Consolidated Trailer Thread

[cultcross]

Am I the only one who thought the alien who senses immanent death thing was really cool??

I just thought it was weirdly, melodramatically, specific, especially the bit about how his species basically have just that one function. And I'm not sure how it would be used in future episodes, or whether the writers struggle like with Troi.
Does his sense of death discriminate by importance of character, or will he be able to prevent redshirt deaths in advance? Or does he mean his own death, specifically? In which case all we really have are genetically enhanced hypochondriacs.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

*alien raises ray gun*
"Captain, I sense death!"

 

[RAMA]

I just thought it was weirdly, melodramatically, specific, especially the bit about how his species basically have just that one function. And I'm not sure how it would be used in future episodes, or whether the writers struggle like with Troi.
Does his sense of death discriminate by importance of character, or will he be able to prevent redshirt deaths in advance? Or does he mean his own death, specifically? In which case all we really have are genetically enhanced hypochondriacs.

Well that's part of character development and makes him even more interesting.

 

[Galaxy]

*alien raises ray gun*
"Captain, I sense death!"

Well, that would not be more stating the obvious then Troi "Captain, I sense that he is very angry."

 

[CorporalCaptain]

 

[jamestyler]

Your point being? Picard not saying "lieutenant" the British way is another instance of Hollywood either plain failing at a non-American cultural point or else overriding the non-American who actually knows the culturally-appropriate way.

Picard isn't serving in the British navy. He's serving in Starfleet. He's saying it the Starfleet way.

 

[cultcross]

The Royal navy don't say 'leftenant' anyway, that's an army/RAF thing. The way the word is pronounced is a service specific thing. Starfleet say 'lootenant' so Picard, a veteran of the service for several decades, does. No mystery.

 

[RAMA]

The media loves Discovery. A summary by Trekmovie.com.

Currently more views than the other trailers combined, still number 1 trending. More vocal fans still acting like children.

The Media Embraces ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Trailer While Fans Debate The Details

http://trekmovie.com/2017/05/18/the...covery-trailer-while-fans-debate-the-details/

 

[Onid]

I'm not familiar with Michelle Yeoh, but she is really bad in the this trailer. Extremely unnatural delivery.

She's the best thing since sliced bread. Trek is lucky to have her.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

She's the best thing since sliced bread. Trek is lucky to have her.

She is pretty awesome and I'm thrilled to have her in the new show. Everyone should be.

 

[Tosk]

Her "delivery" is clearly the product of her dialogue being sliced up and stitched back together for the trailer. Yeoh is great, and will almost certainly be in the show.

 

[Saul]

I was glad they finally cast a blue person in this series. Us blue people have been shunned from TV for years. Finally we are getting our moment to shine.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Once upon a time I would have been madly excited by the prospect of a new Trek show.I just cannot summon any enthusiasm for STD(),nothing to do with the show,the fault(?) lies in me.
Perhaps it's the realisation that the show I grew up loving so much now looks and feels a relic of it's time.

Fair enough. Maybe you will end up happily surprised!

 

[Blamo]

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The Media Embraces ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Trailer While Fans Debate The Details

http://trekmovie.com/2017/05/18/the...covery-trailer-while-fans-debate-the-details/

I'm shocked, shocked I say.

I can see us getting a well written intense character scene and a portion of fandom will complain about "soap opera" (because emotions) and the fact the MSD was wrong on the wall in the background.

Good to hear the media is liking it.

 

[Captain Indecisive]

Most people did. Saru looks to be the breakout hit amongst the cast according to what I've seen online.

I'm guessing the "sense" is a sort of extra-perceptual one, not unlike Guinan sensing beyond normal linear time, as opposed to the normal danger avoidance of the average living being.

He said they genetically designed for it. I took this to mean that at some point in their history altered, as opposed to being created for the purpose.

And I wonder why? Seems like an odd thing to the sole purpose of a genetic design,

Are you sure this is Saru/Doug Jones? I had assumed this myself but just realised that I had no actual evidence that it was.

Also, how many of the announced cast actually appear in the trailer? If that is indeed Saru, I can only identify four - Green, Yeoh, Frain and Jones.

 

[Mudd]

"Genetically determined."

 

[ralph]

Dunno why, but it seems to me that the Shenzou is NCC-122T not 7. Maybe its a transport of some kind?

This ship has photonic torpedoes.

 

[SpaceFlotsam]

Abrams version of Star Trek, for the masses. The purpose of the show will be to cover contemporary topics by providing the liberalist worldview on them. This isn't Trek per se, but uses the Trek story as a cover for a modern, humanistic-theorized drama.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Abrams version of Star Trek, for the masses. The purpose of the show will be to cover contemporary topics by providing the liberalist worldview on them. This isn't Trek per se, but uses the Trek story as a cover for a modern, humanistic-theorized drama.

Well, sign me up for that! That is very much what Trek is, in my opinion.

 

[INACTIVEUSS Einstein]

I just thought it was weirdly, melodramatically, specific, especially the bit about how his species basically have just that one function. And I'm not sure how it would be used in future episodes, or whether the writers struggle like with Troi.
Does his sense of death discriminate by importance of character, or will he be able to prevent redshirt deaths in advance? Or does he mean his own death, specifically? In which case all we really have are genetically enhanced hypochondriacs.

"My people were biologically determined for one purpose alone; to sense the coming of death."

How I interpreted that was:

"My species is descended from meek prey animals, so we have an acute sense of when a situation is mortally dangerous."

Hopefully not mystical nonsense.

Again, this might be a problem coming from how the trailer was edited, seemingly out of context, with lines appearing before they are actually spoken, Michelle Yeoh's dialogue being cut up and rearranged, the dialogue about finding an object being cut up, and this conversation showing the lead character's reactions out of order with the speech, etc.