It's not screwing around with it. The stuff still exists and doesn't stop existing because of a reboot.
I'm a Kelvin Timeline fan, I don't mind the occasional Elseworld, but even Disco's future timeline feels too removed from the regular setting for me to care about what happens in it much. It's not what I'm invested in.
I just don't get that. But, I'm the weird guy who gets invested in characters. All the worldbuilding and lore in the, um, world will not get me invested in a show with characters I don't care about. See TNG and VOY and ENT.
No. That's not the only thing I got out of the Orville. I thought it was just ok, but did not like the character dynamics. I thought "Pria" and "The Krill" were very well done. But "Cupid's Dagger" was a bridge too far for me when I was not all about the characters, and then "Home" seemed unnecessarily cruel to Alara's father so I was done.
I wouldn't like DISCO better if it played in another time.I crafted a reply in another thread about DSC.
Basically if they set it as a 25th century Trek then fans would have liked it from the beginning rather than colletively groaning about "another prequel??".
Now I wait for fireproof78's wrath (of Khan?)
Same here. DSC had to leave it's timeline setting and go too far in the future which kind of destroys any interest in the 2400-3000 era of storytelling.
Christ on a ladder that's just pretzelling it too hard LOL. All they had ot do was put it in the 2450s, brand new setting and bring in brand new aliens/villains/arcs whatever.
Discovery is interesting to me because of the characters.
Its not, I am saying creating storylines not 'stuck' in the 23rd century should be very easy, certain Trek-book writers have been doing it for years.
They're just going where the money is. Even he novels have found the 23rd century, specifically TV series era TOS novels to be the best sellers. Indeed, the fact that Trek XI was a TOS reboot was one of the biggest selling points of that movie.
yet those two bits, the super serum and the musical, were the extreme bits that convinced me this isn't EVEN a rebooted timeline, but in universe entertainment the TOS cast is playing. M'Benga and Chapel as action super heroes, and the musical episode, was too much for me.
In a universe where you can get telekinesis and superspeed from ingesting a pill and a liquid, a steroid granting increased strength and stamina is hardly extreme. We have drugs today that do that. TK and superspeed? Not so much. The musical is just the latest variation on the anomaly of the week makes the crew do odd things trope. Again, hardly extreme. Anomalies love to put our crews through their paces.
We all have our line
The trouble with the musical is I want Star Trek to trick me into thinking that what I'm watching could plausibly happen, not trick me into thinking I'm watching Buffy.
No idea what that even means.
The writers wanted to do their version of the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling and just changed 'magic' to 'anomaly' in the script, but they're not equivalent.
