First things first, it's great to have
Star Trek back as a weekly show; for the couple of months that this half of the season ran, my Monday morning Netflix viewing of the latest episode became a bit of a ritual.
And we don't have to wait too long for the mid-season hiatus to end, as the second part of season one kicks off on January 8 (on UK Netflix).
Into The Forest I Go left us with some meaty cliffhangers: not the least of which is just where in the multiverse is the USS Discovery now?
And it's only two months of waiting (a stretch that features both my birthday and Christmas, so there'll be no shortage of distractions) before we - maybe - get some answers and resolution.
As pulpy sci-fi Discovery is great fun, although I'm not wholly convinced it's great Trek.
I totally understand updating the tech (extrapolating from actual technological developments, as well as advances in special effects), but a lot of the changes also seem to be changes for the sake of change (the starship designs, the Klingons etc), the gratuitous f-bomb incident (dropping in random high grade swearing just because the show isn't bound by the usual network codes of practice any longer) etc
There have been attempts to justify these changes, but none ring true so far. But we are only half-way through the first season.
In the case of the Klingons, for example, all the odd-looking Discovery Klingons might get wiped out or altered in some way to allow the eventual evolution of the more accepted TNG era Klingon look. Maybe it's something to do with the augment virus?
At face value (excuse the analogy), it appears as though Discovery has simply replaced one racial monoculture with another, rather than introducing diversity as I'd initially hoped when I saw the 'new' Klingons.
I was hoping to see a mix of Next Generation, Original Series, movie and Discovery Klingons.
Is General Change (Christopher Plummer), from the excellent Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, meant to be related in some way to these Discovery Klingons?
Then there's the nonsensical weird science (
spore drive) that powers the starship
Discovery, but was never mentioned in any of the earlier shows (
which took place later in the canon!)
Hopefully that will be scrapped - due to its toll on its 'pilot' - (along with the ridiculous 'spinning' motion of the ship as its goes into warp) once the Klingon War arc wraps at the end of season one.
But, to be honest, my main gripe with the show is the fact that the makers felt the need to squeeze it in between Enterprise and The Original Series as yet another prequel.
Sure, it's nice to get sprinklings of TOS Easter Eggs, but are these just 'golden leaves', as my Trek guru John Carrigan calls them (in reference to his philosophical book So That's What It Means. He talks about distracting people with something that isn't what you say it is: "We might see a child crying so, to keep them happy, we give them a pile of golden leaves and say play with these golden coins… and they do.")
I'd have preferred a series set post-TNG - or at least contemporaneous - so there were less concerns about trampling over 'future canon', as the show would simply be building on the 50 years of TV and movies that had come before it.
But I guess that would have been too simple...
And sadly I don't have a time machine (or the skills, willpower, breadth of vision et al) to go back, establish my own career in television production, get a job with CBS, work my way up, and create my own Star Trek show for the network.
So I'll have to remain a consumer and a keyboard critic, sitting on my sofa, drinking my breakfast smoothie, excitedly watching this week's episode of Star Trek Discovery.
With a franchise as deep as Star Trek, I personally feel half-a-season is too short a time to frame a definitive opinion on a new iteration.
Just look at the reception early episodes of Voyager and Enterprise got, even generally lauded outings like Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation had weak freshman years compared to their later offerings.
Sure, it's different, and the protagonists (so far) might not be clicking as they have in other Trek outings, but we shouldn't be so quick to write Discovery off.
Star Trek Discovery has already been picked up for a second season, so even if you don't like what they're doing this year with the Klingon War, perhaps the show's sophomore offerings will be more to your taste.
Perhaps the apparent canonical discrepancies will be explained and the 'golden leaves' will turn out to actually be 'golden coins'?
And it is great to have Star Trek back on television.
And I am looking forward to seeing what happens next...
Assalamualaikum wr.wb. Masih dalam suasana Ramadhan, kali ini saya membuat postingan mengenai Arti genre dalam anime. Seperti yang anda keta...
Request for Unlock iCloud activation lock on iphone 6s+-Get started From Her==>> Check if your idevice can be unlocked from the block ...
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar