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'Star Trek: Discovery' Gets September Premiere Date On CBS & CBS All Access, Season 1 Split In Two (deadline.com)
Nellie Andreeva, writing for Deadline: Star Trek: Discovery will debut Sunday, September 24, with a special broadcast premiere on the CBS TV network airing 8:30-9:30 PM. The first as well as the second episode of the sci-fi series will be available on-demand on CBS All Access immediately following the broadcast premiere, with subsequent new episodes released on All Access each Sunday. Originally slated for a January 2017 premiere, Star Trek: Discovery's debut was first pushed to May and then to fall 2017. At CBS' upfront presentation, the company announced that Star Trek: Discovery's first-season order had been increased from 13 to 15 episodes. The expanded season now will be split into two. The first eight episodes will run Sundays from September 24 through November 5. The season then will resume with the second chapter in January 2018. The break also will allow the show more time for postproduction on latter episodes.
We have entered a spectacular binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector. Doesn't this asshole star realize gender isn't binary?
I hated the Abrams movies, but looks like they're avoiding that direction. The question for me is, is there really anything left that's new to say in the way of Star Trek stories, or will they just recycle old stories with new spiffy efffects.
I would love to watch this series...but the hell I'm not gonna subscribe to another service to do it...so I guess I don't really want to watch it.
As a lifelong Star Trek fan I could give two shits. DSN was plenty of ST for one lifetime, and BSG pretty much put a bullet in the idea of Star Trek as the best ship-based SciFi franchise.
The Desgrassi Jr. High cast (sans the kid in the wheelchair) is not exactly filling me with confidence. Are they making a show to tell a good story--or to advance a very specific political/social agenda?
But I'll reserve judgement, out of respect for the Battlestar Galactica reboot, which I also expected to suck but which turned out great.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
From what I've read, in the US it wont be on Netflix (at least not until CBS All Access dies). Outside of the US it'll be the primary distribution method, not sure if that'll be simultaneous with the September release date mentioned in TFA though.
Well, at least they didn't say "air on."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
* Add massive amounts of time between seasons!
* Take one season and split it into two!
Well done CBS!
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I have trouble seeing the CBS All Access thing succeeding, but if it is on Netflix worldwide then it'll at least have good international numbers and hopefully the old seasons will pop up on Netflix here within a year or so.
See subject & Star Trek Continues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJf2ovQtI6w/ - this episode's outstanding (titled "The Fairest of them all")
* "In every revolution, there's 1 man w/ a vision" & "Who told you that?" + "YOU did..."
(These guys have REAL potential...)
APK
P.S.=> It continues (pun intended) after the StarTrek TOS episode "MIRROR, mirror" (bearded Spock & all)... apk
Who cares when it releases on obscure channel in a single country - Proper question is, when does it release world-wide on Netflix?
Splitting it in two will also allow it to exist after the end of BBOTT 2. If BBOTT 2 doesn't happen, then pushing it to September puts part 1 after BB 19 is over as well.
In either case, I won't pay for CBS All Access without BB. One 24 hour a day show I will, one hour a week, nope.
There is nothing besides BB I would watch for free, much less pay for. I know this from experience of having All Access for BB in other years.
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"Star Trek Enterprise, I just wanted to die"
There were a few good episodes. Not even a season's worth but a few.
Mirror Darkly 1 and 2 come to mind. Twilight wasn't that bad either.
Both those episodes were basically took place outside the dreck being served up as the season 2-4 plot line so they could actually tell some neat stories.
Now we effectively get an 8 episode first season delayed to Sept 2017 and a 7 episode second season season in Jan 2018.
This isn't even unusual for a fall premiere. Why call this a split season? All fall shows pretty much go on hiatus for November through December and come back in January after the holidays.
Aye aye Captain, let's put it on Netflix everywhere else but make US consumers jump through stupid hoops. Also, we won't air it on the broadcast network in the US and we'll charge money for the app access with no other compelling content, then dribble the episodes out as long as we can. I'm giving all I've got!
