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Well apparantly the fungus expert, Lt. Stamets, is gay... Wonder how many aliens he'll have fun with?
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/29...overy-cast-gay
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11-30-2016, 07:18 AM | #82 |
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How progressive!
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11-30-2016, 01:08 PM | #84 |
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* Title of the show, Star Trek: Discovery: It's OK, I guess. Hard to mess up a title, though.
* Design of the titular ship, the USS Discovery: It's ass. * The promise of it being set outside the Abramsverse: Win. * Promise of edgy stories, a sweeping season long story: Possibly good. It worked for Enterprise Season 3 and the Dominion War in DS9. As long as it's something interesting (unfortunately, nothing so far strikes me as remotely interesting, certainly not anything to justify making the show another damn prequel). * Bryan Fuller made showrunner, then leaving: Very troubling. * The setting, 10 years before TOS: Terrible idea. Ass-backwards. * Delaying the show 6 months: Bad. And concerning. * The promise of creating and putting a gay character for the show for the sake of creating and putting a gay character for the show: Meaningless to me. * One of the crew is a fungus expert: What? * Announcement of Michelle Yeoh as the captain of the... Shenzhou? Meaningless to me. And probably mostly to the show. It's Star Trek: Discovery, not Star Trek: Shenzhou. That's kind of where I'm at.
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"We've got a guy... and HE'S GAY!!!!!" "We need more detail." ... ... ... "Comic relief! He likes space mushrooms!" "GOLD."
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Entertainment Weekly makes a big thing about the fact that a character on a show is going to have same sex attraction, and suddenly it's agenda!
Yeah, it's agenda. Entertainment weekly wants the links and the advertising revenue. Well played EW. Well played.
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And he was named after the top fungus expert, Paul Stamets. He's written several books on growing fungi in space. I've found several articles written in the past decade about astromycology. Kinda fascinating.
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I'm sorry, but it's coming off as "goofy comedy wacky" crap to me.
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It can't be as bad as season 1 of Enterprise.
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Oh come on... at least Enterprise was interesting.
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I have seen parts of seasons 3 and 4 that I liked, but I am currently watching it in order after various episodes of seasons 3-6 of TNG. Quite a contrast after stuff like Best of Both Worlds, Brothers, and Yesterday's Enterprise.
Season 1 feels like a chore so far, but I am aware that it gets better.
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And now for...Klingons! Seems thar be Klingons in the new Star Trek series. Buuuut will they have bumpy heads or smooth heads??
Chris Obi will star as "T'Kuvma," the Klingon leader seeking to unite the Klingon houses. Shazad Latif (Dr. Jekyl in Penny Dreadful) will star as "Kol," the Commanding Officer of the Klingons and protegé of T'Kuvma. Mary Chieffo will star as "L'Rell," the Battle Deck Commander of the Klingon ship. https://www.thewrap.com/star-trek-di...ngon-warriors/
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And will they wear those stupid Abrams masks.
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12-12-2016, 02:37 PM | #96 |
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Klingons and Vulcans have had PLENTY of screentime across all of Star Trek.
Wake me up when we do something with less-popular species. Remember how Enterprise had episodes focusing on the Andorians and Tellarites? Even an Orion episode? Remember how they came up with the Suliban and the Xindi? But nah, the Klingons are good. Yay merchandise.
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Well, not some sinister agenda... but when Fuller pretty much told us from the beginning that was part of his plan when pre-production began before a single script had been commissioned and they even knew what form or shape the same sex attraction character would take or even who the crew would be, it literally can't not be an agenda.
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Star Trek is dead. I don't read any of the comics or books so I have no idea what goes on in them, but in terms of TV shows and movies I think we're done.
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