He acts insane throughout most of the series...
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Star Trek Discovery - official trailer in OP, 15 episodes ordered, premieres 9/24
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Still haven't watched it. Plan to in the next few months. Anything I should prepare myself for? I've already steeled myself for the Rod Stewart opening.
Himynameischris
Member
Season 1 and 2 are terrible but season 3 is pretty great and 4 is good.
PdotMichael
Banned
(Incoherent screams of outrage)
What the fuck are all these women and minorities doing in my Star Trek shows literally based around the idea of universal equality and acceptance?!?!?
That would look more like a stepdown to the 90's.
I would suggest skipping the first 2 seasons.
Oh well, I made it through the first few seasons of Voyager, I can tough it out for a couple of seasons of Enterprise if it'll lay the groundwork. Even DS9 wasn't super strong in the beginning.
GodParticle
Member
That's good to know. I just couldn't see her being the main one
I thought the Xindi planet was interesting, having multiple sentient species on one planet.
I never watched Enterprise but I've enjoyed the more than once I went down a Memory-Alpha hole and went digging through the pages on the Xindi. They're a cool concept.
I wouldn't say I liked it, but I recognise it as better than what came before it.
The serialised nature, and the more tooth-and-nail fight-for-survival quality the story brought were popular. Did a better Voyager premise than Voyager.
Himynameischris
Member
I just started Voyager so I can't compare but yeah I liked how they isolated them and how messed up Enterprise got (and stayed) throughout the season. And Archer got better once he stopped fumbling his way through first contact scenarios.
BattleMonkey
Member
Eh the show had a story and was going somewhere finally. Lot better than the awful first season of nothing.
Enterprise was good, 3 and 4 are better than 2, which was better than 1. But new show, new cast new everything so it always takes time to gel.
Also, Rod Stewart didn't sing the theme for the show, that was Russel Watson. Rod Stewart did sing it in Patch Adams though. The shock is that they jazzed the theme up after the first couple of seasons, that really took me by surprise.
I only watched Ent all the way through for the first time a few months back, there are some thoughts in the proper Star Trek thread but overall I really enjoyed it.
One thing of note, you can completely, entirely and totally not bother watching the last episode. Just save yourself.
Fall.
I get this feeling that we haven't seen many primary cast members yet in this trailer.
I think Sonequa Martin-Green and Doug Jones are the only people in this trailer who will continue with the show beyond the premiere episode, and that the Shenzhou bridge we see in this trailer will get completely destroyed in the first.
We haven't even seen the actual USS Discovery yet!
I think Sonequa Martin-Green and Doug Jones are the only people in this trailer who will continue with the show beyond the premiere episode, and that the Shenzhou bridge we see in this trailer will get completely destroyed in the first.
We haven't even seen the actual USS Discovery yet!
rokkerkory
Member
Wow had pretty low expectations but that trailer was pretty good. Still not sure about the cast but let's see. Cautiously optimistic.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hey guys, why watch Discovery when you can watch the real Star Trek follow up show on Fox this fall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0
Orville doesn't look great to me.
They should at least introduce another ship or two in the Federation that has an alien captain. Would makes sense. The trailer looks great and I think any complaints I have so far are very minor. Star Trek has been off my tv screen for far too long and I am glad to fix this. I'll seriously pay the $5.99 a month or whatever to watch and support this show.
Yup I feel like I was one of the only ones that loved Enterprise. Was it perfect? Maybe not but I loved everything about it at the time. The design, the newness of it all, sense of hope, etc. Thought the show was fantastic but so many people hated it because it wasn't another TNG or something. Archer was also awesome. Actually a lot of people who hated it, didn't watch many episodes. I personally know somneone who hated on that show so much, went back to watch all of it and had to admit that he liked it.
As a huge Star Trek fan, I know Star Trek is one of those franchises where it's been on so long, that different generations of fans want different things for the franchise. It's impossible to please everyone. I just hope some of the people that are not happy with the trailer will at least give the first few episodes a chance to see if it grows on them. Star Trek Discovery looks wonderful too me and I am glad that they are shaking things up some again. I also mean no disrespect to anyone elses viewpoints on here. Just sharing my own.
Nope. Does nothing at all for me.
I'll give this a shot but found the humor rather bad. A few funny moments but it just felt kind of dated to me in terms of humor. Special effects were surprisingly good. Being a huge fan of Galaxy Quest, I would love for this to actually be good so I'll tune in.
meh?
Yeah. I'm kind of still hoping they've changed the design we saw previously.
