Star Trek Discovery

I really liked it. This is supposed to be pre-kirk? At first I was thinking it was going to be 100 years post TNG, which would have been neat.

Why do you always push the worst crap?

All Access was 6 bucks a month, which is cheap enough for me. I'll most likely cancel when they aren't posting new Trek episodes but they do have the full series of Perry Mason, which I've been itching to watch again. Other things that I'm interested in like other Trek shows, Cheers, and Fraiser are on Netflix so I can't get too excited about those, but they've got a pretty good setup.

My big complaint about All Access so far is that their closed captioning doesn't quite work for us. My friends and I watched it in a house with a three-year-old and a two-year-old and we wanted to make sure we didn't miss the dialogue due to screaming children, but a lot of the captions that they put to the right side of the screen were cut off. Hopefully that gets fixed.

The show was pretty good, though a few things I predicted would happen came to pass. What did take me by surprise: The show feels a bit over-designed, especially on the Klingons. I observed they looked like Orcs from Lord of the Rings (with a "great white" one like in The Hobbit), while someone else took it a step further and said "they look like Orcs if they were in Stargate SG-1." But I get they're really trying to push Star Trek back into the spotlight, so I'm not too bothered by it.

But overall, we all liked what we saw. It's too early to say where this series might rank for me in overall Trek, but I have that feeling of "oh where is this going to lead" that I mostly got from Deep Space Nine, so that's a good thing for me. But as I told someone yesterday "as long as it doesn't suck as hard as Voyager, I'm good."

The Orville has felt more like Star Trek than "STD". Neither have been particularly great, though. Orville has been a decent time waster. Discovery is more annoying.

STD. They must be hoping that doesn't catch on.

I’m enjoying it so far. As long as I can take a knife to the part of the brain that remembers how Trek was.

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It's watchable.

If they hadn't wasted their time trying to squeeze it into the past as yet another prequel, I might have been more interested. You could have even had a story about how the Federation was starting to fall apart and races were starting to go to war. Whatever you want, but at least it could work. The technology wouldn't need explaining, the overall appearance of the universe, and you wouldn't have to continually worry about continuity.

Speaking of the mirror universe, RLM had a great idea that would have been amazing had they gone that route. Which was to essentially retcon it all by revealing that the entire show was taking place in the mirror universe, having key characters travel to "our" universe to see all the familiar ships and designs. Then of course having them stay there, because, you know... screw that universe they just came from.