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'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com)
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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."
If it ain't on Amazon or Comcast, I'm not watching it. Not gonna pay monthly fees for yet another streaming service just to watch one TV show.
... the footballs games don't run late and all the DVRs miss the new start time. Sunday evening on CBS is The Worst Time for TV shows to air.
Well, if you've made up your mind before watching it, you don't have to watch it.
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That's the other reason I'm going to pass on this for a while and wait for the reviews to come in.
BTW I was pleasantly surprised by, of all things, The Orville and how of all people Seth McFarlane managed to pull off an adult story about a hot-button topic without coming off as a nutter extremist for either side.
I should also say that I'm not being paid by Fox, but I would like to boost their ratings because I find that I like the show and don't want it cancelled.
But which identity group the characters belong to that matters. Welcome to grievance hell - paid version.
I'm also predicting prominent LGBT characters, for no reason other than to have them. Its a requirement any more.
Seriously... Why does every main character *have*to be a minority woman? This liberal SJW crap probably ruined what could have been a great show.
What does a persons colour matter to you ?
Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world, that's a very dangerous problem. That has happened before, and it always ends very badly.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The other day I looked at the web site for the CBS streaming service and as far as I could tell it flat out refuses to tell you how much it costs per month. Now here, right in the summary, is the critical information CBS refused to part with.
You don't seem to understand. I'm not worried that it might not be racist or sexist. I'm worried that it WILL be racist and sexist.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
"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.
"I can enjoy something without agreeing with its creators' politics" I think you've proven that to be false testimony given your other statements here, obviously.
"Star Trek was never full-blown SJW" Were you not around for the original series involving a white-on-black kiss for the first time on TV, ever? I'm going to go ahead and call you a liar on that.
Oh it can work just fine, just let's everyone mind our own business and quit antagonizing other people.
If you think that asking only that straight white males be allowed to be heroes too, not just villains, is somehow the same as demanding "dominance" than you need mental help.
This isn't even new ground. Star Trek has always been inclusive. Just ask Ben Sisko or Katherine Janeway. What scares me is the idea of Trek going from inclusive to exclusive. Trek has always welcomed all races, genders, etc. What they've never done before is intentionally exclude certain ones.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Orville is crass sex/fart jokes from Seth, which has a valid audience and place in history, but it's not Gene Roddenberry nor is it Star Trek or worthy of such comparison on any real level. I watched it, it was ok. Orville is not Star Trek, which almost invariably DID have a moral lesson in EVERY episode. You want to deny that for some reason, fine.
You obviously don't know me at all. And you've just unintentionally made an excellent point. Blaming all white males for the actions of a few is no different than blaming all Muslims every time some terrorist blows himself up in a mall.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
No one is blaming muslims for *all* evil in the world. But most of terrorism and a lot of other shit, definitely.
Sorry, I'm a white male. You know how incompetant we all are.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That's not SJW at all. SJW would be Uhura slapping Kirk's face afterwards and telling him to check his straight cis white male privilege.
Circumcision is child abuse.
" 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.
#White male victimstance again
I really enjoyed the latest episode. What I really liked was how smoothly they introduced their hot-button token character. The guy with gender issues didn't come in out of nowhere, he wasn't just placed there. They took the time to develop over the course of three episodes in a sneaky little subplot. They orchestrated a situation that is slightly removed from how gender issues actually manifest in real life, but now they can focus on the issues trans people allegedly have instead of whether or not the character is mentally ill or faking it. Emotional understanding of the problems of these people may allow the viewer to reexamine their beliefs or judgment. It's got a way better chance than anything else I've seen on TV which basically amounts to "I'm trans, deal with it!"
I mean, don't get me wrong, I hold the belief that gender as defined separately from sex is a fake construct and we will find that it is simply an attempt to stereotype people more specifically instead of not stereotyping at all. It's the new astrology. "I am these things because I am a Libra" is no different from "I am these things because I am third gendered". No, you are an indescribable, complicated personality and mind. Do whatever you want to your body but stop trying to escape from the genitals box society put you in by building a gender box to put yourself in. You don't need to be in any box.
What irked me was that while they set up this nice character, people roasted the show for not going far enough in to gender politics while they were telling a very genuine story that seemed realistic (from a psychological and emotional perspective in terms of the motives of the characters). I'm sure we'll periodically have that stuff come up related to gender identity now that we have this character, but this past episode wasn't about that. We got a story that can relate to many things in current culture such as deaf parents wanting their child to remain deaf instead of getting an operation to restore hearing, circumcision, and sex assignment surgery for intersex persons. As much as many people decried it for being dumbed-down, they sure didn't seem to understand what was happening.
