Poll Do You Believe STD Is Actually a Reboot [After Seeing It]?
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What about a resole, does that sound about right, some on the board are getting a reboot/reimagine feel from the show, I cant work out why some are so offended/threatened by that.
After all they are still watching it, for now at least.
It’s a soft reboot like Star Wars. Keeps the established canon while updating the series for modern audiences.
I like to think that there is simply a really influential fashion movement that happens a few years on from DSC that affects tech and uniforms and the whole aesthetic of Starfleet. Hence DSC resembles Enterprise especially in uniforms (they are a slicker progression of ENT) - but soon some major figure will introduce a revolutionary retro-cardboard-rainbow-pastel-colours style and it will be a great time for aesthetics and will dominate the age of Kirk. If by the end of DSC (if it goes on as expected) they could hint at this artistic revolution, I would buy it as canon 100%.
Too bad we’ve already seen it in 2003’s Battlestar Galactica.
Despite the darker feel, I didn't want to slit my wrists after watching DSC. That alone makes it far better than BSG.
Well, Star Wars was an actual reboot when it comes to the books, comics, 1 tv show, etc; but for the films, they didn't change the visual aesthetics at all. They used updated techniques to create those visuals, like cg instead miniatures for instance, but everything is made to look just like the orig trig.
Is Discovery a reboot?
-Visually, I would say not really.
-It sounds like it is meant to fit with the timeline, so narratively, not really
-the Klingons obviously have been rebooted or reimagined, which in part is what I find to be the most reimagined- The portrayal: The portrayal of Starfleet, Klingons, etc is the sharpest contrast to me, between Disc. and the 5 other shows, which isn't such a big deal.
Is Discovery a reboot?
-Visually, I would say not really.
-It sounds like it is meant to fit with the timeline, so narratively, not really
-the Klingons obviously have been rebooted or reimagined, which in part is what I find to be the most reimagined- The portrayal: The portrayal of Starfleet, Klingons, etc is the sharpest contrast to me, between Disc. and the 5 other shows, which isn't such a big deal.
It's a piece of CBS corporate product designed to achieve certain business ends, and it's exactly as the business people require it to be for those reasons. That fact overrules the intentions of the creative staff whenever and however it'sconsidered necessary or desirable.
What in the narrative makes it sound like it fits in with the Prime timeline?
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The show is a re-(insert word here). Because it's not the same as the prime universe, which should be completely obvious to anyone with functioning eyeballs.
Now how they explain it later in the season is something I'm looking forward to hearing. But don't tell me this is the prime universe, because it isn't.
Also, I don't care that it isn't. The first two episodes sucked, the 3rd one was pretty good, so it's got my interest. Whether or not this is good Star Trek is not my motivating factor in watching it anyway, it's whether or not it's a good scifi show. Bonus points for having Star Trek in the title though.
Now how they explain it later in the season is something I'm looking forward to hearing. But don't tell me this is the prime universe, because it isn't.
Also, I don't care that it isn't. The first two episodes sucked, the 3rd one was pretty good, so it's got my interest. Whether or not this is good Star Trek is not my motivating factor in watching it anyway, it's whether or not it's a good scifi show. Bonus points for having Star Trek in the title though.
Many folks work from the premise that if events in a story don't actively contradict previously established continuity the new story "fits."
Which is made more amusing by the fact that so much of previous continuity contradicts other bits anyway. So the standard is no standard at all.
Isn't the entire story about events mentioned in TOS? It in't like they destroyed the planet Vulcan or anything.
That's not what a reboot is.
Since you’re such an expert, what’s a reboot?
I'm confident Lorca has gone "off the reservation" and is doing his own thing without Starfleet oversight or knowledge. It's easy to get broad discretion when you don't actually ask for it, easy to keep it when you don't report your findings and activities.
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