[Scarlett.]

[Please don't merge this mods, making a new thread, so that the title can be edited along with the show as it airs, thankies!]

The pilot was premiered last night, and the reactions are very good!

[James]

I increased the time limit for editing titles?

Good to hear the reactions are good. I might need to subscribe to Netflix now, along with Amazon and Now TV.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by James

I increased the time limit for editing titles?

Good to hear the reactions are good. I might need to subscribe to Netflix now, along with Amazon and Now TV.

The old thread is over a year old I think, unless you upped it again and I missed it

Everyone's saying the show looks super cinematic, I get that people miss the 90s look of TNG/Voyager, but it needed to change it up a bit

[James]

Ah right, I thought the limit was now 2 years. But I checked and it is 1 year.

[Scarlett.]

https://streamable.com/j1s0y
Title sequence, also, watch out for spoilers tonight, it airs in the US today.

[arista]

Some Folk in another Office
think that the Times reviewer
who is bitter, as he can not get preview
is a Valid reason, its crap??????

Some people are not aware of the Facts


I Hate Netflix
So I will buy the Box Set
On 4K Blu Ray
(and the Blu Ray disc can
go to the other office)
later on.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Chewy

https://streamable.com/j1s0y
Title sequence, also, watch out for spoilers tonight, it airs in the US today.

Thanks Chewy
I like the Design of the Ship

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by arista

Thanks Chewy
I like the Design of the Ship

Same, it stands out quite well from the other ships we've seen in Star Trek so far, especially with the ring cutout in the middle.

The reviewer is silly, a lot of shows don't do review copies anymore, thanks to pirates.

[Scarlett.]

Just watched the first two episodes on Netflix, can't wait for next weeks! I'm really surprised just how good it is! It feels very Trek, while still feeling brand new and exciting. The show looks better than it ever has before. I get that some people will miss the TNG style, but I like that they're trying something new, so far, the series is reminding me of Deep Space Nine, with a bigger budget.

[Oliver_W]

I was visually good, felt cinematic. The characters were all a bit meh, but as a dumb popcorn show it's okay.

[Scarlett.]

Apparently we've only actually met two of the main cast, the first two episodes were a prologue (which is why the titular Discovery has not yet appeared). It was probably one of the best pilots, alongside DS9's The Emissary

[Ramsay]

Really enjoyed it!

[Scarlett.]

Sounds like S2 is pretty much confirmed, but it wont be on til 2019, early 2019 though. But S1 should end around March 2018 anyway, so it will be less than a year.

[JTM45]

I really enjoyed it!!!
Some great characters. Looking forward to seeing Michael's story develop. Loved how seriously they portrayed the Klingons. Far more in depth than any of the previous films or TV Series'. Enjoyed the fact that they had nearly all of the Klingon dialogue in actual Klingon too with subs. Nice touch! Looked like there were different types of Klingon too.
I definitely got a bit of a BSG vibe from the overall storyline (never a bad thing, considering how amazing BSG was!). The whole 'long dissapeared foe' returning and starting an all out war thing and then the bit on the 'coming in Season 1' trailer bit where they had the 'normal people feeling ignored and rising up' theme. I'm feeling optimistic so far.
Love the 'sonar ping' type sound effect they're using too. Reminiscent of the original 'Star Trek' tv show. I think it was originally modelled on a submarine's sonar.

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

The characters were all a bit meh, but as a dumb popcorn show it's okay.

We haven't even seen a fraction of the characters yet and the ones that we have seen only had a two-part episode to develop so it's a bit soon to be writing them all off as ''a bit meh''. As a ''dumb popcorn'' comment that was dreadfully generic and lazy.

[Scarlett.]

Definately, the show seems to play into a lot of modern issues, without feeling preachy, the whole 'Remain Klingon' thing, makes sense, as some Klingons could see the Federation as the death of culture, they don't want their civilization to become absorbed into something like the Federation. They remind me of people like Farage and Trump, who play into peoples fears to gain traction, so that they can achieve their goals.

Spoiler:

With T'Kuvma dead (which surprised me, I expected him to be the main villain) I imagine we will start to see a difference of opinion between different Klingons, I imagine Voq, the Albino Klingon will try to follow in T'Kuvma's steps, where as L'Rell (the female Klingon) will perhaps begin to see the holes in T'Kuvma's teachings

[Scarlett.]

Another good episode, the Discovery seems like a pretty secretive ship, I wonder if Section 31 is involved?

[Glenn.]

Started watching this today. Have episode 3 to go but I love it

[Scarlett.]

Apparently the series has been such a success so far, that they have extended the first half of the season to 9 episodes.

[Scarlett.]

Really liked this week's episode, felt the most Star Trek like yet. Also, was awesome to the spore drive in action.

[Scarlett.]

This show keeps getting better every week, it's really hitting its stride now. I think Stamets is my favourite character now, I've liked him from Ep.3, but he's gotten better as time goes on

Oh and

Spoiler:

The other Starfleet Prisoner is totally Voq, the Albino Klingon.

[James]

I've started watching it. I just subscribed to Netflix - timed it so that the month's free trial will let me see the first run of episodes. Then I can decide whether to continue.

I've only watched the first two episodes so far, so I'm not reading all the posts in this thread yet. I definitely enjoyed them. I really liked the Klingon scenes, how they explored the Klingon lore, and liked how it was all subtitled. I liked how uncompromising the Klingons were, so we know the stakes will be high.

There was really only three interesting Starfleet characters in these first two episodes but I'm assuming we get more series regulars when the Discovery is introduced. I thought the title sequence was really good also.

The few niggles I had were the amount of JJ Abrams-style lens flares in the first episode - completely don't see the point of that. Also that the ships' phasers and hand phasers are pulse-type lasers like in Star Wars, and the new Trek films, rather than beam weapons of old, bothered me a bit lol.

The other thing that bothered me, but I'll probably get used to it, is that they use holograms now to communicate ship-to-ship which is new for the time-period in Star Trek. It's probably another thing they've copied out of Star Wars, but I can see a good reason for it also, in that Star Trek tech can start to look dated to our 2017 eyes, if they don't update it to take account of technologies we know now are coming.

Definitely one of the best Star Trek pilots - and some of them haven't been great.

[Scarlett.]

The whole lens flare and crazy camera angles stop as the show goes forward, there are some here and there, but only where appropriate.

The hologram stuff does seem a little off, but if you consider that 100 years later in TNG, they have holodecks which are physically interactive, with water, food and such, it would be kind of strange if 100 years earlier they didn't even have basic holograms. They do still use the viewscreen, I think holograms would only be used to talk to Starfleet, not the Klingons. Also, by the time TOS comes around, the original Enterprise is 40 years old, which explains why it is so outdated.

[Scarlett.]

EP 6 spoilers

Spoiler:

Can already hear the Trekkies going mad over the 'holodeck' appearing, even though it is basically just light projections (notice how they had to take physical guns into the holodeck? Also, they couldn't be physically hit), apparently something similar appeared in The Animated Series, which was also referenced last week, with Robert April (first captain of the Enterprise, before Pike and Kirk) being mentioned as one of the most well known captain's in Starfleet.

Thought it was a great episode, I was prepared to hate Captain Lorca, but he's definitely been through a lot of ****, feel sorry for the Admiral he pretty much sent to their death.

I'm liking Sarek's appearances, I've always thought he was a pretty interesting character, especially in TNG when Picard had to mind meld with him.

Seems like we will be seeing more of the bridge from next episode on

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[Scarlett.]

What secrets could it hold!