Amph “Let's Fly!” - Star Trek: Discovery [Paramount+/Netflix/CraveTV]

Petition to add "CraveTV" to the thread title. The show is CBS All Access in the USA, CraveTV in Canada (well, technically it's going to air on CTV for the pilot, Space for a few episodes and then to CraveTV), and Netflix globally. So, basically, only outside North America do people have to buy outside of their Netflix streaming services to access it.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/CraveTV

 

I really think DS9 and VOY in HD are basically inevitable. It would just be weird if they had TOS/TAS/TNG/ENT/DSC in HD and then, oh yeah, we have almost 350 episodes of these two other shows but they aren't in HD but whateves. The market demands it! Even if nobody will buy the BluRays but them darn streaming services / individual stations who syndicate it at 2 PM in the afternoon will.

 

Oh boy, the MCUization of Star Trek threads.

 

Hm, to sign up for that CBS thing or wait for it to show up elsewhere. Oh well, NA is probably their biggest market (American TV show), so of course they want to push their own service, but not sure I care enough to sign up. Wonder if it'll end up on Netflix eventually.

Did they say if the whole season would go up at once (like Netflix does with their series) or a new episode each week?

TOS and TNG were popular enough to warrant the Bluray release, DS9 maybe (although the fleet shots from later seasons will look really antiquated, video games could probably provide better graphics these days), I do wonder about Voyager. I hope they don't bother with Voyager, but there's always that nagging feeling to have all of Trek on Bluray someday. Well, not me, but some completionists might want that.

 

Inevitable? I think it's the opposite. I doubt they'll ever happen. Far too much money for almost no return on it. No business model can sustain that.

 

Anyway, yeah, HD aside, there's a new Star Trek series going to be watched in just a few months, holy kolker! (PS - "Holy Koler" is a phrase from Peter David's Star Trek novels wherein someone would say "Holy Kolker!" when something happened. It's in the first few pages of "Imzadi". PS - Peter David's novel "Imzadi" is canon. I don't care what anyone says. Yes, you.)

 

What do we actually know about Discovery, besides the title, some of the writers and producers and that it's got an ugly as hell ship? I thought we'd have heard more coming out of STLV so far.

 

I did read that the ship in the launch trailer may not be the final ship. Apparently, like the CGI, it's more of a prototype. Personally, I'm not that bothered by it. Though, it looks clunky so in Battle I question its mobility ad ability to avoid phaser fire.

 

I hope it's post Nemesis. I'm sick and tired of prequel things.

 

Hmmmm....I wonder who's to blame for the Prequel craze

Seriously, TPM is where it all started. Once Star Wars did it, Star Trek did it, then Batman, then James Bond - cue everyone else.

 

Muppet babies.

 

Prequels definitely went more mainstream after Phantom Menace, although they were officially things before that but Big Timey Franchises jumped onto the prequel bandwagon wholesale after Phantom Menace.

I'm digging the notion that it's an old ship that is pulled out of mothballs in a post Romulus expodey time. but, honestly, if it's another freakin' prequel, I may be bothered for, like, a second, and then, screw it, it's a new Star Trek TV series, I'm fine. And if/when an episode pops up with Nick Meyer's name on it, I'm going to be officially giddy (and start looking for Shakespere quotes)

As mentioned, though, big 50 year Star Trek anniversary in Vegas this weekend and NADA. That's annoying.

So I do haves me CraveTV app built into my set (although I haven't bothered to boot it up), and hopefully it exists on the Playstation Store so I'm set, eventually. And Netflix comes pre-installed on almost everything now for those outside North America. But, yikes, what's with this CBS All Access for those in the States? Would it work on PS / X-Box? Only mobile devices? are you basically going to be stuck watching it on computers because finding a CBS All Access app for a TV set isn't possible?

 

Disagree in this case. The Trek universe is dotted with times that are well-mapped, with interim periods that are virtually silent (the period between ST:VI and TNG, for instance). That's the time period I'm most interested in.

 

While there aren't many details of the period up until the careers of the TNG crew, we know what didn't happen. And that's the same thing that hobbled Enterprise, another show set in a little-explored period. Everything from the design of the ship (Akiraprise) to the villains ("AS LONG AS THEY CONVENIENTLY DON'T SAY WHO THEY ARE WE CAN HAVE BORG AND FERENGI AND ROMULANS") to its own set limitations ("They don't use transporters because they're afraid of-- ah, **** it. Let's make it exactly like TNG") was a buffet of anachronism and nonsense. Although I don't think Fuller would be as lazy as Berman and Bragga were in keeping the universe consistent, the fact that a TUC-TNG show would have a bunch of limitations would be creatively frustrating.

 

I discovered an unsubstantiated rumour about Star Trek: Discovery (no pun intended )

Spoiler

According to the rumour, German voice actor Michael Pan has been contacted to record german dubs for Star Trek: Discovery. Michael Pan is the German Standard voice actor for Brent Spiner. He voiced all the characters Spiner played during the course of Trek: Data, Lore, B-4, Dr. Noonien Soong and Dr. Arik Soong.
Could this mean that either one of those androids or a member of the Soong family appears in Discovery? Just recently Spiner declared that he won't play Data anymore since he's too old now and androids don't age. But he also said that he's open for the possibility of playing someone else from the Soongs.

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/rumor-brent-spiner-in-discovery.282780/

As I said, very unsubstiantiated given that the rumour apparently originated on Facebook, so please take it with a huge grain of salt. But it is interesting nonetheless.

 

Doesn't bother me where in the timeline it's set, I'm just glad weekly Star Trek is back. I've heard it's a prequel set before TOS but after ENT. I like that Ralph McQuarries artwork from the 1970's has been used for inspiration of the new ship

 

Setting it another century after Nemesis would be my preference, but post-TUC could be interesting too.