Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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If Bryan Fuller stayed on the whole way through, it's true that chances are that he'd piss away money the whole damn season.
That said, I do think it's true that Kurtzman likes to spend major $$$ in episodes he writes/cowrites/directs, which are often season openers or closers.
Fuller leaving DSC was one of the best things that could have ever happened to that series, and to streaming Trek.
Blessed be...
I have to agree. I dont care for season 1 of Discovery but the original plans would have meant I would have missed out on the rest of the show which I adore and the abundance of other Trek content I have loved from this renaissance era.
Not sure. People seemed to love Season 1 of American Gods, and then it fell off a cliff after he left.
Pretty soon I think he'll no longer be coved by an NDA and we can here his side of the story. But he flamed out of so many shows in 2017 (Discovery, American Gods, the Amazing Stories reboot, a planned vampire show, etc.) that I think he must have had some sort of mental health episode and/or substance abuse issue. Because he went from wunderkid, to being fired from everything, to not having a job in Hollywood for almost a decade.
Corrected your typo.
I saw an interview with Fuller in which he said he left Discovery because Paramount didn't want a part-time showrunner. He also said that on his last day he approved uniform designs that they didn't use and rejected the Klingon designs that they did use.
The second one is painfully boring.
Different strokes, I guess. I was totally entertained by both plotlines.
The first was clearly better, but I like both. Neither are S-tier Trek but for a 32nd century setting it was above average.
True, but that's not exactly a high bar.
I liked the first better than the second, but I'm really pleasantly surprised that Kurtzman finally realized we don't need to have an "action" scene (or something similar, with the ship in danger of blowing up) in every episode.
I was really frustrated how in a lot of the slower, more character-based episodes of modern Trek they just insert a pointless action scene. Like the two minutes in DIS's season 3 episode Forget Me Not where some Trill randomly attack Michael.
So, while the episode didn't quite land for me, it makes me hopeful we're going to see other action light episodes in the future that pull off "space drama" better.
I'm not looking for S tier. Average is fine.
Probably why they gave the show two seasons. Season two should be cheap. Actors already under contract. Standing sets already built. Shedding any big money going to Giamatti. Plus it gives a show two seasons to find a audience which does seem like a good thing. If only shows in the past like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks had been given two seasons to win people over.
In previous iterations of Trek, various facilities in Earth orbit--including Spacedock One and the San Francisco Shipyards--tend only to be there when a story requires them to be there. Otherwise, Earth's orbit has often been depicted as empty. IMO, they're always there but to see them depends on one's orbital altitude and angle.
Eh, I tried it. Just don’t think it’s for me. No harm, no foul.
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