Archonon
Master Chief Petty Officer of Starfleet
- Joined
- 13 Aug 2016
- Messages
- 539
- Age
- 47
I have always felt that in the VOY episode where they get transported to Earth in 1996 and stop the 29th century Sol system from being destroyed basically helped to create the temporal cold war which in turn created the ENT timeline which Spock from Prime stumbled into as well as Nero which Discovery is part of.
That's a very interesting way of seeing it, temporal butterfly effect.
That's another thing that bothered me about that Voyager episode. If they time traveled to 1996, isn't this time period the height of the reign of the genetically enhanced supermen? Shouldn't ST's 1990s look like a dystopia if not a ravaged warzone from all the fighting between the supermen overlords and those trying to depose them?
Every description of pre-WW3 Earth in TOS did not make me think that it looked anything like our 1990s.
As far as the makeup goes, the Klingons look almost lizard-y in DISC or as I like calling it, STD. Lol. The new Klingons remind me of the aliens in Enemy Mine. I think the makeup is a more exaggerated version of the alterations they got in ST: Into Darkness. They would look better if they had some with hair.
They should definitely be using D-6s by this time period, unless that abomination onscreen is the new canon D-6. I dislike that design very much, almost as much as the Discovery itself. Frankly the only design I liked was the Shenzhou.
Speaking of which Cabal, I have not been able to see past the first hour because I'm not going to pay for that streaming garbage. So I can't confirm the Discovery's registry. For me, even if they place the Discovery as a newer ship than Shenzhou, my main issue is that the Discovery's design is so ugly and out of place that it just doesn't work as a believable precursor to neither Shatner's Enterprise nor Pine's Enterprise.
Oh well, I'll watch the series a year from now when it's out on Blu Ray. I hope that it can grow into a really good series, with as many episodes as they have there is plenty of chance to do more exploration and draw out all the essence of Trek. I also hope they make a JJ-verse 4th movie, as I love that crew. So yeah, more Trek is always a good thing as I find there is a severe deficiency of good Sci-Fi right now.