Should there be more every day life on Discovery?

Every day life could even be the catalyst for an entire episode's plot. Using the aforementioned toilet as an example, the failure of a toilet aboard ship would make an excellent disaster story.

*cue mid-nineties TNG promo music*

"Next time, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Worf is in harm's way when the pressure seal on his toilet fails catastrophically, leaving only his Klingon butt cheeks standing in the way of the ship's explosive decompression. Will Geordi win the race against the clock to save both his friend AND the Enterprise? Tune in next week to find out!"

 

I imagine they'd be worse than the toilet from Trainspotting.

 

You can do it in a way that doesn't seem crude. It doesn't have to be toilets.

Honestly, though, include just enough of real life that Trek doesn't seem like this world where Humans aren't Human anymore, and where aliens have solved everything. But occasionally put a Trek twist on it so people don't think it's the 21st century either (unless it's time travel). So instead of a car lease, have someone talk about the lease on his private shuttle. Instead of worrying your child won't get into a good Earth school, talk about the waiting list on Altair for a private prep academy being long.

 

That actually sounds like a typical S6 or S7 TNG episode. Assuming they used tachyons and the main deflector dish to solve the problem...and had a B-Story about Data's cat.

 

If I want real life, I'll walk around town and go to the f#cking local Walmart. Maybe take a subway. Maybe eat lunch at Subway. Whatever.

If I want fun, fantastic, otherworldly adventure...I'll watch Star Trek. I don't need a bunch of "day in the life" Star Treks. Waste of time and effort.

It's hard not to ask "what the hell is wrong with people??!!!"

 

XD

And possibly Q dropping in to swap Worf out for Picard on the commode to humiliate him for a bit.

 

It almost like there are people in the world who have different opinions that yours.

One of the very first scenes in the first Star Trek pilot was of Captain Pike flopping on his bed and complaining about his job.

 

And drinking hard liquor.

 

I want to see at least one day of "normal" earth life. Whenever we saw Earth in TNG/DS9/VOY, it still looked like the 20th century

 

I could imagine that a modern series like DSC will have flashbacks that build upon a character's personality and decision making system, maybe scenes from childhood or academy life, to give some context to why they do what they do in the present. That would be a good chance to show normal Earth life (hell, it'd be a good way to show alien life too). Maybe in one of the earlier episodes where we get to know characters.

 

I would like to see this too, and for once not have it be filmed at Griffith Park or at a frigging water treatment plant.

 

I thought the Water teatment plant looked fine as a futuristic structure, in the 90s.

 

It certainly looked better than the JJ Abrams Breweryprise.

 

Credit where credits due, I though the San Fransisco in Darkness was fantastic.

 

An entire episode, an one long take of a transport room officer that is waiting someone to use the transporter. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

 

According to Memory Alpha

By the way, if you are doing two consecutive transport maneuvers, you are doubling the probabilities that something can go wrong.

 

Unless we get a season arc about a trans character trying to do their complicated tax return (really complicated since there's no money, right?) while on a long uneventful trip between systems, I will NOT sacrifice my $7 for this poser garbage they are calling Star Trek. Trek needs to do this. It's time.

 

I want the Trek equivalent of this:



Where...

Spoiler: the shocking end

after an uneventful journey of 7 hours, they arrive safe and sound to their destination

Considering that Discovery will be on a streaming service, they aren't constrained to a tv time slot, the episode can be a single 7 hours long take of the viewscreen.

I have already an idea for the episode trailer:

 

Yes, but is it in the POST-NEMESIS TIMEFRAME???? Because, we don't want another TOS prequel. We just don't. Because I like Janeway and earl grey tea.