Posted on 10/16/2017 10:01:36 AM PDT by 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.
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The most recent series. The original is too dreadful to watch.
It’s an example of the war on masculinity that the only critters on the show with any testosterone are villains.
They need a Trek where Gen Mattis is the captain, and everyone, friend and foe alike, are scared $h1tleSS when he come on the bridge. LOL.
I’ve tried to watch Orville two times, now, and find it to be long periods of pointless meandering, interspersed with humor too juvenile for people of their age to speak. If it’s possible for something to be a horror and boring at the same time, they’ve managed to do it.
One of my favorite episodes of STNG is where Picard is captured and tortured (I see four lights!) and the Enterprise is commanded by a hard-ass. He tells Troy to get out of her sexy uniform and into something regulation, and to start representing the captain to the crew rather than the crew to the captain. He thinks Commander Riker is some kind of idiot who is afraid to have his own command.
Loved it.
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I get a good laugh every time I see the boom microphone slip into the top of the pic!
It’s an example of the war on masculinity that the only critters on the show with any testosterone are villains.While I abhor the fact that the actor portraying him keeps injecting his politics into interviews, the captain of the Discovery is a throwback to the Kirk-style of leadership.
He's a bad mofo.
The cane bottom chair torture scene with Daniel Craig as 007 in Casino Royale made most of us wince.
Yeah, I’m about done with that show, too. If they don’t start working on some actual character development beyond an entire species of homosexuals, I’m going to drop it, too.
I hated the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery
I tried watching the 2nd episode at http://www.watchseries.do but could not get past 1/2 the show. Just stupid writing and bad acting. Too many lens flares too!
I ended up searching on reviews and read the 98% negative reviews. Also youtube has many reviews. CBS really screwed up. There are zero characters you like on the show. Zero.
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The most recent episode was interesting - depicting the enemy of "the Union" as a people who are mindlessly following a violent religion that apparently relishes beheadings.
As for ST-D, the practice of visiting Original Series characters "before we knew them" is already grating... and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.
I liked it (f bombs). A bit of realism.
So I think I understand how the teleportation spore drive works, you know mushrooms? Well what you didn’t know is that their roots or root equivalents or whatever extend into a subspace domain all across the galaxy so you can use them to travel instantaneously. It makes almost as much sense as that one time on Voyager when Janeway and Paris traveled at infinite speed which made them turn into iguanas and mate and have tadpoles.
They were using this giant size water bear (real life microscopic animals that can survive extreme conditions, don’t ask me how it got so big or whether it was an alien version) aka the monster which is actually only hostile in self defense (RIP retarded security chick from episode 2) to navigate cause it can like absorb mushroom DNA or something. But it didn’t like doing it and they think it was sentient so the fag dude (Rapp aka Lt. Whogives a damn) injected himself with whatever so he could do it. You know this ends in spectacular failure since this technology is never mentioned in the next 200 years.
I was thinking the Black doctor seemed kinda gay but I though naa they ain’t gonna have 2 stereotypical seeming gays. He seemed to be antagonistic with Rapp. Surprise surprise, in the last scene of ep 5 they are using sonic toothbrushers together, they are in looooove. Barf. At least they didn’t kiss or anything, they did the old manly back slap thing that they used to make gays on TV do before they allowed them to kiss, weird.
Rapp’s reflection stayed in the mirror when he left the room, grinning like an idiot, that’s a weird side effect for you.
The Harry Mudd appearance happened. Not really reminiscent of the previous actor but interesting, not really much of him though. Lorca was captured by Klingons and he was there on the prison ship. Also this dude who was getting raped by a female klingon, and we’re not talking about sexy B’Etor here these Klingons chicks are even fuglier than the dudes. That would have been interesting to explore but they didn’t really, they rescued him so maybe later.
Sounds like Lorca could get his eyes fixed (light sensitivity) but won’t because of retarded masochistic/martyr reasons.
Thanks for reminding me why I’m not watching it.
You, Billy and I could fart up some fan faction that’s better this is, I’d bet. If not better, at least something with 100% less magic spores.
I mean for F sake, warp drive is based on semi-realistic actual theory but magic spores? In it’s own way that’s sillier than a planet full of 1930’s gangsters. Magic spores and fugly Klingon religious fanatics, this is what they bring Star Trek back to tv for?
I’d suggest we all head for Hollywood but they’d give us a hard time about the casting couch now (thanks, Harvey!) so what’s the point.
Well, remember “A Piece of the Action” episode was quite believable and an example of why leaving stuff behind could poison a primitive culture (to wit, a crewmember leaving a book on Chicago Gangsters of the ‘20s/’30s). That particular planet’s inhabitants were supposed to be one that liked to “copy” things. The USS Horizon makes contact with them, they get ahold of the book (I’d postulate one of the creative people might’ve “lifted” the book) and 100 years later, the whole planet resembles Chicago under Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak. Yikes.
Curiously, I read somewhere that after the Enterprise encounter, where McCoy accidentally leaves a piece of equipment (communicator ?), when another ship is dispatched to “NuChicagoland” to collect their “cut” a decade or so later, they discover that the entire planet has been transformed into a fully-functional Federation Starbase, and Boss Oxmyx is now Fleet Admiral of the planet, and Kirk’s fictitious cardgame of Fizzbin, the planetary pastime.
Right, I should have cited the Roman Empire episode. ;D
I think that stuff about Gangsterland turning into Federationland was an idea for a followup episode (DS9 for the 30th anniversary) intended as a “tribute” to “trekkies”, with the aliens acting like Star Trek fans basically. They went with the tribble time travel episode idea instead.
Actually, there was a common thread running through some of the episodes, the Roman Empire planet and the one that had a mix of North American Indian tribes that was in the path of the asteroid, that an alien race called “The Preservers” would extract particular cultures of interest from planets that were likely to see them overrun or die out, and place them on uninhabited Class M worlds where they could continue to exist unmolested.
It was curious that in the case of the Roman planet, they extracted them right before Jesus Christ, but even in doing so, Christ still made His way there and would have a transformative effect on that planet. Imagine doing such a “Christian” episode today in SJW Faux Trekland (or yet another, presumably “Preserver” influenced world with the Chinese Communists and White Americans reduced to feral/tribal status with an unabashedly pro-American tilt to the episode with Iowan Kirk showing more respect for a ragged Old Glory than any leftist today).
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