If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
I give Seth his due. What, too much credit? Family Guy has its moments, let's not pretend it's Shakespeare or something else.
Modern SJW liberalism is very different from the traditional liberalism that Trek has always represented. Traditional liberalism embraced values such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion (including the right the not be religious), inclusiveness of all races and genders, racial/gender equality and unity, non-violence, and many other values that modern SJW liberals today seem to find abhorrent.
Modern SJW liberals are racial/gender exclusivists who openly advocate censorship, persecution, and even violence against anyone disagreeing with them. Those are absolutely NOT traditional Trek values.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Put it on showtime!!!
Maybe BSG didn't look appetizing to some ( I actually don't agree; having not really been a fan of the original, I though it was a neat concept ), but what it didn't do was actively make it look like it was going to rest its plot on one hot-button political issue as the tent pole of the show. Like I said, I'll wait for the reviews and if they're good, I'll plunk down the 30 or 40 bucks for the DVD in a year or two instead of 72 for a year or "CBS All-Access" right now.
You are a very angry man. I hope you get the help you need. And I hope you don't tweet your controversial ideas every night.
Be sure to write a book about it like Hillary, nobody cares what you do now. #You're free, fly away little snowflake
What does a persons colour matter to you ?
Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world, that's a very dangerous problem. That has happened before, and it always ends very badly.
That's a completely inaccurate view of the situation.
There is a big difference between women and minorities being given better representation in a TV show and "white males being blamed for all the evil in the world". White males are still extraordinarily privileged in western society, unhinged allusions to some sort of upcoming white male genocide notwithstanding.
If you want to understand what real oppression is then try empathizing with a woman or minority.
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You don't think it's a problem that straight white males are only portrayed as idiots or villains in many TV series and movies today? Do you not see how villianizing one particular race/gender could lead to a very nasty future? It's happened many times before, and the results were almost always horrible.
If this idea permeates the Trek universe, I would find it to be particularly disturbing. Trek in particular has always been about unity, progress, and inclusiveness. The idea of a new Trek that excludes straight white males as anything but villains deeply saddens me. I sincerely hope that the new series doesn't do this, and that my fears are unfounded.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When someone uses "white male" as an insult, they very clearly do not value inclusiveness or gender equality. Go back to Tumblr.
They managed to find a couple minutes of very good footage, so I'll give it a watch.
I don't have high expectations. I still remember Voyager when every episode I asked myself why haven't the crew or the maqui killed Janeway by the end.
Then there was Enterprise that had that lousy theme song that was just plain irritating.
Or next generation where picard tried to talk everyone to death.
Maybe they can get another DS-9 not going to hold my breath.
Is that number accurate - and is that a million paid subscribers? If so, I'm quite surprised.
But, in any case, our household will not be included in that group.
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As thought thousands of die hard Star Wars fans rejoiced in one voice, then laughed at their Trek friends, then went back to Cheetos and video games.
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There is a big difference between women and minorities being given better representation in a TV show
Maybe you're not familiar with Star Trek, but the franchise had minority and gender representation pretty much from the beginning. Minority and women captains and crew have been in Trek for decades now. No one is complaining about that. But if you want to pretend that there isn't a nasty strain of anti-straight-white-male sentiment brewing on the left for the last few years, or that it hasn't begun to infect popular culture, then by all means keep your head in the sand. If the only straight white male in the series turns out to be incompetent or a villain though, I submit that this is no coincidence.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Exactly. That's what good Star Trek has always been about: it makes you think interesting thoughts without trying to ramrod an ideology down your throat. It's hard to do that, and I'm still kind of floored that a guy who made his millions selling fart jokes was able to pull it off so well.
No, I'm worried that the liberal movement that I was once proud to be a part of is turning white males into the new "dirty jews," and the horrible things that could lead to. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
No one has to be a victim if we can all agree to stop scapegoating one another. That used to be the Trek vision--unity, equality, progress, and inclusiveness. I hope this new series doesn't change that.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Except now the blacks (at least on college) want that segregation from whites. Go figure.
Unless it's at least R rated with fully nude green alien women on stripper poles.
