News Jason Isaacs Joins Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Lorca

[The Nth Doctor]

Lorca actually sounds like a female name to me, even though it's a last name. Perhaps he'll play a Transgendered person.

The term is "transgender person," not "Transgendered person."

 

[Tesophius]

The term is "transgender person," not "Transgendered person."

Sounds grammatically wrong to me: "Captain Lorca is a transgender Mexican/Chilean" vs "Captain Lorca is a Transgendered Mexican/Chilean"

But okay!

 

[Bones]

Here's a question I'm interested in given the casting choice: what will the relationship between the Captain and #1 be?

An easy out would be to mirror the supportive mentoring relationship between Picard and Kirk. I'd prefer to see some kind of friction or conflict that allows for interesting tension, drama, and character development. Maybe the Captain would like to get rid of #1 but she brings something invaluable to the table, so he grudgingly puts up with her.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Here's a question I'm interested in given the casting choice: what will the relationship between the Captain and #1 be?

An easy out would be to mirror the supportive mentoring relationship between Picard and Kirk. I'd prefer to see some kind of friction or conflict that allows for interesting tension, drama, and character development. Maybe the Captain would like to get rid of #1 but she brings something invaluable to the table, so he grudgingly puts up with her.

I guess it's hard to speculate without really knowing much about the show but I sure wouldn't mind a bit of conflict considering we've seen the opposite so often.

 

[Tesophius]

I think the conflict between the first officer and the captain would be superfluous, it would only detract from the stories, assuming that the stories are going to be interesting science fiction.

 

[Longinus]

Because I have now completely baselessly decided that Lorca will be a Vulcan, I speculate based on that. I really wouldn't want to see a highly conflicted relationship, but some arguments and differences of opinion could be good. It would be interesting to see the Kirk/Spock dynamic flipped, with a highly logical and by-the-book Vulcan captain with somewhat more free-spirited and emotional (compared to a Vulcan) human first officer.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I think the conflict between the first officer and the captain would be superfluous, it would only detract from the stories, assuming that the stories are going to be interesting science fiction.

Because somehow conflict isn't good for stories?
I think the almost complete lack of conflict between the Voyager crew and the Maquis was one of the great missed opportunities of that show.

 

[rhllot]

[Quote = "boomstick de ceniza, de la publicación: 11940169, miembro de: 73572"] Así que otro capitán británico y apuesto a que ni siquiera es británico en la serie (siempre y cuando él no es francés) [/ quote]
A captain vulcan would be great, but we already have the father of spock, I doubt that many vulcans

 

[Nyotarules]

I would like a scene where the alien crew moans how Starfleet is dominated by humans and the organisation reeks of 'Terran Privilege' so it makes a change to have a non Terran captain, even if he is a Vulcan....Will they go there? I suspect not.

 

[Tesophius]

Because somehow conflict isn't good for stories?
I think the almost complete lack of conflict between the Voyager crew and the Maquis was one of the great missed opportunities of that show.

Depends on the story, but, personally, I find McCoys constant bitching about Spock's lack of emotions tiring. An isolated conflict is fine, but an ongoing one is just lazy writing that fills the gaps.

 

[Nyotarules]

Depends on the story, but, personally, I find McCoys constant bitching about Spock's lack of emotions tiring. An isolated conflict is fine, but an ongoing one is just lazy writing that fills the gaps.

A pity Spock did not file a harassment or insubordination charge

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Because somehow conflict isn't good for stories?
I think the almost complete lack of conflict between the Voyager crew and the Maquis was one of the great missed opportunities of that show.

I agree. To me, that homogeneous kind of relationship that existed on Voyager, to me, made them all monotone and boring.

In any good drama, having even a small conflict of personalities gives the characters their own drives to showcase their style and ability.

In the world of sports, I liken it to the 1977-78 New York Yankees. The players couldn't stand each other at times. But that was what propelled them as a whole to win.

 

[Tesophius]

That kind of tension will just give them excuses to dedicate entire episodes to it whenever the writers can't come up with a new interesting idea for an episode.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

But it doesn't have to be an overriding tension. It's there, we know it is, and in moments when a situation isn't getting resolved, then people's differences will come through to get them out of the situation.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Depends on the story, but, personally, I find McCoys constant bitching about Spock's lack of emotions tiring. An isolated conflict is fine, but an ongoing one is just lazy writing that fills the gaps.

As usual it depends on the quality of the writing.

 

[rhllot]

A bad representation is having six series that are all predominantly male. Nobody expects all of them to be completely 50:50. But since the previous shows were so shitty about equal representation it's not asking too much for a 2017 show to be less stupid about it.

Equal representation would be cool, having it predominantly female is fine, too, considering all other Trek shows were heavily skewed in the other direction.
Having YET ANOTHER predominantly male cast would be lame.

I honestly don't understand why I have to explain this again and again. It's like so many people don't get representation in media.

In voyager you have a very important female representation.
Also in discovery you have a female protagonist

 

[{ Emilia }]

In voyager you have a very important female representation.
Also in discovery you have a female protagonist

As I've pointed out before going the Rogue One way of casting a woman in the lead but then casting all or almost all other roles with the tired old "male by default" strategy isn't reasonable representation.

I think there's a study that shows that whenever women reach a representation of 20% in any field, men feel that there's now equal representation.

 

[rhllot]

As I've pointed out before going the Rogue One way of casting a woman in the lead but then casting all or almost all other roles with the tired old "male by default" strategy isn't reasonable representation.

I think there's a study that shows that whenever women reach a representation of 20% in any field, men feel that there's now equal representation.

Frankly i love captain janeway she is one of my favorite characters.

And I think voyager did a great job with female characters like Seven of Nine or B'Elanna

 

[{ Emilia }]

Frankly i love captain janeway she is one of my favorite characters.

And I think voyager did a great job with female characters like Seven of Nine or B'Elanna

If we ignore the sexual objectification that was inherent even in Seven's ridiculous clothing I'd agree. Seven turned out to be a pretty good character.

 

[rhllot]

If we ignore the sexual objectification that was inherent even in Seven's ridiculous clothing I'd agree. Seven turned out to be a pretty good character.

I think discovery is going to be a very good series. I wonder if at that time they wear TOS miniskirts?