Al Kaiser wrote to All <=-
I just finished watching the first two seasons of Star Trek DIscovery
on DVD from Netflix.
I forgot netflix still delivers DVD. We cancelled the streaming service
about two years ago and we're happy about it.
It is NOT Gene Roddenberry's Trek! I do not think that he would have approved of this series. First of all for the language. In all of
Trek I only remember one out and out cuss when the ship was crashing
into the planet Data said "Oh Shit!" This one has out and out swearing including the "F" word. Also open gay kissing. The suggestion of "gaity" is OK but to have two male or female character kiss on screen
is a no-no. Also there were aliens in this series that were never seen again in all of Trek. The whole Klingon war thing in the first season
was wrong. This Trek was supposed to be a bridge between Enterprise
with Archer and TOS with Kirk. The war with the Klingons was over and
we were in a truce, a cold war. Remember The Trouble With Tribbles?
That was the way we were with the Klingons. The Klingon makeup and laanguae was all wrong. The Klingon home planet was wrong. The home planet in Trek was "Kling" not Kronos. Kronos came later in the
series. Finally the out and out violence. Murder by the fedration?
I think not. They made Mudd an out and out criminal that should have been given the death sentence or at least a life sentence. They made
him a murder rather than just a scrondrel.
Don't forget Star Trek IV. "Why don't you watch where you're going you dumbass!" "Well a double-dumbass on you!!!"
Then the following conversation on colorful metaphors. Great movie that way.
Spock, who was a large part of season two never had a step-sister. He
had a half brother who was never mentioned. I saw only three
references to TOS one was Mudd and the other whas when Pike picked up
the future Spike and saw himself disfigured, also Vena and the
Talosians were in the mix. They tried to get back to Trek cannon in
the last two scenes in Part II of Sweet Sorrow when they had a scene on the bridge of the Entrprise as it appease, (modernly), when Pike was Captain and Spock was the Lt. Science Officer.
I've seen some scene clips on youtube and Spock smiles too much. Pissed me
off. Not sure what that's about.
THey tried to write off all that happened over the two years by sending the Discovery and her crew into the future. For anyone left they were resticted "under penalty of death" of every taking or mentioning
Discovery and the events that happened in the first two seasons. Even Sarek and Amanda were self quarrentined from talking about it calling
them "Ambasadors To the Federation." Sarek was an Ambasador, Amanda
never was.
Was this a two year effort with no more seasons of Discovery? How do
you have a season 3 when Discovery and all her crew is dead or gone?
Well I'm waiting for "Picard" to come out on DVD. A friend says it is
very good and is "good Trek". Though I do have a disagrement that Data was blown to smithereens in the last movie, but he said that Data was reconstruced from DNA taken when they tried to disassemble him when
Picard fought to call him sentient. We'll see about that one.
I'm hearing the Picard show is all about Stewart saying 'F U' to Trump.
Oh, gawd, I really crave star trek as I knew it growing up.
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