I was about 4 months away from my 16th birthday when it aired. You had a good early birthday present!
Poll How positive are you about Discovery now?
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It was my first "new" Star Trek series. Probably why I have such high regard for season's one and two of TNG.
Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis built themselves around being light fun shows with engaging characters and more often then not a not very complex storyline.
And that's what the majority of viewers liked about the series.
This is especially poignant now when we have a glut of dark character driven drama's on the air starving the people for SG1 and TNG type shows.
It's simpler than that.
There just aren't special rules for Trek.
Often a show is popular just because of the cast. Attempts to spin off from a series often fail just because of this. Sometimes they succeed...more often, not.
You mean no evidence other then the Orville trailer which compared to Discovery's 1.9 million views while sitting at 11,200 likes and 6,200 dislikes has 2.9 million views and is sitting at 22,250 likes and 3,750 dislikes?
I don't like to feel stupid when other people cut my complaining to shreds because I have no idea of what I'm talking about. Pride is going to cost me at least $5.99 a month.
I applaud your sacrifice of your wallet so that you can make informed arguments about Star Trek Discovery, even if you dislike it.
Yes, they didn't take themselves so serious. There were for sure some darker episodes, but overall the series were just fun with a lot of humour. The characters were clear heroes. It wasn't just tons of grey characters. They were really likeable and were fighting the bad guys. They were really good friends and didn't fight among each other.
The series were clearly more plot driven. There were episodes which could stand alone, but also larger season long arcs. Overall I think it was a nice mix. And they visited different planets all the time and met different people.
I like SG1 and Atlantis more than TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT, because they were really entertaining. So it was a huge disappointment for me, when they discarded everything which made SG1 and Atlantis great and made the complete opposite with SGU.
yeah, enough for netflix to actively try to engage with paramount and CBS to get a new show on their service.
probably not enough for people to pay for an all new streaming service though.
i watched stargate universe at the height of my battlestar galactica phase.
i much prefer the comfort of TNG in my old age.
You want Star Trek to be a sitcom?You mean no evidence other then the Orville trailer which compared to Discovery's 1.9 million views while sitting at 11,200 likes and 6,200 dislikes has 2.9 million views and is sitting at 22,250 likes and 3,750 dislikes?
I mean, sure, Orville might be funny, or it might bomb. I'm not sure why people think it will be good just because it looks like the nineties Star Trek it is deliberately mocking.
It's funny, I don't remember Trekkies ever being excited for a new show. They were all never going to be as good as what we already had. How could a bald English guy replace Kirk?
The Orville isn't a sitcom, try again.You want Star Trek to be a sitcom?
It's a comedy series set in a workplace.
Honestly, I don't think we were intended to believe that all Klingons lost their ridges due to the augment virus. Noncanon books and comics tend to include both types in that era.I think its gonna suck
When you say "evidence other than" you apparently mean to suggest that listed YouTube views are evidence of some sort relevant to the size of audience the two shows might be expected to hold on TV.You mean no evidence other then the Orville trailer which compared to Discovery's 1.9 million views while sitting at 11,200 likes and 6,200 dislikes has 2.9 million views and is sitting at 22,250 likes and 3,750 dislikes?
That's kind of adorable.
We'll revisit this when Fox pulls the plug on The Orville.
