Marty Chinn
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It looks like the plans are:
Limited Commercial
$5.99 a month or $59.99 for a year
Commercial Free
$9.99 a month or $99.99
Unless you're trying to watch on iOS where you get screwed and have to pay more at $6.99 and $11.99.
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Star Trek Discovery: SDCC 2017 Trailer
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It looks like the plans are:
Limited Commercial
$5.99 a month or $59.99 for a year
Commercial Free
$9.99 a month or $99.99
Unless you're trying to watch on iOS where you get screwed and have to pay more at $6.99 and $11.99.
Looks like a SyFy show trying to recreate JJ Trek, and having a tough time doing it. First seasons of Trek shows tend to be really poor, so I hope it can make it. Still not interested in it taking place in the Prime universe (and being a prequel at that), and the art style is not good at all, but glad Trek will be on TV again soon.
tearsintherain
Member
Only outside the USA. Inside the USA you will only be able to watch it on CBS All Access, a pay streaming service. Outside the USA it will be available on Netflix within 24 hours of the episode going up on CBS All Access.
They are airing 6 episodes then taking a break over winter then airing the remaining 7.
Netflix's buy apparently covers almost all the production budget which is good and bad news. It means CBS doesn't have to pay a whole lot to get this up. It also however means if Netflix decides that Star Trek didn't do anything for its sub numbers or retention and they pass on a season 2, there wouldn't really be anything to hold the show up.
I'm doing that for GoT right now. Once the season's over I'll cancel HBO and get CBS. Repeat next year.
Even when you add in buying season passes for a few other cable shows from Amazon it's still cheaper than cable.
funkystudent
Member
The TOS movies dont look ANYTHING like the TV show and similarly they are only set a few years apart in the timeline.
Trying to line up or somehow justify in canon why TOS looks like a 1960's TV show with cheap cardboard sets is a fools errand
MHWilliams
Member
I thought Bobby was just talking nonsense, but this is visually stylized like Abrams' films. Damn.
Yeah this continues to be my concern. The show could be really good but if Netflix doesn't feel their subscription numbers are increasing enough it could be bad. Maybe they'll look at viewership, maybe they won't. At that point CBS has to find another funding source. Or maybe it gets put on CBS itself then put on their streaming service afterward. So potentially the show doesn't have to go away but budget wise it could take a major hit.
So I'm hoping at the very least this season is good regardless.
I do think CBS needs to do a better job of making it clear their service isn't only through an phone app. I'm seeing some seem to think that. Not that you can access it from their website. That it's also likely available on different streaming boxes. It's not just a phone thing. Then again maybe they are and it's those people I'm seeing that are assuming that for some reason.
Yep.
Even then Enterprise went through great pains to put in some dials and buttons to make it look more primitive than the USS Enterprise. I love the interior design of that ship.
Minor nitpicky correction: it's 8 episodes and then 7 after break now. There's a total of 15 in the first season; they added 2 more.
I hope those commercials are before and after the episode. It's going to suck if they appear in the middle as I doubt these episodes are being film in such a way to account for a commercial break. If so I hope they pick decent spots for them to appear.
Its got that high end Netflix partnering with someone else type of budget. In other words, a lot of money.
lastplayed
Member
lol I remember one of those old technical books (might have been Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise) saying that the reason the refit Enterprise looked so different is that Starfleet didn't paint it! Imagine that.
Here's some pics of the Shenzhou:
Looks like the USS Centaur on steroids.
Cross-Section
Member
It looks like a ship I mixed-and-matched in Star Trek Online. Like one of the offshoot Mirandas or something.
lastplayed
Member
Yeah especially with those red markings.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I don't think you can make a Star Trek today that looks like how old-school Star Trek used to look. Audiences today won't stand for it.
It's weird that it looks like the Abrams universe but is set in the original universe but oh well.
lol I remember one of those old technical books (might have been Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise) saying that the reason the refit Enterprise looked so different is that Starfleet didn't paint it! Imagine that.
Here's some pics of the Shenzhou:
Looks like the USS Centaur on steroids.
Now that is a Federation starship.
wesleyshark
Banned
Special effects budget looks solid but the rest doesn't to me. Not feeling these first looks at the cast... And the Klingons look absolutely awful. Ugh.
paplikaplik
Member
If this does follow the prime timeline, then the Enterprise and other Constitution-class starships have already been operating for around 10 years by the time this story is supposed to take place. Maybe we'll get a glimpse of them?
