“The Orville” and “Star Trek Discovery” are both amazing sci-fi shows, although they might not be as “hard” as you’d prefer.
Clearly. Such a shame too, to waste the first Trek series where the main character is a black woman, and also not a starship captain. Unfortunately, it's all just one big cheese-fest from start to end.
>> The same applies to the JJ Abrams reboot movies.
As a long-term proud trekkie (sorry) I wonder what the general opinion is about the rebooted universe. I personally agree with you, that it's Trek without the Trek, like an ice cream cone without the ice cream, but I wonder what others think.
Star Trek is sometimes credited for bringing up an entire generation of scientists and engineers. Can you imagine someone 20 years from now saying something like that about Discovery, or the reboot movies, with a straight face?
> As a long-term proud trekkie (sorry)
Don't be. I'm a trekkie too :). In fact, I owe my career in computing and general interest in science and space to Star Trek (TNG in particular), which I watched as a kid/teenager.
The TOS heavily influenced me into electrical engineering, especially Spock building something to save the day, such as the mnemonic memory circuit with stone knives and bear claws.
Hah, I did the same when I was ~10. With a friend, we went out to the park behind some trees where people were dumping appliances, and collected 2 bags of scrap electronics. My mother wasn't too happy when I brought it all home.
I felt much the same to start with, but by the end of the season I had mostly forgiven it.
At the end of it, my main annoyance is that Those. Are. Not. Klingons.
Whatever they are, they've clearly had a species-wide Groupon deal on massive dental reconstruction surgery. Not a single one of them can speak without sounding like they're trying to talk around a half-dozen pairs of socks that've been jammed into their mouth, and then had their jaw wired shut.
I'll still not forgive JJ Abrams for his Star Trek 90210 with Super Lens Flares reboot of Trek which completely ignored all the history. Then the obnoxious jerk has the temerity to lie to us outright "No, Bennedict Cumberbatch isn't Khan, it's a surprise!" when the trailers all made that clear.
If he were deliberately trying to sink the series, he couldn't have done a better job.
JJ's Trek Hack-Job is second only to the travesty that was the 2004 I, Robot film.