August 4, 20232 yr Maybe they should change the name to Star Trek : Strange New Episodes..... EDIT: I will have the (probably dubious) pleasure of watching "Subspace Rhapsody" tomorrow Edited August 4, 20232 yr by Christopher Low Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
August 4, 20232 yr Moderator Well, I like it. I've been a trekkie since the original and have followed through Enterprise, Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9. I consider Discovery an abomination In many ways I find SNW sticking to the Star Trek mantra - lots of little references to the other shows. Spock is a developing character - in the original series it was obvious that Nurse Chapel loved him and this starts the ball rolling. I believe the nwriters are taking us on a journey and will have the characters in line with their natural evolution b y series end. Lots of unanswered questions arising - Lt (Captain) Kirk saays his girlfriend is pregnant - Pike knows he'll be disfigured. The new engineer (played by Carol Kane) is this versions equivalent of Guinan. So far each episode has primarily been establishing different character's back story - I'd give it a chance to develop. As to the musical episode - I thought it was entertaining - the majority had good voices and the sheer logistics of writing the dialog and the music and staging the whole thing was exceptional and they did move the story line along. I do agree however that the crew attitude is a tad cavalier even for early starfleet. RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
August 4, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Christopher Low said: Maybe they should change the name to Star Trek : Strange New Episodes..... EDIT: I will have the (probably dubious) pleasure of watching "Subspace Rhapsody" tomorrow I'll be avoiding. I'll be watching Foundation instead.
August 4, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, vgbaron said: Well, I like it. I've been a trekkie since the original and have followed through Enterprise, Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9. I consider Discovery an abomination That's pretty much my feeling as well. SNW feels more like the TOS and NG with a more positive and optimistic view of the future. Too many sci-fi shows, and shows in general, want to be dark and gritty these days, so it's nice to have something different. 2 hours ago, vgbaron said: Lots of unanswered questions arising - Lt (Captain) Kirk saays his girlfriend is pregnant Presumably the same Carol and future son, David, from Star Trek II. On the other hand, introducing Kirk to La'an Noonien-Singh when there's another Noonien-Singh coming in his future is an interesting choice.
August 4, 20232 yr 22 hours ago, HiFlyer said: The musical episode is..... Uhm..... ahhh...... Yeah, I must admit that I was a bit taken aback initially. The music was actually pretty good IMO. I suppose the writers just wanted to do something different and make a musical episode. If you think about it, there have been some pretty strange episodes of Star Trek before. I'm still liking the show overall. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
August 7, 20232 yr Author LOLZ.... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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September 10, 20232 yr Author Can't stop grinning...... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
September 10, 20232 yr When you said grinning you meant crying. All that money spent for such..... can't type it here. Last episode was okay though.
September 11, 20232 yr Moderator On 9/10/2023 at 8:24 AM, martin-w said: When you said grinning you meant crying. All that money spent for such..... can't type it here. Last episode was okay though. That was awful! I cannot fathom why anyone would pay a subscription to view/listen this drek! Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
September 11, 20232 yr Author 1 hour ago, n4gix said: That was awful! I cannot fathom why anyone would pay a subscription to view/listen this drek! 😁 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
September 26, 20232 yr Author Ok, I was wondering a bit for awhile about why they chose somebody so physically dissimilar to the original Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, but that was my ignorance as I had no idea the actress was also a known (grammy award winning!) singer. Again, ignorance on my part. Perhaps the showrunners had this musical thing planned all along. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
September 27, 20232 yr 17 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Perhaps the showrunners had this musical thing planned all along. Yes, that's the mentality I would expect from them. They know nothing about science fiction or care about science fiction, so they turn it into a musical. Wasn't it that Chabon guy who said he didn't get science fiction? 🙄 Cats disapprove. 😾
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