:TOS, but the ship looks like a better fit for a much later time period. All in all, the show pays little attention to the Star Trek canon. Also, the show has too much visual flash and confusion, courtesy of cheap CGI.
There are no white males in major roles. There's a brief appearance of a white male high-ranking officer. He is a subtly dumb racist who gets killed. A white male also has a very minor role on the bridge.
I wonder who the homosexual will turn out to be. It's like a game of Where's Waldo.
And this concerns you . . . why?There are no white males in major roles.
I watched it and confirmed my decision not to pay one red cent to view another. It stunk and was expectedly anti-Trump.
A). It was boring as snot.
B). Watching the episode, unless I blinked, it never let on to the viewer where in time this was!
C). It seemed to present a very PC universe with a veiled political message aimed at a very young audience rather than those who grew up with Star Trek.
E). I don’t like being manipulated and the entire episode was obviously written as just a teaser to the greater TV audience to reel people in the last few minutes like little fish as a “to-be-continued-elsewhere” episode so that you would WANT to jump over and sign up to CBS Direct to see what happens next.
F). Produced by Gene’s son, the kid that didn’t even like his father and was out getting stoned in the 60’s with zero interest in what his dad did or had created
G). If this is in the past, both the bridge and display consoles use an entirely unrealistic technology.
H). In ST:TOS day, you were at least in your late 30’s or 40's before having the training and experience to run a star ship.
[I think they made this clear it takes place around 2250, which is before TOS and after Enterprise.
C). It seemed to present a very PC universe with a veiled political message aimed at a very young audience rather than those who grew up with Star Trek.
Meh, I think this is a case of you seeing something you want to see there.
I should also point out that the purpose here would be to introduce Trek to a new audience. The original Trek Audience is old and we don't buy stuff.
Meh, I can't blame Roddenberry's kid for that when Dad was just as bad about that sort of thing. This "Roddenberry as a visionary" crap was really a lot of self-promotion.
Maybe, but I don't think folks would accept the cardboard sets of the OS today.
except Michelle Yoeh is 55, so I don't have a problem with this. Good Lord, she's the same age I am? Yeah, I know, it's really hard to tell how old Asian women are.
I think it was kind of a stretch to see an "anti-Trump" message in there. So the Klingons wanted to unify their shattered empire. It wasn't like they were all wearing red hats that said, "Make Q'onoS Great Again"
You mean Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng? ;^) I never heard of her, don't know where they found her and would have never guessed she was 55. She's from Malaysia and the set was too dark to make out much of her other than she was apparently "asian." I saw no endearing quality of anyone on the bridge that would make me want to continue watching the show.
I saw no endearing quality of anyone on the bridge that would make me want to continue watching the show.
I saw no endearing quality of anyone on the bridge that would make me want to continue watching the show.
That's a big problem with the show. I don't see many Trek fans being eager to follow the adventures of Michael Burnham (the main character, a woman with a man's name). Political Correctness aside, she's not very likable or compelling. I'm sure her character will be tweaked to make her more likable, but they'll never make her more compelling.
I'm baffled by some of these responses. I didn't find it boring or slow.
Funny how in this thread is the opinion that the movie reboot is all space cowboy action with no contemplation, and there's also the opinion that the new show is all thought, no action.