My previous idea for a new TNG era show
I’d watch Wil Wheaton play a grumpy middle-aged Wesley Crusher causing mischief with his “traveler” talents, with Starfleet as his antagonist. Like The Fugitive in space? Or like Doctor Who, but with Wil Wheaton.
And have you seen LeVar Burton lately? He looks GREAT.
So it’s Captain LaForge versus Mad Scientist Wesley FTW
A series where Geordi La Forge and Wesley Crusher travel from planet to planet. Geordi brings the joy of reading to the younger children while Wesley gets the older kids to exercise their imagination by engaging in role-playing games on the holodeck. Triple crossover!
I guess my definition is broader — any story that dresses up completely unbelievable stuff in a scientific wrapping. YMMV.
Agreed. Star Trek, for all its wonderful weirdness, usually had a kernel of genuine scientific theory in there somewhere. Sometimes that science was psychiatry, but it was there.
Fascinating. But I did know that the turbolifts could move horizontally.
I do recall the lights moving vertically, then moving horizontally. But I don’t recall whether that was ST:TOS, one of the original movies, or what.
I went to high school with Hanelle. She was a year or two younger than me.
So do they think the picard show and discovery are the same thing?
Well, from what I’ve heard, Discovery Season 2’s plot involves time travel, so…
I don’t really follow Star Trek but I am excited to see Hanelle’s career being so successful. She was a cool girl.
Oh… and… I’d watch the shit out of this Trek…
Not to mention that a lot of Vulcans are witheringly sarcastic when they choose to be.
I would totally watch the shit out of that.
Don’t skip the closing “Muppet” sketch.
Lots of K.I.T.T. bashing.
I’m on episode 3 of Discovery.
Are there any not-annoying characters on this show?
I’ve met Lorca, Stametz, Burnham, Saru, and whatever the roommate’s name is, and they all seem like they were written specifically to get on my nerves.
Having finished episode 3 and watched episode 4:
No one on any ship they’ve shown is capable of holding a conversation. There’s almost no dialogue on this show: people don’t talk to each other, they talk past each other. And then an order is given, and the order is either followed or ignored, depending on who’s right.
For example, in the pilot: Burnham tries to implement the Vulcan greeting. Georgiou says no. Burnham argues. They adjourn to the ready-room. They argue some more. Burnham physically dominates Georgiou to get her way. Burnham issues the order for the Vulcan greeting; Georgiou countermands it at the last moment and orders Burnham off the bridge.
I get that this is a loathsome thing that Burnham is suggesting, but, for all they know, it could be just the thing to prevent a war. Picard, or Sisko, or any other captain you would name, would have gathered the senior staff and talked it out before reaching some sort of compromise. Instead, all we get on this show is, “Those are your orders.”
And that’s everyone. That’s the security officer, the first officer, Lorca, Burnham, Stametz, Georgiou, and the doctor; it’s all of the Klingons; it’s the admiralty. None of them are capable of an inch of compromise.
The only person who breaks this pattern is the roommate, and she’s exactly the opposite: she’s nothing but compromise, to the point where she completely lacks the ability to assert herself. And I have the feeling that if she ever does grow into a character who can assert herself, she’ll be no different than the others.
It’s a crew where just about everyone is Wesley Crusher, and it’s maddening.
