Star Trek series coming in 2017

[Sir Slash]

I don't remember that part but it sounds great. I liked 'Rover', the giant white Ball/Balloon Monster or machine or whatever it was. Why does talking about old British TV shows always sound like I've had too much to drink?

[bayonetbrant]

[yt]https://youtu.be/EbGBvnbbdKA[/yt]

[JasonPratt]

He wasn't duking it out with the baddie; he and the most recent #2 (and some rebel minions) were dancing in glee for having escaped the Village.

Sort of.

[BanzaiCat]

There's a huge Star Trek comic sale over at Humble Bundle right now. Fifteen bucks will net you dozens upon dozens of graphic novels, looks like.

[WallysWorld]

The show has an official name now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxba2WjlN90

[bbmike]

Hmm, mirth should be along with that vomit emoticon any second now...

[WallysWorld]

Interesting that the new starship looks like the concept Enterprise from the never-was Star Trek: Phase 2 series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise#Star_Trek:_Phase_II

[BanzaiCat]

There's a Wiki page and a bunch of info out there on the Internet. I just perused the Wiki article quickly and found a few cool tidbits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Discovery

Set 10 years before the events of the original Star Trek series, the series follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they discover new worlds and civilizations, while exploring the franchise's signature contemporary themes. The season-long storyline revolves around "an incident and an event in Star Trek history that's been talked about but never been explored."

[JasonPratt]

Hm. So it's like Enterprise, except not? Enterprise the way we hope it's done right?  :-\

[bbmike]

Hm. So it's like Enterprise, except not? Enterprise the way we hope it's done right?  :-\

Er, no. Not if it is set only 10 years before TOS. And try to forget Enterprise ever happened. Try, try to forget.

[BanzaiCat]

Enterprise wasn't all that bad. The theme song sucked the devil's low-hanging balls, but otherwise it wasn't bad. IMO anyway.

[bbmike]

If taken outside of (my own personal) canon, it really isn't that bad. The subplots were totally unnecessary, though, or at least should have been about something else entirely. And I don't care what anyone else says- what they are calling Vulcans in that show are certainly not Vulcans.

[SirAndrewD]

"The Prisoner" was great until the last episode and then it went the way of "Lost" and got completely and utterly WTF???????

McGoohan wrote that episode in one week, and he was first to admit that he had just failed to come up with a good idea for the end. 

He had several drafts that were much more coherent, but in his opinion they took the entire series to the level of Bond movie, and he could never find a way to make the reveal of number one anything but anti-climactic. 

So, he went pure surreal and allegorical.  He decided the best thing was to not end the series with a coherent final chapter, but instead to distill all of the themes of the previous episodes into the finale. 

I agree, it was very WTF, but I loved how he ended it. 

[Nefaro]

Enterprise wasn't all that bad. The theme song sucked the devil's low-hanging balls, but otherwise it wasn't bad. IMO anyway.

Be careful, BC!  Mike takes his Star Trek very seriously.  Don't evoke the ever-waiting "puke" emote!


I don't think Enterprise was bad, either.  That damnable intro music made me want to shut it off at the beginning of every episode, however.  I'm completely serious when I say that.  Too bad I didn't have a big Puke Emote at the time, because that bad commercial-like song needed it.


The following aural horror cheese commercial has the type of song that reminds me of it.  Except the ST:Enterprise song is even worse...

[img]Puke Emote[img]

[BanzaiCat]

I'm not even gonna click that link, Nef. :)

I want to say it was instrumental and then they went with a dude singing, or maybe it was the other way around. The music itself (withOUT the dude singing) isn't too bad in and of itself, but it's definitely NOT ST material.