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Star Trek Discovery's First Trailer Brings a New Ship, New Characters, and Old Conflicts (cbs.com)
nyquil superstar writes: Hey all, the Star Trek: Discovery trailer is out. Looks entertaining! From a report via Vox: "The trailer features Sonequa Martin-Green, fresh from The Walking Dead, as Michael Burnham, a first officer promoted unexpectedly to the position of captain by her mentor, Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). Set 10 years before the original Star Trek series (and 90 years after the franchise's only other prequel, Star Trek: Enterprise), the new series follows the starship Discovery as Burnham learns to become a captain. But she soon finds her abilities tested by a host of challenges that will be familiar to all lovers of the classic sci-fi universe: new worlds to explore and alliances to forge, hostile Klingons, and the difficulty of adhering to the Federation's peacekeeping mission."
Wait the new Captain is a female with the name Michael? I am confused already.
I guess that means that we're going to have to just talk about something else...
Lack of knowledge of a subject has never stopped Slashdotters from ranting on endlessly about it. We don't read TFA, we don't read the summary, and sometimes we don't even read the post that we are replying to.
When in doubt, just string up something with Trump, Climate Change, Russians, Universal Basic Income, Bitcoin, 3D-Printing, Apple, Drones, Bones and Elon Musk's new plan to eat a cathedral.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
JJ cured me.
Take a hint. People don't like being lectured. It creates resistance.
Resistance is futile you will be assimilated
Anyway, what I hated about this trailer is the lead character's ridiculous eyelashes. What does an eyelash curler look like centuries in the future?
It's a genetic trait left over from Max Factor - L'Oreal wars of the late 21st century.
Why not include a character who looks Chinese but was raised Norse?
Said character could be from a binary star system.
And he or she could have a representation of Thor's hammer in his/her quarters, which could be a running gag in the show, with said character often threatening to "Grab Thor's hammer and..."
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens