Probably a dishonorably discharged veteran due to un-American values and zero respect for diversity. Won't last long.
What would you change about this series?
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It is very dangerous, and it concerns me that the Star Trek utopian ideal is sometimes portrayed as a world free of any type of conflict.
What would I change? The Klingon head ridges.
How about neither? I personally prefer complex boardroom arguments about deep philosophy, and border diplomacy to the current mashup of zany action.
I would make the show less episodic. It feels like season 3 of Enterprise regarding that aspect, while I do find it superior to the previous two Star Trek TV incarnations. I would also enjoy if we slowly but certainly start moving at least the uniforms to an aesthetic which is closer to TOS at least color wise. The current uniforms are nice but "Blingy" it would be cool if the Gold, Silver and Copper start to look more Yellow, Blue and Reddish - Yet I don't know if that would make it look like Enterprise.
Regarding the Klingons, I love the House of Mo'Kai uniforms, they are the closest to what I would expect form the Klingons, and I like that they seem to do Ritual Scarring which conceptually speaking would have been a very interesting take on the Klingon ridges - (maybe for the next visual reboot).
What I do not like about the Klingons:
Quite frankly if you check the concept art here, you will notice that they look better than in the show and that has to do with the pupilary distance between the proposed art and actual humans wearing makeup. They don't match and that is why Klingons look "dumb" or "somehow wrong" as their noses are too wide and makes them appear unable to look ahead.
Regarding the Klingons, I love the House of Mo'Kai uniforms, they are the closest to what I would expect form the Klingons, and I like that they seem to do Ritual Scarring which conceptually speaking would have been a very interesting take on the Klingon ridges - (maybe for the next visual reboot).
What I do not like about the Klingons:
Quite frankly if you check the concept art here, you will notice that they look better than in the show and that has to do with the pupilary distance between the proposed art and actual humans wearing makeup. They don't match and that is why Klingons look "dumb" or "somehow wrong" as their noses are too wide and makes them appear unable to look ahead.
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They don't have to look the like the Klingons of ToS or the TNG/DS9/Voy era but I would go with a design that allows the actors to use the full range of their facial expressions with greater ease. Even the Krill makeup from the Orville allows the actors to be more expressive.
100% agreed
Maybe we'll get a spinoff show set further in the past
I honestly reckon there's more to this than we think.
I would change absolute everything.
I would set it after Nemesis, I would change the aesthetic look of everything, and I would cast better actors and writers.
I would also focus on high concept ideas.
I watch Discovery every week on Netflix but I can't honestly say I enjoy it.
I would set it after Nemesis, I would change the aesthetic look of everything, and I would cast better actors and writers.
I would also focus on high concept ideas.
I watch Discovery every week on Netflix but I can't honestly say I enjoy it.
The era.
Ironically, Discovery seems to have taken a lot of it's visual aesthetic from Nemesis
There are a lot of visual callbacks (whether intentionally, or not) to Nemesis in the first two episodes. The Starfleet ships have a similar look and texture to the Enterprise E in that film, you have the ship getting blown apart with forcefields going up allowing the crew to see into space. Burnham does that "jumping through the vacuum" thing like Data did, and the way space in general is portrayed in the show is very similar to how it looks in the film.
Maybe it was intentional.
I feel like it has more in common with Enterprise and Kelvin than anything else, with very submarine style feel to the interiors, and very hands on equipment.
I've been rewatching the battles and really liking the flow of the ships.
Yes
I stand by showing it on a Sunday evening - simple to do. Off to the airport at 4am, won't be back for a week, would have been nice to watch the episode before going.
Replace hackneyed diminutives and slang like "hack" with actual words. "Trek" should have a higher standard; its legacy has been more or less "Shakespeare in Space"(tm) despite having to appeal to mass audiences but previous generations in the same society could somehow understand big scary words like "technology" so what happened? Treating multisyllabic words as if they're some abomination to edified linguistics has been embarrassing and the same pap has been heard in Star Wars and Doctor Who. Well, definitely DW. SW:TFA may have had someone uttering it, it's not a memorable movie since I've seen the previous six already.
Case in point: Find any scene with Scotty or Geordi discussing and saying the word "technology". Now imagine them doing the scene but saying "tech" as if they were in a bar looking to score a cheap hookup and without any proverbial "safety net" in the wallet. Yeah, it becomes rather cringe-inducing, doesn't it...
And I promise never to use the truncated slang term ever again. "Tech"... cor, the days when "tech" was a diminutive of "technician" was bad enough, are there too many words in the dictionary for people to instantly recall? The yellow/red/blue/black/pink/green/ultraviolent alert scheme is oh-so-long a list already...
That or is the target audience's median age 6?
Case in point: Find any scene with Scotty or Geordi discussing and saying the word "technology". Now imagine them doing the scene but saying "tech" as if they were in a bar looking to score a cheap hookup and without any proverbial "safety net" in the wallet. Yeah, it becomes rather cringe-inducing, doesn't it...
And I promise never to use the truncated slang term ever again. "Tech"... cor, the days when "tech" was a diminutive of "technician" was bad enough, are there too many words in the dictionary for people to instantly recall? The yellow/red/blue/black/pink/green/ultraviolent alert scheme is oh-so-long a list already...
That or is the target audience's median age 6?
I distinctly remember once in a season one episode Picard referred to emergency saucer separation as "sauce sep."
I have to go with more episodes per season.
I think if they would have had 22-27 like the other series' instead of 15, it wouldn't feel so rushed. And there would be more getting to know some of the ancillary characters better.
I think if they would have had 22-27 like the other series' instead of 15, it wouldn't feel so rushed. And there would be more getting to know some of the ancillary characters better.
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