Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Set Harth]

I stopped trusting my opinion when I realized I liked "Spock's Brain." What the hell is wrong with me?

But he's so intelligent, who would not like his brain?

 

[Noname On A Naughty List]

The last time I did a series rewatch of Disco, I found season 1 had the tightest scripts and story arc. It helped they broke up the narrative into three sub-arcs, rather than their later achilles heel of stretching out a movie's worth of plot over 13 episodes.

I like the first two seasons way more than S3-S5.
(I was really liking S1 a lot until the lame Mirror Lorca reveal.)

 

[XCV330]

Discovery was kind of jumping into a period of history that was already interesting due to Calypso. But at first they didn't incorporate any of that when they had the chance to then made the future very.. gray. The grey lopsided uniforms, the flat designs, the blue lighting, it made many of the sets places you simply didn't want to be. Why couldn't the future be some decadent mix of rococo and aetherpunk. Anything different, really. Nope.. blue lights. Floaty nacelles. That's what we get.

There were interesting episodes from that period, quite a few, especially if you fast forward past the crying, but there were choices that could have been better. I hope they fix this. The fact that you still have to say "shields up" after Red Alert tells me its just going to be regular star trek. That's fine. I like regular star trek, I just wish the people making star trek weren't so chickenshit about it.

 

[Finngle Bells]

Maybe they still do it so the Captain (or the first officer) still feel important.

because feelings.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

looking at the clips for this show one thing is clear:

They clearly don't have Ozempic in the 32nd century, (or Gyms)

They didn't have it in the 23rd century either, Scotty clearly didn't have access to it.

 

[Elaise]

Alright, I'll ask it a different way - do you think DSC was tonally distinct from TOS, or do you think the two shows are more or less identical?

If they are different, how was this difference developed, conveyed, and presented by the DSC writers?

I think you are right in your argument in the different tones between DISCO and TOS. I have been watching TOS and it like TNG mostly sits in the middle. You can have it switch to a darker or lighter tone depending whats going on. The mudd episode even with the content still felt more middle to lighter tone.

To me TOS never really gets as dark in tone as DISCO does.