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Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread

Burning Hearts of Qo'nOs said:
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Decided to add another level of crazy to this.
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Yeah, that's a classic conspiracy theory dartboard. Lursa and B'Etor (and the Salt Vampire) being dead doesn't matter, as they could still be involved in some centuries-spanning conspiracy, or Mariner might not believe they all actually died. I'm going to take a wild guess that the bacteria or whatever linked to B'Etor is meant to represent the Klingon augment virus, as this entire board seems to center around shapeshifters and impersonators, discounting the humpback whale.
 
137th Gebirg said:
Definitely look new to me.

The two at the bottom right definitely look Gorn to me, but the one on the left, not so much. Might be a youngster.

As for the two women, I'd say possibly Vulcan or more likely Romulan. The neutral facial expression with the arched eyebrow on the one on the right makes me think Vulcan, but the rather angry look on the left seems more Romulan, so I guess I'm going with that for both. Twin Romulan sisters with different hair color. Interesting how they went with purple and yellow there - complimentary colors - may be an indication of their personalities as well.
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They might be Violaceans - or whatever you want to call them - an unnamed purple race seen in Journey to Babel and a couple TOS movies but otherwise nowhere else in the canon, and rarely in any non-canon sources. The name comes from Star Trek Online when they were exploring the Journey to Babel races.
 
Tuskin38 said:
I wonder if the show will have a full opening sequence, or just a title card.
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I don't see why they wouldn't. Everything we've seen from the series screams TNG era, from the uniforms to the technology to the little bit of music we've heard, but it's a more comic take. I expect some orchestra and opening credits (despite being animated, they do have some high-end actors on staff), in the vein of the first three 24th century shows. We might even get the return of the opening narration, a la Kirk and Picard, probably from Boimler (maybe getting interrupted?).

Every Trek series has had opening credits except for Short Treks (and even they had a short form). Discovery probably could've done without, given its existence as an attempt at "prestige golden-era television", which generally eschews title sequences. Strange New Worlds will probably try something evocative of TOS, even more likely to have a title narration.

Prodigy will probably have some sort of credit sequence, like every other CGI Nickelodeon show seems to have, although it could be trend-breaking, even more so than Discovery's or Enterprise's. Section 31 is probably the only one of the current crop of shows that might get rid of the sequence, since it'll be more of a thriller, and they tend to jump into the action.
 
Who ran that whaling ship anyway? They were in the North Pacific Ocean. Neither the US nor Canada has whalers. I think Japan still does (or did, back in the 80's) but those crewmen weren't Japanese - the language they were speaking sounded almost Scandinavian. Do Nordwegians and/or Swedes go that far over the Arctic Circle just to knock out whales?
 
137th Gebirg said:
Who ran that whaling ship anyway? They were in the North Pacific Ocean. Neither the US nor Canada has whalers. I think Japan still does (or did, back in the 80's) but those crewmen weren't Japanese - the language they were speaking sounded almost Scandinavian. Do Nordwegians and/or Swedes go that far over the Arctic Circle just to knock out whales?
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The script called for Russians or Norwegians. The crew itself is speaking Finnish, which is possible since Norway has a small population that speaks Finnish.
 
Interesting factoid about TVH & Russia from Wiki:
The Voyage Home was the first Star Trek film shown in the Soviet Union, screened by the World Wildlife Fund on June 26, 1987, in Moscow to celebrate a ban on whaling. Attending the screening with Nimoy, Bennett was amazed the film proved as entertaining to the Russians as it did with American audiences; he said "the single most rewarding moment of my Star Trek life" was when the Moscow audience applauded at McCoy's line, "The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. We'll get a freighter." Bennett believed it was a clear "messenger of what was to come".
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They probably kept the identity of the whaler intentionally vague to prevent pissing off the Russians. They already kind of poked fun at them with “Nuclear Wessels” earlier in the film. If they clearly made the whaler a Soviet vessel, they might not have gotten the film past Communist censors.
 
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