What does dink mean?
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x01 - "Brother"
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Money was the reason we got Sulu and Uhura in the first place. Someone figured out non-whites spend money, too!
The only colour that matters is green.
and we still wait for Orions as part of a bridge crew
didn't he 'know' her before?
Heaven forbid they try to appeal to more people and grow their fanbase, thereby increasing their sales. Heaven forbid they move with the times and acknowledge diversity and representation in their new products. Heaven forbid they stop solely catering to only a certain group of people that want to gate-keep things.
I'm glad the film and TV industry are finally getting it, that they'll attract more revenue and more viewers if they don't ignore what women, PoC, and LGBTQ viewers might prefer to see in their entertainment media.
I'm glad the film and TV industry are finally getting it, that they'll attract more revenue and more viewers if they don't ignore what women, PoC, and LGBTQ viewers might prefer to see in their entertainment media.
how healthy is that green colour? afaik virginia hey quit farscape because the blue colour made problems with her liver - she also wanted to have hair again
doesn't sound very 60s
depends on the colour used, I guess. But if Airam can wear coloured make up for a season, an Orion on the bridge can't be that dangerously unhealthy
they got a new one after just 14 shows
Burnham and Tilly remain roommates. Mary Wiseman said so in an interview. Plus, when Sarek enters Burnham's quarters, there are two twin beds.
IIRC it was the the sponsors who requested the studios and networks add people of color to their shows. Not just Star Trek, but many others as well. There is a pretty large uptick of nonwhite characters in Star Trek's "classmates" in the mid sixties. The Cage is pretty white. WNMHGB has at least one non-white character and by the time we get to TOS proper there's Uhura, Sulu and many background characters of color.
Well I'm sure it was Gene who came up with making the character female and casting an "old friend" in the part.
The quarters were the same she shared with Tilly last season, although in Runaway, Tilly seemed to have her own quarters, which was a redress of the same one. Burnham had holographic candles in her quarters and was visited by Sarek in the episode.
Maybe Burnham kept the old quarters, or moved to a similar sized quarters so as not to bump anyone despite her rank. They were expecting a new Captain, so Lorca's old quarters were probably kept empty and will now be used by Pike.
Unlike the Enterprises, the Discovery is a pure science vessel and might not have extra quarters for dignitaries and such.
That's pretty much it.
Remember the big battle in "Battle at the binary stars" that kicked off the Klingon war? Yeah, who'd have thought that would be the ONLY big battle of the war we would ever witness!
In fact, I hope they spread the money much better around this time - I treat this entire episode like the usual "pre-title sequence" teasers all the 90s show had. That was very often the most expensive and exciting sequence of the episode as well. But I DO hope that both
- There will be (sparingly) some other, comparable action sequences, and
- The actual "plot" and story will be better handled and more coherent than in season 1
To be fair to the friggin' 60s though: They couldn't kill any recurring characters! In many episodes, they built the designated redshirt up, established his personality and his connections to the main character, to sell the impact. But nevertheless, this was purely the result of the narrative limiations of the time. Copying THAT seems very... foolish.
I didn't like it in ST09 - it was already too much treated as a meta-joke that it undermined the seriousness of the situation. But here? It felt like 60s television again. Just not very clever.
Ironically, this is a thing season 1 actually did better: Cmdr. Landry was also a designated redshirt. But since they build her up the previous episode as a recurring character - her death came actually as a surprise. Even though it was equally dumb as here. (Man, DIS really has a thing with commanding officers being dumb to get themselves killed, right?)
I also felt it came at the wrong place narrative-wise: That was the start of the mission! The fun action part! It would have had a much stronger punch if he died later, when things got wrong. The part where they were trying to beam up, and Burnham got cut off? If he had died there, it would have actually made the situation much more serious!
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That doesn't mean much. We don't know why they decided to change actors, maybe they didn't want to hide Sarah Mitch's face. She's still in the show as another character.
didn't say it does - but might be
This makes me wonder where Sarek slept between the seasons...
a villa in malibu
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