DaveKap posted:

HD DAD posted:

Travis Mayweather just appears to be piloting the La Sirena in several scenes. He says nothing, and no one acknowledges him.

Shut up and JAM! posted:

drat that sucks. How do they convert American Sign Language to Klingon Sign Language?

Martytoof posted:

Speaking of set design and user interfaces, was there ever a reason given that Disco had these awesome hologram comms and they’re never used again over viewscreens other than Lorca didn’t like them?

Other than the obvious “lol no way can we retcon these so let’s never mention them again”

Snow Cone Capone posted:

Wild Plot Speculation Time (I don't actually think this will happen) Seven activates the Cube like Hugh wanted, but she also activates some sort of re-assimilation protocol. She then turns the Cube inward and assimilates everybody on the ship. Narek, his resolve wavering due to his love for Soji, has his resolve hardened by the assimilation of his weird creepy sister.

Please god don't let any of that be true

Timeless Appeal posted:

For real. I think I mentioned this before, but there is this really good episode of Cheers where Kate plays this young ambitious Boston politician. She's really cool and downright dashing. It really paints a different type of Captain that Mulgrew could have played.

Janeway should have honestly been more Kirk-like.

Thom12255 posted:

The Ibn Majid looks like if you crossed a Sovereign with the Discovery.

Kingtheninja posted:

Did they just use one model for all the federation ships? It felt like everywhere I looked I saw the same ship, to the point I thought they were making more holograms.

Thom12255 posted:

Somebody did a mock-up of what the fleet should've been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YjeKywZc

CaveGrinch posted:

Building a fleet of same ships isn’t necessarily the worst idea... maybe the Federation thought it worked perfectly well for every other major power in the galaxy.

MichiganCubbie posted:

It's definitely good to have new ships, but there should be a mix with some old in there too. We're talking about what, 25 years after Nemesis? That's not long in the lifespan of ships. We don't have to see Mirandas and Excelsiors and Ambassadors, but maybe have a couple Intrepids and Promethesuses and Sovereigns with a bunch of completely new ships.

Martytoof posted:

I don’t know about Voyaer. It’s not BAD, but so far in S1 it’s downright bland. The first few episodes had my finger hovering over the FF button 90% of the time *cough* Vulcan murder mystery *cough*

I just outright skipped a few based on the Netflix summary blurb too.

DS9 S1 was bland too, but I was far more attached to the characters and setting. I won’t lie, I dig the fact that it’s set on a ship again, and I’m really enjoying monster of the week, but .. this isn’t great writing.

Onto S2 soon, at least.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

I enjoyed the RLM video but the last five minutes or so are spot loving on.

Man it would be cool if Strange New Worlds actually brings back the optimism.

Senor Tron posted:

I hadn't watched the trailer up to now based on other peoples bad impressions and it looks...fun?

Sure I'm not expecting greatness but it looks like it has a genuine love of the franchise.

HD DAD posted:

So according to the WGA site, we have titles and writers credits for 11/13 episodes for Disco season 3. I’ve listed the titles in no particular order, since they’re alphabetical in the WGA listings. A few are...interesting.

That Hope is You
Forget Me Not
Scavengers
Outside
The Sanctuary
The Citadel
The Good of the People
Die Trying
Terra Firma Part I
Terra Firma Part II
Unification III

Astroman posted:

Something tells me Kate Mulgrew would love hamming it up in a VA role as a parody of Janeway in a Trek comedy.

Phylodox posted:

Wasn’t that kind of how the episode began? She left a drunken Klingon that she knew was a kleptomaniac alone in a shuttle in a dangerous part of town despite Boimler’s repeated admonishments and ended up loving up their whole mission. Yeah, she helped Boimler fix it, but none of it would have happened if it weren’t for her.

feedmyleg posted:

Yeah, with the ensign team-ups being the same in the second episode I was really expecting them to flip the dynamic. I think it'd go a long way to fixing people's complaints with both characters. As it stands having Mariner get two wins in a row makes it feel like the show is endorsing her point of view.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

I don't think there needs to be a big dramatic arc where she gets her comeuppance, but I do think there should (and I believe there will be) at least one episode where the dynamic is reversed; Mariner gets the gang in over their heads by being a know-it-all, and Boimler's book smarts gets them out of it. That's all it really takes - you hit the note that Mariner isn't perfect, and you hit the note that Boimler isn't worthless, just oblivious and whiny.

Martytoof posted:

It’s Family Guy in space. Ironically, unlike The Orville.

One dimensional, serving up jokes that people love or hate, polarizing.

HD DAD posted:

Riker goes to the holodeck to beat off, and loads a program that’s just two other Riker’s also beating off. They all look and wink at each other.

Mokotow posted:

It’s been done in Billions, check it out.

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Brawnfire posted:

Should have a long scene where the camera whips around a bunch of Borg passageways and have each Borg we encounter offer information regarding shield strength and weapons targeting and several thousand different cultural interpretations of optimal tactical actions. Make it like the scenes where the bridge crew are shouting tense damage reports and commands, but literally every single drone on the cube gets a say

blastron posted:

I liked basically everything except the body count in that fight and how okay Burnham was with it. I feel like she, an idealist from a brighter time, should have asked Booker “do these have a stun setting”. Then Booker could have said “how old-fashioned” and vaporized a dude and we’d have the same fight. Maybe it was in but got cut for pacing reasons? I don’t know.

They did a really good job of setting up plot beats. Book was established as having life-related powers when he did the trick with the plant so it didn’t feel like an asspull when he did it to the worm. Burnham spent a good thirty seconds of screen time at the start of the episode going over her name and rank so when she identified herself to Sahil it wasn’t jarring that she just spouted her serial number off the top of her head. This is a lot more care than I remember seeing in S1 and S2 so I’m hopeful that script quality will be higher overall.

DaveKap posted:

Finally watched the new Disco. The show rarely felt like Star Trek but now it's at the point where it feels like something other than Star Trek. In this case, Mass Effect. This is now a Mass Effect show.

Gonz posted:

So, should I assume that Control has somehow weaseled it’s way into Detmer’s cyborg implants or something?

Roadie posted:

Somehow this got me thinking on a tangent, picturing an ordinary workaday Klingon complaining about how that all honor and battle crap is something that only the rich and established get to indulge in.

twistedmentat posted:

I wonder what park in Toronto they filmed the tree scene at.

Speculation! The Trill are not allies, and the Trill Starfleet Admiral was trying to warn people about the Trill's plans. But they got killed somehow, and the anklyosarus ended up in Adira who can't access the memories that deep so the warning is unheeded.