Yeah some tropes really need to be discontinued and this is the biggest one.
Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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Again. The window/viewscreen combo was conceived for the Kelvinverse. The crew no longer looks at enemies out of a pure viewscreen. They see them mostly through a window and the embedded viewscreen tech is for communication, various tech diagrams main etc. Its no longer what it was in tos or the Berman era shows.
So your entire metric for determining the size of and feelings of the entire fanbase is viewership of a youtube upload of a preview scene? That is an extremely flimsy foundation for an argument.
You fail to factor in; not everyone wants to watch youtube videos these days since they are often infested with unskippable ads, not everyone wants to watch a preview and tries to avoid spoilers, older fans who don't use youtube, and people who don't live online and might not even be aware of its existence.
You offer no solid case.
With content designed to generate views and no substance to back it up. Clickbaits, ragebaits and memes are not an equivalence for comparison.
The bridge viewscreen was not a giant window they looked out of. Not sure where youre getting that from. Maybe point me to an episode where they're on the bridge and show it as a window. Look for it on tng if you want. You wont find anything because they are viewscreens not windows. Lol
It’s an aesthetic choice. One I actually appreciate. If that’s your argument for what continuity the shows appear in, it’s rather pathetic.
You're welcome. But this kind of thing has been with us since TMP/TWOK. And yes having it here is a "moviefication" of TV. Though even TOS wasn't afraid of a little shake rattle and roll. And yeesh! SPOILERS!!!! (good thing there was a week between episodes!)
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Not only pathetic, but nonexistent.
Bro, do you even Star Trek?
Again I'm not really making a value judgment, I'm just identifying that a formula exists, that it's been deployed repeatedly in the Kurtzman shows, and that SFA seems from what we know so far to be adhering to it as closely as any of the others.
I think it'd be hard to disagree that these common traits and plot beats between the streaming shows exist, whatever people think of them, in the same way that someone could reasonably see a preview for a TNG episode and accurately say "oh, they're doing the 'crew find an anomaly, Picard calls a lengthy briefing, Troi senses pain, Data fixes it with technobabble' plot again."
Its only "pathetic" to you because you disagree with me. It was a choice built from the Kelvin universe. Thats it. All the tech was upped and more advanced than things we saw in any trek before. They even went out of their way to change the size and shape of the windowscreen from what we saw in the size of the viewscreen in tos.
It serves the purpose as in TOS with one additional feature.
This is a stupid argument because a window is not new technology that defines an era.
No, it’s pathetic because you choose to base your enjoyment about a series on choices based on what things look like as opposed to what actually occurs in the series. You dismiss an entire era of a franchise you claim to enjoy because of aesthetics. In other words, you judge a book by its cover.
It's been there since the second pilot. Why change now?
If Discovery's bridge has a window instead of a view screen, then why did they have to use a telescope and look out of a window in Georgiou's quarters in the very first episode? I'm not even sure where this argument is coming from or what it's about anymore.
That's TMP. Different canon and EnterpriseBecause the Enterprise never had a widescreen Main Viewer before 2009 --
Oh.
Clearly it was intended to be a window during Where No Man Has Gone Before. Which lines up pretty well with SNW.
And that was also the same viewscreen that Phase Two would have had. The bridge from TMP was largely leftover set components from the cancelled second series.
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