Yeah, and it was glorious.
General Trek Questions and Observations
- Thread starter The Old Mixer
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Because you don't need to wait 20 seconds for people to come back from whatever they were doing during the commercial break, because a modern audience wants their 42 minutes of show to be 41 minutes of story so you've got to cut all the credits to the bare minimum, and because in long form storytelling the episodes aren't individual stories anyway, making episode titles less important (and many shows don't even have episode titles any more) which is why it faded from use. I do prefer it myself and I also wish modern shows did a better job of telling me who plays which character so I didn't have to Google that every time, but I also understand why it changed.
I will settle for 59 minutes of story.
Well, that's not how DISCO did it at all. They had an elaborate opening credits sequence with music, animation, and... credits. And for some reason, they thought that even doing all that, not showing the episode titles was the way to roll, despite the fact that there was plenty of time and space to show a title within that opening credit sequence.
TL;DR - Nope!
Fair enough. The visual discontinuity was too much for me, and I've never watched Discovery.
My best guess, then, is that they're trying to marry the "traditional" Star Trek opening with modern practices and only thought about aesthetics, not utility.
Both "Dead Stop" and "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" seem to be about the ones who don't walk away from Omelas, but seek to bring the whole accursed place crashing down. In one, they were successful. In the other, Omelas remained standing.
Doesn't the station start to repair itself at the end of 'Dead Stop'?
It's interesting how cynical the title of le Guin's story is. Those are the folks who did nothing but leave. Maybe. I think the text also suggests they could be daydreaming about leaving? In any case, a fascinating story, and an all-too human conundrum.
Good point.
But at least they tried. Though even Pike tried to stop the guards when he was down on the planet in the SNW episode.
The horrible irony of that episode was that Pike and his crew had chosen the wrong side, and they didn't realize it.
I was recently having fun doing quizzes and I came across a random piece of possible fact about a lieutenant Bobby on tos... Apparently they were in 12 episodes, but no-one knows who played them. Does anyone know if this character does indeed exist, and if so has anyone found the actor who played them yet?
Bobby
Bobby was a male Human who served as a Starfleet officer during the mid-23rd century. Bobby served aboard the USS Enterprise during Captain James T. Kirk's five-year mission in the second half of the 2260s. During Kirk's second year of command, in 2266, Bobby was assigned for a time to the...
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Bobby was a male Human who served as a Starfleet officer during the mid-23rd century. Bobby served aboard the USS Enterprise during Captain James T. Kirk's five-year mission in the second half of the 2260s. During Kirk's second year of command, in 2266, Bobby was assigned for a time to the...
Bobby was the oldest-looking 25-year-old of the 23rd century.
Alvin was pretty short, I know that. So were Simon and Theodore.
