What Has Discovery Added To Star Trek Lore?

[ozzfloyd]

Better question is what does it really add? Other than shock value.

Ok, so at worst it's neutral...so what? What's the big deal?

 

[Mudd]

Ok, so at worst it's neutral...so what? What's the big deal?

"Neutral" is not the clear implication of "other than shock value."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Better question is what does it really add? Other than shock value.

There was nothing shocking about it. I just had a moment of amusement, similar to the "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place" line in ST:VI.

It's not like everything needs to have some profound impact on the narrative or fictional history. Sometimes things are just tossed into the background to provide an interesting or humorous distraction for a moment.

 

[zar]

I don't think Star Trek has been cheapened by the idea of double sex organs.

I think "shock value" has been cheapened by the absurd notion that this qualifies.

 

[Terok Nor]

What's so "wrong" about having a fictional alien have multiple sex organs? How would that diminish Worf's character?

It's revolting. Also I don't want to think about Klingon sexual organs. Now I'm left pondering how Worf had sex with Troi and both Daxes. And no, I don't want any suggestions

 

[zar]

It's revolting.

 

[marsh8472]

TRAVIS: It took the fourth, fifth and sixth grades to get there. I've also been to Draylax and both the Denebian moons.
TUCKER: I've only been to one inhabited planet besides Earth. Nothing there but dust-dwelling ticks. I've heard the women on Draylax have.
TRAVIS: Three. It's true.
TUCKER: You know that first-hand?
TRAVIS: First-hand, second-hand, third-hand.
TUCKER: I guess growing up a boomer has its advantages

They were talking about boobs here right?

 

[Jadeb]

Ok, so at worst it's neutral...so what? What's the big deal?

It was a crass moment in an unusually ugly season of Trek. I don’t think it’s a big deal, but, personally, I prefer less ugliness and less crassness in Trek in general.

 

[Tuskin38]

The pre-Discovery and post-Discovery Klingon cultures can contradict each other and still both be true.

Except they don’t

 

[Tuskin38]

It's revolting. Also I don't want to think about Klingon sexual organs. Now I'm left pondering how Worf had sex with Troi and both Daxes. And no, I don't want any suggestions

Then stop thinking about it

 

[Nerys Myk]

Better question is what does it really add? Other than shock value.

It adds to the alienness. No different than ridges, spots or eye stalks.

 

[shapeshifter]

Very limited information at that. TOS was the least fleshed out of all time periods with the greatest opportunity for filling it out. What many people think of as "what was" in this period are really just long-standing fan theories, not things that were ever actually presented in TOS, but people have forgotten how to differentiate between those.

'I don't want my Headcanon taken away! I need my Headcanon!'

 

[DigificWriter]

As my signature says, Canon is irrelevant to fandom, and so the concept of "Headcanon" is both unnecessary and silly.

 

[DaveyNY]

'I don't want my Headcanon taken away! I need my Headcanon!'

Why does it automatically have to be considered "taken away"?

Why can't it be that one's Head-canon is being Embellished and Added To?

Again, I really don't understand why for some folks it always seems to have to be the Negative instead of the Positive.
What kind of miserable lives do some people create for themselves?

 

[fireproof78]

It's revolting. Also I don't want to think about Klingon sexual organs. Now I'm left pondering how Worf had sex with Troi and both Daxes. And no, I don't want any suggestions

You know, we don't have to wonder about the sex lives of fictional characters and aliens. In fact, the idea of alien/human sex should be rather odd anyway, and rather unusual instead of as common place as seen in Trek.

 

[Kor]

You know, we don't have to wonder about the sex lives of fictional characters and aliens. In fact, the idea of alien/human sex should be rather odd anyway, and rather unusual instead of as common place as seen in Trek.

It's something that literary science fiction has explored for a long time.
However, casual fans of light TV sci-fi don't seem to have much awareness of or appreciation for the extensive field of literary SF.

Kor

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

However, casual fans of light TV sci-fi don't seem to have much awareness of or appreciation for the extensive field of literary SF.

I think Harlan Ellison installed his Katra in you when he died.
[You're not wrong, though]

 

[XCV330]

It's revolting. Also I don't want to think about Klingon sexual organs. Now I'm left pondering how Worf had sex with Troi and both Daxes. And no, I don't want any suggestions

 

[zar]

 

[fireproof78]

It's something that literary science fiction has explored for a long time.
However, casual fans of light TV sci-fi don't seem to have much awareness of or appreciation for the extensive field of literary SF.

Kor

Oh, I'm not saying it's not a part of the genre. I personally enjoy such discussions. But, I'm also saying that it doesn't have to be speculated about by fans.