Discovery 8/10 info dump thread...

[BJ Wagner]

I hope any gay characters aren’t identified as such before the show is even broadcast. I’d like to see them portrayed as characters who happen to be gay and not THE gay characters. Their sexual orientation should only be revealed when it’s necessary to the story.

 

[Spider]

I hope any gay characters aren’t identified as such before the show is even broadcast. I’d like to see them portrayed as characters who happen to be gay and not THE gay characters. Their sexual orientation should only be revealed when it’s necessary to the story.

Fuller said they'll have an openly gay male actor on the show. He actually never said anything that specific actor playing the gay role.

 

[shady12]

Which is to be expected when you do $67 million worldwide at the box office. I seriously doubt there will ever be a followup. I imagine they'll reboot.

The movies were trash but obviously those TV shows were popular.

 

[Starbreaker]

I bet we're getting a Federation/Klingon Cold War drama.

 

[dbcooper]

Fuller said they'll have an openly gay male actor on the show. He actually never said anything that specific actor playing the gay role.

Matt Bomer?

 

[JWPlatt]

Mistakenly posted this to another thread:

The Enterprise visited Talos IV with Pike commanding in 2254, then again with Kirk thirteen years later in 2267, two years after taking command. This puts Discovery one year before Talos IV if Discovery is ten years prior to TOS. Eh, probably nothing.

 

[Mudd]

CBS will have to get as smart as people interested in Star Trek.

Setting a pretty low bar there.

 

[MichaelDornFan]

I'll still watch it of course, but I'm a little bummed it's a prequel, especially one featuring Klingons (the most overdone alien species in the entire franchise, IMO - I really have no desire to see them ever again).

 

[gottacook]

I won't try to guess what "past event" (from the perspective of the 1966-69 series) is being alluded to by Fuller, but if Nick Meyer is involved, I would tend to think it will be well-chosen.

However, I'm in no hurry to see it. One day it will turn up on one or another streaming service that I'm willing to pay for. Until then I can read about it and see whether it's worth my time.

I will never pay for a streaming service that still has commercial breaks in its programming.

 

[Overgeeked]

We know it's not the Romulan War, explicitly ruled out by Fuller and too far back. Most likely the source of the Klingon-Federation strife, as mentioned in one of the threads.

 

[Spider]

I won't try to guess what "past event" (from the perspective of the 1966-69 series) is being alluded to by Fuller, but if Nick Meyer is involved, I would tend to think it will be well-chosen.

He wants Spocks Mom on the show.

 

[JWPlatt]

There’s an incident and and event in Star Trek history, that’s been talked about but never been explored. ... not the Romulan War ... It’s only been referenced, never seen.

Pike's accident fits that description, as does whatever Fuller was talking about, I'm sure. Eh, I guess his accident was very close to The Menagerie, right?

 

[Tosk]

I'll still watch it of course, but I'm a little bummed it's a prequel, especially one featuring Klingons (the most overdone alien species in the entire franchise, IMO - I really have no desire to see them ever again).

Which amuses me considering your user name.

 

[CJCade]

Kirk's 5 year mission ended in 2270, putting it beginning in 2265. So Discovery is set approximately mid-2250's.
According to Memory Alpha...

Numerous non-canon literature works, including several Pocket Books, place the Battle of Axanar in this year.

I know Fuller has shot down Axanar, but you can say anything to mislead, so I really hope this isn't the incident.

On a separate note... can bend space and time and there will be robots? Doctor Who and the Cybermen? Seriously though, this does open the door to a timeline jump for the show. And if so, could the robots be the Borg mistaken for robots?

As much as I dislike another prequel, I'm still optimistic from what has been revealed so far.

 

[Unionized Elf]

The movies were trash but obviously those TV shows were popular.

TNG was popular. DS9 and Voyager not so much.

If the 24the century is ever revisited on screen, it will be in the form of a TNG "revival season" like The X-Files recently did.

 

[drt]

I'll still watch it of course, but I'm a little bummed it's a prequel, especially one featuring Klingons (the most overdone alien species in the entire franchise, IMO - I really have no desire to see them ever again).

Username doesn't check out.

 

[Overgeeked]

but you can say anything to mislead, so I really hope this isn't the incident...

Cumberbatch is not Khan.

Seriously though, here's to hoping if it is Axanar they were smart enough to get the actors the fan film people were using and their CGI crew as well. Whatever else might have happened with that, the actors were good and the effects were well done.

TNG was popular. DS9 and Voyager not so much.

If the 24the century is ever revisited on screen, it will be in the form of a TNG "revival season" like The X-Files recently did.

Not likely. At least not with it being live-action. The actors are aging quite a bit.

 

[Chronos]

Ads? On a paid subscription?

If the reviews aren't stellar (heh) I think I'll be sitting this one out.

 

[CJCade]

Two interesting quotes from Fuller on the EW.com article.

We can redefine the visual style. We get to play with all of the iconography of those ships and that universe. Since we are doing this series in 2016, and all of the other series have been produced [at a time that] isn’t as sophisticated as we are now with what we can do production-wise, we’re going to be reestablishing an entire look for the series — not only for the series, but for what we wanted to accomplish with Star Trek beyond this series

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Will the Discovery look like the Enterprise?

Saucer section, the cells, and the design that we leaked early on has changed considerably. But it’s still very much inspired by those [Ralph McQuarrie] illustrations.

 

[intrinsical]

a british male doctor

I'm probably totally off, but could this be a young Leonard "Bones" McCoy?