'Star Trek: Discovery' Drops Franchise's First F-Bomb

Comicbook.com ^ | October 15, 2017 | Jamie Lovett

[Simon Green]

Tonight’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery boldly went where Star Trek has never gone before, at least in terms of language.

The episode titled “Choose Your Pain” features the first and second use of the f-word in Star Trek history.

[fieldmarshaldj]

BTW, did you fellas ever see this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4197h-lJxBk

This was a fan-produced (but professionally-backed) original ST episode with the participation of George Takei.

You’ll need an hour and a half to see it all (although the first half-hour by one of the professional backers, who is also an enthusiastic fan, explains the set up for the hour episode to follow). The young actress portraying Sulu’s daughter (not Demora, although she shows up later) is especially noteworthy and charming (contrasted with the lead of STD, who is more like a clone of the junior totalitarian Senator from California).

Although the actors portraying the original Enterprise crew (save Takei) are about the level of local dinner theater, they all approach their roles with respect without resorting to ham and scenery chewing (or acting thoroughly out of character, a la JJ Abrams).

I give it a solid three stars (and four stars for heart).

[Bender2]

Re: I liked it (f bombs). A bit of realism.

Funny, but maybe it is just me at my 70-year old age but I cannot think of the last time I heard any real person use the F-word in my presence. I am sure it is not my regal, distinguished appearance that keeps the 'F' away as I am not above using "hell" and other assorted curse words in my every day speech, but I draw the line at myself using the Big F in mixed company but that may just be me--

I do not object to the 'F' being used in a film where it is appropriate yet I can recall too many times where the 'F' was sprinkled liberally in films just, shall we say, for the 'HELL' of it. In those instances, to me, it was not reality in any way. I am sure lots of young folk use it because it has become fashionable even for our last Vice-President to mutter in public to our last Prez as a matter of fact.

So, enough about the F-bomb as it is a matter of taste these days, not the common sense or common courtesy I was raised in the 1950s to use and respect.

Now, it appears, Imp, that you watched this episode, so answer me this: Did Lorca say he killed all his crew on a past ship because he knew what the Klingons would do to them? Then he alone escaped?

I saw that somewhere on the internet and it struck me that none of the other 'Star Trek' Captains would ever do that. Many times Kirk threatened to blow up the Enterprise to win an engagement but if he did kill the ship, he was killing himself, too. Not running away to save himself. Janeway ever did it twice, I believe, in "Voyager."

If so, that again proves to the max that this is not "Star Trek" in any way, shape or form--

And was such, the reason for cancelling my CBS account.

Gadzooks, ya know what? F#*K 'Sta Trek: Discovery" and the giant size water bear they rode in on!

[trisham]

I lost interest years ago.

[Impy]

Now, it appears, Imp, that you watched this episode, so answer me this: Did Lorca say he killed all his crew on a past ship because he knew what the Klingons would do to them? Then he alone escaped?

Yes, Mudd knew he was the lone survivor of his previous command and confronted him about it, so he confessed to Mudd and the female Klingon's rape victim that he blew up the ship to keep the crew from being captured.

They could have made his survival incidental but he said "I escaped" so I presume he set the auto-destruct and ordered everyone to make for the escape pods but only his pod manged to successfully escape.

It's not clear whether Star Fleet knows it wasn't the Klingons that blew up the ship or not but now Mudd does, he was left on the prison ship because he was spying on fellow prisoners for the Klingons, but we all he eventually gets free to suffer at hands of his wife.

[Impy]

But Spock said it was “Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planetary Development”. ;-p

What about the Yangs and the Kohms?

And you telling me that Hodgkin has been discredited? ;)

[Impy]

I heard of the proposed Captain Sulu series but not that a video was made.

I’ve heard of an entire fan made series but I haven’t seen it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Naah, I say it was the Preservers. Just for $hits and giggles, can you imagine if they removed just enough thugs to “preserve” a Gangsta culture on another planet ? Naah, they’d have killed each other and with no Whitey to blame, the rest would’ve starved to death with no EBT cards. :-P

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, if you have the time to watch what I linked, take a look.

They’ve filmed over a dozen episodes in this group. Unfortunately, they did two eps where they made Kirk’s nephew Peter a Peter-puffer and he wanted Uncle to gaymarry him to an officer poof (this was done a decade before STD). Ick.