The best-looking starship in the Kelvin Timeline films was the U.S.S. Kelvin.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Hard disagree. They're just as likely to get the Federation in trouble by screwing up their paranoid attempts at protection, a'la the Illuminati in Marvel comics.
Threshold: the series!
Go for it.
I think it's exactly the series they should make. It'll stomp out the misplaced nostalgia people have for B&B in an instant.
Completely agreed.
Our hero ships are characters themselves. They are what brings us to the adventures. They are just as, if not more, important than the characters on those ships.
It's precisely why it hurts when we see them destroyed, like the Enterprise or the Defiant.
Controversial opinion: ships are not characters.
I'll show myself out.
I'll show myself out.
Captain Pike would disagree (bonus points that he used a proper picture of the Enterprise and not the Discoprise)Controversial opinion: ships are not characters.
I'll show myself out.
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Well, Captain Pike and I were bound to disagree eventually...
Don't know if they're more important, but they're important. I still tear up when Janeway explains to Tuvok why she's staying with Voyager at the end of "Year of Hell"
Youre in good company; Tuvok didn't understand either.
...To retch. TOS much beloved, the Refit fairest of them all. The JJprise is an aesthetic and design nightmare. And the rest of the JJverse Starfleet looks like the love child of a Starship junk yard and a De Soto.
Salamander with ridges. Salamander with spots. Salamander with accessories.
Well, I have always identified as Vulcan.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Unpopular Opinion: Some say Discovery should've taken place in the 32nd Century to begin with. I disagree and I'll tell you why. If the first new Star Trek series on TV in 12 years premiered with the Federation having fallen, it would've gone over like a lead weight. Don't even try to say it's not true.
Also, if DSC had a crew from the 32nd Century, then life after The Burn would be normal to them. The fact that they're from when the Federation was in its prime (no pun intended) means they have a perspective the rest of what's left of the Federation lacks. It's what makes the Discovery crew different from them.
Technically the season premiered five months ago, not six, so I won't go into any more details, but the common knowledge that the Federation had fallen has been known through trailers and teasers for longer than that.
Point is: I think it was right for DSC to not start off in the Far Future.
Also, if DSC had a crew from the 32nd Century, then life after The Burn would be normal to them. The fact that they're from when the Federation was in its prime (no pun intended) means they have a perspective the rest of what's left of the Federation lacks. It's what makes the Discovery crew different from them.
Technically the season premiered five months ago, not six, so I won't go into any more details, but the common knowledge that the Federation had fallen has been known through trailers and teasers for longer than that.
Point is: I think it was right for DSC to not start off in the Far Future.
Honestly, I don't know know about season 1 and 2 being the prime of the Federation. Just in the 24th century, the Federation was a LOT bigger than in Kirk's day. DISCOVERY could have started at any time, really. Say, the 26th century, and build from that. Then make that jump into the 32nd. This would also solve the problem that so many people have with the technology looking more futuristic than what has been established in the previous shows.
Hell, you could have started 5-10 years before PICARD season 1 starts, and you've got plenty of time between the end of NEMESIS and that point to explain the look.
(Having said that, I really do like how they made the Enterprise look in season 2. MUCH better than the JJ version by a country mile.)
Hell, you could have started 5-10 years before PICARD season 1 starts, and you've got plenty of time between the end of NEMESIS and that point to explain the look.
(Having said that, I really do like how they made the Enterprise look in season 2. MUCH better than the JJ version by a country mile.)
When I said "no pun intended", I was lying.
Pun was completely intended.Prime Timeline, Federation in its Prime... I've had to explain it, so it didn't land.
I think starting it off where they did was just fine. I honestly think the only true bump was the jaunt to the Mirror Universe rather than unpacking the Klingon War. Going in to the future was understandable. I just don't think so far in to the future was needed.
The genocide was because the Cardassians switched sides in the war. Shefounder did not know there was a cure until the very end when Odo linked with her, that is what ended the war.
I wonder how they would have treated a different shapeshifting species, whether they would be heralded as 'brothers' or as a possible threat. It's not even inconceivable that the Federation had a similar species as one of its members.
Or how they would have responded to a species such as the Q continuum, especially if they were being told the Alpha Quadrant was off limits to them.
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