I thought it was agreed upon that we pretend this didn't happen. :)
My issue with this is that other than the pants it looks like a strict progression from good to bad. Mock turtleneck on the right wasn't good when they first started doing it and it's not good now.If you know where you saw that I'd be appreciative. I do hope so.
Maybe something like this? Start, middle, end?
My issue with this is that other than the pants it looks like a strict progression from good to bad. Mock turtleneck on the right wasn't good when they first started doing it and it's not good now.
DS9 and TNG had totally different uniform designs despite being set concurrently, I say just let sleeping dogs lie on this front.
Hehe.
DS9 and TNG had uniforms reflective of the time they were in since they took place at the same time
DS9 had the grey uniforms, and then the TNG crew in the movies followed suit
Didn't they first appear in First Contact? DS9 followed soon after that during season 5.
You press it and the uniform tightens.Honestly those uniforms wouldn't look that bad (just bland) without the weird beltless belt buckle thing. What the fuck is that thing anyway?
Hah I could see that.The Discovery's saucer section rotating when preparing for a jump is seriously giving me Stargate vibes.
Those uniforms were indeed made for First Contact, and then DS9 picked them up.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_(2370s)
(They are my favourite Starfleet uniforms ever btw)
Yeah, the Enterprise ones were good (and a good start) and I think the Discovery uniforms are great.I will defend the TOS uniforms to my grave.
Not the movie-era TOS uniforms though, they are stuffy and too similar to modern day military dress uniforms. Starfleet uniforms should never look too military. Enterprise did the right thing by making them based on astronaut jumpsuits, which is the proper lineage for what Starfleet represents (explorers, not soldiers). And now Discovery has given us what seems to be the natural evolution of those. I think they did a really good job.
I don't understand the visual continuity adherents. Of course the show should look better as time progresses. Previous iterations of the show were made in the 60s and 80s, limited by the budgets and materials available at the time. Not only that, but general refreshes are always good -- it was why people were so turned off from Star Trek by the time Nemesis rolled around.
At the end of the day, it's a story inside of a fictional universe. Things aren't set in stone.
The Discovery's saucer section rotating when preparing for a jump is seriously giving me Stargate vibes.
Did the reboot enterprise have moving parts?Continuing the "moving parts" gimmick started by Voyager and followed on by the JJPrise... I'm surprised the NX-01 didn't have any moving parts. :p
It was subtle, but the fins on the warp nacelles extended out before going to warp.
Wuuut never noticed that and I've seen those movies a ton lol I'll have to watch out for it againIt was subtle, but the fins on the warp nacelles extended out before going to warp.
Might be a case of them not being out and then it cutting to them being out, so you don't see them move much. Probably a small thing that few are paying attention to most of the time.Wuuut never noticed that and I've seen those movies a ton lol I'll have to watch out for it again
lol never noticed that either, I think it's time for a rewatchYep, that's the extended phase. I noticed it only after a few viewings lol, and I'm a starship nerd!
Also the dish, but that's more of a surface change.
Discovery's tech being too advanced isn't even a product of modern day expectations in most cases, it just a disregard and lack of respect for other Treks.
The holo communications for example, it not like TNG didn't have the holodeck 30 years ago and holograms are some new 2017 idea, and surely it's more work to film one person, then separately film the other, then combine them like are they having a conversation rather just have someone stand there for one scene together pretending to be a hologram.
No, it was a conscious decision by the creators that in the Trek universe main viewscreens and desk screens are how people communicate long distance and this was kept throughout DS9, Voyager and Enterprise.
I mean christ, it not like The Doctor being confined to sickbay and the holodeck was a thing for 3 seasons of Voyager. Turns out 120 years prior holo emitters were installed everywhere for regular communication.
And as such, were easy and cheap to film, because its was actually just really there.
Come on now, the holograms in Discovery and the holograms in TNG-era Trek are at a completely different technological level, they have basically nothing in common. The former are just crude light projections, while the latter are almost perfect depictions of solid matter.
And as such, were easy and cheap to film, because its was actually just really there.
My only complaint about the consistency stuff is that I don't understand what the point of making a prequel was if you didn't want to fit into the existing continuity. Like, just make a sequel instead.
To take it even further, I want them to do a remake of TNG sometime during my lifetime.
They 'rebooted' TOS with the Trek movies, they can reboot TNG somehow!
Just watched the season finale, loved it! My thoughts on the ending:
So they jump into a debris field? Interesting. First of all they probably jumped to a or THE mirror universe. My guess is they jumped to a universe where the Klingons won the war, and the debris is from the starbase. However, it's not clear if they ended up at the location of the starbase at all. It is possible they are somewhere else in the galaxy and the debris could be anything. But judging by the focus on the Klingon war I think it is a safe bet this is a Klingon victory universe. Or maybe they jumped into the future and the Klingons are about to win?
Or if we want to get crazy: Wolf 359 anyone? ;-)
Exactly. The reason is probably so that could add stupid shit like Spock's secret sister and the inevitable Constitution class showcase so they point and say "See, it is important and links to TOS!!!!!"My only complaint about the consistency stuff is that I don't understand what the point of making a prequel was if you didn't want to fit into the existing continuity. Like, just make a sequel instead.
The show has only started, it's too early at this point to conclude that. I am willing to give them the benefit of doubt for now.
Hell, with the current cliffhanger we're not even sure if all that's happened so far hasn't been one huge misdirection to trick us into thinking that the show will be about something completely different than what it will turn out to be.
Lol that's exactly what I was thinking.The little stealth sensors speaking when placed really bothered me. It was a stealth mission at least mute those things!
It's like someone took Alexa on an away mission.
Also the setup for the last jump was just stupid.It anyway almost killed the dude for the 133 other jumps, it was established that going at warp speeds was about 3 hours and during these scenes since the victory Michael had time to sleep so I imagine the 3 hours had already passed or was close.
I know it was needed as a plot device, but kinda silly.
At the end dominion war, the federation is basically de facto rulers of the alpha quadrant.Been really enjoying this series and been watching every week. Even made me go back and start rewatching TNG from the begining and then I'm going to go onto DS9 (which I've never properly watched) and also rewatch Voyager (which shock horror is probably my favourite).
My only issue is that it's seriously made me crave a new Trek series not set prior to all the others! I want new story, characters and as futuristic as the Federation can get without the constraints of continuity, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!!
The impression I got is that Lorca probably did it on purpose. They intentionally showed him being the one setting the co-ordinates iirc, and they went out of their way to establish that he had been collecting data on parallel dimensions earlier in the episode