Should there be more every day life on Discovery?

Yes we all do.

A five year "Romulan war" series, followed by a seven year "Birth of the Federation" series, followed by a four year "the four years war" series, followed by a "Axanar" mini-series, followed by a eleven year "Starfleet academy" series.

And don't forget the "Winona and George" series. They settle down to live on Earth with their two children, and George's elderly father Tiberius moves in with them.

 

None of that is even as remotely appealing as a 15-year series about the origins of George and Gracie prior to the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Not only is it a prequel, but it also is a positive portrayal of a horrifically underrepresented group: ocean-dwelling mammals.

Trek needs to make this happen. And put Nick Meyer in charge. And make it socially relevant about philosophy
and morality issues...and better humans and stuff. And don't put it on a streaming service. Oh yeah, and find a way so that the series finale is about the devastation of the Kelvin timeline!!!!!!!! That would be the icing on the cake.



Honestly, I wish they'd either cancel the show's production or just get it out as quickly as possible so all the fan speculation angst could just end and the actual "grounded in fact" hate (which is inevitable) can begin.

 

Intra-ship beaming, what was kinda like site-to-site in later incarnations (in that it was often used for intra-ship in TNG), was inaccurate in the TOS era. They said that the only time they did it in "The Day of the Dove."

KIRK: We can't get through the Klingon defences in time, unless. Spock. Intra-ship beaming from one section to another. It's possible?
SPOCK: It has rarely been done because of the danger involved. Pinpoint accuracy is required. If the transportee should materialise inside a solid object, a deck or wall. ​

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/66.htm


Also, the TOS Enterprise didn't seem to have a true site-to-site function anyway. In "The Cloud Minders," the High Advisor was transported from the cloud city to the zenite mines, but he first had to appear on the transporter platform.


Discovery should certainly have a transporter room.

 

Given that they routinely beam into buildings, how does Spock's statement make sense?

 

For it to make sense, it would have to be the case that, for targets close to the transporter transceivers, accuracy is a bigger issue than for far away targets.

 

Some other every-day life scenarios that I think could be plot devices:

- The crew travels back in time to stop a rogue Starfleet officer. They make the mistake of eating at Chipotle while in the 21st century and get food poisoning. The race is then on to stop the rogue Starfleet officer and their own diarrhea before time runs out.

- The crew goes to the annual Running of the Bulls, and the Captain accidentally gets trampled. The CMO must race against the clock to heal his injuries before time runs out. The B-plot here could be that a member of the crew secretly beams a bull aboard, intending to keep it as a pet, but the bull gets loose on board the Discovery, leading to mayhem as the crew tries to contain it before it destroys the ship.

- The First Officer is into doing demolition derbies in his spare time. During one of of those derbies, he takes a hit way too hard, and the car's air bag goes off and bashes his face in. There's a diplomatic summit that he's supposed to go to in two days, and he has to figure out how to present with his jaw wired shut, and his nose in a splint.

- The ship's botanist accidentally mixes poison ivy in with a bouquet of Andorian Blood Flowers presented to the Klingon chancellor. Our heroes must avert war with the Empire after the chancellor uses the bathroom with poison ivy hands, and develops a massive rash.

- The turbolift's certificate of inspection has expired, but the Chief Engineer can't be assed to update it, because all drugs are legal now (see thread about this in this same forum), and he's too busy getting blasted in the Jeffries Tube. The turbolift suffers some kind of catastrophic failure as a result, and crashes through the bottom of the ship. Our heroes must survive in a turbolift car adrift in space until help arrives.

 

If you'd combine the first and last scenario....chipotle in the turbolift....never mind. 2 photon torpedoes and a moving eulogy....

 

So.

Is diarrhea to be a.... running gag?

 

This last part needs a bit of working but it could be part of a larger story. Kinda like Shuttlepod One meets Disaster (Picard and kids in the elevator). Would be a good time for character exposition.

 

What do you think happens there?

 

Flossing?

 

Sonic flossing? Laser flossing?
Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

 

Looking at things like the Enterprise D Construction Project, I'd like to see day to day stuff like new crew intake and orientation. Scheduling time with shuttle craft and organising cargo deliveries, shift patterns, Day and Night shift crews. (Imagine a whole episode with the night shift handling things)



Get a sense of scale and busyness of the crew on a starship. Whilst senior staff are on away missions, there are science teams, diplomatic services, security drills etc.

Also there are supposed to be wards on a starship, not just one sickbay. What about personnel with long term conditions, or crew who suffer serious injuries and need recovery longer than an episode.

 

I would like to see that. 24th century humans didn't seem all that real, just background people who smiled all the time to show how advanced we've become.

It was also classical music all of the time, maybe a little jazz, tea for drink, theatre or plays for entertainment.

I would like future humans to seem more "normal". Normal meaning interesting.

 

I'd buy that for a dollar!

 

Some of my favorite scenes from the movies are the things like Spock chasing Khan through traffic and all the bits of normal life explained in Kirk's log and whatever we see on Yorktown.

I dunno. These days I'm just more interested in seeing how the utopia operates instead of space battles and villains out for revenge.