At this point I am willing to bet that First Contact is probably also to most watched Tre movie in the general populace through similar mediums.
Will Discovery stand up to repeat viewings as the others do??
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At this point I am willing to bet that First Contact is probably also to most watched Tre movie in the general populace through similar mediums.
Perhaps Discovery will introduce the Borg sphere's of pre-TOS where peace loving Borgs will share the love?
Yeah... if they do that, let's just say I'm switching sides. Resistance, in this case, is not futile.
So it's inevitable that Netflix will want the Borg in Discovery sooner or later.
Too early to tell.
Depends on whether Discovery well get good later on. Right now, it has the potential, but isn't really. But if it gets good, it has the advantage of it's first season being one, continous arc, set up with audience hooks at the end of each episode. It's a lot easier to go through multiple episodes in one session this way.
The first season of Voyager or Enterprise are IMO of higher quality compared to DIS' first season. But still pretty weak compared to the rest of each respective series. And they are a LOT harder to get through on second viewing because of the standalone nature of their episodes.
At least for me personally, it's more difficul to go through one mediocre story after another, than enduring one, continuous long story that turns out to be kinda' bad in the end, but had some fun parts inbetween.
Same reason why I think it's a lot easier to watch the weaker episodes of DS9's Dominion war arc or ENT season 3, than each series' early stand-alone seasons.
Depends on whether Discovery well get good later on. Right now, it has the potential, but isn't really. But if it gets good, it has the advantage of it's first season being one, continous arc, set up with audience hooks at the end of each episode. It's a lot easier to go through multiple episodes in one session this way.
The first season of Voyager or Enterprise are IMO of higher quality compared to DIS' first season. But still pretty weak compared to the rest of each respective series. And they are a LOT harder to get through on second viewing because of the standalone nature of their episodes.
At least for me personally, it's more difficul to go through one mediocre story after another, than enduring one, continuous long story that turns out to be kinda' bad in the end, but had some fun parts inbetween.
Same reason why I think it's a lot easier to watch the weaker episodes of DS9's Dominion war arc or ENT season 3, than each series' early stand-alone seasons.
At which point it will become even harder to defend. There are plenty of genuine criticisms of the show and plenty of unearned ones, but introducing the borg would be almost certainly a disaster.
Mirror Borg. No canon violation. Boom. Problem solved.
Actually, I’m not a big fan of the Borg, so no Borg on DSC is fine by me.
Mirror Borg. No canon violation. Boom. Problem solved.
Actually, I’m not a big fan of the Borg, so no Borg on DSC is fine by me.
I want the mirror Borg to be utter benelovent, peaceful beings. That want to bring harmony to the galaxy, and giving everyone a choice to be assimilated or not. Not forcing anyone, but luring in with the prospect of post-scarcity, complete protection, ultimate safety and conformity (through the prize of less freedom). On first sight more harmless than the prime-version. But actually making people give up their individuality voluntarily. Something like a nightmare-version of the Federation. Less evil on the outside, but more insedious in their way to achieve total assimilation and domination of the galaxy.
Whoah...you actually made the Borg almost interesting again.
Total disaster. Ugh. Sounds like a plan.
Sounds a bit like the spores in "This Side of Paradise." Interesting. And better spores, too.
I have a higher tolerance for Trek stupidity when it's contained to goofy episodes than when it's spread across the entire season. For me, "kinda bad in the end," when it's the culmination of a whole season, makes the whole thing feel like a waste of time.
In French. With subtitles.
Confusingly, Neville page will reimagine the French look, and they will all have full head appliances and no hair.
Indeed. An amazing finish would have saved DIS' first season. As it is, the finale somewhat spoiled it, at least wasn't able to save it, and all the cracks and things not making sense in the story-arc became even more visible. That's why I say even the "weak" first seasons of TNG, VOY or ENT are superiour, since they offered at least a few genuine good episodes inbetween.
But this threat is purely about re-watchability. In in this regard, I have to go with "kinda' bad, but serialized" over "one mediocre story after another". The turns and twists at the end of each episode make one episode flow neatly to the next, and in the meantime - while some episodes were exhaustingly dumb - they were never hard to watch.
As such, I think a rewatch of DIS season 1 is certainly easier and more entertaining than a rewatch of VOY season 1, despite the latter being qualitatively better and more entertaining on FIRST viewing.
For me, ending up bad kinda poisons the well in terms of rewatchability. I'll probably never watch Discovery's first season again. The Mudd ep was pretty good, but I doubt I'll go to the effort to put that one on. It all ends up in the dustbin. On the other hand, I can watch mediocre TOS all day. (Admittedly, I think mediocre TOS is still better than much of what has followed TNG.)
Maybe it comes down to my overall assessment. I think TOS is a good show, worth watching, but I can't say the same thing for Discovery so far. (Or for Voyager or most of Enterprise, for that matter, so I don't watch those either.)
Maybe it comes down to my overall assessment. I think TOS is a good show, worth watching, but I can't say the same thing for Discovery so far. (Or for Voyager or most of Enterprise, for that matter, so I don't watch those either.)
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