Thing is, Titanic is about the main event.Never watch a Titanic movie
Whereas a prequel is playing out all sorts of side-quests that the audience knows must not contradict the main event.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"
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Whereas a prequel is playing out all sorts of side-quests that the audience knows must not contradict the main event.
Or perhaps because he just LOOKS age appropriate? I don't see why a new actor has to be the same age.
I didn't think he was being aggressive. They didn't have a lot of options, did they? It's not reckless to take the only action that offers a chance of survival. That was one aspect of the ep I found poignant and kind of cool. He realizes -knows- the ship will make it because he is on the ship and this isn't his time. He doesn't know who will die as a result of this desperate act. (And people do and he mourns the losses.) He's also making a reasoned choice based on the information he's been provided by his team. Kirk would have done the same.
You were right you imagined it?
I can know I'll die in 10 years and still act very aggressively and impulsively in the moment. Human behavior isn't always a predictable thing and I like that he's still being reckless and feeling as if his life is on the line even if we know it isn't.
I imagine soYou were right you imagined it?
Not really.
There are additional layers of meaning to the character stories in these Titanic productions precisely because we know what they do not about what's coming. It's simply a different kind of tool for creating suspense than the simpler "let's keep the audience guessing."
The same's true for a so-called prequel like SNW. And really, in no way are the stories we're seeing now less important than or somehow preparatory to the stories we saw in TOS. They're just as important.
You're going to die. It's an absolute certainty and there's nothing you can do about it. Other people will be born and will die after you, and they won't know anything about you.
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Anyone who thinks prequels are a dead end for real drama either doesn't understand writing or chooses not to so that they can nitpick said prequels.
wasnt discovery’s existence totally expunged from all records, though?
No. It was reported as lost with all hands. The exact nature of the mission was classified.
They must shut off at some point because when we see the ship drop out of warp in the pilot episode we see them turn back on.
I like the show I just think they are planning in rewriting TOS after the Pike missions.
So wait - Chapel was wearing a Farragut pin. This is interesting to me. That was Lieutenant Kirk's ship. They were attacked by the space vampire cloud thingy and lost a lot of people, including Captain Garrovick, but they didn't lose the whole ship. I'm curious if the remembrance pins simply imply the loss of personnel on a specific vessel, not all hands and the vessel itself (like Discovery). And was that the FJ NCC-1702 version (non-canonical, that was listed as "destroyed") or the Greg Jein/Doug Drexler NCC-1647 version? MA says, "The Technical Manual also listed the vessel as being destroyed, as does The Making of Star Trek, although there was no canon evidence supporting that assertion."
Also curious about Spock's Kongo pin. Is that the FJ USS Kongo (NCC-1710) that has been considered quasi-canonical, or the Jein NCC-1732 version? Canonically, Kongo-1710 (ostensibly another refit from an original TOS Connie w/ the FJ registry) was shown on the "Operation Retrieve" charts in TUC.
And why all the seemingly unnecessary re-writing of Connie registry numbers by newer production staff? Was this a continued post-Roddenberrian attempt at discrediting Schaubeldt's work?
These pins really are quite interesting to me. Really hoping we get to see some close-up's of them in the near future (I detect a new limited collectible series from Eaglemoss).
They're not.
Oh noes! *clutches TOS VHSs to protect them from rewriting!*
I actually found the tension pretty strong for this episode. Maybe I'm just remembering that final scene with Pike's relief after Hemmer and Uhura survived, but I was thinking, Pike must be kicking himself constantly for every death, wondering if he's being so brash because he has an assurance that he will survive this.
Which part?
That was a response to Pubert's conspiracy theory about rewriting TOS out of continuity.
Ah, understood.