Star Trek: Discovery

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New TV show launches in September and it will be on Netflix for us. Unless some media outlet screws us and takes it for themselves and we go back to the good old days of Tuesday 11 pm or whenever the hell they decide to show it...

It looks nice but I hope it continues those good stories that all the shows had.

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Have been looking forward to it for some time. Hope it lives up to the hype. I could never get in to Enterprise so I just hope going earlier in the timeline was the right thing to do.

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Me too Mick...loved all Trek series..hope this one is super
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I've only just finished watching Enterprise a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Only series I struggled with was DS-9.

I've been enjoying the movie reboots too.
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Seems it will be a very sci fi end of year, with Red Dwarf 12 and The Orville airing around the same time.

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Dr. Pain wrote:I've only just finished watching Enterprise a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Only series I struggled with was DS-9.
Awe cmon Doc.. DS-9 was leap years better than Enterprise.. The best of the post TNG era..

Bring on Discovery.. I'll try to get my son on board.
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I like when they are out discovering. Not saying DS-9 was bad but there were more episodes in it that I couldn't get into more than the others.
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So I've watched the first two episodes on Netflix and I like it. :yes:
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Me too
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As someone who never really got into Star Trek even being a Sci-Fi fan, is there any requisite knowledge or viewing required if one where to start watching this?
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Duke wrote:As someone who never really got into Star Trek even being a Sci-Fi fan, is there any requisite knowledge or viewing required if one where to start watching this?
None at all.

This is meant to be a Prequel to Kirk's Star Trek.
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It's 10 years before Kirk and it the beginning of the Federation/Klingon cold war. It does a good job of not bombarding you with jargon I think and yet fans of Star Trek know exactly whats going on.
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I've only ever been a casual consumer of Star Trek. I've never really been drawn in by it.

Watched the first two eps last night. The first episode started with some really awkward dialogue, but it did seem to settle down a bit later on. Will probably continue to watch.
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Hmm is this on Netflix here in Oz?

Will have to watch!
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It is Pix and its a weekly release.
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From what I've heard it's actually nothing like Star Trek and is a total hatchet job on the lore, probably one for those who aren't fans.
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Just watch The Orville! :D
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Seemed fine to me. Felt like the first 1/2 of a star trek movie rather than a tv show though.

Bit early to judge since it only establishes the background scenario and very few main characters. NFI about Trek lore, but some fanboys would have bitched no matter what they did so that doesn't mean much.
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Well yes and no, sure some would bitch regardless but there seems to be many legitimate issues that can't just be glossed over as fanboys being implacable, they should have just admitted it was a reboot from the beginning. We don't have to worry here but the way they've put it on CBS All Access in the US but on Netflix for the rest of the world seems a bit crazy too.

I might give it a shot at some point but I've been watching TNG lately and will just keep working my way through that.
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CBS probably owned the license for Star Trek in the US and Netflix probably cut a deal to fund the series on condition that CBS got distribution in the US.

I love seeing fanboys getting in a lather when their fictional universes get rejigged for mass consumption.
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In some cases the lore is written by fans and others think that's the bench mark standard to always adhere too. At the end of the day it's a TV show and CBS will do what they want with it. As the JJ Trek has shown, you can mess with known stories and yes it's confusing but at the same time it can be very entertaining and one is conflicted as to "what the hell just happened and why did I enjoy it?!".

Now I've just watched E3 and I'm thinking that right now. Where the hell is this going?! :?
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It's entertaining but it is not Star Trek. Roddenberry is spinning in his grave, I've no doubt.

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Jamo wrote:It's entertaining but it is not Star Trek. Roddenberry is spinning in his grave, I've no doubt.

Thanks heaps for recommending The Orville Norbs, it's fucking awesome. Love it!

I think it was Marshy that mentioned it first. It was after I saw him mention it, and then Seth McFarlane tweeted it that I looked.
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A Roddenberry Star Trek might not work too well today. But then again it can't be set with endless violence or sex scenes. It's one of these things that has a past and yet is an entity in it's own right and should be viewed like it. If it works then it opens the possibility for more shows at different points in time.
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Every time I watch Star Trek Diversity it pisses me off. Still, I've watched every episode.
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