DangerMouse
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Saru is great. I am glad to hear that we will continue to get more of him.
Yep, can't wait to see more of him!
Already had a soft spot for the character thanks to him playing Abe in Hellboy
Saru is great. I am glad to hear that we will continue to get more of him.
No one wanted a world where you add up the payments on all the streaming services and you ended up paying more than goddamned cable used to cost. But I guess you can't ever underestimate capitalism.
But that's ala carte. In what world would you expect to split everything up where you can pick and choose and then when you add it all back up together it would cost less or the same? That's not how splitting things up has ever worked. Anyone wanting what you were suggesting was living in an unrealistic fantasy world.
I know they had suffered casualties, but it bothered me to no end that the captain and first officer beamed aboard a crippled portion of an enemy ship full of suicidal warrior beings with no other assistance. Would have been much better if they brought a squad of redshirts.
But she's not a Vulcan. Georgiou went on about this. She couldn't separate logic from emotion and made a mistake.
.Michael's heel turn is an interesting premise, but the way it was presented here was almost random and there isn't a strong argument made for her being right at all. So it comes off entirely as her acting extremely unprofessional despite being praised enough to start talking about a captain's position at the beginning of the premiere
I do agree with some of the complaints but I think the writing will get better as the show continues. I had a lot of fun with the two episodes we got tonight. I only wish we got more episodes or longer episodes.
42 and 40 were not very long for a streaming show and a Star Trek show. The episodes could use more room to breath.
People wanted / would have benefited from ala carte when TV was a wasteland of reality shows.
Now? Ehhh....
Saru is great. I am glad to hear that we will continue to get more of him.
I think it's pretty clear she was right.
Other than "she's the main character, so of course she's right", I don't see it. Obviously the character has the bias to want to attack the ship first (which makes sense), but it still doesn't seem like it would change anything. T'kuvma was trying to prove the Feds wanted war. They say they want peace? Just a lie. They attack? Look, I was right. He had a bunch of cloaked ships, including the huge one that took out the Admiral's -- just waiting there. The Shenzhou firing a shot wouldn't have changed anything.
T'Kuvma never would've been able to unite the houses if they had shot first and gotten rid of them. Maybe the Shenzhou would've gone down, but T'Kuvma wouldn't have been able to unite the Klingons against the Federation.
Overall these episodes felt entirely like a prologue... and the REAL pilot won't be for another week. Yeah the effects were great and there were some neat battle scenes, but nothing here couldn't have been backstory.
Michael's justification for it was she wanted to save the lives of Georgiou and the other people on the ship. If they fired first, they would have just been destroyed. The other Fed ships had already been called, T'kuvma could still accomplish his goal of uniting the houses purely based on the stunt he pulled by killing the Admiral, which would play out the same way even if the Shenzhou was already gone.
Maybe I didn't quite understand, but when Burnham is a child, and fails to answer the question about the latest Klingon terror raid, is that raid supposed to be some from sort of history outside her lifetime? Her parents were killed by Klingons though. But the captain later says no one has seen a Klingon in nearly a hundred years?
But "latest terror raid" implies an ongoing occurence? Am I missing something, or was this just to scratch the surface of world building for later elaboration.
But that's ala carte. In what world would you expect to split everything up where you can pick and choose and then when you add it all back up together it would cost less or the same? That's not how splitting things up has ever worked. Anyone wanting what you were suggesting was living in an unrealistic fantasy world.
Maybe I didn't quite understand, but when Burnham is a child, and fails to answer the question about the latest Klingon terror raid, is that raid supposed to be some from sort of history outside her lifetime? Her parents were killed by Klingons though. But the captain later says no one has seen a Klingon in nearly a hundred years?
But "latest terror raid" implies an ongoing occurence? Am I missing something, or was this just to scratch the surface of world building for later elaboration.
Maybe I didn't quite understand, but when Burnham is a child, and fails to answer the question about the latest Klingon terror raid, is that raid supposed to be some from sort of history outside her lifetime? Her parents were killed by Klingons though. But the captain later says no one has seen a Klingon in nearly a hundred years?
But "latest terror raid" implies an ongoing occurence? Am I missing something, or was this just to scratch the surface of world building for later elaboration.
