Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x04 - "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
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Y'know, I understand your thinking here, but some of the commentary is coming from a place of seeing something not live up to past expectations.
You can write that off as nostalgia goggles but it's a real thing.
You're confusing the Enterprise with DS9
Its defenses were built by the same company that made the Mars Defense Perimeter.
Isn't dilithium renewable by TNG?
No, they don't. Just like Trek has always done with a lot of other things, ignore it when it's not necessary.
The Klingons of TOS bear little resemblance, and I'm talking how they are characterized, to their TNG counterparts.
Wonder if "You have to give up everything" means the Torchbearer becomes the first human-looking Klingon. The show hasn't exactly been subtle so far, so i won't be surprised.
In thinking about it, unless something radical happens that the House of Kor is different from what we see, this series has completely screwed up the Klingons.
I thought it strange that a planet that provided 40% of the Federation's dilithium crystals didn't have better defenses like a small fleet of ships for protection.
Starfleet believes a good defense is an deus ex machina defense.
I think my point is that if your looking for an episode(s) where the cast tells a joke at the end and laughs just as the credits pop up or if you're looking for them to beam down to a planet with forehead-of-the-week dudes to interact with them and have adventures resulting in good things...it's really clear that ain't happening.
There's no denying it now...and no reason to keep punishing yourself if that's what you're holding out for.
I think I was the winner for the After Trek trivia for this week. I wonder if I win anything!
To coin a phrase from the dearly departed AV Club...it can be two things.
That was like Death Blossom in The Last Starfighter.
I for one am categorically uninterested in anything that Enterprise contributed with to canon. That show is the Star Trek equivalent of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Same guys that set up the defenses for the Romulans Neutral Zone Outposts too.
Visual reboots do not affect canon, but if they don't hold to the continuity of Affliction/Divergence in some manner, than canon is broken.
I disagree. I think Kang's performance in Day of the Dove in particular in a lot of ways presages TNG-era Klingon performances.
At the risk of being called pedantic, the Klingons are technically not cannibals. Cannibalism would involve eating one's own species (i.e. a dead Klingon)---eating a dead human doesn't count.
As for reasons why they might eat a human corpse, I can think of two: one, as a way of venting their anger towards the people who killed their Messiah, and two, as a way of extending their food supply.
It gets a few extra chances simply because it's got Star Trek in the title, otherwise we wouldn't be posting here. Over all, four episodes in, this show is just barely above average as far as I'm concerned. Those frickin' Klingons bore me to death, but since I mute their scenes and miss that gawd awful language of theirs, they are tolerable.
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