Patrick Stewart has seen first 5 episodes, hopes fans won't be disappointed

[Grendelsbayne]

People with sensors can see what you're doing whether there's a window or not. How many times did some alien scan the ship and immediately beam away specific people? How many times did the enterprise use the transporter to pinpoint target some specific person on a planet's surface who they had no visual contact with?

This is literally what sensors do.

 

[NCC-73515]

I think we only saw through the destroyed viewscreen 2 times in the shows: Once in Year of Hell, and once in Nemesis. YOH also showed a hologrid behind it.

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[cooleddie74]

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PIC should stick with this technology.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The window justifies the irredeemably stupid location of the bridge. If you're gonna have a big screen, put the most important room full of the most important people at the very centre of the saucer. If it's on top, it's a cool lookout and you get some amazing camera shots.

 

[Tuskin38]

No one ever seems to complain that the shuttles have a giant windows, but a starship oh no!

Anyways, so far in the trailers we haven’t seen a single bridge window. Though mind you we haven’t even seen the front of the hero ship yet. But the Romulan Bird of Prey doesn’t seem to have one at least.

 

[eschaton]

The reason the bridge is on the top is because on ships the bridge is typically at the top of the ship. Historically speaking this wasn't a very vulnerable spot, because a ship was more likely to be hit by a torpedo than bombed from the air. People were used to the concept of the bridge being on the top, so that is where they decided to put it.

Naval-style thinking is evident lots of other places in Trek as well. For example, even though space is three-dimensional, ships almost always approach one another as if on a flat plane.

If you want a more realistic look at what space combat would be like, go watch The Expanse or something.

 

[Noname Given]

By that logic the ship's viewer is basically a giant webcam that could be hacked at any moment. Sure hope they don't have any hackers on board. That would be awkward.

^^^
FYI - Spock did that a couple times on TOS (See both TOS S1 - "The Corbomite Maneuver" and TOS S1 - "Balance of Terror").

 

[ITDUDE]

If you want a more realistic look at what space combat would be like, go watch The Expanse or something.

One of the best Sci-fi shows of all time!

 

[Paul Weaver]

So you're saying the Duras sisters shouldn't have bothered with Geordi's visor, and instead should've parked the cloaked BoP outside an Engineering window

Correct. Engineering doesn’t have a window though, so they couldn’t do that

Sensors can’t penetrate shields to a high level of detail, but we constantly see that photons can - both from the camera view and from characters observing them.

Shuttles have windows because, unlike starships, they operate in close quarters (on planets and shuttlebays) where it helps to see where you’re going

 

[TRON JA307020]

These arguments against a window get weird. Space is both too big to see things and people can see you do stuff through the window...

To me, a window is aesthetically pleasing, in an emergency situation can be used to assess immediate surroundings for danger, and the bridge is no less safe than it was before, namely being extremely unsafe being at the top of the ship.

you can’t use a window to see what’s going on aft. Also a window doesn’t have any zoom technology to see further out like the original series and later ones did. What you see through the window is what you get.

 

[fireproof78]

you can’t use a window to see what’s going on aft. Also a window doesn’t have any zoom technology to see further out like the original series and later ones did. What you see through the window is what you get.

It's not like a window can't have technical overlays. It's not a one or the other proposition here. It's simply adding another layer of functionality in case the power goes out-which it does...a lot.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

you can’t use a window to see what’s going on aft. Also a window doesn’t have any zoom technology to see further out like the original series and later ones did. What you see through the window is what you get.

Sure you can. It's the 23rd century. These aren't just Home Depot windows.

 

[NCC-73515]

Geordi had to go to a window to get a real look at the crystalline entity and the edo god and then report back to the bridge XD

 

[Paul Weaver]

Geordi had to go to a window to get a real look at the crystalline entity and the edo god and then report back to the bridge XD

They could have just dipped the ship and he could look out of the skylight

The bigger question there is why the D's sensors were so broken that they were worse than the sensors crammed in a tiny wearable device.

 

[Lynx]

Why should it be?

Because considering the bad music, movies and TV-series in the 2010's and the risk that all this continues during the 2020's, then a lot of people will be bored to death during this new decade.

 

[fireproof78]

Because considering the bad music, movies and TV-series in the 2010's and the risk that all this continues during the 2020's, then a lot of people will be bored to death during this new decade.

I highly doubt it.

 

[Lynx]

Nostaglia is one of the most powerful psychotropic drugs humanity has ever come across. Anyone not blinded by its power gets to enjoy more and better scifi TV every year now than we got in each of the decades of the 80s and 90s. Those under the thrall of nostalgia can only grumply complain about how great 'the good old days' used to be and prevent themselves from enjoying the cornucopia that is laid out before them.

Well, then tell me what's to "enjoy" when it comes to movies, music and TV-series because I don't find much "enjoying" among the constant crap which is poured over us each week.

Now, why should I watch the downright boring "Discovery" with its Klingon Ninja Turtles or the screwed up NuTrek movies when I got TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager (at least the three first seasons of that show)?

The only recent show I've bothered to continue watching is "The Orville". Definitely not as good as TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager but at least it's some humor in it.

As for humor, I liked "Backstrom" but of course it was cancelled after one season. Probably toolittle of doom-and-gloom, political correctnes and psychological mindtwisting drama in it.

As for music, I was really into it during the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's when it was som e good rock bands out there but in boring 2010's someone obviously pulled the plug and everything became plastic and boring.

 

[fireproof78]

Now, why should I watch the downright boring "Discovery" with its Klingon Ninja Turtles or the screwed up NuTrek movies when I got TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager (at least the three first seasons of that show)?

You "should" not do any thing. I personally find them more enjoyable than the characters of TNG or VOY.

Here's the thing. Nothing will return to the "good old days." We have a perception of filter and nothing will ever measure up. So, yes, it will always be "plastic and boring" now because that is the perception.

So, there is no requirement to watch, well, anything. It sounds like all the stuff that is preferred is already available, so why bother with the new?

 

[Alan Roi]

Well, then tell me what's to "enjoy" when it comes to movies, music and TV-series because I don't find much "enjoying" among the constant crap which is poured over us each week.

Now, why should I watch the downright boring "Discovery" with its Klingon Ninja Turtles or the screwed up NuTrek movies when I got TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager (at least the three first seasons of that show)?

The only recent show I've bothered to continue watching is "The Orville". Definitely not as good as TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager but at least it's some humor in it.

As for humor, I liked "Backstrom" but of course it was cancelled after one season. Probably toolittle of doom-and-gloom, political correctnes and psychological mindtwisting drama in it.

As for music, I was really into it during the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's when it was som e good rock bands out there but in boring 2010's someone obviously pulled the plug and everything became plastic and boring.

The world moves on, always has, always will. The choice is to evolve as well in enough ways to find new things to enjoy that never existed before or face spending the future living in the past. Patrick Stewart does seem aware of that as well.

 

[Lynx]

The world moves on, always has, always will. The choice is to evolve as well in enough ways to find new things to enjoy that never existed before or face spending the future living in the past. Patrick Stewart does seem aware of that as well.

Right now there are too many new things I don't enjoy at all. Now why should I listen to music I hate and watch movies and series which bores me to death? I don't call that to evolve but to adapt. I have never adapted to anything I don't like. Such things are for cowards and people without real interests who go where the wind blows just to fit into the trendy crowd.