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

Yeah, quicker isn't always better. Just ask my ex .

Trying to get excited for this (but not too excited, Nicholas Meyer!). Been chipping my way through TOS Blu-Ray set I bought a few months ago as a primer. The subscription thing is annoying, but ironically enough that's the future I suppose.

 

Since Nick Meyer is writing hour 2, I fully expect a monologue and torpedo launching. I would be rather disappointed if that doesn't happen.

 

Glad that they're pushing back the release. January always seemed too soon for me, especially since casting is currently underway with no filming having been done. I'll be busy re-watching House Of Cards around that time anyway in the lead-up to what I believe will be the final season.

 

was reading up on the year Discovery takes place, if we take "10 years before Kirk" as exact.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/2255

• The Treaty of Armens is established between theSheliak Corporate and the United Federation of Planets.
• The treaty cedes several Class H planets from the Federation to the Sheliak. The treaty contains 500,000 words and took 372 Federation legal experts to draft. Upon concluding the treaty, the Sheliak ended communication with the Federation. Talks between the two would not happen again until the year 2366 when a dispute arose over a Humancolony on Tau Cygna V. (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command")
• Ensign James T. Kirk is promoted to lieutenant. (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
• Lieutenant James T. Kirk, on his first planetary survey mission, visits theplanet Neural, where he meets Tyree. (TOS: "A Private Little War")

Also, Pike is still running the Enterprise! Bring back Bruce Greenwood as Pike!

 

Didn't they say the series is in the TNG continuity and not the reboot continutity?

 

Yep, it is. But...you could argue that Pike still has Greenwood's likeness since he was in Starfleet before the events of Star Trek 2009. At the same time, it would likely just confuse the lay viewer, especially if the series ends up going into the Kirk era.

 

I just dropped Greenwood mostly cuz A) the world needs more Bruce Greenwood in general and I really dig his performance as Pike and he certainly looks like Pike and why go and recast Pike if you've got a really good Pike already on the roster B) at the press conference, someone brought up Spock's mom Amanda and then Fuller mentioned Wynona Ryder (who played Spock's mom in the 2009 Star Trek movie) so I think he's open to the idea of cast, if not universe continuity, crossover with the Bad Robot flicks.

 

I think Greenwood casting is fine, albeit confusion to the casual movie going masses. If the show is restricted to the ten years prior to Kirk, then there's no reason why a casual fan cannot assume that the events of the Abrams-verse still takes place because Star Trek: Beyond will occur no matter which of the two available universes one prefers. I'd go so far to even get Pine to reprise his role as pre-Into Darkness Kirk.

 

After seeing Star Trek Beyond, I will also admit it's been gnawing at me what would happened to the USS Franklin in the Prime timeline. Maybe the Prime-timeline never got out as far as Starbase Yorktown / Krall / Franklin.

 

Still cautiously optimistic about this. At least we are getting casting news about this now.

 

A starship captain named Han? Way to rip off Star Wars, guys!

 

Doug Jones not doing extensive makeup or mocap work would be a fun change. But he's playing an alien but I would hope that it'll be more extensive than the usual "forehead ridge makeup" that populated aliens from the TNG era (they got better at it come Enterprise) And yay for Yeoh. As for the other person, go you! Fungus expert! Space fungus!

I always thought Discovery would have a "name" in the show (at least an actor with a list of creds known beforehand) and right now Yeoh is at the top of the list, unexpected but good. Same with Jones to a lesser extent.

 

That's excellent casting news, especially with Yeoh and Jones. I've loved their previous work.

 

The casting looks very promising.

 

I will say, writing the pilot / series bible / plotting the season arc is a pretty big involvement. I mean, look at Deep Space Nine which, out of all the Trek series, changed remarkably over the course of it's run but there's a through line from "Emissary" to "What You Leave Behind" and it's sort of the same show as it was when it started. The two eps may not slot together as elegantly as something like "Encounter at Farpoint" to "All Good Things..." but the show they made in Season 1 is the show it was in Season 7.

 

Small tidbits from Executive Producers. Fuller sez the theme of Discovery is "understanding each other". Kurtzman talks about the 3 actors cast and says Michelle Yeoh's Captain Georgiou "play a part that has so many dimensions". Personally whenever I see a writer or director say the part has a lot of dimensions, I automatically think they're gonna bounce from antagonist to protagonist or protagonist to antagonist or back again. so, yeah, calling it now, Captain Georgiou = shady! Scheming! Good Captain but is Evil Captain, ahhh!!

 

I assume you are unfamiliar with the word "nuance"? To say a character has dimensions means antagonist to protagonist, is....simple.

Ender Sai you explain it to him.