Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x01 - "The Vulcan Hello"

To be honest, I see why they embargoed the press reviews.

 

So did the director come on set and say, "Okay everybody, act as dull as humanly possible. Action!"

 

This must've been originally intended to be a 2-part premiere

 

Meh, is my first and only impression as I refuse to pay to watch ST.

- Beautiful program. Very cinematic, but it was a little cold.
- The Klingons didn’t work for me at all.
- Sarek felt tacked on
- The actor who played Sarek didn’t seem right for the part
- Actors seemed a little stiff
- Burman should be court marshaled for her actions. She was wrong to disobey orders
- Left me wondering why they made this program a prequel rather than going into the future. Couldn’t help but think why does this advanced technology exist a decade before Kirk and Spock?

 

As its own little self contained storyline, whatever, I'll keep watching. But this isn't the show that's going to bring Star Trek back.

 

Yeah I liked the Q stuff in it!

Looked good to me.

 

It was well-made. Money was clearly lavished on it.

But I was left indifferent.

I'm not sure about casting the Klingons as ISIS.

 

Because Star Trek = Kirk and Spock, and they have to give the audience what they want.

 

If their goal was to get a more general audience to watch this show I think they failed extremely hard. Nothing about this premiere is screaming that I need to go subscribe and watch the next episode. There is potential and as a Star Trek fan I am going to give it a chance because all Trek shows have taken time to become a good show overall. With all this technology, they definitely needed to just say this was a reboot of the franchise. Nothing makes sense with TOS (honestly nothing probably can so it's another reason to not have a prequel.) I'll be going in on a friend to get All Access and see where this show can go.

Again, as a premiere episode to get an audience, they did a terrible job picking up any potential new viewers other than Trek fans.

 

Oh, I liked Sonequa Martin-Green a lot. She's delivering, and I didn't perceive her to be failing in any of the ways some had predicted after watching the trailers. So that at least is in the plus column, for me.

 

They should have gone 100 years into the future. Why revisit this era?

 

producers: "let's not respect much of what came before but we will use a name from a random episode from TOS"

Lol. No. I think the producers of this show want to do their own thing and really didn't want to try hard enough to connect it to the other show. So Im sure that name was a coincidence...

 

I agree. We don't even get the full story in this episode. Now we have to sign up for a service that has a monthly fee. I didn't like it that much. I like that new show The Orville better.

And all this Klingon stuff with the subtitles was really getting on my nerves. And are they even going to try to explain that Klingons who were smooth headed in the last season of Enterprise (because of the Augment virus) and smooth headed in TOS look the way they did in this. Maybe a group that escaped the virus?

 

In Enterprise they established that TOS (as we saw it on screen) is canon. They even went to the mirror universe and it used the TOS sets and stuff. Also, check out the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-lations".

 

We do not discuss it with people of other timelines.

 

That was an even bigger piece of garbage than I was expecting. Normally when expectations are low the product ends up surprising you, and you like it more than expected. Not this time.

 

I don't mind subtitles, but that font in that capitalization style is a pain to read.

 

Eh, Enterprise suggested that smooth-headed Antaak would go into business as a cosmetic surgeon, giving Klingons their ridged appearance once again. These guys in Discovery might all be surgically altered (to the nth degree), whereas a societal change or something in the next few years ends in Klingon crews accepting their birth appearance until they finally come up with a genetic cure to their malformity.

Also, perhaps, the augment virus only effects a minority of Klingons, and not the Discovery ones, and at some point (between 2256 and 2266), they start sending out their smooth-headed mutants as canon fodder to the borders of the Empire to engage the Federation. The smoothies later cure themselves in the 2280s or so (Kang in Flashback).

 

See, you're stuck in what I call "TNG Era" mode. That era ended with Nemesis. You need to get into the "23rd Century is REAL Star Trek" mode. Because that's what we're getting.

 

I think just showing the first episode by itself like that seemed like an odd choice. Since I was on the stream, part 2 auto-played seamlessly.

As it was presented, it really was just one episode and I think they should have broadcast the whole thing as such. I think it will prove to be a mistake by CBS.