Alex Kurtzman Gets New Deal With CBS, Will Expand 'Star Trek' TV

[Locutus of Bored]

Not now, Madelaine!

 

[XCV330]

The real miracle is Scotty being able to sit down at a 300 year old computer and immediately understand how to use some chemical engineering 1980's Mac app

 

[Draculasaurus]

I’d be happy with the bridge window if they showed us a blast shield. Seriously - just have a scene where the blast shield is closed and i’d be cool with it

I think it would be super cool if blast shields closed over the window whenever they went to red alert and the heads up graphics would transition to opaque.

 

[XCV330]

I think it would be super cool if blast shields closed over the window whenever they went to red alert and the heads up graphics would transition to opaque.

DSC has shown force fields going up any time there's a hull breach. extra blast shields would make no sense

 

[Mudd]

In TOS, they are viewscreens. No doubt about it. We even see it turned off.

To be fair to the Discovery and Abrams material, there is no way the folks at the time of TOS could predict that we would be able to have windows and project workable overlays on them.

Also to the point: if they'd thought of it they couldn't have afforded it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The real miracle is Scotty being able to sit down at a 300 year old computer and immediately understand how to use some chemical engineering 1980's Mac app

Scotty reads tech manuals for recreation. He probably built his own Mac for the fun if it.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The real miracle is Scotty being able to sit down at a 300 year old computer and immediately understand how to use some chemical engineering 1980's Mac app

Scotty took some of the same Starfleet Academy Learning Annex courses about operating 20th Century technology like helicopters and computers as Sulu did, he just cut class on the day they taught how to use a mouse.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

They're not. They're spaceships. Windows are more dramatic and make more intuitive sense.

Not many people would get on a commercial airliner thinking the pilots couldn't see out of the front. Instinctive prejudice.

I like the window better. Points awarded to Abrams.

Ah I see - well I don’t agree and would award the points to Jeffries, Probert, et al. But each to their own I suppose!

 

[Groppler Zorn]

People are apparently thick now, more than ever. Tbh, the window is more alien to most people than staring at a screen. People are more likely to wonder why everyone on the bridge isn’t looking at a screen on their phone or tablet, why is there one on the wall?

Whilst I get ‘still being able to see in front of the ship if the power goes out’ may also be seen as stupid, I think the weight of Trek history, and the ‘isnt a bloody great window slightly less protective than something solid?’ Should win out.
Maybe we can all start a whisper campaign about how the window is stupid because the enemy would lip read the captain...

Totally agree. While we’re at it we should start a campaign to move the bridge to the centre of the ship instead of on the top.

How the frak did the battlestar galactica crew see anything? No wonder they got nuked. Idiots.

 

[jaime]

Transparent Aluminum

You stand behind the aluminium , i’ll Stand behind the Sheffield steel...6 inches each...then we annoy some my little pony fans or something who are armed. It won’t be my charm that saves me.
Though I take your point.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

However, they already have windows all over the place.

You’re right of course. That’s the main argument against the safety point. I still want my viewscreen though cos I don’t like things that are different...

I’m just kidding - reboot gonna reboot I suppose!

 

[Draculasaurus]

DSC has shown force fields going up any time there's a hull breach. extra blast shields would make no sense

Maybe.
We've already had a scene in season one where the filters on the windows of a Federation ship were insufficient to counter the bright Klingon thing.
Anyway to me it looks like they've already got them installed on Discovery, Especially in Lorca's ready room. His window has staggered, interlocking teeth at the top and bottom. I really don't see another way to interpret that design element other than as closeable blast shields.

 

[fireproof78]

DSC has shown force fields going up any time there's a hull breach. extra blast shields would make no sense

I'll let Chief O'Brien speak for me:

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[Nerys Myk]

You stand behind the aluminium , i’ll Stand behind the Sheffield steel...6 inches each...then we annoy some my little pony fans or something who are armed. It won’t be my charm that saves me.
Though I take your point.

They're hoofed, so watch out.

 

[Lord Garth]

Thread drift at the TrekBBS. Well, gosh, that never happens!

Drift is good. Without a drift like The Great Vowel Shift, we'd still be speaking in the accents of Early Modern English.

... okay, I just gave a horrible example. Nevermind. Early Modern English sounds better.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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[Groppler Zorn]

Drift is good. Without a drift like The Great Vowel Shift, we'd still be speaking in the accents of Early Modern English.

... okay, I just gave a horrible example. Nevermind. Early Modern English sounds better.

The great vowel shift never completed in northern English varieties anyway. Howay the toon army and all that

 

[XCV330]

Maybe.
We've already had a scene in season one where the filters on the windows of a Federation ship were insufficient to counter the bright Klingon thing.

that did seem like a REALLY big design flaw
"Emergency aluminum venetian blinds!"

 

[cooleddie74]

the eugenics wars can be retconned a bit and reconcile with the original universe without any time travel. It's actually pretty simple.

Yeah. They happened from 1993 through 1996 and fans can just accept that's how the history of 1990s Earth played out in Star Trek. It always amuses me that some fans need to contort a fictional event on a fictional version of Earth to fit with what they think sounds logical or else they demand it be retconned because "THE REAL WORLD WASN'T LIKE THAT." No duh.

It's called suspension of disbelief. If we can try to do that for the differences between the DSC and TOS Enterprises then those fans can do it for the Eugenics Wars. They happened when "Space Seed(TOS)" said they did. You don't need to change the entire universe because you don't remember Ricardo Montalban waging war on the rest of South Asia when you were doing tequila shooters in college.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If you don't remember the Eugenics Wars, you weren't there, man!