Unlike many here, I really enjoyed it. I cant wait to see what happens next week.
Good first two episodes. One thing about the ending that felt off to me though was when afterI thought it was odd because I don't remember that ever being a requirement for transporting something. It makes me wonder if they were cutting a corner in order to heighten the drama. Or maybe that's just how the tech worked during that era and I'm not aware of some detail.Captain Georgiou is killed and Michael subsequently kills T'Kuvma, Michael contacts Saru to beam both her and the Captain back to the Shenjou. Saru says that he can't beam the Captain back without her life-sign, which obviously she no longer has because she's dead. so instead, Michael is frantically beamed back alone.
I feel like most of the people on GAF liked it tbh.
For all it's vaulted production values, the writing, acting, and direction were so mediocre. Too many modern directing tropes with spinning camera angles, lense flares (who the fuck is gonna do any work and not go blind with celestial bodies constantly pulsating in your face) and shaky fighting scenes ugh. Not sold on Michael as a likeable main character either. The klingon interpretation was interesting to say the least... The kilngon dialogue delivery was so stilted. The language coach needs to give these characters cadence to make it believable.
For all it's vaulted production values, the writing, acting, and direction were so mediocre. Too many modern directing tropes with spinning camera angles, lense flares (who the fuck is gonna do any work and not go blind with celestial bodies constantly pulsating in your face) and shaky fighting scenes ugh. Not sold on Michael as a likeable main character either. The klingon interpretation was interesting to say the least... The kilngon dialogue delivery was so stilted. The language coach needs to give these characters cadence to make it believable.
I feel like most of the people on GAF liked it tbh.
Is this a good Star Trek to start watching Star Trek? (I watched the first 2 new movies too, and albeit I didn't fall in love, I liked enough)
Really milquetoast on this one myself. I'm just not really into yet another grimdark science fiction show. I have no idea how much influence Kurtzmann has on the series since taking over, but this almost feels like what a sequel to Star Trek Into Darkness would have been like, given that film essentially set up a war with the Klingons as a possibility.
When is this supposed to go up on netflix?
8am bstAll I've heard is "within 24 hours".
The Federation-Klingon Cold War is occurring during TOS and started before TOS began. This series occurs 10 years before TOS. What we're seeing here is apparently the first time a beginning date for the Cold War is set. So everything that will be seen in this show is already part of Prime timeline canon as historical events.
Good first two episodes. One thing about the ending that felt off to me though was when afterI thought it was odd because I don't remember that ever being a requirement for transporting something. It makes me wonder if they were cutting a corner in order to heighten the drama. Or maybe that's just how the tech worked during that era and I'm not aware of some detail.Captain Georgiou is killed and Michael subsequently kills T'Kuvma, Michael contacts Saru to beam both her and the Captain back to the Shenjou. Saru says that he can't beam the Captain back without her life-sign, which obviously she no longer has because she's dead. so instead, Michael is frantically beamed back alone.
Good first two episodes. One thing about the ending that felt off to me though was when afterI thought it was odd because I don't remember that ever being a requirement for transporting something. It makes me wonder if they were cutting a corner in order to heighten the drama. Or maybe that's just how the tech worked during that era and I'm not aware of some detail.Captain Georgiou is killed and Michael subsequently kills T'Kuvma, Michael contacts Saru to beam both her and the Captain back to the Shenjou. Saru says that he can't beam the Captain back without her life-sign, which obviously she no longer has because she's dead. so instead, Michael is frantically beamed back alone.
Later in the episode, they transported aso that's not how it works, at least when going out. Coming back is unclear, there seem to be a lot of restrictions imposed "because the plot demands it" for that.proton torpedo warhead
It's up in 4k HDR on UK Netflix.
The thing is, no one is forcing you to pay for EVERY service all the time. The good thing about these streaming services is that you can so easily start and end your subscription and everything is watchable at any point. So if paying for 6 services at a time doesn't sound good, just pay for less interesting services when you can binge stuff you are interested in.No one wanted a world where you add up the payments on all the streaming services and you ended up paying more than goddamned cable used to cost. But I guess you can't ever underestimate capitalism.