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ralfy · Mission Specialist Joined: 23 Sep 2014 Posts: 488

"Star Trek Discovery Season 2 In a Nutshell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4fW0EInqw

Eadie · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 1695

Star Trek: Discovery's Wilson Cruz Suggests We'll Have to Wait Even Longer for Season 3

By Keisha Hatchett

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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:23 pm Post subject:

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Pow, I spent this rainy Monday afternoon binge watching Star Trek: Discovery.

I have the first three discs from Netflix, and I'm just as impressed with this series as you are! It is truly terrific! As much as I love TOS, this is the way I wanted Star Trek to look and feel back when the series first aired in the 1960s.

The stories, the sets, the props, the FX, the uniforms — their all the direct descendants of Forbidden Planet. It's the bold and ballsy future I yearned for when I was a kid in the 1950. \

Series like Star Trek: TOS teased us with visions of mankind's destiny. But then recently the enhanced versions of the FX gave us a clearer look at this exciting future. Cool

However, this new series presents an eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing vision which transports the minds of true science fiction fans into a bright and exciting future!

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't share my optimistic vision of the future. It may never come to past . . . and even if it does, I probably won't live to see it. Sad

However, series like this one allow me to enjoy them today, right here in my living room!

As for today and my binge-watching experience, I actually didn't realize until the third disc that I was supposed to turn on the "Close Captions" during the scenes when the Klingons argued with each other!

I kept wondering why the producers thought the audience would enjoy listening to dialog delivered in an alien language without a clue as to what was being said! Rolling Eyes

Anyway, the fourth disc from season 1, and all four disc from season 2 are on my Netflix list. It'll be nice to take long break from CNN's coverage of the pandemic. It's starting to get to me down . . . Sad

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Pow · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:27 pm Post subject:

Glad to read that you're also getting a big kick out of ST:D too, Bud.

Your post wonderfully expresses the fun & quality the show's production has to it.

I could easily imagine that the surviving cast from ST:TOS would watch ST:D and say to themselves & each other: "Dang, if only we had the same budget & special/visual FX in our day that ST:D has available."

Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:31 pm Post subject:

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I hate to say this, but by the end of season 1 this series seemed to be headed south in the logic department. Confused

Season 2 ventured even further into La-La Land, and by the time I got to Point of Light, the third episode on disc 2, I was very disillusioned . . . Sad

The inclusion of Captain Christopher Pike was brilliant — but all that crap about the male Klingon who was medically transformed into a perfect copy of a captured Federation officer who then fell in love with the wonderful Michael Burnham (and she with him), despite the fact that the bogus Klingon/human's true love was actually the sick Klingon bitch who tortured him to converted him into a human . . .

Well, I'm sorry, folks, but this series has become so twisted and unpleasant I'm no longer eager to see a season 3! Shocked

Maybe I'm just so old and behind the times that I can't embrace the strange 21st century morality which feels the need to go well beyond same-sex relations and present different-species love affairs which cause the characters (aliens and humans) to act so emotional they make Romeo and Juliet look as tame as Sarek and Amanda!

In my opinion this show needs less twisted sex and inter-species procreation and more damn science fiction. Sad

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Eadie · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 1695

Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:35 am Post subject:

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You know how much I love to take screen shots, Eadie, but in this case I don't think they'd do it justice. Perhaps you could get the DVDs from Netflix.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:59 pm Post subject:

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Today it occurred to me that despite the amazing set designs in Star Trek: Discovery, the sets in Star Trek: Voyager are actually better!

The sets in Voyager have a more pleasing appearance (especially the bridge and sick bay), and the medium green color scheme throughout the ship (such as the table in the ready room) is very restful and appealing.

Admittedly the awesome visual displays on the bridge and other portions of the ship are gorgeous. But the bridge itself in Discovery is so damn large it looks a like a New York hotel lobby! Shocked

Fans of Voyager will know what I mean — but I'm damned if I can find a good image from Voyager to post. Sad

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:12 pm Post subject:

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Well, I just finished season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery, and I'm happy to report that the earlier misgivings I had about certain aspects of the series no longer bother me, now that I've seen the interesting things they eventually did with the concepts.

I was very impressed with Spock after he finally shaved and put on the uniform near the end of the episode.

In short: disregard my complaints. The show is great. Very Happy

It's going to be tough to wait until season 3 comes out on DVD so I can binge watch it, but in the meantime I think I'll finally catch up on the Netflix series, Lost in Space season 2 and Stranger Things season 3.

In fact, I think I'll might just start with season one of both series and watch them straight through to the most recent episodes. After all, it's been quite a while since I've seen either of them.

Gee, wasn't it clever of me to delay watching the current seasons until a global pandemic forced me to stay in my home for God-knows-how-long? Rolling Eyes

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johnnybear · Mission Specialist Joined: 15 Jun 2016 Posts: 441

Can't say I'm a fan of DSC! I much prefer the original series and I am baffled as to why these producers keep wanting to set their shows pre-Kirk and Spock? The newer shows are so much more advanced with their tech and CGI that it just means that I've relegated them to an alternate reality status just to stop my head exploding!!! Well I only collect TOS-VOY so anything else ain't my Trek anyway! Laughing

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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:53 am Post subject:

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I know just what you mean, Johnnybear.