In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.
and I'm still kind of floored that a guy who made his millions selling fart jokes was able to pull it off so well.
The episode I think you're referring to was directed by Brannon Braga.
Why would she do that when the kiss was forced on BOTH of them without eithers consent?
A public school in Toronto had this forced on them. It didn't last the first year because it wasn't the black people but a few black LOUDMOUTHS who wanted it. Funny that their reason was that the black kids needed to be taught the black way because they don't learn the same way as the whites.
I think you are making a dangerous mistake here. It is not 'blacks' that want segregation, it is the SJW crowd.
You're confusing "afraid of" with "tired of whiny identity politics virtue signaling being mistaken for actual insight, or for anything remotely entertaining."
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
That is true, and that probably helped a lot. The episode was written by Seth, though.
If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
I sort of got the idea that Seth pitched it as "Fart Trek" so that Fox would green-light it, if the promo was any indication. Sure, it's snarky, tropey, and irreverent, but it actually does a good job of presenting a mid-tier Star Trek type plot, but with a dysfunctional crew. Seth could have gone full-on "Married With Crew" (well this is Fox ya know), but kept the divorce thing down to just inter-character tension and a source of snarks.
The third episode sort of inverted current political correctness about gender in a way that I'm sure triggers the hell out of SJWs. And then it subverted the usual Star Trek ending by having it happen anyhow.
Also, I'm impressed that they don't have transporters, that technology is just a bit too magic, and Star Trek always had to come up with plot points to keep them from working.
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Ho-hum. I'll be over here enjoying the superior The Orville.
I like Star Wars better than Star Trek, but I really enjoy both.
I've often wondered, are there really a lot of people who just like one or the other? I've not really seen any evidence of that among my friends either.
Basically the majority of us just enjoy a good story (and sometimes just awesome special effects for the heck of it), and just want something either enjoyable or thought provoking (or both) to watch. I think most of us judge individual efforts set in any Sci-Fi Fi universe against these simple metrics...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Star trek is so inclusive it almost had a russian character rape a klingon female character.
You've just proven his point and you're too stupid (or filled with hate) to realize it. Better look in the mirror and understand who you are before attacking other people.
Iâ(TM)ll be sure to mention their extraordinary privilege to the white guys I see sleeping in doorways every day. Iâ(TM)m sure theyâ(TM)ll be happy to hear about it.
Doubling down on crappy looking Klingons
Trailers filled with NOTHING but weapons fire and CG overload
gay/trans/ethnic political bullshit turned up to 11
I have to pay to see the rest of a TV series
If I pay to see the rest of a TV series I should expect to be rewarded with spyware installed on whatever I'm watching from.
CBS all access privacy policy says:
"Websites or other services you visited before and after visiting a CBS Interactive Services"
"Information about your interactions with audio and video content, such as the type of content listened to (including music applications such as iTunes, Spotify and Last.fm) and content viewed, and information about your interactions with email messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded;"
"Upon request, your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs installed on your computer including registry key information; and"
So basically if you watch Star trek you should assume spyware will be installed on whatever your watching it from to spy on EVERYTHING you do even if it has NOTHING to do with CBS all access.
This will be the first star trek I don't even bother watching even out of curiosity.
The sad thing is that the 21st century incarnation of the hard left is turning into the mirror image of the hard right with the same rhetoric of hatred and division albeit directed at different targets. Are you proud to be part of a movement that laughs at and dismisses the homeless and mentally ill because of their physical characteristics? Whatever happened to liberal compassion?
Says the person who knows nothing about what Star Trek is about:
“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. [] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
Gene Roddenberry
Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world, that's a very dangerous problem. That has happened before, and it always ends very badly.
You were against social justice 11 minutes before this, and now you are for it.
I don't even have a television! I don't mention it much, mind you.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Modern SJW liberals are racial/gender exclusivists who openly advocate censorship, persecution, and even violence against anyone disagreeing with them. Those are absolutely NOT traditional Trek values.
I can see where you could get that impression. While you can run into these people (and they get press coverage), and you more frequently run into people who you might believe are like this because of the context in which you see them, this is generally NOT true of the vast majority of SJW liberals.
I've known many people who fit into the SJW liberal category, many of whom are incredibly selfless people working for a pittance of what they could make in the private market doing basically public service for nonprofits or government because they believe in helping people. They don't exclude people because of their race or gender, and while they may not believe everyone should get a microphone, they don't generally believe in censoring or persecuting people either.
