Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery does a fast backpedal from their original form and premise to try and align it with the prime Star Trek timeline. Too late, folks!
This thread is separate from the Star Trek Discovery SUCKS thread because of one defining prediction: Season 2 is likely the final season of STD.
The Ultimate Backpedal
This show which claimed to be in the Star Trek prime timeline has started the Klingon War and ended it in the dumbest way. They introduced the nonsensical "spore drive" and dumped it, ventured into the Mirror Universe where they did not belong and ruined that alternate timeline, killed off a Starfleet Captain and then resurrected her, killed off the Captain of the Discovery, and given us the most ridiculous Klingons ever seen in Trek. But all of that changes for Season 2.
1.) They have called out for help, in a last ditch effort to pull themselves out of the quicksand that Season 1 created for this show, by trying to bring in the USS Enterprise and Captain Pike.
For those who aren't aware, Captain Pike will be taking command of Discovery for all of Season 2. This is the ultimate backpedal, given that Spock would have then been forced to take command of the Enterprise which we know he never did, and why would Starfleet reassign Captain Pike to another ship when the Enterprise was the flagship of the Federation? While they are at it, they are changing the uniforms too. At least for Pike and a couple of his officers:
2.) Lack of numbers from CBS All Access
These abrupt changes tell us that Season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery was a complete fail. All of the writers have been fired. Now, Alex Kurtzman, the man responsible for giving us the failed Kelvin timeline and the absurd concepts in the Abrams movie like transwarp beaming, portable transporters which can beam from earth to Quo'nos (the Klingon homeworld), red matter and a pale white British Kahn Noonien Singh, is in charge of Star Trek on TV which spells a big fat FAIL. If the show was a success, CBS would be bragging about it. Instead, we get a ripped off turbolift scene from The Orville! Speaking of The Orville on Fox, they are bragging about THOSE numbers because they can.
3.) They are changing the Klingons already, LOL.
One of the biggest gripes about STD is those awful Klingons. Besides the dumb clownish rubber and costumes, the mealy mouthed scenes with subtitles was such a fail that many people grabbed their remotes the moment they appeared.
Word has it that somebody was tasked to consult canon, and it turns out that Kahless threw a lock of his hair (which the STD Klingons do not have) into molten lava and fashioned it into a sword. The Kelvin version of Klingons lacked hair too. No other Klingons in Star Trek have ever been hairless. To hear Alex Kurtzman say he cares about canon is a flat out lie. He did everything he could to avoid canon and anything related to Star Trek. Nevertheless, he is being forced to change the Klingons for Season 2, which means that they will have hair. FAIL. I think we will simply see these same awful Klingons, only with hair.
Also, they are evidently going to go with an episodic format and dump the serial format for Season 2 (like the original Star Trek). But because Alex Kurtzman only has experience writing fluff like Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess and Transformers and movie duds like The Mummy (the bombed one), nobody should expect he will get it right with Season 2 of Discovery.
The bottom line is that this complete teardown and redo of Discovery is very telling. It tells of a frustrated studio which has dumped millions into this show telling Kurtzman to shit or get off the pot. This is a lose-lose proposition, because the NuTrek fans of STD are not going to relate to or understand who Captain Pike is, why he is in the show or why they are changing everything. The original fans know why he is changing everything, but we have already written this show off as being non-canon and non-Trek.
Give us your thoughts!
This thread is separate from the Star Trek Discovery SUCKS thread because of one defining prediction: Season 2 is likely the final season of STD.
The Ultimate Backpedal
This show which claimed to be in the Star Trek prime timeline has started the Klingon War and ended it in the dumbest way. They introduced the nonsensical "spore drive" and dumped it, ventured into the Mirror Universe where they did not belong and ruined that alternate timeline, killed off a Starfleet Captain and then resurrected her, killed off the Captain of the Discovery, and given us the most ridiculous Klingons ever seen in Trek. But all of that changes for Season 2.
1.) They have called out for help, in a last ditch effort to pull themselves out of the quicksand that Season 1 created for this show, by trying to bring in the USS Enterprise and Captain Pike.
For those who aren't aware, Captain Pike will be taking command of Discovery for all of Season 2. This is the ultimate backpedal, given that Spock would have then been forced to take command of the Enterprise which we know he never did, and why would Starfleet reassign Captain Pike to another ship when the Enterprise was the flagship of the Federation? While they are at it, they are changing the uniforms too. At least for Pike and a couple of his officers:
2.) Lack of numbers from CBS All Access
These abrupt changes tell us that Season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery was a complete fail. All of the writers have been fired. Now, Alex Kurtzman, the man responsible for giving us the failed Kelvin timeline and the absurd concepts in the Abrams movie like transwarp beaming, portable transporters which can beam from earth to Quo'nos (the Klingon homeworld), red matter and a pale white British Kahn Noonien Singh, is in charge of Star Trek on TV which spells a big fat FAIL. If the show was a success, CBS would be bragging about it. Instead, we get a ripped off turbolift scene from The Orville! Speaking of The Orville on Fox, they are bragging about THOSE numbers because they can.
IndieWire said:“The Orville” has already been renewed for a second season. The show’s series premiere averaged more than 14 million viewers across platforms, Fox’s most-watched series launch since “Empire” in 2015.
3.) They are changing the Klingons already, LOL.
One of the biggest gripes about STD is those awful Klingons. Besides the dumb clownish rubber and costumes, the mealy mouthed scenes with subtitles was such a fail that many people grabbed their remotes the moment they appeared.
Word has it that somebody was tasked to consult canon, and it turns out that Kahless threw a lock of his hair (which the STD Klingons do not have) into molten lava and fashioned it into a sword. The Kelvin version of Klingons lacked hair too. No other Klingons in Star Trek have ever been hairless. To hear Alex Kurtzman say he cares about canon is a flat out lie. He did everything he could to avoid canon and anything related to Star Trek. Nevertheless, he is being forced to change the Klingons for Season 2, which means that they will have hair. FAIL. I think we will simply see these same awful Klingons, only with hair.
Also, they are evidently going to go with an episodic format and dump the serial format for Season 2 (like the original Star Trek). But because Alex Kurtzman only has experience writing fluff like Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess and Transformers and movie duds like The Mummy (the bombed one), nobody should expect he will get it right with Season 2 of Discovery.
The bottom line is that this complete teardown and redo of Discovery is very telling. It tells of a frustrated studio which has dumped millions into this show telling Kurtzman to shit or get off the pot. This is a lose-lose proposition, because the NuTrek fans of STD are not going to relate to or understand who Captain Pike is, why he is in the show or why they are changing everything. The original fans know why he is changing everything, but we have already written this show off as being non-canon and non-Trek.
Give us your thoughts!
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