The whole mistake was making it a prequel. Enterprise was able to squeak by on that but they don't have that luxury now. It should have been a sequel with a visual style distinctive form both Abrams and previous Trek series.
Bob Coffee
Member
Shenzou looks legit federation. Like an evolution of the NX class.
TropicalFish
Member
In for Michelle Yeoh.
That's one of my favorite geekier things about this production. I've always loved the NX class. Great to see the next show bounce ideas off of it. Same with the USS Franklin in Beyond. They're mining NX evolution for all it's worth.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, I liked the Franklin's look. Prefer it to the Shenzhou, definitely.
I like how it seems to have literally been carved out of a hubcap.
Mighty Chin
Banned
Whoever okayed the Klingon redesign should be shot. Stupid and unnecessary.
wesleyshark
Banned
It's utterly hideous. Looks nothing like Klingons lol.
Prime, 10 years before Kirk gets the big seat.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
They really need to explain those Klingons beyond "lol stylistic choice".
They should be from a sleeper ship and be from before the time or the time of Kahless. Maybe the Neanderthal analog, the Fen'Ihri.
They should be from a sleeper ship and be from before the time or the time of Kahless. Maybe the Neanderthal analog, the Fen'Ihri.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I don't think they're really gonna explain shit.
I'm not even mad, really. Just go for it, I guess. At this point either you're cool with it looking and sounding the way it does despite the timeline it's in, or you're holding out for one motherfucker of a penny drop that somehow makes all of this slot in perfectly
And considering who is running the show, I'm way more comfy just shrugging and saying "Let's get on with it" and chucking the canon out the window.
I'm not even mad, really. Just go for it, I guess. At this point either you're cool with it looking and sounding the way it does despite the timeline it's in, or you're holding out for one motherfucker of a penny drop that somehow makes all of this slot in perfectly
And considering who is running the show, I'm way more comfy just shrugging and saying "Let's get on with it" and chucking the canon out the window.
Same.
And honestly, I've had a nagging feeling for months now that we've already seen at least one or two Klingons that aren't from that alleged, hypothetical, not-confirmed-but-IMO-probable "ancient ship" or whatever, anyway. I bet we've seen someone from 2255, and they're just, straight-up, looking a lot like the rest of that redesigned pack.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I'm out then. The "action-packed" trailer and the apparent lack of care for canon at all kills this for me.
I'll wait until its cancelled and done and see what other canon hardcores say.
I'll wait until its cancelled and done and see what other canon hardcores say.
JasonUresti
Member
To me it's just a new take on Star Trek. Something's will be the same, so familiar but changed, but still playing with he same toy box.
Like Batman can be the Brave and the Bold cartoon, BTAS, Nolan take or Batman 89. All different but all still recognizably Batman.
Klingons could use a freshening up anyway.
Like Batman can be the Brave and the Bold cartoon, BTAS, Nolan take or Batman 89. All different but all still recognizably Batman.
Klingons could use a freshening up anyway.
lastplayed
Member
Does that mean Pike is in the Enterprise, or April? Or does it completely predate the big E.
Pike would be Captain for 4 years. Spock Science Officer on Enterprise. Kirk would be a Lieutenant on the Farragut
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breadtruck
Member
Im iffy on the Klingon look, but this trailer looks really cool. I wasnt interested before, now Im for sure on-board to check it out.
I dont care about the canon. We dont need to worry about how the alternate-earth-space-nazis from TOS tie into this.
I dont care about the canon. We dont need to worry about how the alternate-earth-space-nazis from TOS tie into this.
That's unfortunate. I would have enjoyed speaking with you about it if we watched it together. I hope this doesn't get cancelled; I intend to enjoy it, if it's good.
Psychoward
Banned
Rainn Wilson and the production values have me very interested
Hope there's a few side story episodes at least though
Edit: of course the trailer was going to be action packed lol, why are you guys acting surprised
Edit 2: also I agree with the redesign not being good but it's also fuller so whatever
Hope there's a few side story episodes at least though
Edit: of course the trailer was going to be action packed lol, why are you guys acting surprised
Edit 2: also I agree with the redesign not being good but it's also fuller so whatever
Not to reduce a fellow "this looks good" fan's desire to watch something I agree looks cool, but teeeechnically Fuller left like half a year ago, in case you hadn't heard? So it's currently impossible to predict how much of his influence remains here.