(The only big exception I've seen lately is there is some disagreement about whether it is okay to punch an actual Nazi in the face.)
Yawn.
Yeah. All the claims of being x-phobic are made simply because being fearful is not a virtue. Calling someone fearful is a veiled insult essentially designed to shut them up and force compliance to the latest bonkers assertions of the SJWs.
Oh, that's interesting. Can you name many TV series and many movies where that's true?
for a rehashed program that you know will be nothing but social commentary 100% of the time, there's always magnetic links.
Try leaving the 1950s behind. Prerecorded material can be streamed on-demand. There's no need to 'broadcast' anything but live events.
That's unfair. I'm sure he blames some things on commies and faggots.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
When will Blake's 7 come back ?
Who would do it properly ?
It was done properly the first time.
This all started when they decided you had to have midichlorians and did away with the egalitarian outlook in Star Wars... Everything was fine before JarJar!
Orville seems plenty multicultural to me. Perhaps it's because you just don't understand the cultures?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Did you miss the constant anti-divorce morality story line? Or maybe the "transgender is idiotic" morality story line?
Every episode so far has had major morality story lines, even if they were ripped from STTNG or STOS.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world, that's a very dangerous problem. That has happened before, and it always ends very badly.
You were against social justice 11 minutes before this, and now you are for it.
I think the confusion stems from the different interpretations of "justice". Batman Begins has an overt (and excellent, IMO) demonstration of the two types, where Katie Holmes' character expresses it as "harmony", and Liam Neeson's character defines it as "balance". The term "SJW" is used as a pejorative against those who define justice as balance, primarily because saying "X group harmed Y group in the past, so let's turn the tables on X" doesn't actually improve the situation. It just perpetuates injustice/disharmony.
Between the goddamn camera circling circling circling around everyone - HOLD STILL - and the nonstop JJAbramsLensFlares I've already decided No Thanks.
I can remember when this was an interesting site, full of diverse opinions on News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
Today it's a bunch of basement-dwelling pissants that are angry that women won't fuck them and marginalized social groups are clawing away the privilege that they think they are rightly owed for being a straight white male.
Anyone that uses the term "SJW" non-ironically is a trash human being. Including you. Fuck off.
What a piece of crap this is.
It seems Discovery was off to a rocky start, delayed by almost 30 minutes, as for some reason, 60 Minutes was still airing with "Star Trek Discovery" overlaid through CBS's all access app and site.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
A pop-culture story has to introduce it's protagonist and get you invested in his struggles quickly; until then its living on borrowed time.
This pilot wasted a lot of time and crucial early scenes, in part I think giving in to same temptation that got George Lucas on Phantom Menace: showing off what you can do with an unlimited budget. There is dialog in the ST:Discovery pilot that exists solely to to stretch out SFX shots. J.J. Abrams has said that he found Star Trek pacing slow, but I disagree; it just took a long time to get to the action scene. That time was taken up with drama. On this pilot that time is taken up with furniture.
The director also made the unfortunate decision to shoot much of the pilot in the Klingon language with English subtitles. This isn't at all like watching, say a Japanese movie with English subtitles. Japanese is a real language that evolved to fill human needs. Klingon was designed by professional linguists to sound alien, and it works well enough for saying things like "Fire all disruptors!" But it was painful to watch actors struggling to emote through heavy prosthetics while forcing their tongues to perform inhuman phonetic acrobatics. That meant that you got almost the entire sense of the scene through the subtitles. Also by overexposing the Klingons so early they seem less threatening. We know too much about what's going on (having read a lot of subtitles), but none of it adds to the suspense or drama of the story.
Altogether this is hot mess. Often TV shows have difficulty launching while spoon feeding viewers all the information they know, but despite the sumptuous visuals this one wasn't competently put together.
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...there IS a reason for CBS All Access, to stream those shows.
Then they still lose out on the vast majority of us who refuse to subscribe to a pay service to watch one or two shows we'd otherwise like to watch.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
We bought a 56" flatscreen over a year ago that was an unadvertised end-cap clearance at WalMart for $100. It still hasn't made it out of the carton. The old screen sort of still works, but it has a dead area at the bottom right corner. I think one of the cats sprayed urine on it and it seeped into that edge of the screen bezel and screwed it up.
