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Posted on 07/14/2017 7:24:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
Star Trek may be one of the longest running science fiction franchises out there, with its fantastic tales of starships exploring the far reaches of the galaxy having engaged movie and television viewers since 1966, but it’s been off our TV screens for a long while now – twelve years, to be precise. That will soon change, as this September sees the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, an ambitious new show set within the universe of the Federation – yes, the actual one, not the parallel universe from those lens flaring, CGI-heavy movies.
But despite being set in the same universe as the classic adventures of the Voyager and the various incarnations of the Enterprise, Discovery will be a very new take on Star Trek, with some big differences between it and the series that have come before. Some of these changes are inevitable, given the major shifts in how TV is made that have occurred since Enterprise finished its run in 2005. Other changes are more surprising and concern the characters and alien races we’ll meet.
So whether you’re a Trek purist and need to prepare yourself for any shocks, or a more easygoing viewer excited to see this new take on the franchise, here are fifteen of the things that will not be the same when the Discovery takes flight…
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Star Trek is dead. PC finally killed it.
I’ll stick with the fan made stuff.
Captain Kirk. ‘Nuff said.
I can’t wait to see the Enterprises row of 57 restroom doors for all the genders
12. Redesigned Klingons
First of all, everyone is gay. All the aliens still look human except for minor cosmetic differences, but they’re also all gay. Somehow they are able to procreate, however. Replicator technology perhaps.
There is an episode tomorrow night on METV.
That one is “Shore Leave” which is one of my favorites. I don’t know why but most fans do not like that one.
Just as well. The Inquisition would have ordered exterminatus anyway.
12. Redesigned Klingons
That’s right up their with ideas like “New Coke”.
Of course: “But Discovery intends to push this diversity even further. Not only does it have a black female lead character, but in Captain Georgiou, it has a female captain of Asian descent, with Michelle Yeoh even using her native Malaysian accent. What’s more, one of the crew members we’ll get to know, Anthony Rapp’s science officer Stamets, is openly gay, the first Trek regular to be conceived as such.”
Very intolerant of the show’s creators. I thought EVERYONE in the 22nd century is homosexual.
They just had to have a main gay pervert. Sigh.
I get very few channels and had not seen any of the original series in quite a few years. I had liked it when it first came out.
I have been a little surprised by how many weak episodes there are but there really are some very good ones too. I think the main thing which made it good was simply the actors, even Sulu. They also seemed to be genuinely good friends.
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