Originally posted by cdtm
15 minutes in, and not impressed.The space suit into an asteroid field with a 20 minute time limit 'till radiation poisoning is all kinds of stupid.
And I don't like the Klingon designs.. They look like they're covered in baby oil or something..
Originally posted by cdtm
And dna unspooling? They making that shit up?I thought radiation damages dna, not unspools is like paper towels..
They aren't making it up. Radiation does damage dna, and when your cells try to repair the damaged dna it can go wrong, resulting in mutation. I assume that machine she was in was making sure her cells were properly repaired.
Lol good lord that episode was bad. What was the point of this series? Setting a huge pile of cash on fire in the middle of the street would have been more productive.
I guess to be fair, it's not like Trek shows are known for having amazing first seasons and pilot episodes, but shit there was at least that feeling of what it could become for those shows. This is not the 90s anymore, you won't get an extra 2-3 years to make it watchable.
And here is where the stupidity comes in: it's not like I wouldn't be willing to give it another chance, but not if you need to pay for some streaming service. They should either have chosen to air all the episodes on tv or to put them on netflix. I would never pay for a streaming service for one specific channel. I will do hulu or netflix that get a variety of things from different places.
Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
watched the first episode.. truly disappointed on how the klingons look.
The real world reason for costumes, tech, and aliens all looking a little different is that Paramount TV, the Movie company and CBS all own different merchandiseable parts of the...Franchise.
Originally posted by riv6672
Got this from another site re: the looks...
That's pretty screwed up. First I've heard of this piecemeal ownership.
How do you even buy parts of Trek? Who would WANT to only only own piece of Trek?
I get Marvel did it all the time, but that's a little bit different.. Is Star Wars going to he leased around piecemeal, too? Is that just how things are done now?
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_corporate_history
Memory Alpha actually has a "corporate history" for Trek.
Will read it after work.
So I just watched the first two... And the first impression is NOT good.
As just a sci-fi show, it's all right. It's entertaining enough, with nice effects and make-up.
As Star Trek, though? It's not good. It's not good at all. It feels like it was written by someone that watched a handful of episodes and then browsed memory alpha for a couple of hours.
I honestly don't think i've seen a soft reboot of a property have such massive wholesale changes made to it. I can understand wanting to modernise it, to make it suitable modern audience. That's fine. You don't have to retcon a whole ton of stuff to do that, though.