I am going to put the new screen on a table such that there's no way for an animal to get on the 'ledge' in front of the screen. Just haven't gotten around to finding that type of 'stand' for it yet. Also may wall-mount it.
Wasn't there a Star Trek reference to the Voyager Space Probe where the people had distorted it's name over time and it was being called Veejay.
So, a woman Star Trek captain pilots the Veejay.
Hmmm....
"Chickenhawks" are ostrasized in the gay community, because they play into the stereotypes of gay people as "recruiting your children into their lifestyle."
However, adolescents and young adults who ARE actually gay, come to that realization about their sexuality at some point in their life and have the right to be integrated into a gay community as they mature. Like with any minor non-adult person it is statutory rape for an adult to become involved with them. But at a certain point the young person WANTS involvement with others (gay people) like themselves. It's a tricky balance, and Milo acknowledged that in an awkward way that was used by political opportunists to take him down.
Shakespeare's plays 'worked on many levels.'
I am not sure that can be said about South Park, though it is a point well worth considering.
It can't be said about 'Family Guy' which is crass trash for the most part. It plays well to a certain mindset but is really channeled only in that direction.
It's continuing mission is to WTF... did I just watch? CBS expects people to pay to see a whole season of this garbage?
It wouldn't be worth it even if enterprise were destroyed in E2, everyone died and .. "HA HA FOOLED U!!!" flashed on the screen before real pilot of star trek reboot started playing.
CBS needs to immediately cancel this garbage and publically apologize for wasting everyone's time.
Calling someone who sleeps in a doorway âoeprivilegedâ just shows how toxic your ideology is and no amount of verbal diarrhoea can justify it.
So stories changed from "particle of the week saves the day" to "minority of the week saves the day". I fail to see the big difference.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I saw the premiere tonight and I have trouble imagining a worse premiere. There seemed to be more commercial time than program time, and if you wanted to see the second half of the show, you had to to some Mickey Mouse internet thing to view it. Really, really sad. (And what I did see of the actual program relied on special effects too much and not on plot/acting.) Will not miss the program.
I may be old, but ain't that pretty much what those white supremacist idiots have been claiming as well?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
How the fuck do you "recruit" someone for your sexual preference? You are or you are not gay, it's not like there's a way to change that.
Unless you're some religious whackadoodle, of course. Then you think if you pray really hard you can wish the gay away.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Of all this, I could actually see the flaming gay engineer.
What? You'd be surprised just HOW many engineers are.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So I already got a subscription to all or most of AT&T's Uverse's premium sports and movie channels, plus Netflix, plus Amazon prime. Now I find out that I need to buy one more subscription, through an entirely separate billing system just to watch one CBS show? Hello?
I understand that people wanted to have stuff a la carte, but the way I understand it, a la carte works best as a pay-per-view service through either the cable company, or amazon, or a similar centralized streaming service. No one wants to deal with a dozen different streaming sites and a dozen bills, one for every show I want to see. I guess I'll just wait until this show hits the Netflix after a while.
Keep it up! These are the sorts of tactics that are going to keep the Right in power for the next 50 years. Gratuitous insults and dehumanizing other people because they disagree with your far-left political opinions.
SJWs are real, as one of them recently said to me: "Someone please explain to me why I wouldnâ(TM)t want to be a Social Justice Warrior? It sounds badass and amazing."
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Star Trek: TOS had 2 pilots. The second one actually sold the show.
Anyone who wants this show to survive the first season should hope for a reboot of that tradition.
Which would probably be the first SENSIBLE reboot in the recent past.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just cut the bull, will ya?
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.
The most laughable of all. Fire a gay and you get hit with a discrimination lawsuit. Even if you manage to fight it off, it costs time and money. Fire a straight and nothing happens. Geee, I wonder who's getting fired when the company gets downsized next?
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."
Because no straight man ever got beaten. When shit like that happens the reason always is "some punk is having a bad day" and whether his excuse is "you're gay" or "you looked at me funny" doesn't change a thing.
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!)
Yes, and blacks used to be slaves, let's kill whites today in retaliation! Wooooo!
The religion and family branches also need more points (gays cause hurricanes, hate the sin love the sinner).
You're free to not join any religion you don't like. Muslims consider me a sinner because I eat pork, Hindus consider me a sinner because I eat beef. Booo golly hooo, I'm entitled to whine and cry because THEY HATE ME!!!
I'm also more likely to have a crippling addiction and die younger than comparable straight white males.
