Star Trek Discovery

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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, I like that one. IMHO this show is more like the original than any that came after.
     
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    My problem with the klingons in this series, I don't need to hear them talking klingon. Never been a fan caption movies. It's why I only watched a few minutes of The Passion of the Christ.
     
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    I agree, I like that they're at war with the Klingons. Im cool with that.
     
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    Wait Enterprise had ships that LOOKED period and I was a fan of the laser cannons and rocket torpedoes, the stories got better later on, many characters were likable and there was always the air of the future being better even if the whole world looked like crap and the Vulcans were their butthole selves for the most part. And they explained ho Klingons changed their looks and why and it was a shame to the species. So all in all 100% better than this crap. Face it not one character is likable and the ships aren't PRIME tech at the time they should be similar to the original series maybe a bit even more dated.
     
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    Season 3 of enterprise was good. I also liked how enterprise did the old school tech.

    I do like the beginning of std.

    I can't stand the Klingons talking in Klingon. It makes the scenes hard to watch and they got so much makeup they look like something out of the alien movies.
     
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    Spoilers.....









    I will admit, I didn’t see Lorca being from the Mirror Universe. I figured, just because the guy is a psychopath, doesn’t mean he’s an evil doppelganger. The Prime Universe has plenty of psychopaths. So that brings up some obvious questions:

    1. How did he enter our universe in the first place? I assume by the mycelial network, since he knew how to use it to return, but if so…why go back? He’s a wanted criminal in the mirror universe.

    2. At what point did he come to the prime universe? How much of Lorca’s backstory is his actual backstory? Was it mirror Lorca who destroyed his own ship or original Lorca?

    3. Where is the Prime Universe Lorca? What happened to him?

    Another thing is how creepy Mirror Lorca is. The emperor said that he groomed Mirror Burnham as first a father figure, than a lover. So Mirror Lorca, besides everything else, is some kind of child molester. Is that even wrong in the Mirror Universe?

    Interestingly, I’m no longer interested in Tyler/Voq.
     
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    I knew that at some point they were going to make Lorca the bad guy although him being from the Mirror universe was a nice twist I didn't see coming.

    The whole Tyler thing was getting old and annoying. All it does is continue to show me that Michael is an idiot and her actions or lack of action lead to the death of the doctor.

    My favorite character by far is Saru.
     
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    As goofy as Saru looks, he has turned out to be a pretty good character.
     
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    It's not the end of that particular story. :D
     
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    I'm at the part where Tyler were beamed back by Scottie... instead of beamed into space.
     
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    I always thought Star Trek's long history was what made it great. J. J. Abrams' Trek, while entertaining at times, was not what I wanted. I am so glad he moved on to Star Wars.
     
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    The season finale!

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    The Season Finale wrapped up all of the various entangling plotlines (except of course for what really happened to the Prime Universe Lorca, so in that way, it was a satisfying, and within Star Trek TV show parameters, solved the main struggle of the season, the Klingon War, in the most Federation-ie way possible, by appealing to the Klingon’s better selves, and of course, also appealing to the better nature of deposed emperor Georgiou. I’ll admit that struck me as ridiculous. Georgiou held the trigger for the bomb that would have devastated the Klingon home world, and rather than use it, she surrendered it to Burnham instead of killing her. One doesn’t get to be Emperor of the Terran Empire with that sort of maudlin sentimentality.

    And even more unrealistic was the resolution to the Klingon War. With Klingon ships on the edge of the solar system, Burnham gives the detonator to L’Rell, with the hopes that she will unify the empire and yada yada yada, the Klingons abandon the war? On the edge of full victory? And that’s exactly what happens.

    To me, this was a cop out to resolve the war, in a pretty unrealistic way, but I’ve no doubt, most Star Trek fans loved this finale for the very reasons I found it unrealistic; the solution to the war wasn’t found in delivering a decisive military defeat on the enemy, but by adherence to the Federation’s highest principles, and assuming (always correctly) that everyone else in the universe at some deep down level, shares those same principles. In unrelated news, the Federation has no money but everyone shows up for work and tries to be the best they can be.

    But hey, that’s Star Trek.
     
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    Season 2 wrapped up a few days ago and I quite enjoyed it. The biggest surprise is that Captain Pike, as played by Anson Mount, is now my favorite Star Trek captain. He is like a better version of Kirk. He has all of the Federation morality and character, with enough cowboy in him to bend the rules.

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    I would love a Discovery spin off with Pike and Spock. Maybe call it, Enterprise: The Bro Code?
     
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    Nonsense. If Hillary had won, she no doubt would have continued Obama's no exploration policy for NASA and we'd be well on our way to being overrun by Muslims. No bright space future there.

    The Federation wasn't communist, it was essentially egalitarian because you could get everything (material) you ever wanted out of a replicator. Note that real estate was still private in Star Trek. It was still a capitalist society.
     

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