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chyron8472
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All Things Star Trek
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3-Oct-2017, 1:35 PM

Mike O said:

m_s0 said:

SilverWook said:

Perhaps we should make an Orville thread before the kvetching really starts?

I was referring to episode 3 of Discovery. Raw reaction, sorry if it wasn’t clear.

The Orville is flawed, but it has heart. Discovery is just… desperately, pointlessly contrarian, I guess? Also terribly written. And to think I thought the first two episodes were bad…

Yeah, episode 3 of Discovery, directed by Akiva Batman & Robin Goldsman, was not good. This dour, dark military sci-fi is like Battlestar Galactica, not Star Trek.

I went into watching episode 3 with low expectations since several of you say you hated it. I just now finished watching DSC episode 3, and… by the end, I liked it.

It is certainly not Trek Prime (and not just in style, but also for plot-related reasons). And yes, it does feel like dark military sci-fi. But it is starting to tell a good story, and I’m beginning to feel better about the show.

In part, Battlestar Galactica wasn’t just dark military sci-fi. It was risque. It was vulgar in it’s own made-up-words kind of way. It had drama seemingly for the sake of drama and not in a way that made the story believable. It was adult for reasons it didn’t need to be.

DSC is not Prime Trek, nor is is quite Kelvin either, but it is starting to be enjoyable for me.

JEDIT: Oh, and I like Captain Lorca (captain of Discovery). He does have an underlying sinister streak that Jason Isaacs brings outright to many other characters he plays (like Lucius Malfoy or Tavington from The Patriot), and he reminds me a bit of Captain Maxwell from TNG (O’Brien’s old captain from the episode “The Wounded”). It doesn’t bother me that Lorca isn’t like the Prime captains, as none of them are actually like each other really either. He has his own personality and command style. …and at least I can tell by his vocal inflections what his mood and intent is, unlike Captain Georgiou.