BlazingDarkness
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In the future, all names are gender neutral.
Ah okay, I thought it was something like this, thanks.
In the future, all names are gender neutral.
The hologram telephone is dumb. Like Sarek at one point walks around and leans on a table that's right next to Michael. Did he have a table too at that place in his room? And the skipping and erratic movements to show "disturbance" only makes it look more ridiculous. Just use a screen, it's already advanced enough that you have real time communication over hundreds of light years apart hah
Btw wasn't it that at the start of Enterprise they had the pew pew plasma guns but then replaced by the usual constant firing phasers we know?
Now thanks to JJ trek the phasers are now like the plasma guns..complete with the pew pew sound.
I mean I get that this is all nitpicking but this is the first Trek show in more than a decade. People have been waiting for it and they want the universe to be familiar rather than be Trek in just name.
Is that the case or are you just going fan fic here?I thought the glitchiness was really cool. When I was watching it I thought the computer had noted Sarek was moving to sit in a chair and so the projector immediately warped him to a location in Michael's room where there was also a chair. Then I suppose at the other end it "warped" Michael to a different location to make their eye-lines match up again. It looks like radio interference but it's actually the software compensating for differing room layouts, burnished by some algorithmic magic to minimize the amount of "warping" necessary.
I really like it when sci-fi takes a thoughtful approach to how technology would actually work without piling on unnatural dialog spelling it out for the audience. Similarly I also enjoyed Michael's ethics argument in the brig. Judging by online reactions I'm pretty alone in this, but to me it seemed really realistic that a culture like Starfleet would build in software safeguards that would have the power to completely bypass ordinary computer security if there's an ironclad moral reason to do so.
It seems very logical that if you have a computer with a high level of artificial intelligence you would want some pretty robust failsafes to prevent any kind of I, Robot scenario. Having plausible background details like this without overexplaining them goes a really long way towards making the world feel very realistic.
I thought the glitchiness was really cool. When I was watching it I thought the computer had noted Sarek was moving to sit in a chair and so the projector immediately warped him to a location in Michael's room where there was also a chair. Then I suppose at the other end it "warped" Michael to a different location to make their eye-lines match up again. It looks like radio interference but it's actually the software compensating for differing room layouts, burnished by some algorithmic magic to minimize the amount of "warping" necessary.
Now thanks to JJ trek the phasers are now like the plasma guns..complete with the pew pew sound.
In the future, all names are gender neutral.
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.pew pew pew
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Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Also DS9 Defiant is different and hat's most likely photon torpedo's it's firing.
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Also DS9 Defiant is different, it had different sort of guns and there was also photon torpedoes.
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Also DS9 Defiant is different and hat's most likely photon torpedo's it's firing.
Is that the case or are you just going fan fic here?
Cause if its the later then the intention behind it might as well just be "interference".
Because just having holiday emitters to have people be represented was considered advanced in DS9, much less one that also predicts and morphs movements based on the location using technology that's more than a century old in the universe.
What relevance does that have to what I said though?Well, uhh... we're in the TOS era?
The future we deserve
Spoilers on the first 2 episodes
For some reason everyone who is responsible for Trek these days seems to act like TOS is the only Trek that mattered.
How? Because there are no enemies? They can always invent new threats just like get invented the Borg. It's a big universe and Federation has only charted like half the galaxy.Use spoiler tags.
Canonically, Star Trek got really complicated after Voyager.
pew pew pew
How? Because there are no enemies? They can always invent new threats just like get invented the Borg. It's a big universe and Federation has only charted like half the galaxy.
Also they could still set it few years before TNG or something like that.
Use spoiler tags.
Canonically, Star Trek got really complicated after Voyager.
How? Because there are no enemies? They can always invent new threats just like get invented the Borg. It's a big universe and Federation has only charted like half the galaxy.
Also they could still set it few years before TNG or something like that.
I wonder what a Mirror Universe looks like in this slightly darker, more mature Trek.
