Star Trek: Discovery
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O`brien was a chubby dude. But he was SMART and thats what mattered.
My first thoughts on that ship was the Akira class. Then it just looked bad. Big design falloff from the Defiant or even the NX01
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"Lets do a throw back to this awesome concept art that was not used and .001% of fans know about or remember, it will harken back to the promise that was TOS trek!"
-- "oh yes, good sir, good good that's obviously a good idea in resurrecting trek as a TV series!"
-- "oh yes, good sir, good good that's obviously a good idea in resurrecting trek as a TV series!"
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Why would people give the viewers what they want? or something that is logical to do?
No, then it cant be ART man! it has to be ART!
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I imagine they'll have a lot more freedom in the Prime timeline as well. The movie universe (which is apparently called the Kelvin timeline now) has a lot more riding on it, so having it exist in that timeline would undoubtedly come with a lot of red tape as there'd be a lot of oversight to ensure nothing in the television series ever conflicts with what they might set up in the future and would likely make certain things hands off for that reason. The Prime timeline obviously comes with a lot of boundaries due to what has been set up in other shows, but everything is already laid out.
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Just imagine how fucking good TNG would have been if it had been serial in its story telling (Have arcs across the whole season) rather than episodic? Every 2 part episode was almost always fucking great. Even as an episodic show, the character development was great, Data's evolution, Riker becoming more stately, Picard being less obstinate with Q's lessons. The show though was so held back by characters not being able to reference their experiences or failures ect.
The only reason DS9 was able to match or surpass TNG was that reason. The acting on TNG was pretty clearly stronger, and while I feel the writing was equal, the writing on TNG always got hampered by filler episodes and the format. (The same shit that did in Enterprise--the last season of Enterprise is really good, because they swapped away from the semi-episodic format).
Now they have a chance to make a new crew and START the show with a rich serial format like most of the current golden age shows since Sopranos have had...the perfect setting would be right after the last Star Trek film in the prime timeline. As someone said, the all the quadrants nations are weakened by war and civil strife, the Federation plays an uneasy peace between them, but also has to deal with its continued exploration of the other quadrants, and how new technologies taken from the Borg and Jemhidar challenge their morals. Could have been fucking great, instead we get...whatever that piece of shit was.
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Also no one is going to care about "the federation" or other LARGE things that happen because, we know the future - enterprise had that issue... "THIS THREAT PUTS THE EXISTANCE OF THE FEDERATION OR THE WORLD IN PERIL!" - nah its fine, we know Jean Luc can still make wine in a few years - its good to go.
It really should be after the end of the latest series for that reason alone.
It really should be after the end of the latest series for that reason alone.
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Dax went out in season 7, it had nothing to do with "bringing dax back". Bitch went to Becker because DS9 was ending. Also it took 2 seasons for bashir to not suck. And yes without half the cast the show would have sucked.
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The Ferengi, Trill, Cardassians, Bajorans, Shape shifters, and Vorta were all well done races fleshed out in DS9 even if half of them had originally been introduced in TNG. By comparison the Voyager races were much less interesting or well done, especially with them abandoning the may-fly race (Ocampa) whose 7 year lifespan was intended to cover the whole series. Enterprise was similarly bad with their attempts at being cool with the Xindi variety of species, although they did up the Vulcan game for the first time in years and produced a great deal of development of the Andorians who had been mostly a footnote in Star Trek despite being one of the primary races of the Federation.