Jeb! Repetition posted:

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vermin posted:

I have attached Siri to four Roombas and a rescusi-Annie. But will she choose me?

Jeb! Repetition posted:

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The_Doctor posted:

There are too many TNG era LCARS beeps and boops on Discovery (I hate that I can pick them out of the background noise with such ease).

HD DAD posted:

Hell, I can even get onboard with the holo-technology in Discovery falling out of favor for a century due to it obviously being clunky as hell.

The_Doctor posted:

The weird MMO-like lag glitches in their holo-communicator makes sense if it's not actually displaying a live version of the other person, but rather just pasting their voice onto an avatar.

Zutaten posted:

I liked it a lot when Burnham was talking to Sarek, and he apparently sat down somewhere on his end, so the hologram freaked out a bit and jittered him around the room before settling on the edge of a console as a good spot.

Marshal Radisic posted:

There's something like five different backstories for her, most of which contradict each other. Probably the nuttiest one out there is from the New Frontier series, which is basically a sandbox for Peter David to do whatever he wants. In those books, she's introduced as "Morgan Primus," and she's a human from Earth who became immortal sometime in the misty past, kinda like that Flint guy. She tended to swap identities every few decades, one of which was Number One, though there's also some jokes made about Christine Chapel and the ship's computer. She eventually ended up on the USS Excalibur, the main ship of the series, and eventually got killed by a Greek god, only to have her mind end up in the computer. She eventually contracted Cortana's space madness, and she ended up getting erased. Oh, and she's Robin Lefler's mother.

Jesus, when I lay it all out like that, it's so incredibly stupid. How did I never see it before?

The_Doctor posted:

Apparently DSC is going to introduce more TOSy uniforms down the line, so we'll see how that marries up, I guess.

Arglebargle III posted:

I wouldn't mind if they adopted the TOS uniforms as everyday wear and retconned the DSC uniforms as fancy dress, because god drat the TOS dress uniforms were awful.

Cojawfee posted:

Better than the TNG dresses. Like the costume department heard "dress uniform" and took it literally.

Zutaten posted:

Also the Discovery uniforms are apparently "utility jumpsuits" akin to the Enterprise coveralls while the Enterprise is using the new style shirt and pants uniforms they're just rolling out.


...this book sucks.

Astroman posted:

LOL..and that won't work, because:

1) The "new uniforms" were being worn during The Cage, which took place 2 years before STD, and at least a year before this novel I would assume
2) Everyone else we see in Starfleet on this show will be wearing thr "utility jumpsuit"
3) If the show is somehow still on in 5 years, they still won't be wearing the "new uniforms"



I nearly bought the book but then realized there was no way I could reconcile the two visually different universes even in my head. Until/unless they make that effort onscreen, this book is alternare reality fanfiction. And I do generally like David Mack's work. I think he was given an impossible task here.

VanSandman posted:

The more I think about it, the madder I get that they put the show as a loving prequel. All you gotta do is set it a hundred years post-TNG, and shake things up. It let's you ignore and change things as you will (and only need to explain things if you feel like it) because time has passed, let's you bring on old stars as episode stunts, and lets you explore rather than setting up old poo poo. Are we gonna see the Tholians again in DSC? Who cares!

Nessus posted:

Hell, you could set it during the Original Series if you want. Maybe they were on the other side of the Federation. Get some old school Cardassians up ins.

Revenant Threshold posted:

It's confused me since Enterprise who it is in the planning/decision-making areas that really wants prequels. The obvious reason is to go back and look at interesting stuff that got hinted at in previous series as having happened, but they didn't then go on and do much of anything with the Romulans or whatever, it was almost all original. It's tremendously limiting as an idea, so there must be some good reason to go back twice now.

I mean, technically it's three times even, but with '09 whatever you think of it "we're rebooting, people know Kirk" are actual reasons to do it.

Nessus posted:

"The most popular Star Treks were in this period and starred Kirk, Spock and McCoy." That is almost certainly the primary driver.

Nessus posted:

"The most popular Star Treks were in this period and starred Kirk, Spock and McCoy." That is almost certainly the primary driver.

Gammatron 64 posted:

I mean, I have. I really like the show a lot. But... I dunno man, I can't help but feel like DS9 is different than Discovery and saying they're the same is kind of a disingenuous argument. Yes. it tackled a LOT of dark subject matter, but it did it in a way that it still felt like Star Trek. I mean, Trek had episodes on nasty issues like war and racism since the beginning. Am I on to something here, or am I just imagining it? I dunno, I'm having trouble putting it into words. It goes into dark places but still manages to keep that general sense of optimism and hopefulness. I don't think these shows are the same thing.