Spoilers A big hint about the finale/season 3 has dropped...

[Longinus]

That Sarek was given Bendii syndrome by Section 31 to get back at him.

Was he? I thought it could refer to something like that, except I don't actually remember anything of the sort happening...

 

[BeatleJWOL]

What if Pike's accident that leaves him disfigured and immobilized isn't an accident but rather an attempt to silence Pike for his participation in the events of this season.

ouch
I love me some fanwank but this is a bridge too far.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

ouch
I love me some fanwank but this is a bridge too far.

No, that was Kirk's thing.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

too soon!

 

[Midquest]

I am reminded of this quote from an interview with Gersha Phillips a while back. At the time, I wondered how they would work a new set of uniforms into the continuity they've established. If they jump into the future, doesn't it make quite a bit more sense?

How do you think the uniforms will advance into Season 3? Will they get closer to the ‘60s uniforms and explain how Starfleet went into a mod period?

I think that we have to look at it as a separate entity. [W]e can’t keep rehashing the ‘60s version because then it starts to look dated. If you’re saying we have to go into the future, we have to go into the future. I’ve always had that idea about Discovery and Star Trek.

I really feel the original Star Trek was so groundbreaking and so many technologies–like the Motorola flip phone–evolved from what they were working with. I feel like if we don’t allow us to do that, to take some giant leaps forward as opposed to looking back.

I agree that there’s a lot of nostalgia and a lot of merit in the first one, but I feel like the time to break it off a little bit and allow us to do something new and different, because otherwise we won’t be able to do something different, like the new iPad or other new technologies [like] the fabrics we have today, the tech fabrics and all the ways we dress…The spirit of Star Trek is about going boldly where no one has gone before. So to me, rehashing the same thing over and over for nostalgia’s sake doesn’t make much sense to me, you know what I mean?…Let’s push it forward. Let’s come up with the next [thing], something great, something cool, something futuristic.

Not saying it's a closed case or anything, but it kind of fits with this new context, no?

 

[drt]

I am reminded of this quote from an interview with Gersha Phillips a while back. At the time, I wondered how they would work a new set of uniforms into the continuity they've established. If they jump into the future, doesn't it make quite a bit more sense?

I get more of a sense that the "future" of which she speaks is imagining the future from an early 21st century context.

 

[fireproof78]

I get more of a sense that the "future" of which she speaks is imagining the future from an early 21st century context.

This would make sense.

 

[Dukhat]

They need to jump into the future post-TUC but pre-TNG. Which should have been when DSC should have taken place from the get-go, IMHO.

 

[Mudd]

Nice quote. So what they've come up with, pushing costume design into the future, are form-fitting shiny metallic clothes.

Not like that's a hoary old scf-fi cliche.

 

[Lord Garth]

Clothing in general is skinnier now.

 

[Longinus]

Clothing in general is skinnier now.

Is now the future?

 

[Alan Roi]

Nice quote. So what they've come up with, pushing costume design into the future, are form-fitting shiny metallic clothes.

Not like that's a hoary old scf-fi cliche.

The clothing style on the show isn't any more form fitting than Star Trek has ever offered. Not sure how metallic trim is any more a hoary old sci-fi cliche any more than color coded outfits.

 

[Lord Garth]

Is now the future?

No. But if "regular fit" can exist in the future than so can "relaxed fit" (baggy) and "slim fit" (tight).

I've noticed that some people in general just can't stand that tighter/skinnier clothes are in style now. That's their problem. It's not going away. And we're going to see it on the screen and in pop culture.

 

[fireproof78]

Is now the future?

Well, I've worked out the calculations and it might very well be.

The clothing on the show isn't any more form fitting than Star Trek has ever been. Not sure how metallic trim is any more a hoary old sci-fi cliche any more than color coded outfits.

It's because it is DSC that is it bad

 

[Yistaan]

Burnham: We failed in our mission! Control won't gain access to the sphere data immediately, but will do so in hiding over the 23rd and 24th centuries. And we can't warn Starfleet Command their victory is an illusion because we fell into a wormhole into the future!

Saru: Brace for impact! There's a woman over there...

Burnham: Mom?

(Dr. Burnham turns around revealing Borg gear): Resistance is futile.

 

[Mudd]

The clothing on the show isn't any more form fitting than Star Trek has ever been.

Bless you.

 

[Longinus]

I've noticed that some people in general just can't stand that tighter/skinnier clothes are in style now. That's their problem. It's not going away. And we're going to see it on the screen and in pop culture.

It looks good, I was just pointing out that following contemporary fashion doesn't exactly make something 'futuristic'.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Is now the future?

Give it a minute.

 

[Alan Roi]

Is now the future?

We've passed a number of milestones that would suggest this. 1999, 2001, 2010, every single replicant from Blade Runner's incept dates. not to mention that we are well past the eras of 'modern' as well as 'post-modern'. But hey, YMMV.

 

[Longinus]

We've passed a number of milestones that would suggest this. 1999, 2001, 2010, every single replicant from Blade Runner's incept dates. not to mention that we are well past the eras of 'modern' as well as 'post-modern'. But hey, YMMV.

But I still don't have a flying car...