That's also a problem (albeit less of one to an extent) with TNG: When you have an "anomaly of the week" format, it can really hurt some episodes. When TOS is good, it's REALLY good (Balance of Terror, Doomsday Machine etc), but when it's bad... Eesh.
Premiere was okay. The Burnham-wanking is still as silly as always, but that was to be expected (and I expect it to get worse). It's interesting enough that i'll watch the next ep at least.
It still doesn't "feel" like Star Trek for me, but maybe that will change.
Also, if the [SPOILER - highlight to read]: "angels" are the iconians, i'm saying I called it now. Though I'm sure I'm not the first.
I recently watched Star Trek: Discovery Season 1, on Blu-ray. Excellent show! I was extremely impressed by the storyline, effects, acting, and cast. Well-done! Some observations:
-Great opening theme credits & song; it had a retro late 1960's vibe/tone, which was obviously an intentional homage to the Classic Trek series (or, TOS for short).
-The effects were the best I've ever seen for a ST TV series - especially the exterior space scenes with the various colors, etc. - nice.
-It's interesting that in ST: Discovery they depict the Klingons as completely alien, sinister looking, & almost animalistic; I don't think they've been depicted this way in any other TV/film ST series. I'm glad the Blu-ray set had subtitles re: their language.
-Interesting that Sarek (Spock's father) played a critical role in this series, as the mentor to Michael Burnham, who had her parents killed when she was a child, and was taken under the wing of Sarek & his wife.
-The "alternate universe" sequence that was a critical plot point in the last 4-5 episodes was extremely interesting & complex. You really had to pay attention to follow what was going on here. This was obviously a homage to the excellent 'Mirror Mirror' TOS episode.
In closing, though the show was great, I also found it somewhat complicated. I will probably need to watch S01 again in it's entirety at some point in the next year. I always benefit from a second viewing of shows like this, so I can catch what I may have missed the first time around.
Side-note: I know S02 is now airing, but I will probably just wait to watch the entire S02 on Blu-ray as well, so I can watch all of the episodes back-to-back. I suspect this will be released towards the end of 2019 (S01 came out on Blu in November 2018).
Finally watched season 2 premiere... I thought it was okay certainly not great. I hope the Klingons are I 2nd episode. Spock with a beard is disgusting and degrading. That wig that Sonequa Martin-Green is wearing should be burned coz she looks horrid with it.
So rewatching TOS and just wondering, was Lazarus, from The Alternative Factor, not from the Mirror Universe?
I presume that was a different Universe altogether. But just seems a bit strange to me that was a completely different Opposite/Mirror Parrallel Universe.
This is all Redstones fault. If he didn't split up Viacom, Paramount would still own Star Trek.
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Latest episode was good, but I really do pine for the days when the ship in the Star Trek show would go to a planet, meet a primitive people, get in to some hijinks, and learn a moral or ethical lesson at the end about what it means to be Human.
The Orville has been knocking that shit out of the park. I mean, you can rag on their comedy, but their drama has been top-notch.
I mean, not every episode of course. But not every episode needs to be "omg the galaxy is in turmoil" either.
Isn't that kind of what we're getting? The reboot was said to be another universe, and I believe Discovery is set outside the "classic" universe, although uncertain if that's an official stance..
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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