Spoilers General Disco Chat Thread

[Blooded]

One thing I'm struck by is how a number of major publications haven't either bothered reviewing Discovery 3. It speaks to how insular and niche CBSAA Trek has become. And how little chatter about his show there is on social media/internet- even though the movie world has ground to a halt- which would seem to benefit streaming. In terms of impact on the culture at large, Discovery seems to be no more popular than the floundering Enterprise series with the beagle.

Firstly, it’s in its third season, so media coverage is understandably reduced, compared to earlier seasons. This happens with almost all shows, beyond the likes of Game Of Thrones.

Bigger shows than DIS have gone into their third seasons with less coverage than DIS has had, to be honest. Particularly on streaming platforms.

Also, Discovery has launched very well, internationally. On Saturday, a full 24 hours after it had already launched its season premiere (which is when most due hard fans would’ve watched, especially looking at social media), the show was still No.2 in the U.K. for the day, on Netflix. Not bad for a show that’s doing badly, and that Netflix aren’t happy with, right?

You mean like that universally beloved JJ Trek film series that he co-wrote, which was so successful that it only made 3 movies in over a decade and left ViacomCBS unsure on how to proceed?

Just to address this one: Kurtzman was only a writer on the first two, which took huge money for Trek films, and were huge hits with critics and casual viewers.

single-handedly relaunched the Star Trek television franchise.

Shhhh. The haters don’t like to be reminded that Discovery’s success has led to the commission of more Trek shows, than any previous series

I don't watch mainstream movies these days. I haven't in almost 10 years. One year I didn't see any Summer Blockbusters and then I realized I didn't feel like I missed anything. From there, I didn't look back.

I think TV in general is a lot better than movies now. 30 years ago, even 20 years ago, I thought the opposite.

Honestly, I’d say that TV overtook movies from about 2001. The debut of 24, along with some other shows at that time, really started the change for me. Throw in Lost, and then the shows that started at the start of this last decade, and the movies really haven’t compared for a long, long time.

 

[NCC-73515]

Going back to the 'Star Trek Day' trailer. TrekMovie thinks thought guy might be a Coridanite

From Enterprise:

There's also a masked Demons / Terra Prime Coridanite in the show, I think

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Random fun saw an Uber Eats ad with Sir Patrick Stewart and Mark Hammil on TV just now

 

[Tuskin38]

There's also a masked Demons / Terra Prime Coridanite in the show, I think

Maybe you're thinking of these guys?
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1317547294028406786

 

[RAMA]

Discovery showing up on Netflix top 10 lists all over the world

https://twitter.com/TrekMovie/status/1317885511709597697?s=20

 

[Nyotarules]

I'm watching season two again, I've changed my mind, I wish this was a reboot universe then Pike would have a better future (his canon future is a load of tosh).

 

[NCC-73515]

Maybe you're thinking of these guys?
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1317547294028406786

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wik...file=Coridanite_ambassador.jpg#Ambassador_001

 

[Tuskin38]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wik...file=Coridanite_ambassador.jpg#Ambassador_001

Wait, you've seen Episode 2, and someone hinted to me on Twitter that we might see Coridanites in epsidoe 2.
Is that what you're getting at?

 

[Nyotarules]

In the 23rd century, white people still don't know how to deal with a little black girl's hair......sigh shame on you Amanda, are there no black hairdressers on Vulcan?

 

[Agony_Boothb]

In the 23rd century, white people still don't know how to deal with a little black girl's hair......sigh shame on you Amanda, are there no black hairdressers on Vulcan?

Vulcan mothers made the bowl cut fashionable.

 

[Nyotarules]

Vulcan mothers made the bowl cut fashionable.

Then Vulcans are plagued with a human, Eurocentric attitude to hair textures and that is not logical!
(Seriously they need more black people in the wardrobe/makeup department on tv shows)

 

[Lord Garth]

Human mothers made that haircut popular on Earth too.

5th Grade, 1989

 

[Nyotarules]

Human mother made that haircut popular on Earth too.

5th Grade, 1989

All that's missing are the ears and brows

 

[Nerys Myk]

Then Vulcans are plagued with a human, Eurocentric attitude to hair textures and that is not logical!
(Seriously they need more black people in the wardrobe/makeup department on tv shows)

DISCO's costume designer is black, IIRC.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm watching season two again, I've changed my mind, I wish this was a reboot universe then Pike would have a better future (his canon future is a load of tosh).

But isn't that same future set in TOS as well, we know he gets the funky wheelchair that's set in stone how he got there is subject to interpretation and I think Discovery did a good job of that.

Human mothers made that haircut popular on Earth too.

5th Grade, 1989

Alien! Alien! Alien!
Run .... Call the cops

 

[Lord Garth]

Damnit! After 30 years my cover is blown!

 

[eschaton]

All that's missing are the ears and brows

FWIW, my ears are naturally pointed for some reason.

Here's a pic of me as a newborn:

My parents were already Trek fans, and joked about me being a "Spock baby."

They're still just as pointy, but my hair is usually shaggy so the points aren't obvious.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Human mothers made that haircut popular on Earth too.

Every kid on TV from the 70's on with straight hair had a variation of that hair cut.

 

[Uhura's Song]

I go back & forth on this show a lot. I hope S3 is better than S2 (which was poor after a great start).

It has its charms. It is well acted. Many of the character beats are great. It creates nice characters with interesting histories, internal conflicts and obstacles (Pike, Burnham, Culber, Saru, Georgiou, Tilly, even Detmer). The production values are really high. It looks fantastic.

But then, so much of the plot is utterly confusing, or non-sensical drivel (especially that S2 arc at the end) that it makes it hard for me to stomach. They have to twist things so drastcally to get where the serial arc must go that all their "smart" characters just look stupid.

I mean, let's look at the S2 end. No messages to Starfleet can get through (but Saru's can to his sister), why not send a shuttle for help (like Ash took to the Klingons)? Why? Because only ENT & Disco can be there at the end to keep the secret.

You have to charge the crystal with the spire drive? Why not jump away so far that it takes longer than an hour for other ships to get there (like Voyager far), THEN charge the suit? Isn't that the whole point of the damned thing?

It's asinine.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I hope we get to find out more about the trance worms, like for instance the whole trance thingy.

I wonder if Book is related to any past species like the Pah Wraiths