What's your unpopular opinions on SNW?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's way more like Discovery than the "SNW lover, Disco hater" section of the fans would like to admit.

At least SNW looks like a 23rd century show.

DSC looked like the 32nd century even before it WAS the 32nd century. Although I did like its take on the 1701 bridge.

Anyhoo, another unpopular opinion:

Spoiler: MASSIVE SPOLERS FOR ‘HEGEMONY’

Killing off Captain Batel was a saddening move.

 

[Nerys Myk]

At least SNW looks like a 23rd century show.

DSC looked like the 32nd century even before it WAS the 32nd century. Although I did like its take on the 1701 bridge.

Anyhoo, another unpopular opinion:

Spoiler: MASSIVE SPOLERS FOR ‘HEGEMONY’

Killing off Captain Batel was a saddening move.

Spoiler

She ain’t dead yet. She’s in stasis in sick bay.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ About that:

Spoiler

She’s as good AS dead. Why should we think they can save Batel when they couldn’t save Hemmer? I mean, she has what, a DAY left to live once removed from stasis?

And obviously the Gorn will be of no help, since they infected her in the first place.

In any case, because of that fucking strike, WE MAY NEVER KNOW!

 

[Okmyx]

Hemmer was having an immediate problem - the hatching was about to beghin, there was no sick bay and so no possibility of stasis for him. Which IMO could easily have been arranged by the writers.

 

[Nerys Myk]

^ About that:

Spoiler

She’s as good AS dead. Why should we think they can save Batel when they couldn’t save Hemmer? I mean, she has what, a DAY left to live once removed from stasis? And obviously the Gorn will be of no help.

In any case, because of that fucking strike, WE MAY NEVER KNOW!

Spoiler

Different situation, Different location, Different person

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Whatever. Like I said…now, we may never know.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Whatever. Like I said…now, we may never know.

Oh, ye of little faith.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Oh, ye of little faith.

You know something I don’t?

 

[Weyoun 251]

Just curious, how far do you take it? The death of a legacy character, not Sam Kirk? Or a change of events such as Una obtaining the captaincy after Pike instead of Kirk? I think Paramount would reject that one.

Play by Dr Who rules - there are some fixed points in time that cannot be changed (date Kirk takes the Enterprise, when Praxis explodes, Picard getting assimilated etc) but everything else can be played with

 

[Nerys Myk]

You know something I don’t?

Unless S3 is already in the can, we may never see it. Hell, we might not, even if it IS. Strikes have a tendency to drag…

I got high hopes.

 

[fireproof78]

Having 6 decades of canon is a fun exercise not a problem. There's no need to ignore Trek history just to tell a good story for that particular hour. Just find a creative workaround or mess with people's assumptions like they've already been doing. New and creative angles that might never have been thought of can come from having limitations.

Not necessarily an unpopular opinion, but it's a divisive issue.

I agree. It's funny to me to see Enterprise set up as the example of a prequel done right given that when it was first released it was considered a terrible show and a poor prequel to TOS. It lacked that feel to it.

It's equally funny and frustrating to me that there is less and less willingness to work inside the show as given and immediately go with "It must be an alternate timeline. It must be..." and not even attempt to work within it. There is no latitude given for possible explanations of changes, no willingness to explore other possibilities. Just "It's wrong and violates all of Star Trek canon and continuity."

SNW, and DSC before that, and ENT before that, work well enough inside the larger Trek world. I don't get the obsessive need to make everything fit in to a perfect box. Human history doesn't even fit inside a perfect box.

 

[ED-209]

I got high hopes.

It’s a crime against humanity that they cut that off before the smile.

 

[tomalak301]

I want some of the Discovery plotlines picked back up in Season 3. Is L'Rell still chanceller? What is Ash Tyler up to. Can we see Prime Lorca finally?

I also want more T'Pring, and not in a relationship storyline to Spock. I want to see more T'Pring as what she does as work and her professional life.

 

[Mage]

Kirk is a great addition to the show.
And my most unpopular opinion is that there's nothing wrong with SNW making changes to this hallowed 'canon' fans are worshiping so much. Star Trek has been altering it's so called 'canon' since TOS. SNW can just do whatever the heck it wants.

 

[fireproof78]

Is L'Rell still chanceller?

No.

 

[tomalak301]

No.

Ok, is she still around or was it a hostile take over and they killed her off screen?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ok, is she still around or was it a hostile take over and they killed her off screen?

The only time the Chancellor was mentioned in SNW, it was with a male pronoun.

 

[Paul755]

The Spock and Chapel romantic subplot is terrible.

Having Kirk around is fine but he’s being used a smidge too much.

Gooding, Bush, Olusanmokun and Jeannotte shouldn’t have played legacy characters. Create original characters.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Having Kirk around is fine but he’s being used a smidge too much.

Three out of ten episodes is "too much"?

 

[Paul755]

Three out of ten episodes is "too much"?

I did say a smidge…but for me yes. Maybe combine his storyline from Lost in Translation and Subspace Rhapsody into one appearance. I dunno.