OK Trek fans...
I just watched the first episode and I don't hate it. The first series in a while that felt like "Star Trek" to me.
I figured there would be interest on this forum to have a place to discuss it and ask/answer questions, speculate about what's next, and so on.
For the record, I'm not a big fan of Discovery, though I watch it. I'm not a Trek expert by any stretch and I get really bugged by violations of canon, thought I'm not a complete stickler. I can deal with the fact that computer technology's ubiquity wasn't foreseen in the '60s so it's easy to just let that go (but, so much from Discovery was radically different from canon...).
I've got a few questions:
Maybe I should just rewatch the first part of episode 1 to answer this one, but where exactly was Spock at the beginning, when he was about to get it on with T'Pring? The scenery looked like Vulcan but then he was headed up to Enterprise on Earth. Were they in some virtual environment or something?
Next, what's this about him and T'Pring about to have sex? I thought that only happened every seven years as part of Pon Farr? I haven't done the math but I'm not sure this episode tracks to 7 years before the events of Amok time. Sure, Spok is half human but he still deals with the the mating madness. So what was this about? Some sort of exception for first timers? It seems they can have sex outside the 7 year thing according the the Memory Alpha entry. Still, seems different to me.
I liked the premise of the episode and the characters seemed genuine enough for a first episode. Looking forward to the next one. I like how it was self contained like original Trek. I don't so much like the newer series that are so wrapped up in long arcs as opposed to single episode stories.
I just watched the first episode and I don't hate it. The first series in a while that felt like "Star Trek" to me.
I figured there would be interest on this forum to have a place to discuss it and ask/answer questions, speculate about what's next, and so on.
For the record, I'm not a big fan of Discovery, though I watch it. I'm not a Trek expert by any stretch and I get really bugged by violations of canon, thought I'm not a complete stickler. I can deal with the fact that computer technology's ubiquity wasn't foreseen in the '60s so it's easy to just let that go (but, so much from Discovery was radically different from canon...).
I've got a few questions:
Maybe I should just rewatch the first part of episode 1 to answer this one, but where exactly was Spock at the beginning, when he was about to get it on with T'Pring? The scenery looked like Vulcan but then he was headed up to Enterprise on Earth. Were they in some virtual environment or something?
Next, what's this about him and T'Pring about to have sex? I thought that only happened every seven years as part of Pon Farr? I haven't done the math but I'm not sure this episode tracks to 7 years before the events of Amok time. Sure, Spok is half human but he still deals with the the mating madness. So what was this about? Some sort of exception for first timers? It seems they can have sex outside the 7 year thing according the the Memory Alpha entry. Still, seems different to me.
I liked the premise of the episode and the characters seemed genuine enough for a first episode. Looking forward to the next one. I like how it was self contained like original Trek. I don't so much like the newer series that are so wrapped up in long arcs as opposed to single episode stories.