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[F. King Daniel]

So, of course, the real question is "Why give yourselves the myriad difficulties inherent in another prequel series? Why not go post-DS9/Voyager?" If anyone can point me to a thread offering good arguments in favor of the choice they made, please do so.

Here's what a post-DS9/Voyager/Nemesis Star Trek should really be like.

And of course, the last three movies were set during the 23rd century and looked way more advanced than TOS. It's fresh in everyone's minds.

 

[MvRojo]

I didn't hear about that. I did read about how I think they couldn't do uniforms that looked more like we saw on "TOS" because I think those belong to the Kelvin Universe property.

Jason

That isn't true.

And also makes no sense.

 

[Blamo]

It is actually a bit weird that they didn't go at least superficially more TOSish look with colourful tunics and stuff.

Probably because they look ridiculous.

 

[Tuskin38]

Probably because they look ridiculous.

They looked fine in Beyond, and TNG, and Voyager, and Early DS9.

 

[Jason X-Mas]

Probably because they look ridiculous.

Not anymore weird looking than a superhero outfit or something you might see in "Mad Max or "Star Wars." Trek is the kind of franchise were you can have fun and be a little out there and creative. It's set in a future with things like spaceships,transporters,aliens who speak english and have bumpy foreheads. Their is nothing wrong with weird and modern as oposed to just modern.

Jason

 

[cultcross]

Well, when people say "an iPhone is a dumb terminal", and continue to make that point, am I supposed to say "oh yeah, you're right, my bad"?

No.

What you're supposed to do is make your points without making personal insults at the start of each one, and especially not post things like this:

Yeah, I remember Kirk checking his apps....


A smartphone is not a "dumb terminal". I don't get paid to write "dumb terminal" apps.

More of these for you:

There's no other purpose to the second half of that but being insulting, so infraction for trolling

Comments to PM.

 

[Dr. Bashirs protege]

What almost no one foresaw in the 1960s (and even later) was the pace of miniaturization. Room-sized business computers in refrigerated rooms were not uncommon even as late as the 1980s. When Star Trek's communicators were conceived in the mid-1960s, FM stereo receivers - which were then a fairly new offering - used vacuum tubes (the good ones did, anyway).

So, of course, the real question is "Why give yourselves the myriad difficulties inherent in another prequel series? Why not go post-DS9/Voyager?" If anyone can point me to a thread offering good arguments in favor of the choice they made, please do so.

If you (in general, not specifically you) think that disco is dark, mah god how dark would a post nemesis series be? Dealing with the destruction of romulas and the Diaspora of an entire species? An entire quadrant recovering from the bloodiest war that has ever been recorded (as known to the viewer)

 

[King Bob!]

If you (in general, not specifically you) think that disco is dark, mah god how dark would a post nemesis series be? Dealing with the destruction of romulas and the Diaspora of an entire species? An entire quadrant recovering from the bloodiest war that has ever been recorded (as known to the viewer)

You could put it fifty or a hundred years afterward and not deal with any of it.

 

[MvRojo]

You could put it fifty or a hundred years afterward and not deal with any of it.

We may end up with something just as "dark" as Discovery in a future post-Nemesis series (which I'm sure we'll eventually get). It's just the current trend overall in drama television.

 

[JD]

I have to make a confession, I've never liked the TOS uniforms. They're basically just colored t-shirts and black pants, the other shows and movie had much more interesting designs. The Discovery uniforms are actually one of my favorite designs, along with the TNG series, TNG movies/DS9, and the "monster maroons".

 

[King Bob!]

I have to make a confession, I've never liked the TOS uniforms. They're basically just colored t-shirts and black pants, the other shows and movie had much more interesting designs. The Discovery uniforms are actually one of my favorite designs, along with the TNG series, TNG movies/DS9, and the "monster maroons".

I have the opposite reaction, I prefer the simplicity of the TOS uniform. What came later always felt over-designed.

 

[Jason X-Mas]

I have to make a confession, I've never liked the TOS uniforms. They're basically just colored t-shirts and black pants, the other shows and movie had much more interesting designs. The Discovery uniforms are actually one of my favorite designs, along with the TNG series, TNG movies/DS9, and the "monster maroons".

I like them but I also think they are silly looking. That's why I would be more interested in keeping the colors and simply putting them onto a new style of outfit.

Jason

 

[JD]

I have the opposite reaction, I prefer the simplicity of the TOS uniform. What came later always felt over-designed.

They are military uniforms, so they should be something more formal looking than the TOS uniforms.

 

[King Bob!]

They are military uniforms, so they should be something more formal looking than the TOS uniforms.

Why? They have formal uniforms as we saw in TOS. This is the future.

 

[Noname On A Naughty List]

I have to make a confession, I've never liked the TOS uniforms. They're basically just colored t-shirts and black pants, the other shows and movie had much more interesting designs. The Discovery uniforms are actually one of my favorite designs, along with the TNG series, TNG movies/DS9, and the "monster maroons".

Actually (at least for the first season and part of the second) the ship's uniform shirt was all black with a high collar; and the colored portion was more a tunic worn over it.

 

[fireproof78]

They are military uniforms, so they should be something more formal looking than the TOS uniforms.

I see no reason for the duty uniform to be very formal, when they have dress uniforms. Contemporary militaries have a variety of uniforms depending on the job and circumstance, and orders from the commanding officer.

 

[Mudd]

These uniforms look ridiculous.

But Trek fans like ridiculous outfits; witness the enduring fondness for the TWOK costumes.

 

[Dr. Bashirs protege]

You could put it fifty or a hundred years afterward and not deal with any of it.

I sincerly don't mean to come off as a jerk so I apologize if I sound combative but if you're going to make a post nemesis so far past that stuff it would feel like your almost ignoring canon, know what I mean ? Like if you're going to ignore what happens and what happened to the romulas thats a HUGE chunk of canon you're just essentially tossing aside or dealing with in throw away lines. To me that's MUCH worse than filling in a missing gap in history like discovery is doing. You're just skipping over the biggest even in the history of the alpha quadrant. I'd feel like I'm being treated like an idiot or that they blew up romulas just because with no thought to consequences. Ironically skipping romulas would make it a perfect candidate for a prequel, which everyone loves . And skipping that and then coming back to it in a prequel means your hemmed in story which then causes more canon problems....it's a whole vicious cycle lol

 

[galad2003]

I'm pointing out the use of dumb terminal is wrong. A dumb terminal has no OS nor can run programs on it's own. (for a more detailed explaination see what I quoted originallly) The computer is somewhere and a dumb terminal is mainly just a monitor, and input device.

A smart phone is a mini computer, camera, gps that can also make phone calls. Even if you take my smart phone off the network the computer part still works.

A communicator has no computer component. It doesn't run programs. It makes calls. Sure they are powerful calls but that is still all it does. It is a sham radio x 1000 (probably not using radio signals). It is not a network in a box. a ham radio can make calls without a network infrastructure - that doesn't mean it's a network in a box.

Sorry the wrong terminology is being used to describe what a smart phone vs what a communicator is. the terms dumb terminal and network are just being used wrong.

 

[Jedi_Master]

That bridge is HUGE!! Wow.
Lots of pew pew pew... some of the fanbois will be happy.