Star Trek Discovery trailer

Rabs

Interesting

thumpingrug

looks good

darthed1981

I've high hopes for this clearly early days though!

axisus

It's not an all guns blazing script by the look of it. I'm not excited but I am interested.

thomasross20

Oh no. 
I've started to dislike a lot of the Netflix originals. 
I hope they don't use that godawful music. 
As a fan... I'm fearful!

stickyfiddle

It looks rubbish, and I've heard so many horror stories from production that I have very low expectations.

littlethoughts

stickyfiddle said:

It looks rubbish, and I've heard so many horror stories from production that I have very low expectations.

Likewise. Nevertheless I will approach it with an open mind and see how it goes.

Myranda

I wonder how they'll explain that 10 years after the series all the technology stops making sense - lots of flashing lights and big switches ...

WezV

Myranda said:

I wonder how they'll explain that 10 years after the series all the technology stops making sense - lots of flashing lights and big switches ...

I think it's more for fans of the new films than fans of the original series.

I am still hopeful 

Myranda

WezV said:

Myranda said:

I wonder how they'll explain that 10 years after the series all the technology stops making sense - lots of flashing lights and big switches ...

I think it's more for fans of the new films than fans of the original series.

I am still hopeful 

I know, it's just something that makes me chuckle to think that Star Trek, Star Wars and Alien all have prequels where everything is significantly more technologically advanced in the cannot-logically-follow sense...

Mother in the prequels is voice activated super space-age computer... in the original a clicky clunky beepy wall of un-intelligible lights which slowly type out all responses in text-only.

Star Wars the super-dooper everything flies, proper computer screens prequels followed by CRT run-by-an-atari computer graphics of the battle plan

Star Trek - touch screen computer panels control everything, then by The Original Series it's all coloured lights, type-face-labels and switches 

I get that it's based on what futurists can envision at the time it was made... but it just looks jarring if you're to watch on after another

Fretwired

But this has been done before with Enterprise and the rebooted Star Trek films  ... it would have been better to go into the future IMHO after Picard and co.

Myranda

Fretwired said:

But this has been done before with Enterprise and the rebooted Star Trek films  ... it would have been better to go into the future IMHO after Picard and co.

Wasn't that shown in Days of Future Past at the end of TNG?

professorben

Are we not going to eventually reach the point where Star Trek looks so far before the original series that ends up being set in the mid 1990's?

guitargeek62

professorben said:

Are we not going to eventually reach the point where Star Trek looks so far before the original series that ends up being set in the mid 1990's?

Already happened, lots:

-3.5 Billion BC - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(episode)
1893 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Time's_Arrow_(episode)
1930 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)
1930 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Past_Tense,_Part_II_(episode)
1944 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Storm_Front_(episode)
1947 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Green_Men_(episode)
1967 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Past_Tense,_Part_II_(episode)
1968 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Assignment:_Earth_(episode)
1969 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tomorrow_is_Yesterday_(episode)
1986 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home
1996 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Future's_End,_Part_II_(episode)
2004 - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Carpenter_Street_(episode)

WezV

Myranda said:

Fretwired said:

But this has been done before with Enterprise and the rebooted Star Trek films  ... it would have been better to go into the future IMHO after Picard and co.

Wasn't that shown in Days of Future Past at the end of TNG?

Not to mention DS9 and Voyager following directly on.

but yeah.  new stories please

Rabs

Full trailer up now

TimmyO

I hope it's good - there is such a dearth of good sci-fi.

I'm trying to remember good stuff from the last decade : BSG was great, Caprica was great (shut up, yes it was), then what? Falling Skies kind of fizzled out for me (so i stopped watching), Dark Matter was ok-ish.

Am I forgetting any?  

TimmyO

oh, The Expanse was decent (woeful casting aside) 

Rabs

TimmyO said:

I hope it's good - there is such a dearth of good sci-fi.

I'm trying to remember good stuff from the last decade : BSG was great, Caprica was great (shut up, yes it was), then what? Falling Skies kind of fizzled out for me (so i stopped watching), Dark Matter was ok-ish.

Am I forgetting any?  

Ohh I really liked Caprica.. Such a shame they ended it after the first series...  Continuum was ok... I guess theres the new Westworld which I quite enjoyed.

TimmyO

I watched the first series of Continuum - I liked the story but it was too strung out (as is often the case these days - 1 series of plot dragged out through 3) 

Doh - yes, Westworld was brilliant. 

Rabs

TimmyO said:

I watched the first series of Continuum - I liked the story but it was too strung out (as is often the case these days - 1 series of plot dragged out through 3) 

Doh - yes, Westworld was brilliant. 

Fringe...   I think that's got to be one of my faves over the last decade (or so, cant quite remember exactly when that started).. I did enjoy that.