Should there be more every day life on Discovery?
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How about traffic jams on Earth? The whole first episode could be the Captain and first officer stuck in traffic on their way to Starfleet HQ and the launch of the USS Discovery. They can moan about how cheap-ass Starfleet only sprang for a groundcar and that only the Admirals gets the fancy flying cars.
Meh, I thought we wanted novelty, not more years with Captain Kirk.
Every day life is fine and all as long as they still follow the no toilets rule. In the future humans have progressed beyond them.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Little details like this - a piece of exposition during mediocre tasks. Perhaps two Starfleet officers discussing strategy between bathroom stalls, or, as another poster mentioned, the Captain and XO get caught in traffic when they're supposed to be somewhere. Maybe Starfleet HQ gets evacuated in the middle of a meeting because some chef accidentally set fire to a Bolian soufflé in the cafeteria.
We usually don't see "everyday life" in other shows, so why would DSC be any different? I mean, it's not like you ever see SVU's Olivia Benson eating breakfast or anything like that.
I think this was BSG, not B5
More specifically - alien STDs
But it's a future-set show. Having some "some things never change" kind of touchstones is comforting, however annoying the actual situations are (paperwork discrepancies, family problems, stepping on a self-sealing LEGO, etc)
Careful, you might get the continuity crowd coming after you with their torches and pitchforks on that one!
One of the men peeing was Garibaldi, the other was the station's commander (but I can't remember which), afterwards they walked over to a suspended blue light bar and held their hand under the bar, a substution for washing their hands.
I think the minutiae was part of what killed Stargate Universe.
I just wanna see some futuristic off-duty or civilian clothing that doesn't look like weird pajamas. Stuff that I'd be like, "Man, I want clothes like that!" Rather than the, "WTF are they wearing??" reaction I had as a kid to TNG clothes. DS9 later graduated to weird looking and colorful waiter uniforms for their civies.
That was the B5 season 2 episode "DIVIDED LOYALTIES", if I remember correctly. Garibaldi and Sheridan were discussing the possibility of bringing Talia Winters into their inner circle on exposing President Clark for the murder of the previous President, Luis Santiago, and all the other things that went with that.
Even if Federation everyday life would maybe be boring as hell, I think it would be great to get a glimpse into the minutiae of daily Klingon life or daily Borg life. When have we ever seen them shown during their downtime? Plus, a Borg or a Klingon on the toilet would be hilarious to see.
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Ugh, Klingon public restrooms must be a nightmare on toast.
I wouldn't mind seeing someone watching a movie. Or at least the equivalent of feature film or serialized anthology that is watched and not played. Yes, I know that "tv no longer exists" in the Star Trek future, but I refuse to believe that people don't produce programs that would be akin to TV series or films. Despite admissions from Kim, saying things like, "I can't imagine just watching it and not being part of the story," I can't imagine that film-making as an art form wouldn't exist in some form just because of the rise of holonovels. People still write books and produce plays, afterall. There should be a huge spectrum of artistic expression between writing and holonovels.
There was a novel where a time displaced officer was given back-seasons of a serialized drama that was popular at the time from her displacement to the present so she could catch up. I forget which book and which character, but I remember thinking, YES, THANK YOU. You binge watch that series, homegirl, you deserve it.
There was a novel where a time displaced officer was given back-seasons of a serialized drama that was popular at the time from her displacement to the present so she could catch up. I forget which book and which character, but I remember thinking, YES, THANK YOU. You binge watch that series, homegirl, you deserve it.
One of the characters specializes in fungi, or at least so I heard, it wouldn't surprise me if there was at least a little bit of the slice-of-life little things in the show.
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