However, we can't really expect younger audiences to really be too concerned about how these current shows match up with the original series, because it was made before they were even born! Shocked

To the young folks today, TOS is a bit like the old Flash Gordon serials are to us now — laughably old fashioned. And the young folks today don't even have the fond memories of watching it when they were kids, the way we do. Sad

With that in mind, we shouldn't blame modern filmmakers for wanting to rethink the franchise from the ground up. After all, back when TOS was made, Kirk and Uhura's interracial kiss was shocking and controversial!

But in ST: Discovery, the chief engineer and ship's doctor are a loving couple. Both are guys. Times change, and Star Trek had to change with it.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Eadie · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 1695

Season 3: Spoilers, Premiere, Casting, and Trailer

https://www.tvguide.com/news/star-trek-discovery-season-3-spoilers-premiere-casting-trailer/?rss=breakingnews

The wait for new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery feels like forever given the mind-blowing events that unfolded at the end of Season 2. As you'll recall, Control's (Alan Van Sprang) armada of Section 31 ships threatened to destroy all sentient life. However, they were ultimately defeated by our heroes with help from unlikely allies like Xahian queen Po (Yadira Guevara-Prip), an army of newly-empowered Kelpians, and Chancellor L'Rell (Mary Chieffo) aboard a Klingon battle cruiser.

With the Discovery crew disappearing through a wormhole in order to save the galaxy from rogue AI, and Spock (Ethan Peck) convincing the Federation to essentially wipe their existence from memory, there are plenty of questions that need to be addressed when the CBS All Access series returns for Season 3.

As we wait to find out what happened after Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) slingshot herself — with the Discovery in tow — to the distant future and whether she'll reunite with her adoptive brother Spock after signaling to him that she was still alive, take solace in the intel TV Guide has gathered about the forthcoming episodes. Here's everything we know about Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery so far.

New episodes are on the horizon. We don't yet have a premiere date but showrunner Alex Kurtzman announced via Twitter that the new season was "on its way." Wilson Cruz previously suggested that Season 3 might be delayed amid the coronavirus outbreak. However, a new promo accompanying Kurtzman's tweet again promised that new episodes are "coming soon."

Filming on Season 3 has already been completed. Star Trek: Discovery wrapped filming on Feb. 25, several weeks before more than 100 shows halted production due to the coronavirus pandemic. Producer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi confirmed the news on Twitter, congratulating the cast and crew for "pulling off the impossible" again.

The new season beams to the future. After the events of the Season 2 finale, in which the Discovery crew disappeared through a wormhole, Season 3 finds them transported 930 years into the future and among a highly advanced but troubled society in dire need of their help.

Burnham and her crew may not have arrived in the future together. According to Jonathan Frakes, who returns to direct in Season 3, Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew spent some time apart after traveling through a wormhole at the end of Season 2 before eventually coming back together. "We're far in the future now and Burnham has been separated from the [Discovery] crew, and then they reunite," Frakes told Star Trek magazine, according to TrekMovie.

A new showrunner has boarded the series. Writer Michelle Paradise, who joined Star Trek: Discovery midway through Season 2, was promoted to co-showrunner alongside Alex Kurtzman for Season 3. Paradise previously served as an executive producer on the CW series The Originals and the LOGO drama Exes & Ohs.

Your faves will be back. Stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, and Wilson Cruz are all slated to return, as will Michelle Yeoh's Captain Georgiou. No word yet on whether we'll also see Anson Mount's Captain Pike or Ethan Peck's Spock again, but Peck previously told TV Guide that he'd like to come back as the beloved Vulcan. Both Peck and Mount reprised their roles in the Star Trek: Short Trek Q&A alongside Rebecca Romijn's Number One.

Get ready to meet a ton of new people. With the show now set in a completely different time, expect to see many new faces including Supergirl alum David Ajala as Cleveland Booker. Book, as he's known to his peers, is an original character and according to Ajala, is "slightly unorthodox." The show's official description refers to him as a "smart and capable" man with a "natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out."

Discovery may never return to the past. The show's trek into the distant future is sure to be a game-changer not just for the crew, but the series as a whole. "I don't know if, on Star Trek: Discovery, we have plans to return to the 23rd century," Kurtzman said during New York Comic Con in October 2019.

"We left our homes and can't go back" Wiseman added. "Our true home is on Discovery and with the people that we work with on Star Trek: Discovery."

Seasons 1 and 2 of Star Trek: Discovery are currently available to stream on CBS All Access.

Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ec8WnBHes&feature=emb_logo
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Pow · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject:

Just re-watched the first episode from season three this morning.

I remain gobsmacked at the special and visual effects for this show. Absolutely stunning! Looks more like a high budgeted feature film.

Got curious and tried to see just what their per episode budget was. One source reports eight to eight and 1/2 million dollars.

The CW superhero TV series which also manage to pull off dazzling visuals come in at Two million dollars per episode.