Why would you pay for something you’re not watching the entirety of?
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x07 - "Light and Shadows"
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I'm not defending him, but I pay for CBS AA and I've never watched a minute of The Good Fight. There are thousands of hours of Netflix original programming I have no intention of viewing. I got a YouTube Red subscription purely to watch the Karate Kid show last year.
But you do watch the entire episodes of Trek, right?
Not just parts of them?
(which is why one could assume that you paid for the service to begin with)
Well not being the stars of the show does that to a character
You can fly to Vulcan from Earth in less than a day in the Kelvinverse
given the proximity of 40 Eridani A that's not too farfetched
In TMP, Spock managed to travel from Vulcan to intercept the Enterprise when it was a few hours out from Earth.
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All the original big powers of that part of the quardrant are nestled uncomfortably close together. Four of them did the sensible thing and formed a federation, the Klingons started pushing out into their own back yard. It makes one wonder what happened to all the nearby never-to-be-heard-from again planetary civilizations NX-01 visited on her first voyages prior to the Xindi war.
The Xyrillians may have been the primary influence on Federation holodeck technology so that civilization may well have gone on to join the Federation by the 24th century. I doubt they just sat unloved and uncontacted on the frontier since ENT heavily implied they were a major pioneer in holotechnology.
Go rewatch TOS S2 - "Metamorphosis" and you'll see you're incorrect.
Also, the Discovery's Shuttles are again Starfleet's most advanced Shuttle design and were even flight tested by Pike.
The weirdest was a few episodes back...I think it was in An Obol for Charon...where they decided to keep having fast cuts away from poignant emotional scenes between Burnham and Saru. Just a second or two of silence and ambient noise would have made the scenes work much much better. And it's not like they have to worry about broadcast run time any longer.
In general I do feel like the overproduction of the season is the longest-running flaw. Even in great episodes there's too much loud music/ambient noises drowning out dialogue, too many shakeycam shots for seemingly no reason, etc. I really don't get it.
Honestly, I really don't understand your constant ripping apart of an entertainment that you supposedly like.
Do you have so very little else to do with your free time?
Or is it that you just get some semblance of amusement attempting to get a rise out of others?
I mean obviously, this is a place to express ones opinion one way or another, but there seems to be some perverse sense of pleasure you get out of continually attacking the current Star Trek brand.
No need to be so sensitive. I'm a Star Trek fan, so I'll post here... from time to time. Even if I'm not watching STD anymore.
Because I don't pay for it.
It would indeed be a waste of money.
Is there? CBSAA seems empty, devoid of worthwhile content. Aside from sports.
I may consider joining Disney though, when it launches... if all the Fox stuff will be on there.
As a 40-something, I sympathize with the mindset, but anyone talking about classic syndication for anything like Discovery or Jessica Jones or similar has missed what has really happened. There's been a paradigm shift, and these shows will almost certainly never go to Nick At Nite or 4 hour blocks on BBC America or what-have-you. They will be "syndicated" as part of the back catalog content offered on one streaming service or another. And if they *are* ever shown on something Over The Air, like a MeTV: TNG or whatever, that channel will probably structure programming (and advertising) around the original runtimes, not chop the shows all to heck.
Is still annoys me that a TOS episode that originally ran 50 minutes has now been reduced on most cable and digital TV channels to 43 minutes and given some often very choppy and eyeroll-inducing editing. I get it. More commercials mean more ad revenue and that's how stations and channels survive, but still.
Come on. Some of the most recent editing on TOS episodes is laughably sloppy.
Come on. Some of the most recent editing on TOS episodes is laughably sloppy.
I really don't get how people still haven't adjusted to this. I can only assume they've gone straight from 2004 to 2019 without watching movies or TV and are experiencing futureshock. And its not like I'm young, have amazing eyesight or the hearing I had twenty years ago. I even have some tinnitus, yet I have had absolutely no trouble with any bit of dialogue or the direction/editing at any point in the show. I could even make out each and every word the Ba'ul said the first time around. And I had tears in my eyes at Saru's near death scene. Weird. Its almost as if they won't let themselves adjust out of some principle or something.
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I knew we shouldn't have opened those pods on the Botany Bay!
Common sense. Shuttles have only limited speed and fuel and so they can only be short range.
If we say the max speed of the shuttle is Warp 5 (and that is pushing it) it would take weeks to get to Talos from Vulcan. That’s a long time to be stuck in a shuttle
And Qo’noS in under 5 minutes.
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