It's where they are at. They got bit too hard and played it safe.
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We don't even know if they're the focus, could just be a background alien.
It's still nothing like the 90s series.
You keep saying that, but nothing they're doing is safe.
It's still nothing like the 90s series.
And Michelle Phillips. Going back to TOS, Melvin Belli.
It's the safest fucking show they're doing, by a Kessell run's worth of parsecs.
It's not a matter of doing things like the 90s series. It's a matter of a return to the familiar. Klingons, Enterprise, Spock, Kirk, Uhura, etc. This is not creating something new or different but relying on familiar touchstones that will not offend people.
As much as I want a Pike show this trend seems very apparent to me, to create a safe Trek check list so that it feels familiar.
That's what I'm thinking. Especially with the lack of Klingon looking teeth.
I couldn’t care less what the Klingons look like. Cause I’m sick of Klingons. Have been for a long time. But they’re a fabric of Trek and it’s inevitable they’d appear in SNW. It’d be interesting if they showed up in all the varieties of Klingon we’ve seen though out the decades.
Give me a Klingon High Council chamber scene where L'Rell is still Chancellor for the moment but other members of the Council are TOS Augments and TNG/Movie-style. And throw some line in there about how this is a coming together of all Klingons in the pursuit of cultural unity after a century of division and infighting following "the attempt by humans to change us."
Honestly, them showing up with all the varieties is one of the few ways to make it slightly palatable. I agree that Klingons are a part of the fabric but I am sick to death of them, and the reliance on them.
I wouldn't mind seeing L'Rell again. I like the actress a great deal. Although still wigged out by the "rape" scene with Ash/Vok in the first season of Disco.
I dunno. It came off as more a violation than an actual memory. Same with the surgery. Either way it felt traumatic.
what is your source for them being the minority?
Perhaps older techniques were better, considering the Klingon speech difficulties and odd Orion mask...
From his perspective he was remembering a Voq memory with zero context, thinking it was a supressed memory (which technically it was, but a suppressed Voq memory). So from his perspective, yes it would be traumatic.
At least that what I thought the scene was representing.
If it is the majority then it will win out.what is your source for them being the minority?
Perhaps older techniques were better, considering the Klingon speech difficulties and odd Orion mask...
Right now, it comes across as fan service, and kowtowing to complaints. It's not a good look.
Well that's nice. Does that mean...
the whole "Augment Virus" BS from ENT is not in continuity for this series?
That would make it not Prime, which they always said it was.
That would be my wish, but then I don't treat ENT as Prime continuity anyway.
what is your source for them being the minority?
In fact, the whole viewership of the Paramount Plus Trek shows are themselves a minority of all the Trek fans who've followed it for decades. But what difference does it make?
I'm not talking about design but the limitations of the materials and application techniques, which limited expression and made blending and coloring diificult.
All this has improved enough to make the immobile makeups on STD even more dunderheaded.