And this is the fault of straight people because....? Men on average die 7 years earlier than woman, I've never heard any SJW using that as a basis of the claim that men are discriminated against by heath service. Guess equality of outcome works only one-way.
You do realize both sides are currently guilty as charged on this matter? I mean, have you looked at the rhetoric of the far-right? Yeah, it's not exactly free of dehumanization, insults or gross stereotyping of the people who don't agree with them either.
The cycle of polarization feeds itself: the far right insults the far left, who returns back in kind or the other way around. Both sides think the other side is either too dumb or too 'evil' to be reasoned with so both sides are content at mainly just flinging verbal shit at each other. To the far-left, anyone slightly on the right is a fascist or a nazi, and to the far-right, everyone to the left is an SJW, crybaby islam apologist or whatever.
The thing to realize is: both extremes of this discussion are in the wrong, and so long as people keep picking 1 or 2 of these sides going by 'the lesser of 2 evils' approach, this cycle will only continue and get worse and it will not necessarily mean 'the right' will come off as a winner on this one.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
Klingons can make for dramatic viewing, e.g., Christopher Lloyd. But these didn't talk like real (i.e. Niven-influenced) Klingons. I believe one declined the opportunity to die gloriously, and even the leader used phrases like "be a part of something larger than yourself."
Except for the new twist on the Vulcan/Human hybrid being more human, this was a complete waste. Sorry CBS, I am not paying 1 cent to watch this.
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It's funny you should say that. Thanks to the football game running predictably (though never accounted for) long, my DVR only recorded half of it. When I tried to watch it last night, the very first thing I saw was Oprah trying to convince people to hate Trump. I happen to remember seeing her loudly proclaim that he should run for President.
> Star Trek has always been inclusive. Just ask Ben Sisko or Katherine Janeway
I'm sorry, but until they have a Ferengi on the bridge they can't be considered inclusive.
Works great for drug dealers.
I've been surprised before, mind you. The Battlestar Galactica remake looked like crap before its premiere too. But it pleasantly surprised me by being the best science fiction show since DS9
...right up until season 4, where it became clear that, although the Cylons had a plan, the writers didn't. Not content with that, it continued in a downward spiral, ending up with an even worse ending than DS9, something previously considered impossible for any science fiction show.
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Well, Lloyd's make-up was less ambitious, and he didn't have to deliver his lines like a first year French student asking the way to the library. You'll note that in the movie the character Kruge uses Klingon in the movie only for battle scenes, and then seamlessly switches to English for scenes of dramatic conflict. This is how storytelling works, you require the audience's participation to make the magic. You establish that the characters are speaking Klingon and then you switch to English for scenes that require emotional nuance, and the audience goes along with it. In fact most don't even give the illogicality of the change a second thought.
I get what the Discovery writers were trying to do with Klingons. They were trying to say that Klingons are individuals who differ from each other in both their interpretation of and devotion to Klingon cultural ideals. But in order to make a version of the Klingons that looked more convincing than any yet put on screen, they took away the actors' most important tools in portraying individuality.
I appreciate the series attempting to add to and rationalize disparities in the Klingon mythos created by generations of writers and makeup artists. But to carry that off they needed strong performances, ideally great ones. But you can't do that this way. You could put Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in that make-up and made them deliver their lines in Klingon, and the scene would fall flat.
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Sisko beats all the other captains for one reason.
Q: You hit me! Picard never hit me!
Sisko: I'm not Picard.
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Drug dealers have a better product.
#NotStarTrek
For those at the back, DNS-and-BIND is claiming that support for diversity and equal rights constitutes political opinions to his "far left".
That's probably true, unfortunately.
To the wider point, at this stage I don't think there's anything to be gained by coddling far right opponents of equality and diversity. They're shitheads. They're not going to be convinced by well meaning lefties arguing that, hey, it's OK to show a Star Trek TV series that's set in a future where not every captain is a rugged white male because racism is bad, mmm-kay, and society will eventually evolve past that.
It is a shame the majority of Slashdot posters seem to have more in common with the Richard Spencers and Donald Trumps of this world than the MLKs and Gandhis, but that's how things are right now. We can only hope that changes.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Openings are often awkard, but The Cage was a lot better than The Vulcan Hello as storytelling.
The Cage even has a Trekian theme, which is the creative tension between primitive emotion and intellect. The Talosians have evolved beyond primitive emotions, only to find that an evolutionary dead-end.
