'Star Trek: Discovery' will be the worst series.

I don't say this lightly.

I think "Star Trek: Discovery" will be the best Star Trek series.

 

It's well known that the best possible way to affect the culture of a board is to show up and behave like a whiny self-pitying jerkass with a ludicrous persecution complex. It goes over big, really. This has never, ever backfired in the history of the cosmos.

I mean, the thing about Trek is that its "progressivism" was always flawed and incomplete, especially as regards gender and sexuality issues. Bruno's talk about the "proper" mix of genders would have sounded at home coming from an actual character on the original show in the Sixties. What those who want to keep the show preserved in amber in the state of the Sixties always forget is that Trek is also about trying to move forward in meaningful ways. Yes, sometimes that process is glacial -- it's absurd that it took us this long to get an openly gay character in a Trek movie, for instance -- but we don't have to resign ourselves to that and to that end I'm hopeful that Fuller really means what he says about diversity in casting (although his pronouncements in that regard are actually vague enough to provide plenty of wriggle-room in any direction he chooses to go).

 

There's a thought for QS&F, I am sure the admins would be delighted.

 

Homophobe !

Oh, sorry, my mistake...

 

Yup, there we have it, I'm half-afraid of myself.

 

OHMYGOD Someone with a positive attitude towards something new.... Kill it with fire!

 

So "greatest generation" nostalgia is your best play? Really?

Yes, America may have been vastly more racist and sexist in the Forties than it is today, but it was probably magically rape-free. That's the ticket.

 

Agreed - I just don't think you could stop yourself if you tried.

 

Hey, they gave the Japanese-Americans free housing during the war. That says something.

 

But you should try bringing a few more supplies to the effort than just rubber and glue next time. That particular tactic has never impressed a human being over the age of five. #truefax

 

Serialized storyline. Gender-blind. Race-blind. LGBT character (hopefully). Representation from the Roddenberry, Bennett, Berman, and Abrams era. Trying to do things that haven't been done before while looking at the DNA of selective TOS episodes to see what made the spirit of Star Trek work.

Yes, this will be the best series. I really do think this. And it'll fit in with the landscape of today's series. This crosses off everything on my list.

 

While I'm not a huge fan of serialized stories or the new movies I am rather posetive about the new series, especially after they announced Kirsten Beyer as a writer.