DS9 trials and tribblelations + ENT Affliction and Divergence.Nah, the last time we saw a Klingon in Star Trek was Day of the Dove.
Poll How positive are you about Discovery now?
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The more I think about it, the more I believe the biggest mistake Star Trek ever made was to separate itself into two different 'time periods.'
Sort of and nope.
Imagine the hell that fans would have raised had Roddenberry represented TNG as taking place in the exact same time and continuity as TOS. teH Cannon!
TNG could have been set during the same period as the TOS movies, that were being made at the same time as TNG was, and it would have been easier, since TNG and the TOS movies could share their wardrobe, props, actors and even cross over like the marvel tv stuff tries to do with the marvel movies.
Let's be clear: just because I think the franchise would have been better served (for several reasons) by staying in the same era doesn't mean I think anything could go.
That sounds utterly dreadful.
That sounds utterly dreadful.
It is and shows its legacy.
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I am very positive about Discovery. I haven't been this excited about a Star Trek show since the premiere of TNG, and that was so long ago we had to go over to my aunt's house, with her 19" color TV, to watch it.
I have tried to remain optimistic about Discovery, but I am afraid that all the negative reporting has slowly started to get to me. I am trying to tell myself to ignore the reporting as most of it is unsubstantiated, but combined with the whole Klingon 'issue' and a trailer that just didn't do it for me I have become somewhat pessimistic.
Unless Time started distributing on Kronos, there is no Klingon issue.
I voted "Positive". Bryan Fuller had a far wider scope in mind, some of which we still have with multiple crews and primary focus not being the Captain but he also wanted to expand from the TOS Era to the TNG Era to Beyond TNG. Such a story sounded like it had a meta-scale and I wish we could've seen that. How much of what Bryan Fuller had in mind survives to the actual series itself remains to be seen... but I still think Discovery has the potential to be very good. We'll find out soon.
The EW story, although I haven't read all of it yet, touches a little on what was kept and what was jettisoned from Fuller's original idea.
This happens in the entertainment field. Sometimes only a title is left with everything else changed beyond the original idea.
There's a good film about this: "The TV Set" (2006), starring David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver, where a Network Executive (Weaver) changes the pilot of a series that a Producer (Duchovny) had in mind beyond all recognition over the course of the film. It was written and directed by Jake Kasdan and based on his own experiences putting together the series "Freaks and Geeks" (1999-2000). It's very insightful showing one example of how the sausage is made.
I'm not saying what's going on with Discovery is as extreme as what happens in "The TV Set", but it's a movie worth checking out. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473709/
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the problem with STD is that it is a prequel. You are tied in what you can do with ST canon material. If it was set in the future after voyager, it could have changed the Klingon anyway they want and use any explanation.
TNG was set in the future so, they could do anything they wanted.
