Conflict in Discovery

What kind of conflicts should there be on this show? Should there be interpersonal conflicts between the crew or not? Should the conflicts between the Klingons and the Federation (or any other rivals of the Federation) be a hot war or a cold war type conflict?

 

What, like shiv fights in the galley?

Unless they wish to violate some cannons it's gotta be cold.

 

Toilet paper roll: hung under or over?

 

I know you are making a joke here, but I think this is a question worth exploring. Roddenberry tried to make the TNG crew into the get along gang, where humanity has grown past interpersonal conflicts, which comes off as dangerous group think now. Enterprise made Archer have an irrational loathing of the Vulcans (and made the Vulcans into jerks), creating interpersonal conflicts that came off as petty bickering.

So there is a balance between these two extremes, that people can disagree without being disagreeable, there is a balance between group think and petty bickering.

Fair enough, but I would like to see the occasional battle between the Discovery and another ship, not all the time, but sometimes.

 

They most certainly will. There's no way a Trek series is going to go a whole season without some manner of space combat.

 

Nah, the Vulcans have aways been jerks.

That balance is called "TOS".

 

Vulcans are assholes.

I don't want more conflict in Discovery than I'd see in an episode of Game Of Thrones.

 

I don't think we need that level of conflict among the Discovery crew, maybe the Klingons can have that level of conflict, I just think the Discovery crew should just occasionally disagree on things, rather then being the get along gang.

 

I should think that it would be impossible to have more conflict than Game of Thrones...

 

I really don't want to see any forced conflict between characters just for the sake of being faux edgy. That's just tiresome. Adult professional Starfleet officers should not act like children.

 

Yeah please no 12 year old drama BS....

 

Leaves out Kirk and Spock, then.

There are instances in which TBBT plays like a documentary.

 

Adults disagree with each other all the time, they shouldn't act like bickering children, but no disagreements makes the crew seem like some group think cult. People with different personalities will have different ways of doing things and those different methodologies will conflict with each other, that is what makes characters interesting, having different personality types play off each other. I don't want to go back to early TNG when everyone was in the get along gang.

 

Unless Sci-Fi shenanigans turns them into 12 years olds.

 

Which character is going to wear a catsuit?

 

All of them.

 

The Caitian communications officer?

 

No conflict. Future humans have evolved beyond disagreements.

 

And evolved into cult like group think? That would be a pretty dull show and not a good picture for the future of the humanity, where everyone has embraced a herd mentality.

 

There'll be 'anti-conflict': basically, everyone snarkily agreeing with each other, passive-aggressively.

"Oh, yes, captain, GREAT idea! <eye roll>"