Spoilers General Disco Chat Thread

[Lord Garth]

Chances we'll get there in season 5 is pretty low right? Calypso was pretty much written with no plan in mind it seems like.

I would be shocked if we see anything to do with "Calypso" in Season 5.

Yeah, I think they had no plan, they thought they'd figure it out eventually, and now here we are. I know they did some reshoots to make Season 5 a more fitting end but, regardless of whatever they came up with, the show ended before its natural conclusion. I'm sure it'll be a good stopping point (just like all the other seasons), but it still won't be a natural conclusion.

In 2021, Michelle Paradise said they'd make "Calypso" fit eventually. Showrunners Promise ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Will Fit Together With “Calypso” Canon – TrekMovie.com

That's why I'm hoping they make a TV Movie after the series, at some point.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I think that Calypso would work as a movie like the Section 31movie. At this point it feels more like an alternate reality.

 

[Quantum21]

I think we'll get a bona fide trailer for season 5 with the Star Trek Day festivities.

As nice as the clip was it was a very specific incident. I'd like to get more of an overview.

 

[Lord Garth]

I bet we'll get an announcement for the Release Date of Season 5 during the last episode of this season's Lower Decks. That would be the end of October, beginning of November, I think. So, if DSC S5 starts in January, that would be only two months out and would make sense.

 

[The Wormhole]

I bet we'll get an announcement for the Release Date of Season 5 during the last episode of this season's Lower Decks. That would be the end of October, beginning of November, I think. So, if DSC S5 starts in January, that would be only two months out and would make sense.

I'm expecting an announcement and trailer slightly sooner, at New York Comic Con which is October 12-15. There is precedent, it was at NYCC in 2019 they announced the January 2020 premiere date for Picard S1. Plus this year with the strikes going on they won't be able to have actors or writers present, making it more likely they'll have some trailers on hand just so they can have something.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I had a question on the gravity device they used to hold the asteroid in the shuttle bay.
When Tilly was holding it, it was a little box like a briefcase, but when she set it down it expanded into something rather big. They don't have programmable matter in the present time Discovery came from so what is this stuff that made all that possible?

 

[Lord Garth]

It's been a solid year since I've watched Discovery, not including the Sneak Preview Scene for Season 5, and I've spent the past year-and-a-half in general a lot more focused on Picard. It's going to feel weird diving back into Disco after all this time. But that's what I'm going to be doing.

I'm going to re-watch the entire series in the lead-up to Season 5. Get back into the swing of it.

 

[tomalak301]

Is there really no news that has come out of NYCC? I was looking at the various sources and the presentation is over and I haven't seen anything. I'm going to rewatch Discovery prior to Season 5 but I wonder if we got a date yet. Also, with them giving another advanced sneak peak of Lower Decks, I anticipated the new episode to be on P+ today, like Those Old Scientists.

 

[NCC-73515]

The only big news seems to be that Kid Cudi guy doing some Trek stuff

 

[tomalak301]

The only big news seems to be that Kid Cudi guy doing some Trek stuff

I guess. I scrolled through twitter and it was basically the same stuff we got at San Diego. I thought I read something earlier this week that they were going to show the next episode of Lower Decks and I assumed P+ might actually put it up for the rest of us early, like they did with Those Old Scientists. I also was hoping for an actual date for Discovery but I wonder if they might delay it until they know that the strike is over so the actors/actresses can promote it. It's the final season so there isn't really much to promote. I guess I just expected some stuff today and I don't really care about Kid Cudi. He's just a reminder that Star Trek had Rhianna for a time and failed to market the franchise through her, which was a really big missed opportunity.

 

[Lord Garth]

In the lead-up to diving back into Discovery, I've been and am looking at a few movies first:

I watched Everything, Everywhere All At Once, starring Michelle Yeoh. A very weird, outside of the box, non-traditional movie. Everyone who knows me said I'd love it and I did.

Right now I'm watching Event Horizon, which is something you'd think I'd have seen by now -- it came out in 1997, is a space movie, had some horror elements, and I was the right age for it -- so I would've been all over it back then. But it slipped through the cracks. So I'm giving this movie a 25-plus-year overdue look. Jason Isaacs is in it, though he's only a supporting role, but I get a kick out of seeing him 20 years younger than he was in DSC, and with his native accent. The film looks like it wanted to be Alien except with a different horror story. Right down to the set design, the crew, and the weird phenomena they get sucked into.

 

[The Wormhole]

Event Horizon is a pretty good movie that really falls apart in the last twenty minutes. My understanding that has to do with a ton of material that was deleted by studio request so the movie wouldn't go over two hours, but, man does it really ruin what had been up to that point a really good movie.

 

[Lord Garth]

Event Horizon is a pretty good movie that really falls apart in the last twenty minutes. My understanding that has to do with a ton of material that was deleted by studio request so the movie wouldn't go over two hours, but, man does it really ruin what had been up to that point a really good movie.

I'm so glad I paused the movie to make my previous post, then paused to check back here. As soon as Sam Neill's character said, "I am home," something tells me -- without knowing anything else about it -- that should've been the midpoint of the movie. Yet there are only 30 minutes left. They didn't just make it under two hours, it's 95 minutes. They probably cut out WAY more than was necessary.

BUT, I'm continuing with the rest anyway. It helps going in knowing it isn't going to be that good from here on out. And probably also explains why no one's ever told me in all this time, "You have to see this!!!!"

EDITED TO ADD: Okay. As soon as Not-Lorca died, this movie turned to shit. No-Eyes Alan Grant on the loose! 20 minutes left. I can't take this thing seriously anymore.

 

[The Wormhole]

They probably cut out WAY more than was necessary.

I think there's something like 45 minutes removed. And even worse, the deleted scenes have since been lost, so there's no hope of an extended cut or even just seeing the deleted scenes on their own. No one really realized in 1997 the DVD market was going to take off, or that DVDs provided an unprecedented way to bring deleted scenes to the general public.

 

[Lord Garth]

Oh God. It just kept getting worse and worse and worse during those last 20 minutes. But the credits have finally started rolling. Well, I won't be watching that again.

What I will be watching again is "The Vulcan Hello!" Have to wash out the taste of Event Horizon.

 

[Campe]

When I got my first DVD player, my parents bought me three movies:

Man on the Moon
Mission to Mars
Event Horizon

I’ve long since gotten rid of all of my DVDs but there’s only one I watched more than once and one I still own (albeit on digital). And even though all three of those movies sound sci-fi, it’s the non-sci-fi movie of the bunch.

 

[donners22]

Funnily enough, Event Horizon is pseudo-canon in Trek - clips from it were used in Voyager.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Funnily enough, Event Horizon is pseudo-canon in Trek - clips from it were used in Voyager.

Do you remember in what Voyager those scenes were used?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That what you say? I want to know this as well

 

[donners22]

Do you remember in what Voyager those scenes were used?

Random Thoughts, as part of the clips of violent memories.