Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x07 - "Light and Shadows"

[Gonzo]

Did anyone else notice the QWERTY keyboard come up in the shuttlecraft? There very, very rare in Trek.

Yes but are they canon?

Or just too advanced.

 

[Noname Given]

Yes but are they canon?

Or just too advanced.

Yes, but only for another 6 years - after which Starfleet goes to the QWERTY 'jellybean colored' keyboards...in a 23rd century ergonomic layout.

 

[Alan Roi]

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The upgraded probe reminded me of the sentinels from the Matrix.

Or the Europan whatever the hell it was from Project Europa.

 

[Elephant999]

I do think that people were expecting/wanting a continuation of TNG/VOY style Trek but instead got a serialized TOS which is throwing some fans for a loop. I for one am loving how much it's giving me TOS space adventure vibes while being more modernized in its narrative format and production values.

One of the most well balanced comments I’ve seen on here.

 

[Vger23]

I do think that people were expecting/wanting a continuation of TNG/VOY style Trek but instead got a serialized TOS which is throwing some fans for a loop. I for one am loving how much it's giving me TOS space adventure vibes while being more modernized in its narrative format and production values.

I probably wouldn't have been very interested if it was a TNG/VOY style show. We have hours and hours of that style already. All good stuff, I like those shows, but it wouldn't have hit me with any particular passion.

I think the producers and studio knew it was time for a different approach.

 

[JoseNoodles]

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Or the Europan whatever the hell it was from Project Europa.

Never saw it, have to check it out sometime.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I probably wouldn't have been very interested if it was a TNG/VOY style show. We have hours and hours of that style already. All good stuff, I like those shows, but it wouldn't have hit me with any particular passion.

I think the producers and studio knew it was time for a different approach.

Besides, Orville already has that covered.

 

[Vger23]

Besides, Orville already has that covered.

True enough

 

[DaveyNY]

Fanzines.

STARLOG use to post a bunch of fan letters in each issue.
Some of them were pretty critical of TNG.

 

[Lord Garth]

No one ever said fan expectations were consistent.

Which is ironic.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Indeed. Palpatine would be proud. (At least moreso than he is of his own fandom.)

 

[Vger23]

Indeed. Palpatine would be proud. (At least moreso than he is of his own fandom.)

 

[CorporalClegg]

Wouldn't ending Senate corruption just be self-reflection?

 

[Lord Garth]

Palpatine would've loved the Gilded Age. I can picture him right inside Tammany Hall.

 

[Gepard]

Remember back in the days of the old "Picard and Data" show when there was this two-parter about this mysterios group of Borgs that turned out to be controlled by Data's brother just to get Data to join him on the dark side?
Where were the "Why is everything connected to Picard and Data in the Picard and Data show?" comments then?

I wasn't posting on the internet back then.

That two-parter really fucking sucked, so...

 

[Alan Roi]

I don't get this new trend in hate for continuity.

Some of us like world building and that requires SOME consistency.

To say that cannon or continuity restricts writers is bollocks and a excuse for lazy writing.

Sure minor error errors will creep in and there will be updates in visual design, that's ok.

But to radically change the star trek universe? No.

The star trek universe is HUGE, there is enough potential to tell storys without rebooting every 5 minutes.

No one here hates continuity any more than the people who've run the Franchise sine 1966 have.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Did anyone else notice the QWERTY keyboard come up in the shuttlecraft? There very, very rare in Trek.

Yep noticed it right off and felt it was a neat inclusion. I don't see why keyboards would not still be used, I doubt they'll become that obsolete.

 

[Tuskin38]

Georgiou only has power over Leland as long as he needs to be on Burnham's good side.

As soon as Leland doesn't need her anymore, Georgiou's blackmail really doesn't work.

Unless this is something so massive it would have consequences for the entire agency.

Anyways, TrekYards thinks this was a stand out episode, a few bits were bad (but every episode has those) but overall they really enjoyed it.

 

[ParkerGlyn]

Lots of action, big anomalies that threaten the ship, lots of things getting thrown at the audience. It reminds me of the star trek 2009 movie. I'm alittle confused on the grand scheme of things. We're assured that this series takes place in the prime timeline and yet people from the future are presumably altering the timeline, unless these alternations from the future are part of the past of TOS? Who knows

 

[StarMan]

I did enjoy it, more for where it might be going.

Part of me wouldn't mind a colossal temporal thingy that blasted a hole in the whole of canon and let the writers do what they want minus continuity restrictions.