Keep it off of over-the-air broadcast TV.
Considering one of the original concepts of Star Trek was to delve into controversial social issues, how would, for instance, episodes on LGBTQ rights be out of place. This is franchise that arguably gave at least the United States its first televised interracial kiss, and a franchise where tolerance for the "other", however that might be defined in any given episode, was considered one of the highest ideals of the Federation.
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Yeah, I wasn't sure about the black communications officer. At least the show after that the bridge crew was all white except that one black man who was always getting put in his place for being dumb and aggressive just like how blacks are in the real world.
Then they made a black man an administrator of a whole space station! Just because Star Wars did something that unrealistic doesn't mean Star Trek had to do it too! A black man could never handle running a space station or a cloud city without rampant political correctness. Lando and Sisko were clearly both diversity hires.
Then they made a woman a captain! I should have figured that would happen when they had female admirals in that second Trek series. A black woman as a comm officer I can handle, but not that kind of political correct drivel. And black Vulcans? WTF. Black people are too illogical to be Vulcans.
Now they want to have LickButt (or however LGBT is pronounced) characters? Star Trek is dead to me.
(Disclaimer: This is a pathetic attempt at sarcasm. I hope the person from the red site who posts about LigButts won't mind my borrowing that. Do you even come here anymore, person I lifted LickButt from?)
The problem was that Enterprise was utterly botched. They had the whole pre-Federation story to tell, and wasted an entire season on the stupid Xindi thing, and had the idiotic Temporal War meta-arc throughout the first three seasons, actually right into the fourth. It wasn't until the fourth, with the series' already on the chopping block that they finally decided to show how the Federation was founded.
Enterprise actually had quite a few good episodes, and I actually thought Tucker, in particular, was an outstanding character who invoked the Montgomery Scott style of "Don't fuck with my ship!" attitude. But Enterprise squandered so many opportunities because Berman and Braga just couldn't get themselves out of the DS9-Voyager headspace, and littered what should have been a new start with the storytelling refuse of the two previous series.
A proper Enterprise would have avoided big multi-episode story arcs for the most part, modeling itself more on TOS and TNG. I get that you cannot reasonably have every episode about the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellerites, etc., but I finally abandoned the whole thing somewhere in the middle of Season 3 because it seemed to be suffering the same kind nonsensical storytelling that I found so grating in Voyager. But by that point Berman and Braga had developed their cookie-cutter approach to scripts and story arcs, and they were going to stick with it come hell or high water.
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season 1.5 on showtime after CBS All Access fails?
LBGTTTQQIAA is nowhere "controversial" is the western world... Get over it.
Between the 'streaming only' delivery of it (I'm not paying for that any more than I'd pay for cable anymore) and the whole Axanar debacle, CBS can kiss my ass, Do Not Want. If I feel the need for a Star Trek fix, there's reruns of all of it on the H&I Channel.
If it isn't controversial, why do some posters here not want to hear anything about it?
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Why does it matter? I still "dial" my phone, despite not having seen a rotary phone since the 80's. I "turn on" the lights, despite not having an oil lamp. We still include floppy icons to mean "save" - even when half the people alive have never touched a floppy disk.
, I'll be giving this a very wide berth. Why is Star Trek Continues superior to every mega-budget effort on display?
In other words, LGBTQ issues are controversial.
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There's this amazing new invention called an "antenna" by which shows are streamed directly to your house, only everyone gets the same stream at the same time with no rewinds, and you get to watch it for free. There are even ads in it, too, just like most streaming!
But Sunday night live-watching for me is owned by Fox (at least if they don't keep wedging live-action stinkers in), so a computer will have to download the antenna stream for me (again, just like on the internets!), and let me watch it later. Not that I'm expecting much more than concentrated SJW builshit from it from what I've heard (Star Trek died for me anyhow even before they blew everything up a couple of movies ago and became millennial trash), so I suspect I won't even be DVR-ing it for more than two or three weeks.
