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Astroman posted:That's gonna be a huge problem for Discovery, setting it when they did. Star Trek can never resist crossing characters over, and there's a shitload of people who will still be alive from Enterprise or TOS in this era, many of whom should be prominent. Their absence will be more odd. I'm pretty sure that's a BIG reason they set it when they did. They want to do the Gotham sort of thing where every so often there's some sort of hype about "it's going to be the first appearance of [famous character]!" My prediction is season 1 will go by relatively free of this, then if they ever make it to season 2 it will be non-stop with "Young James T Kirk!""Young Spock!" Drink-Mix Man fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Finally when it's about to be canceled they'll call in the big guns and get the J-comb up in there but it will be too late but that last season will be great.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:03
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We'll only make this show be good as a last resort.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:04
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I doubt they'd use a headliner like Kirk, Spock, or McCoy, but maybe a Chekov. Personally I'd rather see guest characters like Kang/Kor/Koloth.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:10
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I expect they'll use T'pol to do a first-episode 'handoff' like in past.
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MikeJF posted:I expect they'll use T'pol to do a first-episode 'handoff' like in past. Not with how disgusted she was with the end of Enterprise.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:33
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Well that was a different production team. Not to mention she was either a hardcore Trekkie before she started, or became one while on the show.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:52
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Only if it's the exact same scene where she tells the new show's autist whatever McCoy told Data.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:59
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They should have set the show 40-50 years after classic trek so everyone's the right age for cash in cameos.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, he was in the same episode playing 2 characters once, for the first time in trek. They reaaaaaly wanted a scene where they see each other in passing and exchange a look but they didn't have time/budget. Didn't Brent Spiner do that about once a season? He even played multiple characters who didn't look perfectly identical in the Soong episode.
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Pieces of Peace posted:Didn't Brent Spiner do that about once a season? He even played multiple characters who didn't look perfectly identical in the Soong episode. Well, it was the first time they all weren't supposed to look like the same person.
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Dec 20, 2016 07:32
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Masaka is waking.
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Delsaber posted:I doubt they'd use a headliner like Kirk, Spock, or McCoy, but maybe a Chekov. Wouldn't Checkov be like 15? Most of the TOS crew were in their 20s/early 30s, so they'd all be like cadet age or younger in this show. Scott, McCoy, and Spock were old enough to show up as junior officers, I guess, but I kinda doubt we'll see any of them except in a tiny cameo because they're A) super iconic and B) characters in a (possibly) ongoing movie franchise. I would sort of like to see that lovable Irish scoundrel Finnegan beating the crap out of some snot-nosed cadet named Jimmy though. I do expect a few guys to get reappearances, especially if they were in memorable episodes, but there's really only a handful of characters that anyone besides the turbornerds would recognize by name. The Klingon captains, Sarek and T'Pau, Mudd, Daystrom maybe, that crazy Commodore from Doomsday Machine... Really, there's not a ton to work with because most of the guest stars were either too young, too insignificant, or from planets Even the name "Garth of Izar" is something I only remember because of those Axanar bastards and I've seen that crappy episode two or three times.
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Throw Quinto some money to turn up as young Spock?
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Please no. No more Quinto Spock.
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Space is a big place. There's no reason for any old characters to show up, and it would really detract from the show to rely on lazy cameos.
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marktheando posted:Space is a big place. There's no reason for any old characters to show up, and it would really detract from the show to rely on lazy cameos. Everything I've seen so far on Discovery suggests they want it to be its own thing, driven by its own characters. I don't know why they'd ruin that with gratuitous cameos, particularly goddamn Enterprise characters.
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Talking about characters ages, how old is Dukat? He comes across as someone in middle age, maybe in his 50s, but then he was in charge of the Bajoran Occupation when Kira was like 5 years old. I doubt the Cardassians would give some guy in his 20s or 30s to run their occupation of a planet.
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How long do Cardassians live? If they're closer to Vulcan life spans, then the age stuff works fine. He might have been 45 then and he's 75 now but 75 is "middle aged" for Cardassians.
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Best guest characters: Brunt, Damar, Weyoun, Q, Sloan, Martok. A lot of DS9 ones are hard to say because that show has such a large extended cast.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Best guest characters: Brunt, Damar, Weyoun, Q, Sloan, Martok. A lot of DS9 ones are hard to say because that show has such a large extended cast. Swap Brunt for Barclay and I'm on board. Worst? Might be Alexander Rozhenko.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Best guest characters: Brunt, Damar, Weyoun, Q, Sloan, Martok. A lot of DS9 ones are hard to say because that show has such a large extended cast.
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WhiteHowler posted:Morn. Talks too much.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Best guest characters: Brunt, Damar, Weyoun, Q, Sloan, Martok. A lot of DS9 ones are hard to say because that show has such a large extended cast. Gowron's eyes. Not Gowron. Just his eyes. 
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Fister Roboto posted:I think I'd watch an entire show based on The Lower Decks. The West Wing was supposed to be a show about the Communications Department of the White House, with Rob Lowe as the main character. However after a couple seasons it drifted to Martin Sheen and the Presidency. I would also watch Star Trek: Lower Decks, but it would be hard for average viewers to not know what was happening on the bridge. *entire ship shakes* "What happened?" "I'm not sure, I hope the Chief Engineer tells us at our 2130 gamma shift engineering staff meeting. Might be a war with a new race. Say, have you seen a crate of self-sealing stem bolts in this cargo bay? Astrometrics is overhauling the lateral sensor array." *all non-trekkie viewers fall asleep*
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CharlieWhiskey posted:*all non-trekkie viewers fall asleep* Trekkie viewers complain about the inaccuracy of that model of stem bolt being used on this model of starship
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Phimosissy posted:Trekkie viewers complain about the inaccuracy of that model of stem bolt being used on this model of starship Was it self-sealing?
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I wonder how much of the first few seasons of DS9 was O'Brien trying to make sense of Cardassian wiring diagrams and tech manuals.
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I feel like O'Brien could understand their diagrams and blueprints just fine, but spent most of his time trying to disable various booby traps and other insane Cardassian  poo poo.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:The West Wing was supposed to be a show about the Communications Department of the White House, with Rob Lowe as the main character. However after a couple seasons it drifted to Martin Sheen and the Presidency. I would also watch Star Trek: Lower Decks, but it would be hard for average viewers to not know what was happening on the bridge. I bet within a few episodes it's a bridge show and the Lt. Commander character is, like, unexpectedly in command or something.
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Depends on if they finish all the episodes before they start airing. Though I guarantee season 2 will be a captain show because of loud mouthed idiots.
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Cojawfee posted:Depends on if they finish all the episodes before they start airing. Though I guarantee season 2 will be a captain show because of loud mouthed idiots. Let's wait and see if CBS All Access is even around for a season two.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I wonder how much of the first few seasons of DS9 was O'Brien trying to make sense of Cardassian wiring diagrams and tech manuals. Rewatching bits of DS9 makes me wonder why they didn't (in and out of universe) pull out the Cardassian panels and replace them with Federation ones somewhere up or down the road. The whole brown-and-red-and-green color scheme on everything isn't very pleasing.
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For real, that would be like taking over a Russian ship and not painting over all the Cyrillic.
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Yeah, there should have been increasing amounts of FedTech metastasizing through the station over the years. More efficient systems, backups, replacement screens, absolutely. A chimera of styles.
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Fister Roboto posted:
God. Geordi's mom, Data's mom, Worf's human brother, Beverly's dead grandma... wow, what a season. Not even Lower Decks can make up for the rest of that shitshow.
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