onsdag 24 augusti 2022

Star Trek: Discovery

 

Well, we already did time travel so it isn't much boldly go where they haven't gone before

Yet another Star Trek-series, and we are set before the original series, apparently before the war between Federation and Klingon Empire. Follows the First Officer Michael Burnham that is discharged and imprisoned for escalating the encounter between Federation and Klingon Empire and pretty much starting the war. Doesn't help that she knocked out her commanding captain in order to attack them. Apparently her real family was killed in a Klingon skirmish and she had to grew up on Vulcan together with Spock. 

After that incident she is released and taken to the starship Discovery, an experimental ship working on a new engine called the spore drive. It works in a way that it connects to some kind of space spore system and allows the ship to move in a matter of seconds across most of the quadrant. There is actually some real science behind that. I listened to someone speaking about fungus and I gather that they begin to believe that fungus are connected with the whole earth... or some kind like that, I ain't no biologist and it was some years since I heard that.

The captain is Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter, but it turns out that he is actually a mirror world version and in the end dies in the season 1 finale. And in season 2 captain Pike takes over while the Enterprise is being repaired. Pike being the original captain of the Enterprise as seen in the pilot episode of the original series. And then Spock shows up. And they apparently ends up in the future, some kind of 3 000 AD... I pretty much lost interest. The klingons looks awful (could be that hand-wave to explain how the makeup got better after the original series), you can't even tell (besides the ships) that it's a Star Trek show, wrong colours and such I feel. I saw some buzz from people complaining that it was "woke" with stated gay characters, several female crew members (and varying sizes) and people of colours... but I mean it's Star Trek, it's always been "progressive".  

No, the problem is that it isn't bright and optimistic... which probably isn't fair either since DS9 wasn't all optimistic either and I liked that. But that could be more that it began as "normal" and then spiralled to the warlike state to win the war, but that was build up and payoff, Here we go directly in to it. At least the title has some bars of the original theme in it, which makes it one of the better ones instantly. 

Also, I probably watched it in the last minute since after finishing it it was announced that it was moved over to Paramount +... or rather, it was gone from Netflix in wait for Paramount + to be released first quarter 2022. Well, good luck to them, they will probably need it when I looked at the reactions on Twitter... or maybe that is just the Americans, I still got the others shows on Netflix.

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