The design of the ship in the trailer looks cool.
I don't find most of MacFarlane's stuff very funny, but I'll check this out. He is a huge Star Trek fan so maybe this could turn out alright if it expands from just being a parody.
Bob Coffee
Member
I still find it sad that enterprise got canned right as it hit the intresting cool stuff like the founding of the federation and the forshadowing of the earth-romulin war.
It's an hour long, so technically that makes it a drama...
Is that... really how classification works? Weird if true.
Sorta. They just don't make hour long comedies, and Orville is classified by Fox as a drama.
Huh. Fascinating.
Bob Coffee
Member
the thing people have to realize about archer and enterprize in general is they are going out there and dont know wtf there doing, the vulcans wont share the cheat codes, so alot of ent is humans fumbling around and finding there way and laying the ground work for what would become the starfleet of the 23rd century and beyond. You cant expect starfleet in its infancy to act with the skills and nohow of 23rd and 24th century star fleet. Enterprise is best viewed through that lens. That being said season 3 and 4 are legit good and better than voyagers entire run.
Sad Affleck
Member
Archer was fine as a captain, a more fatherly figure and buddy to the crew than the other Starfleet captains. The problem with Enterprise was that the other characters were boring as fuck. The epitome of bland and monotone. I didn't like any of them and I didn't care about any of them.
The showrunners had the chance to correct that fatal flaw in season 3. They should have killed off almost the entire crew during the Xindi arc and the exploration of the Expanse and replace them with more compelling characters. A better cast coupled with Season 4's more interesting stories could have saved the show.
The showrunners had the chance to correct that fatal flaw in season 3. They should have killed off almost the entire crew during the Xindi arc and the exploration of the Expanse and replace them with more compelling characters. A better cast coupled with Season 4's more interesting stories could have saved the show.
Octavianus
Banned
If you can make it through Voyager you can make it through Enterprise.
PdotMichael
Banned
The problem with Enterprise was that the writers couldn't do a lot not Star Trek things with the scenary of a humanity finding its place in the galaxy.
Kind of like Voyager was just cookie-cutter federation nonsense.
Kind of like Voyager was just cookie-cutter federation nonsense.
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
Get the fuck out of here. Enterprise was one of the shittiest TV shows known to man. At least Voyager was good in the context of its time. It had some character. Enterprise was laughably bad and horribly written. It didn't feel like Star Strek in the god-damned least and doesn't deserve to be talked about in the series.
Octavianus
Banned
Voyager isn't good in any context at all.
over/under on it getting more than 4 episodes aired?
Voyager was always awful.
TheSecondSpitter
Member
(Incoherent screams of outrage)
What the fuck are all these women and minorities doing in my Star Trek shows literally based around the idea of universal equality and acceptance?!?!?
As a lover of TNG and Voyager while it aired, as well as the occasional DSN (of which I've seen all of it) but I felt Enterprise was not the worst series around. It was, to me, one of the better series on TV in the early 2000s. I actually kinda love Enterprise and, even though I understand its not as great as the earlier Trek series.
Some new stuff came in today.
http://trekmovie.com/2017/05/21/jason-isaacs-explains-absence-from-star-trek-discovery-trailer-levar-burton-weighs-in/
Isaacs gives a cheeky non-answer to his lack of presence in the trailer, there's a cast photo including one of the Klingons, Rainn Wilson is headed to Canada to film his episode, and LeVar Burton is hyped for Discovery.
http://trekmovie.com/2017/05/21/jason-isaacs-explains-absence-from-star-trek-discovery-trailer-levar-burton-weighs-in/
Isaacs gives a cheeky non-answer to his lack of presence in the trailer, there's a cast photo including one of the Klingons, Rainn Wilson is headed to Canada to film his episode, and LeVar Burton is hyped for Discovery.
Next you'll tell me that Pepsi is better than Coke.
Ent trumps Voy for me. Voy without Robert Picardo is a shitehouse.
Cameo please. I'm a sucker for cameos. Well if they are done right. Just shoehorning them in there isn't right. Brent Spiner in Enterprise was a good way to do it.
No, it wouldn't have. By that point the show was a dead man walking, if for no other reason than its channel, UPN, had morphed into chasing the demographic that was watching America's Top Model (i.e., not the people watching Star Trek.) It was basically an orphaned legacy show on a network that was preparing to turn into the CW (where it would have been even more out of place.)
Mighty Chin
Banned
Get the fuck out of here. Enterprise was great.