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Do you think perhaps you could string together a coherent sentence or two aimed at conveying your point in a way that doesn't sound like you're in fifth grade?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
There is no Star Trek anything anymore, just 'Star Trek artificially flavored' productions. Won't even watch it for free, I got better things to be doing.
The entire episode's "production values" looked like a video game to me, and the writing was just as shallow.
No way I'm paying for an entire, pointless streaming service just to watch COD8: The Final Frontier. I can tune to PewtiePie for that.
And why the hell involve Sarek from canon? Sarek is Spock's dad, not {func_rnd}'s dad when they feel like it.
She's 100% human -- adopted by Sarek and Amanda.
I might pay if this was a reboot of Farscape.
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You don't think it's a problem that straight white males are only portrayed as idiots or villains in many TV series and movies today?
Nope. I haven't run into this particular phenomenon, despite watching far more TV than is healthy.
Oscar Isaac isn't a white male? Mad Mikkelsen isn't a white male?
It's okay to be a flaming, stupid, motherfucker.
It's not okay to flame me for pointing out that something is a stereotype.
Done. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had Nog on the bridge of the Defiant for pretty much the entire last season.
In fact, that would mean that 100% of the Ferengi in Starfleet were bridge officers.
why did they give the Klingons a make over? It was explained why they looked different in TOS to any of the other series but are we really expected to believe that in 10 years they go from looking like they do in Discovery to humans with long mustaches (as they were portrayed in the original Trek). I could maybe believe this if the original series had some mention of the Klingons changing their appearance but to go from how they look in Discovery to the typical earth human look of the original series and everyone in the original series acting as if this is how they have always looked seems a bit of a stretch for only a 10 year gap.
There are other problems that I have with Discovery but the Klingon appearance was especially jarring for me.
You don't think it's a problem that straight white males are only portrayed as idiots or villains in many TV series and movies today? Do you not see how villianizing one particular race/gender could lead to a very nasty future?
I don't think this is an actual issue that exists. Show me the statistics. Start with naming a few shows. Here's the ones watched in my house:
Rick and Morty: nope
Game of Thrones: entire cast is white
Brooklyn 99: nope
Archer: nope
Walking Dead: nope
Dark Matter: nope
Stranger Things: entire cast is white
Grey's Anatomy: nope
Dare Devil: nope
Dark Matter: nope
Fuck that... I went through my entire "Watch it Again" list and I couldn't find a single instance of it. So I'm going to have to assume that if you think this is an actual issue, then you're out there looking for shit to be offended by.
How the fuck do you "recruit" someone for your sexual preference? You are or you are not gay, it's not like there's a way to change that.
I am told that large quantities of Vodka and Red Bull works pretty well.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
Yeah, so this is a place for nerds, right? Well, there is a point where it goes too far.
I like Star Trek--all of them except the reboot. I watched Discovery this Sunday, and was disappointed. It focused so much on the nerdy details that it lost a lot of story telling value. For example, none of the other series had ALL of the Klingon dialog in actual Klingon, with subtitles. It just doesn't need to be that canonically correct.
Google eh? According to Google, free speech means you're fired if you point out self-evident facts like women bear children, men don't menstruate, and sex-based discrimination in hiring is wrong.
After seeing the premiere...yeah.
Nah, I'm liberal. I just know cancer when I see it.
Aww Marxist triggered. Success.
but my favourite captain is picard and my fav bond is brosnan. so i am pretty sure i will hate this trek.
That works pretty well to knock someone out and rape them.
You do know the difference between convincing and forcing, right?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So dismiss me rather than consider my words? Okay. I'm still curious. How is it toxic?
Space Shuttle was a program that strapped humans to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math
That works pretty well to knock someone out and rape them.
You do know the difference between convincing and forcing, right?
Red Bull keeps them from passing out.
Also try growing a sense of humour.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
What? I live in PA, where it is perfectly acceptable to fire me for my orientation. I could bring a discrimination lawsuit, but it would be dismissed because I have no grounds. I'd be out a job and the money spent on the lawyer.
I'll give you the randomness of being beaten up (though I want to believe that gay white men are beat up more often then straight ones but I'm too lazy to do the research to back my belief up right now), but not the gay panic defense. Frankly, your response to it made no sense. I would prefer if my attacker received a fair trial and is punished for his crimes, not let off with a slap on the wrist. This does not equate to "Black people were enslaved by white guys, so let's kill all white guys!" More like if someone is found enslaving other people, they should be punished for it with appropriate jail time? Like Ariel Castro? I don't want to be controversial here.