I would guess its just gonna be DS9 style where everyone in the Mirror Universe is fuckin'?
Anyone else get mighty strange color changes in the first 5 minutes on Netflix, like the stream went up and down in brightness at times and colors sometimes went from the bright yellow sand color, to darker brown color, like within the same scene/shot.
And now the intro is way too bright (compared to the intro released earlier). Somethings fishy here.
edit: there it goes again, at around 9 minutes 18 seconds into the episode, distinct lowering of brightness. Going back a few seconds, and it's brighter and exakt same point, it changes. So I'd say definitely to do with the stream.
Yeah same happened to me (UK)
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Also DS9 Defiant is different, it had different sort of guns and there was also photon torpedoes.
I've otherwise stayed dark in this thread and generally. Just finished Episode 1, moving to episode 2 now.
Impressions? Visually gorgeous. Interesting. A few podgy moments and on the nose but I'm liking this and intrigued a lot more than Enterprises' opener got me.
Random and haven't read through the thread for general impressions but I do wish the Klingons weren't the Klingons and I can't quite place why. I would have happily taken a new species in their place, giving the tense face off against an entirely new enemy a fresh, break from the past identity.
Also, equally beyond one or two references this could easily be post Voyager and I would have preferred that. Maybe timeline wise it plays heavier as we go.
Starting episode 2
By the end of Voyager I feel like the only logical steps are going intergalactic or setting it deeper into the future after some kind of massive off screen event that dramatically changes the state galaxy as it was last seen and Nerfs everyone / resets the balance of the universe.
(I think that last one was a failed TV pitch post Enterprise )
Yep. If you're afraid of spoilers then you shouldn't come in here once CBSAA puts up the new episode every Sunday night at 8:30pm ET like the rule for every other show that's released weekly.No spoilers are needed as the show has aired. Standard Gaf rules.
No spoilers are needed as the show has aired. Standard Gaf rules.
What relevance does that have to what I said though?
I'll eventually get past the lens flare, the overuse of closeup shots and Dutch angles, the lack of continuity etc. But this show being set in TOS era is one thing I truly dislike because I can't stand TOS pandering (and there will be tons of it I bet !). For some reason everyone who is responsible for Trek these days seems to act like TOS is the only Trek that mattered.
Like there are so many possibilities.The destruction of Romulus alone could have led to an interesting shift in galactic balance. I think setting it a bit further out and dealing with the first voyages to another galaxy would have made the most sense though. It would be nice to see Trek getting back to journeying into the unknown.
Use spoiler tags.
Don't pick and choose, wrongly.
That Enterprise gif is from the TOS movies anyway, and TNG era phaser fire is particular to those shows, not the entire Prime Trek timeline.
Don't give two shits about TOS honestly (outside of movies). For me Star Trek is TNG era.
Also DS9 Defiant is different, it had different sort of guns and there was also photon torpedoes.
TOS used long beams, TNG, Ent, DS9 and Voyager too. I think WoK, JJ and STD are the only times pew pew phasers have been used. Trek III to VI use torpedoes only I believe.
Not sure how the timelines relate, but it would be awesome if at some point they covered curzon dax, and the khitamar accords. Along with the eventual peace treaty with the klingons. I'm not sure if jj timeline wipes that out.
TOS used long beams, TNG, Ent, DS9 and Voyager too. I think WoK, JJ and STD are the only times pew pew phasers have been used. Trek III to VI use torpedoes only I believe.
TOS used long beams, TNG, Ent, DS9 and Voyager too. I think WoK, JJ and STD are the only times pew pew phasers have been used. Trek III to VI use torpedoes only I believe.
I think 24 hours is good because we get the show up in Netflix about 10-12 hours later (which is like 8-9am Monday morning for us in Europe, and no one will watch it at that time).Yeah, what is the official spoiler policy?
Once it's aired, it's good? And since it's all dropping weekly, I feel like we should be able to talk about it? That's what we did with Handmaid.