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They're the best!
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I barely got to watch it, because it was in the dying days of UPN, and where I lived at the time didn't have a UPN station. Cable TV actually brought in a station from the next market down, but I was strictly antenna and had to download it from Usenet. (this was before Bit Torrent) I watched it for most of two seasons, until my preferred uploader's posts started getting a lot of dropped messages (this was a year or so before par2), then I had to stop. I've heard that seasons 3 and 4 were much better, but I've never seen them, and they haven't appeared on the independent sub-channel networks in my market.
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If it isn't on "free TV" I won't bother. Also, you can bet it will interject political correctness, and be biased against anything of a "democratic" nature.
With Trek there typically isn't continuous focus on any romantic relationships; they would either involve a recurring guest, or the characters would be separated frequently enough by circumstance to allow other stories to be told. Hoping this one keeps that trend.
I forgot to mention one other thing. I have been watching (or trying to) a Sunday night show on CBS, that being Elementary. They have an infuriating habit of letting professional sports run overtime (particularly handegg, which runs over the time slot about 90% of the time, and yes I know about the Heidi Incident, this is with normal games so they need to start making realistic time slots), and delaying the rest of the line-up. This means that if you wanted to record the shows on a DVR, then FUCK YOU, because now the published schedule is fucked up, sometimes by a full hour. Even worse, I missed the season finale because they changed the show name in the schedule to "Elementary (Season finale)", and my DVR failed to match it.
Fox finally got a clue last season and started putting a sacrificial rerun or two at the start of prime time so they could go JIT on it and leave the rest of the shows (and the local news) at their correct time.
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The Xindi arc was the best one they had. Real exploration of the unknown. Season 4 was where it went down hill, leading to cancellation.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Here's the problem; the people with the least internet access are also the people with the least broadcast TV access. I can get zero stations in at my house. The situation is so bad where I live that we actually have a tv rebroadcaster here... hmm, I'm pretty sure they're finally gone now, but they were still going in 2006. You'd pay them for TV signals, and they'd rebroadcast a pretty fair selection of them to your house so that you could actually get them, with a decoder box to stop everyone else getting them for free.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"first televised interracial kiss" No, that's a myth. Star Trek did NOT give us the first interracial kiss.
The first known interracial kiss on television was in a British broadcast of the play, "You In Your Small Corner", which aired in the UK in 1962. The first interracial kiss on American network television was in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on 22 Nov 1968, when Captain Kirk (William Shatner) kissed Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). The Star Trek kiss was widely believed to be the first interracial kiss on any television broadcast ever, until the "rediscovery" in 2015 of the British broadcast.
I don't think posters have a problem watching a show that includes it, just like people watched a show that included a black woman on the bridge, and later a black captain on a space station, and then a woman commanding a starship. Going to LGBTQ stuff would be par for the course for Trek. What people DO have an issue with is that the people putting this show together haven't come up with anything better to say about the show than that it will include these issues. That screams "We don't have a good story to tell, but at least we're politically correct!" nobody wants that. People want good storytelling, and want it to include that sorts of social commentary. They don't want social commentary just for the sake of social commentary.
Thanks for demonstrating my point that LGBTQ is controversial.
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I did say:
The fact is that Roddenberry had no problem directly invoking controversial topics when he wanted to, so considering some still find gay people some horrifying and awful thing that should be kept off the TV, well, that's not so different as to how some people felt in even in the mid and late 1960s that any interracial sexual contact was horrifying and awful.
For chrissake, people were freaking out about the Sulu and his husband thing from the last ST film, and it was like a five second chunk of film of the most modest kind of affection. The way some people were freaking out, you think it was full on gay sex happening.
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I'll pass. It won't even be worth downloading a torrent off the pirate bay and will probably be another "Enterprise" joke.
So, I'll give the new trek a shot.
The trailers do look good, movie quality even.
Actually though, The Orville looks just as good.
THAT I want to see.
