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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x03 - "Ghosts of Illyria"

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Had to give this one a 6. The Disco and Picard writers are starting to take this show to where they have gone before. I'm afraid this is starting to take a turn for the worst.
I hope I'm wrong. Time will tell.
 
It's not that bluray are on the out, it's that Bluray didn't kill DVD, which is a massive and unacceptable cut into their take.

The survival of DVD is also why Bluray is still a thing, since the tech has been there to make an optical disk that can hold 10 terabytes since 2018... Why are people going to junk their bluray player and bluray disk collection if there's still 40 million film snobs across the world still collecting everything on dvd?
They shouldn't bother making Pure DVD players anymore.

BluRay Players are all Backward Compatible with DVD's.

So manufacturers should only make Blu-Ray Players that are all backward compatible with DVD's.

Simplifies logistics and all that.
 
Had to give this one a 6. The Disco and Picard writers are starting to take this show to where they have gone before. I'm afraid this is starting to take a turn for the worst.
I hope I'm wrong. Time will tell.

What parts of the episode stood out that make you say that?

I’m not saying you’re wrong, it’s just that I didn’t see any similarities with Picard or Discovery.
 
The Disco and Picard writers are starting to take this show to where they have gone before.
Please do some research before making these claims.

Are they the same writers? Either way, I don't see any similarities between SNW and PIC or DSC.

So far the only PIC or DSC writers that have written anything for this show are Akiva and Alex and Jenny Lumet, and they only co-wrote the pilot.

Alex and Akiva apparently wrote next week's episode.
 
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They shouldn't bother making Pure DVD players anymore.

BluRay Players are all Backward Compatible with DVD's.

So manufacturers should only make Blu-Ray Players that are all backward compatible with DVD's.

Simplifies logistics and all that.
I'm honestly surprised they're still making DVD players. Blu-ray players can be had for less than $100 these days. But I guess when you can get a DVD player for $25 (!!) some people will just go for that.
 
Does it really matter? Archer ignored the XCV-330 Enterprise on his wall. Even though it appears on the wall of the 602 Club in his time.

SNIP!

STitD had both the XCV-330 Enterprise AND the NX-01 Enterprise models, so basically fans of the franchise can pick-and-choose what sort of continuity they want. Personally, it shouldn't matter, but it does matter to some fans. Hence, why we are even bothering to discuss a non-issue/issue.
 
So, back to Number One...
Here's how I see it. Una is Illyrian as Spock is Vulcan. Meaning, both are and aren't because of their cross-genetic makeup. Una is a gene-modified human but identifies as Illyrian because of the society in which she was born and raised. She's of their tribe. Say a group of scientists who believed in the benefits of gene-modification left Earth because of the stigma of the Eugenics Wars (still present centuries later) and established a colony on Illyria, in no small part because of the native Illyrians' expertise in said science. Generations on, the earthborn have become so extensively modified that they see themselves as a separate race, more Illyrian than human. And maybe they are. The Federation certainly seems to think so, with Una and her kind shouldering that burden. Hence the mystery of who she really is.

Reminds me about the Sith and the Mandalorians from STAR WARS, how both groups started out as distinctive, non-human aliens, but adopted humans and other species into their own, resulting in changing of their "race", if not "species".
 
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Reminds me about the Sith and the Mandalorians from STAR WARS, how both groups started out as distinctive, non-human aliens, but adopted humans and other species into their own, resulting in changing of their "race", if not "species".
Sometimes, certain cultures will transcend species and the cultures won't discriminate as long as you adopt their ways.

"This is the Way!"
 
I've tried to influence my parents to upgrade to BD for... decades.

First, they cost too much! Fair enough, but then the price plunged, but still no go. (Oh yeah, they do have an HDTV, I bought one for them.) Not enough for them to upgrade though. Best I could do is talk them into trying a new DVD player with HDMI connectors, for a better picture, which they agree it is, but I better not bring up BD!
I like them.
 
FACT TREK, headed up primarily by @Maurice and @Harvey with assist and ass-kicking by me, got a hold of a color photo of the makeup test.

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I've always wondered how that Orion make-up worked on a black-and-white tv (which were most prevalent back in the day):vulcan:
 
Well, the goal by both the corporations and the state is for the plebes to own as little personal property and wealth as possible, effectively turning a human being into the equivalent of a gerbil on a hamster wheel, to be fed, taking care of and "processed" as such.
Yep. The whole plan is to turn us into the product, and products have no rights.
 
Are they the same writers? Either way, I don't see any similarities between SNW and PIC or DSC.
We can expect SNW and DSC to share a lot of writers and directors, and Ep. 1 was written by a trifecta of DSC creators including Kurtzman. Seems to me to be recognizably similar to at least the more relatively self-contained outings of (much of) DSC, which makes sense with the show being a DSC spinoff, but I do think they're going for a lot more stylistic variation between episodes than DSC's serialized approach allowed.
 
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