If only his middle initial were "R."
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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We all had our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with.
I was named John. The toilet jokes wrote themselves.
Good God... *smacking head repeatedly* And I call myself a Bradbury fan! I can't believe I never connected that!
Well damn. This just proves the dementia already has me in it's grip...It's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".
Thankfully, other than a few cruel nicknames as a kid, there's no one famous with the name Denise (except Crosby) or Dee.
Although, his callsign really is Tiberius.He's A. Kirk. Not T. Kirk.
I wasn't going by Dee yet when they had their hit, but nobody's used that one on me.
De (Forest) Kelley. You coulda been "Bones".
Over there with their KIrk.
Bravo!
I wish they stop with the alphabet thing on ship registrys.
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I agree. I think we'll see the Enterprise in the 32nd Century at some point. (Let's not fool ourselves, they'll do it eventually if they don't stop having series in that timeframe). Don't know if it's in DSC Season 5, I doubt it, maybe SFA or something else but, whenever it is, I'd like to see something like the "USS Enterprise, NCC-371701" not the "USS Enterprise NCC-1701-AJ".
Using the alphabet as part of the registry was not only about respect for its lineage in- universe, but to acknowledge fan interest in the production recognizing its history, so I would guess the alphabet business will continue.
That's probably what's going to happen if it does. Though I doubt they'll actually it go into double-letters, despite what I said in the previous post. It'll probably be a letter that's "lower" than expected... leading to several TrekBBS posts asking why the letter isn't higher.
Expect at least one shut-down thread on the subject, knowing this place.
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I tend to view that all ships with the NCC-1701 registry are technically considered the same ship, with the letter suffixes being more of a bookkeeping thing to distinguish the various iterations.
Personally, I'd rather Starfleet finally retire NCC-1701 before it ever reached "-Z" and assign a brand-new registry number to the next Enterprise to forge another legacy. I also kind of wish having legacy lettering had stayed something unique to the Enterprise. Yes, I know that there must have been other starships worthy of the honor in Starfleet's long history, but I think it's just a case I've read too many books and seen too many fan-made ships where it seems every other ship in the fleet has a legacy letter in its registry. Seeing it officially done with the 32nd-Century Voyager kind of made me groan. It made the practice less special and sort of fanwankish to me...
Personally, I'd rather Starfleet finally retire NCC-1701 before it ever reached "-Z" and assign a brand-new registry number to the next Enterprise to forge another legacy. I also kind of wish having legacy lettering had stayed something unique to the Enterprise. Yes, I know that there must have been other starships worthy of the honor in Starfleet's long history, but I think it's just a case I've read too many books and seen too many fan-made ships where it seems every other ship in the fleet has a legacy letter in its registry. Seeing it officially done with the 32nd-Century Voyager kind of made me groan. It made the practice less special and sort of fanwankish to me...
I'm re-watching Discovery for the first time in a year (not including the Season 5 Sneak Peak) and I'm reminded of something I've always thought: DSC Season 1 is New Trek in its purest form. Everything made afterwards is walking back from that, no matter how much I like a lot of it. Yes, that includes DSC S4, PIC S1, and PIC S3: my other favorite seasons of New Trek.
I came to the conclusion that I like PIC S3 a tiny, tiny bit more than PIC S1. By the smallest of margins, but there it is. I'll be interested to see how DSC S1 and DSC S4 measure up against each other in my Disco Rewatch.
I came to the conclusion that I like PIC S3 a tiny, tiny bit more than PIC S1. By the smallest of margins, but there it is. I'll be interested to see how DSC S1 and DSC S4 measure up against each other in my Disco Rewatch.
I don't like DSC season 1 but I see elements of a show that could have worked much better if they had tweaked some things.
- Don't kill Prime Universe Georgiou. I would have loved a version of Discovery where we got a full season of Michelle Yeoh as Captain. Lorca, instead of being the captain of Discovery, basically could have been a more antagonistic version of Admiral Cornwell's position, until you find out his ulterior motives. And instead of Michael having a redemption arc over the course of season 1, you could have made the story about her being a loyal first officer with conflicted feelings between Georgiou's standard Starfleet values in the face of war, versus being tempted by Lorca advocating a darker path in the face of the enemy.
- Don't make the season 1 Klingons into Klingons. Similar to my feelings about Strange New Worlds and the Gorn, instead of the conflict revolving around the Klingons, have the species Starfleet is in conflict with be some new species that we've never heard of before and let season 1 be about some incident and conflict that 23rd century Starfleet had to deal with pre-TOS. That would have been so much more freeing and allowed for greater story possibilities.
- Don't connect Michael Burnham to Spock. In the grand scheme of things, I've never thought it added a lot to make her Spock's adopted sister. I thought you could have achieved the same ends for the character by other means To me, it's the difference between The Last Jedi saying Rey's parents weren't anyone special, and then Rise of Skywalker coming back to say "no, no, no, you're Palpatine's granddaughter." lt's more interesting to have the character not connected to the legacy characters of the franchise and give her a background not tied into any of Spock's family drama.
- Make the Spore Drive much more dangerous and harder to use. Instead of it just being a Stamets in the chamber problem, make the Spore Drive weird. Yes, it's possible to jump from point-to-point, but give it issues and cosequences that make it a much bigger burden. Maybe there's a potential for long-term health consequences. Maybe you lose people during jumps sometimes and they disappear.
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My controversial opinion is that Michael / Sarek is the best thing in season 1 of Disco.
I also liked Michael and Sarek a ton and I don't think it really makes any real difference if the war was with Klingons or someone else. But I would *vastly* have preferred to keep prime Georgiou as the philosophical counterweight to Lorca for the season. And I like that idea about the spore drive, too.
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