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'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com)
An anonymous reader quotes EW.com:
Tonight CBS will premiere the first new Star Trek TV series in 12 years at 8:30 p.m. on the company's regular broadcast network. Immediately afterward, the second episode of Star Trek: Discovery will stream exclusively on CBS All Access -- the company's $6 per month streaming service... CBS saw an opportunity to leverage the built-in popularity of Star Trek to help fuel its fledgling All Access streaming service. The service currently has about 1 million subscribers and the company's goal is to grow it to 4 million by 2020...
But once fans watch Discovery, they'll notice the show's production values aren't like a typical broadcast show, but more reminiscent of a premium cable or streaming show. CBS was able to justify spending a bit more money on Discovery since it's going onto the paid tier. Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.
The Los Angeles Times reports each episode costs $8 million -- though Netflix is paying $6 million for each episode's international broadcast rights. The show's main title sequence has been released, and the Verge reports that the show is set before the original 1966 series (but after Star Trek: Enterprise) along with some other possible spoilers.
Space.com asked one of the show's actors who his favorite Star Trek captain was. "I mean, Kirk," answered James Frain, who plays the Vulcan Sarek in Discovery. "That's like, 'Who's your favorite James Bond?', and if you don't say 'Sean Connery,' really? Come on."
But once fans watch Discovery, they'll notice the show's production values aren't like a typical broadcast show, but more reminiscent of a premium cable or streaming show. CBS was able to justify spending a bit more money on Discovery since it's going onto the paid tier. Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.
The Los Angeles Times reports each episode costs $8 million -- though Netflix is paying $6 million for each episode's international broadcast rights. The show's main title sequence has been released, and the Verge reports that the show is set before the original 1966 series (but after Star Trek: Enterprise) along with some other possible spoilers.
Space.com asked one of the show's actors who his favorite Star Trek captain was. "I mean, Kirk," answered James Frain, who plays the Vulcan Sarek in Discovery. "That's like, 'Who's your favorite James Bond?', and if you don't say 'Sean Connery,' really? Come on."
"Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world," - Said the guy blaming muslims for all evil in the world.
Here's a hint: if you're getting all militant about a TV show that hasn't aired yet, and you think quoting my username, that I picked out myself, wins an argument for you, then you need to take a weekend walk in the woods without internet access, breathe in, breathe out, and watch that anger at the world melt away. For your own good.
" Blaming all white males for the actions of a few " WHO DID THAT, REALLY? NOBODY DID THAT HERE. Reading is key, but not to conservative victimstance in 2017.
The issues of segregation were *real* issues, not some made-up "I can't handle basic adult life" tom-foolery.
Trying to conflate SJWs and their crying because a wrong-think speaker is invited to a debate with actual liberals trying to reduce the very real consequences for racial segregation is a very SJW thing to do though, so kudos on the gymnastics.
Wow, that is such a basic fallacy. Just because a white guy is homeless doesn't mean he lacks privilege. Being privileged isn't a linear or binary state. Your white homeless guy lacks the privileges of food, shelter, and employment. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have the privileges of having gone to a good school (which he probably did because, statistically, white schools are better funded). Clean him up, set him up with a permanent address, and address whatever issue has made him homeless, and he'll have an easier time of finding a job than a black person in similar circumstance would. Once he saves up enough money, he can get a loan for a car easier than a black person could. When he drives that car down the street, he doesn't have to worry about the police as much as a black person. White people get pulled over less than black people do. That sounds like a privilege...
Just because you can find an example of any type of person in a bad situation doesn't mean that that makes us all equal. If you must, imagine that privilege is like a video game's tech tree. If you choose the white straight male player, there are more options and almost all of them cost less points than the black player's options. This bonus for the white male player gives advantage against every other type of player too: Asian, Mexican, female, gay, lesbian, trans, handicapped, and so on. For instance, I'm a gay white male, which means my tech tree lines up rather nicely with the straight white male, except for some hits in the social advantages. I'm more likely to get fired than the straight white male. I also have a lovely hate crime mechanic, where I can, at anytime, be beaten to death, in public, for being "a f@gg*t." Until recently, my straight male attacker could say that I made a pass at him and the game will accept that as a valid exception to the "No killing" rule. (The gay panic defense! It's a thing and is still being used!) The religion and family branches also need more points (gays cause hurricanes, hate the sin love the sinner). I'm also more likely to have a crippling addiction and die younger than comparable straight white males. We're currently petitioning the game programmers for adjustments. So if you see a white homeless man, realize that you can find unlucky or bad players, no matter the player type, but that doesn't change the tech tree.
Space Shuttle was a program that strapped humans to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math