As to the religion question, you are not surrounded by Muslims or Hindus as I am surrounded by "Christians." I think your perspective on what being considered a condemned sinner would be quite different if you were. Of course, I doubt you have the imagination to understand what that would be like, given your previous response. I also doubt you have any commitment to being a good person, but that is just a hunch. I won't even bother with the last point, as that one is a little more complicated and you have already dismissed the simpler issues with a brutal lack of humanity.
Space Shuttle was a program that strapped humans to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math
Han Solo shoots first... and so do Vulcans. I did not know Han was trained in the ways of Vulcans.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
What stories? I didn't really notice anything but a loosely connected series tropes. Of course I may have missed something as I fell as!eep a third of the way in. Boring!
Oh. Sorry. I didn't notice that this was a joke.
It's already hard enough for me when someone tells it, in written form it's nearly unrecognizable to me.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why do you try to pigeonhole photons? I think they have the right to be matter or wave, whatever they prefer to be.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
How you think I'm feeling? I mean, fuck, remember how people were fighting an uphill battle to stop the segregation, and how those white supremacists were adamant to not allow it that it took the effin' National Guard to step in and make it possible?
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
Remember those words? Where the hell did we take the wrong exit?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So far I've only seen the first of the two released episodes . But I have to say, this show is just a mess. It's logically inconsistent constantly, the overall pacing is crap, the lead is so much of a Mary Sue that it's embarrassing (no character should have more than 2 Deus Ex Machina to explain her), the physical affects look like badly lit FarScape, it throws out pretty much all preexisting canon, and it has several points at where they get basic science wrong. Two words: Lightspeed Lag
Now not to be a complete downer... what they got right: Well sadly not a lot. One quite positive thing is that for once ship orientation is a concern. And the actual ship designs do actually look pretty decent. But honestly, that's about all I can give it.
To me: Star Trek really kind of died when Abrams got a hold of it. Discovery was the one real last chance I thought we could give it. But if this is what we should expect then it's time to let the franchise face into memory. Because this show is just crap. And if it gets more season than Enterprise did it'll be a miracle.
So THAT was the best they could come up with to accomplish it? A woman captain isn't a new idea, but an Oriental one is. A black second-in-command... who is also a woman. That's new, but why does it always have to be about race and/or sex? Are there no other original ideas? (Note: Klingons aren't a new idea, and neither is changing their appearance... as we all know) Oh Gene, where are you when we need you :-)
Ferengi are old news.
They should bring some Daleks to the Starfleet. Then, in one swift stroke they will fight for two social issues at once: diversity and oppressive copyright law.
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Don't underestimate the importance of writing, even in Klingon. I seem to recall some quite dramatic lines delivered in Klingon; but they have to be lines that a true Klingon would speak. These Klingons were less authentic than the imitation on The Orville.
I have considered your words. Especially amusing was the idea that the homeless guy is privileged because all you need to do is give him all the things he doesnâ(TM)t have. Who exactly is going to do that? The White Privilege Army? Itâ(TM)s toxic because the suggestion is that he is somehow less deserving of sympathy and support because all white men have the same life experiences, donâ(TM)t come from abusive broken homes, donâ(TM)t suffer from physical or mental illnesses etc etc. The left should be about caring for everyone as individuals, not behaving like a mirror image of the right just with different scapegoats. By the way, here in the UK itâ(TM)s illegal to fire someone for being gay, homophobic attacks are prosecuted as a hate crime and gay marriage was legalised in 2014 with virtually the full support of the country. Every country and every human being is different.
Roddenberry's son is a corporate tool without much understanding of what his dad envisioned or discussed with Star Trek. I don't remember the specifics but there are a number of quotes from him that should clear up just how un-Treklike he is. I'm not sure if this was due to his dad not spending enough time with him as a kid, just his own personal view of the world, his mother's influence (go look at all the stuff Majel Barrett-Roddenberry got marketed of his after he died... Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, others.)
Regardless to say, Trek started dying of cancer alongside Roddenberry back in the 90s, and the cancer has finally consumed it today.
At least Andromeda had 'Nietzscheans', though I don't think Majel really understood the implications.
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