I’m one of those people, and really appreciated the little bits of political wrangling we saw in the last half of Discovery. And while I was never a fan of Enterprise, Bakula could kill it as the president of the Federation in its formative years. I love this idea.
Just fun times.
I couldn’t get through Enterprise when it was first airing, and it remains the only Trek series I haven’t watched in its entirety. Tried to get through it again with my partner a bit ago, and we switched off after that first decon chamber scene. We aren’t prudes, but it’s just so skeevy.
Worrying over internet comments is a sure sign of anxiety, possibly OCD, maybe even PTSD if there’s a particular trigger.
If I were calling about a reference and heard this story related, I’d say to myself “great, so they’re willing to ask probing questions to clarify requirements.”
That could save weeks of work on some projects, and I’m not so desperate for clients that I’d want to work with one who would walk over a simple request for clarification.
Honestly impressed with Discovery’s restraint in not showing it to us for their last three seasons.
Ah, so I just missed it. There goes my little theory.
We’ve definitely seen cadets serving on ships a few times, and The Wrath of Khan featured a training voyage (though they didn’t seem to be going to anywhere in particular).
So I agree there’s precedent. I was really just stretching for a way to cheekily suggest the name.
So these kids will be going out in the galaxy on real missions before they’ve even graduated. I love the enterprising spirit that shows.
Say, have they revealed the name of the ship yet?
Agreed. I’ve been enjoying SNW, but it’s been playing it far too safe. Star Trek needs to rock the boat a little!
The inevitable next step after the musical episode. It was either this or Thunderbirds style marionettes like Stargate did.
I don’t mind zombies, but they didn’t even factor into real story. Why not have the tension come entirely from the Klingon hunting M’Benga? Then they could have spent more time building up her motivation and their ritual combat at the end would have felt like a culmination of the hunt instead of an awkward distraction from the zombie hoard surrounding them.
I didn’t hate the episode, but it could have felt a lot more cohesive.
Not much concrete here beyond the images, so I’ll just comment on those:
Don’t show him any of the all time greats. Then there’s nowhere to go but down.
I also wouldn’t try to hook him on a twenty or thirty out forty year old show when there’s a really good Trek series coming out right now. There’s no urgency to watching an old show, so even if he likes it he’s likely to put it off for later and forget about it.
Just hit him with SNW episode 1. It’s a decent episode, not an all time best but a good introduction to what the Federation is all about and very briefly how it grew from the present day. And if he decides to continue in his own, there’s no question of where to start - just move on to episode 2.
Ah, I stand corrected.
To be pedantic, Supermen was created by a pair of Canucks and The Boys is the brainchild of an Irishman.
For the reward of instantaneous travel, I’m sure the Federation could muddle its way through amending a 100 year old law. The rest of the points don’t seem all that different than the complications we see our heroes regularly encounter exploring the galaxy. And none of them were enough to convince the crew of the Discovery to stop using the spore drive for the rest of the series.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Discovery anyway. Trek is full of miracle technologies that go conveniently forgotten. Janeway has no reason to be miffed given that she sat on an infinite speed drive herself, which had no downside that the doctor wouldn’t have been able to cure after it took them home.
I haven’t noticed much backlash, though I’m sure you can find some in the usual discontented corners of the internet. Personally I’m optimistic, but we really don’t have all that much information yet. The trailer mostly sold the tone, but it seemed like the right tone.