Spoilers Season Two Story Location

[JoeP]

According to the Twitter account What’s Filming, DSC is filming in Ball’s Falls Conservation area which in the show looks to be a colony(?) named New Eden that looks to have a religious component to the community.

https://twitter.com/faulknerhbc/status/995773329381486592?s=21

 

[ITDUDE]

No disrespect, but other than “security guy said this is STD” there is nothing here that says “Star Trek”

 

[Tuskin38]

No disrespect, but other than “security guy said this is STD” there is nothing here that says “Star Trek”

You could say that about a lot of Trek sets and locations out of context

 

[Tim Thomason]

"New Eden?" Finally, the long sought after introduction of Doctor Sevrin and his followers.

 

[LA Conservative Trump Fan]

"New Eden?" Finally, the long sought after introduction of Doctor Sevrin and his followers.

I forgot, what was the backstory of Dr. Servrin in Way To Eden or was it ever mentioned?

 

[BillJ]

"New Eden?" Finally, the long sought after introduction of Doctor Sevrin and his followers.

It wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Jadeb]

The old-timey buildings, and the idea of a human colony living so primitively, remind me of "This Side of Paradise." (Shame that title's taken. Of course, it was when Trek first used it, too.)

I'm really nervous about the faith/reason storyline, considering how on-the-nose the writing has been. Having the approach be this literal only adds to that.

 

[eschaton]

Aside from a single Rivera, the names on those tombstones are depressingly anglo.

Like, more anglo than the vast majority of Americans I have known.

Edit: Blowing it up, there's a Perez too. So just Anglo-saxons and Latinos? Nobody else? Damn.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Aside from a single Rivera, the names on those tombstones are depressingly anglo.

Like, more anglo than the vast majority of Americans I have known.

Edit: Blowing it up, there's a Perez too. So just Anglo-saxons and Latinos? Nobody else? Damn.

There's a Nguyen at the top left.

 

[BillJ]

Looks more promising than "moar KLINGONS!!!"

 

[eschaton]

There's a Nguyen at the top left.

Still, the names in DIS of the humans really rankled me due to how unrepentantly WAPYy they were. Aside from Stamets (which is German - since he was named for a real person) and Lorca, everyone had the most bland last names of English/Scottish background. I mean, I grew up not far outside of NYC, which I know isn't the norm, but probably half of the white people I knew had Italian last names or were Jewish, with a lot of the rest Portuguese, Irish, Polish, etc. In the current city I live in there are lots of Hungarians, Slovaks, Lithuanians, etc. So it's weird seeing the surnames in DIS not even reflect the diversity I see in my everyday life.

 

[BillJ]

Still, the names in DIS of the humans really rankled me due to how unrepentantly WAPYy they were. Aside from Stamets (which is German - since he was named for a real person) and Lorca, everyone had the most bland last names of English/Scottish background. I mean, I grew up not far outside of NYC, which I know isn't the norm, but probably half of the white people I knew had Italian last names or were Jewish, with a lot of the rest Portuguese, Irish, Polish, etc. In the current city I live in there are lots of Hungarians, Slovaks, Lithuanians, etc. So it's weird seeing the surnames in DIS not even reflect the diversity I see in my everyday life.

Discovery pushes a little bit with a female minority lead and a gay man (but twenty years after everyone else was doing it). They don't want to go too far chasing away God-fearing whites who have enough money for All-Access.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Still, the names in DIS of the humans really rankled me due to how unrepentantly WAPYy they were.

I wasn't disagreeing with your larger point, just mentioning that there's a Vietnamese name too.

 

[Jinn]

Aside from Stamets (which is German - since he was named for a real person) and Lorca, everyone had the most bland last names of English/Scottish background

Um, are you sure? According to Wikipedia there are three important people with the surname Stamets and all of them are American, including Paul Stamets. Also, in my personal experience as a German I never ever met someone named Stamets. I know Pauls, but no Stametses.

 

[eschaton]

Um, are you sure? According to Wikipedia there are three important people with the surname Stamets and all of them are American, including Paul Stamets. Also, in my personal experience as a German I never ever met someone named Stamets. I know Pauls, but no Stametses.

Apparently it's an alternate spelling of the German name Stamitz/Steinmetz. The real Paul Stamets is from Ohio, where there are a whole lot of people of German descent.

 

[Vger23]

You know people are fucking bored when the only thing we have to bitch about is the (apparent) Anglo-centricity of the last names on some tombstones in the background of a picture.

It validates my theory, though...we will look for absolutely ANYTHING to pick at and bitch about!

 

[F. King Daniel]

J. Lynn = Jeri Lynn Ryan

 

[cultcross]

Totally Original Space Religion Which Just Happens To Match Christianity in Almost All Ways.

Or, to put it another way,

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[Tuskin38]

Maybe it’s inspired by that point and click TOS adventure game lmao

 

[Tim Thomason]

Names like those usually are in-jokes or personal references to the production team. I don't take them as a sign of New Eden's demographics or lack thereof. Just that they have tombstones.