News Jason Isaacs Joins Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Lorca

[Ovation]

Definitely a subjective statement. It effectively conveyed a sense of urgency, as far as I'm concerned.

Urgency has a rather precise definition. Nothing in TMP suggests urgency in any recognizable form. Slow, measured, deliberate, considered...amply demonstrated. Urgency...not so much.

 

[Tesophius]

The ticking time to the seemingly inevitable destruction of Earth created an increasing sense of urgency throughout the picture. The entire movie is built around it.

 

[CorporalClegg]

It's sort of like if James Corden had a heart attack, and on the way to the hospital, he did "I Wanna Know What Love Is" karaoke with the paramedics.

 

[MarsWeeps]

Personally I believe in what Nichelle says

Which version?

 

[captainkirk]

I know that the TOS female uniform convention was the skirt. Frankly I don't think that matters at all though. The creators of DSC should do whatever they want with the uniforms. Adherence to canon is, as I've said elsewhere, a straitjacket on creativity. A little canon adherence is fun and interesting. But too often it's just suffocating.

Actually if they wanted to adhere more to canon then they wouldn't use skirts. The uniforms in The Cage and on the Kelvin all had trousers.

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

All Salute Hook! Captain of the Discovery!

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Jason Isaacs = Best Capt. Hook EVER

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

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.

Agree!


Also, I have decided to also baselessly decide that Lorca will be a Vulcan. Glad you thought of it. I've been wanting an alien captain for quite some time now. And I'd like lots of different Earth accents on the show. And lots of atypically physiqued aliens. Whether or not CBS will have the $$ to support cg enhanced humans playing aliens will I guess depend on viewership numbers supporting the series.

 

[wayoung]

It's because of how wooden Isaacs is, he naturally gives a Vulcan vibe

 

[rhllot]

I would like to see a varied crew as in star trek starfleet academy game

I would love to see something like this! Humans, Andorians, trills and Vulcans

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ What the hell are they wearing around their necks? Radial tires?

 

[RAMA]

There will be more and varied aliens than usual according to Bryan Fuller, his leaving hasn't affected that I would guess.

I would like to see a varied crew as in star trek starfleet academy game

I would love to see something like this! Humans, Andorians, trills and Vulcans

 

[RAMA]

I was rewatching Black Hawk Down the night Isaacs was announced, and to my surprise, I recognized him along with two of Trek history's biggest baddies: Eric Bana and Tom Hardy.

 

[jaime]

I feel like this was Rick Berman's mantra during Voyager. "Sure, they're stranged with no supplies, limited power, no backup, resources, everyone at home think they're dead and they'll never see their loved ones again - but surely they should be cheery!"

It's a thing in scifi...if you live in a tin can in space, you are already pretty damn hardcore. It's literally the most dangerous environment to make your home in. So yeah...a Starfleet officer is going to be pretty damn resiliente.

 

[wayoung]

A tin can in space? We're not talking about the Apollo capsules. Nothing in 24th century Trek presents their ships as "tin cans" or that you have to be a hard as hell bad ass survivalist to serve on one. The D was populated by children.

 

[rhllot]

A tin can in space? We're not talking about the Apollo capsules. Nothing in 24th century Trek presents their ships as "tin cans" or that you have to be a hard as hell bad ass survivalist to serve on one. The D was populated by children.

It was the flagship of the federation was not a normal ship

 

[Six of Twelve]

Hot damn that's exciting! Didn't recognize the name, but after I looked up his picture I was like..I know that guy...I like this actor...who is he again? Then I remembered. "Mr. Pottah..." Lucius Malfoy!

This will be good. I'm happy with that choice.
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He also played the evvvvvvvil Colonel Tavington in the Patriot. Still, I wanted him to kill Mel Gibson's character at the end, because I despise Mel Gibson.

 

[wayoung]

It was the flagship of the federation was not a normal ship

...Yeah, nothing says a survivalist like someone serving on a ship with impenetrable shields, deflectors, armoured hull, force fields that automatically cover any hole, fully automated sickbays that will heal any injury and heal any disease, matter replicators, carpeted floors, and holodecks. How would they ever make do with only all that, those tough as nails men, women, and aliens?

We should all be so lucky to have to survive on those tin cans.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

It was the flagship of the federation was not a normal ship

I don't think the construction standards were any different to Enterprise than to say, the Yamato or any of the other Galaxy-class ships.

A starship of any kind or size has to be built to withstand faster-than-light travel, hardly a paper or foil-thin hull would work.

 

[Cake]

The D was populated by children.

I really hope that we won't see children on the Discovery. It was so stupid, what TNG did there.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I really hope that we won't see children on the Discovery. It was so stupid, what TNG did there.

Agreed. I got used to it eventually in TNG, but it just never made any sense to me.