I think they took a page from STTNG and DS9 in that the best parts of both those shows were "War with the Borg", and "War with the Dominion", so they were basically like, "Ok, or show isn't doing so well, lets make up an alien race and have a war with them, that should solve everything!" :)
As for the whole temporal war thing, I agree it was a bit silly, though it did give them the dramatic device to travel back in time to fight Nazi's etc... Which is really also taking a page out of the original series and STTNG, as that was a troup they used quite a bit that is pretty well established. Of course there have been plenty of time travel excuses without a temporal war thingy.
I will say they did have a couple of episodes I really liked. One was where Tucker and Malcolm get stuck in a pod together. It was more like a two person play, and also they got drunk which was amusing. The other was I believe another time travel episode, where they do back to the same time period as the original series, with the same uniforms, big blinky buttons and sound effects, and tribbles, I thought it a nice hommage. Finally they did one like Voyager (though I think a bit better), where they are in a parallel universe and they are all evil bastards. It was just kinda fun and you could tell that they don't take themselves so seriously. It also seemed like they really enjoyed doing that for a change and I think it showed.
Oh, and btw, explain this: why do we allow the LBGTTTQQIAA to do in the street, during pride parades
The "pride parades" do not reflect most gay/les/bi/whatever people, they are just highly visible, which is why they're so closely associated with "gay people." Even there, such behavior is usually one small subsection of a parade as well. It's part of a very specific subculture among non-straight/etc people, an image that both that subculture promotes (because it's them) and regular culture promotes as well, because most people without gay friends don't have any experience with non-straight folks who look and act like straight folks.
There was a British soap opera which portrayed an interracial kiss in 1964.
But in the US, there are a few factors at first. Would the kisses between Hispanic Desi Arnaz and White Lucille Ball be considered interracial, or would you say Arnaz is a white male of Cuban ancestry? Probably the latter.
An episode of I Spy in 1966 featured a kiss between a white man and a Eurasian actress.
The first black/white kiss aired on US television was from Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, a year before the Star Trek episode aired.
Star Trek featured the first black/white kiss in US scripted television.
One of these is not like the others. How does "turn on" have anything to do with oil lamps? Anything that's electrical can be "turned on": your TV, your computer, a light, etc. What other term would you use, besides maybe the somewhat-stilted sounding "activate"?
but I finally abandoned the whole thing somewhere in the middle of Season 3
You missed out on some of the very best episodes. Skip the rest of season 3 and go watch season 4. Especially watch the two mirror-universe episodes; they were fantastic. Even the opening sequence alone is worth the watch.
Oh, and btw, explain this: why do we allow the LBGTTTQQIAA to do in the street, during pride parades
The "pride parades" do not reflect most gay/les/bi/whatever people,
Yet, they "pride" themselves to speak for all LBGTTTQQIAA, including conservative ones.
It was a phrase that sounded so good that it continued to be used for things that never had knobs. At the time the phrase came about, it referred to controlling the flow of a lot of things (gas, water, etc). And then, turning on lights was a physical act.
When lights went electrical, the phrase continued to be used. However, controlling the flow of electricity was also called "turning on" and "turning off." So you could argue it came from either/or just as well as you can argue that it came from both/and.
And even when referring to it as controlling the flow of electricity, that's anachronistic too. Neither act literally involves turning, with a few exceptions.
Ah, I see what you mean now. Wow, that phrase is so ingrained I didn't even make the connection to "turning", or rotary motion; I was focused only on the "on/off" part of the phrase. I guess I thought of it like a lot of other English words, which can have totally different meanings in different contexts. I guess "switch on" would make more sense for an electrical device.
Few people know about it, but the best Star Trek since Star Trek is ST:Continues. It perfectly captures the look and feel of TOS & is a damn sight better than just about anything I've ever seen. The first episode "Pilgrim of Eternity" especially is a proverbial home run out of the park.
So excited! Can't wait to see this event, really! http://williamreview.com/im-vi...
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