Must the Star Trek's original mission statement be changed.

[Uhura's Song]

1) That is the mission statement for Kirk & Picard's Entetprises, not Starfleet ir the Federation.

It wasn't Sisko's mission. Nor Janeway's.

2) No. No change needed.

 

[Spot261]

These are the voyages of the Starship Discovery, it's ongoing mission to get the spore drive to work properly without collateral damage

 

[Paul Weaver]

These are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its continuing mission: to explore muliple universes & parralel possibiities, to seek out new realities and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Dr Sam Beckett never returned home. Porthos was sad.

 

[fireproof78]

Dr Sam Beckett never returned home. Porthos was sad.

And then he threw himself in a transporter beam.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Our ongoing mission? What, you think we're going to give you spoilers about our ongoing mission? Welcome to 2018 pal.

 

[MFB]

After the first two epsiodes I really thought the change of Starfleet's Mission Statement would be an issue in "Discovery". The sentence "We come in peace" is discribed as a credo of Starfleet but I think we never heard it in the other series. So I concluded that the fact the Klingons considered that sentence an provocation changed something.

 

[Paul Weaver]

I think we never heard it in the other series

We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill
We come in peace, shoot to kill. Scotty, beam me up!

 

[Takeru]

Just make it more accurate
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Discovey. It's on going mission to ferry diplomats, to check up on colonies and scientific expeditions, to defend the Federation and occasionally go where no man has gone before.

Even when they go where no man had gone before they often realized some man had been there before and they try to avoid meeting that same fate or correct what they screwed up. Where No Man Has Gone Before is an inaccurate episode title. Encounter at Farpoint had Q miss the other starfleet ship who had been there before the Enterprise and loaded off Riker, the Crushers etc., The Cage? Nope, Vina's crashed ship was there first.
Even the pilots aren't true to that statement, so occasionally should be changed to pretty much never.

 

[Paul Weaver]

TNG: "Where no one has gone before" was a fairly accurate title

I believe that Farpoint was the furthest in explored space, so while the Hood (or whatever) dropped off several new Enterprise crewmembers, Enterprise's mission was to explore the vast territory beyond.

Of course the very next episode they encounter a starfleet ship which has sucombed to a TOS era problem. After that they're at a colony trying to get some medicine to help out another (federation) colony, then they're chasing a ship that stole a power converter from a federation outpost (Tosche Station perhaps).

But then after that they finally go where noone has gone before. For one episode. Before going back to shuttling diplomats around, then go for shore leave on a planet that somebody else discovered.

I guess the only people who really went to where no (human) had gone before was Voyager (mostly). Good on them.

 

[Qonundrum]

why? what's going on with him? he's still delicious.

Tastes like chicken?

Or tofu after putting on some garlic on it to give it any taste of any sort?

but, one has to acknowlede there is an obvious difference between the DISCO make up design and the lazy alien-of-the-week-put-a-latex-vagina-on-their-forheads-and-they're-good-to-go designs of the 90s

And for the 1990s, prosthetics had become quite advanced at the time, for the time, and given the pitiful budget involved. Prosthetics have come a lot more since. Applying today's standards against yesterday's (trendsetters who paved the way for today on top of everything else ) isn't probably the best mindset to have... Nothing wrong in having that, I can just fathom other ones worth exploring at the same time.

That or, since STD costs $8 to $10 million per episode whereas each TNG episode cost only $1 million, is the extra money really worth it?

 

[Paul Weaver]

1987 $1m is worth $2.17m today, but yes an DSC is 4-5 times the price of a TNG episode in real terms. Personally I'd rather have 25 $4.8m episodes than 15 $8m ones.

 

[XCV330]

1987 $1m is worth $2.17m today, but yes an DSC is 4-5 times the price of a TNG episode in real terms. Personally I'd rather have 25 $4.8m episodes than 15 $8m ones.

Those 25 episode series were grueling on the actors and led to a lot of filler episodes. I'll take quality over quantity. I do wish there was some other series to have in the interim. I think CBS will wish that too when the inevitable cancellations happen in the next couple of weeks.

 

[cultcross]

Yeah, longer seasons are not something I want to go back to. Down that road lies dubious scripts rushed into production to meet deadlines, and filler episodes aplenty. All the Trek series suffered from that - shorter seasons are the norm now, and removing the need to fill out that much screentime should make stories pithier, and better quality.