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    I went into the episode very hopeful because I have actually been looking forward to it since it was announced, even knowing the train wreck that NuTrek has been (although I have only watched Discovery, I am not watching Picard until I have finished Voyager). My biggest takeaway so far is that I didn't hate it.

    I liked it for the most part, but there were some things that really bothered me. First, for the "big secret" that the existence of Discovery was supposed to be, they sure did bring it up a lot. Do we need to hear that Spock misses his sister? Did they really need to base the whole episode around Discovery going into the future? They had a shuttle that was named the Stamets? Really? Second, I could have done with the whole romantic thing and almost sex scene between Spock and T'Pring. And I suppose we will see a lot more of their relationship only because there is such a disconnect between what their relationship was as shown in the SNW pilot and how it had devolved into what it was in Amok Time. Third, are they retconning the Gorn now? If that much was known about the Gorn and what happened to La'an (since it was obviously in her file), why was Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise acting like they had never seen or heard of the Gorn in Arena?

    I guess those are mostly minor and just what I have off the top of my head right now, but I definitely think the series has potential and I am still hopeful going forward. It's definitely a big step up from the dumpster fire that is STD.

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    Just tell me if it's woke crap. I like Anson Mount. He's got some serious geek cred.


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    It was light on the woke compared to Dumbscovery. Like I said, the series has potential and I am cautiously optimistic going forward.

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    A few more minor criticisms....I think they still made the Enterprise look "too" futuristic. I think it's been been updated even more since we last saw it in Dumbscovery season 2. You can modernize the look while still keeping the same aesthetic, but I think they went a little too far. Especially looking at the bridge and sickbay and the transporter room. And the addition of an "emergency transporter" in sickbay? They didn't have things like that for roughly 100 years until you get to the TNG/DS9/VOY era, as far as we were shown from TOS, there was only one transporter room on a Constitution class starship.

    I hope that Nurse Chapel isn't going to be used as a comedic thing because that will get old in a hurry because she will become annoying. She's definitely hot though.

    And I don't know how major of a character he will be going forward, but Capt. April (now shown as Admiral April in SNW), who was the very first captain of the Enterprise when she was launched (according to canon), was show as a white person in TAS (which is considered canon). In SNW, he has been cast as a black person.

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    Yet to watch it ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    Yet to watch it ...

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    I watched episode 1. It was alright. I couldn't get the Gorn point out of my head when the security officer brought it up.


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    I'm not sure how I feel about Pike seeing his future and knowing what's in store for him in 10 years.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I watched episode 1. It was alright. I couldn't get the Gorn point out of my head when the security officer brought it up.
    My point about them retconning the Gorn? About how first contact with the Gorn was supposed to be in the TOS episode Arena.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I'm not sure how I feel about Pike seeing his future and knowing what's in store for him in 10 years.
    I'm okay with it in principal, but if they keep harping on it, it's gonna be an issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    My point about them retconning the Gorn? About how first contact with the Gorn was supposed to be in the TOS episode Arena.
    Yeah.

    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I'm okay with it in principal, but if they keep harping on it, it's gonna be an issue.
    I just watched the Discovery crystal scene on Youtube. I've never watched Discovery, so I had no idea what they were talking about when they were referencing it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    You know, I'll have to stop watching Picard to fit it in

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    You know, I'll have to stop watching Picard to fit it in
    Picard is over for the season

    Side note, I'm on the final season of Voyager and will start Picard once I'm done with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Yeah.
    The show runner for NuTrek has pretty much come out and said he doesn't respect cannon, one of the main reasons he took the "prequel" Discovery show into the 32nd century, so he wouldn't be bound by having to follow cannon

    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I just watched the Discovery crystal scene on Youtube. I've never watched Discovery, so I had no idea what they were talking about when they were referencing it.
    Sorry you had to witness anything Dumbscovery, but it least it does give you the context.

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    Give it to me straight, should I watch Discovery, or should I stay far away?

    Nevermind.


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