So, new Trek show starts tomorrow. The first episode will air tomorrow night on CBS, and the first two episodes will be released on CBS's online streaming service.
Now, I don't know about you all, but I have yet to make a decision on whether or not I'm gonna shell out money to watch Discovery beyond the first episode. Until I make that decision, I would prefer not to be spoiled for further episodes.
So for my sake and the sakes of those Flareites of like mind, please keep in mind the following:
1. Please leave spoilers out of thread titles. I don't want to find out that Lt. So-and-So dies just by reading your thread title.
2. Please mark thread titles for spoilers. You want to start a thread in the S&T forum to discuss something involving that happens in the second episode? Great! Just put something like "Episode 1x02 Spoilers" in the thread title.
3. Do not spoil future episodes when posting to threads that are not designated for such spoilers. If I start reading a thread marked for spoilers for the first episode, I don't want to run across a post with spoilers for the second episode.
In short, be considerate of others, and use common sense.
We cool?
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Lt. So-and-so dies?!?!?!?!?! You bastard! ;-)
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
How did I know that somebody was gonna call me out on that? Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
You correctly surmised that you're surrounded by jackasses.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
The thing that gets me is CBS WILL NOT let anyone outside the US see their ST:D promotional videos. They refuse to do anything that might promote theor own same exact show just because it's on another channel in another country. I still don't really think the old guard US TV channels really understand how the televisual world has changed - or are determined to remain in denial about it...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I mean, those of us in the colonies can always download & repost them...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Sure, there are ways and means. But to me the very phenomenon just speaks of this great abiding parochialism on the part of the US networks. I'm wondering how much of a success the show will need to be get more made; if it's a huge worldwide hit on Netflix - not that we'll know, but the proof in the pudding will be Netflix asking for more - but fails in its primary aim, to get people (*Americans) to sign up to CBS' poxy streaming service, can it survive?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Troof.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
OK, I just watched E03 &, uh, I didn't sign up for "Star Trek: X-Files". Also, absolutely zero of these characters are compelling or likeable.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Remember, human beings were still assholes back in the 23rd century.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Yeah, doesn't Kirk seem to imply that in "Whom Gods Destroy" with talk about how the Battle of Axanar made it possible for him and Spock to work together as brothers. That would imply some sort of societal change that took place because of the battle in which Kirk and Spock could be seen as equals where they weren't before. Then you have Enterprise, where Archer and Tucker openly expressed their bigoted view towards Vulcans, usually in front of T'Pol. Generally speaking, Enterprise seems to show the founding members of the Federation as having open contempt for one another, with strained relationships going back centuries. I could still see some of that resentment still manifesting itself in some form in the 23rd century.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
I figure the ship crews were still segregated in the 23rd, perhaps not absorbed in a larger Starfleet (though with humans providing most ships).
Kirk's references to UESPA would thus not be in error. Perhaps the fleet unification happened right before, and perhaps explains, the Klingon almost-war.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
And the difference in uniforms and some tech...
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
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