tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post7825777430165080656..comments2024-03-26T15:22:25.095-06:00Comments on The Earliad: Discovering DiscoveryEarl J. Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07963936256606285358noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-429376696392161882017-09-28T00:31:17.907-06:002017-09-28T00:31:17.907-06:00They could name a new laxative "the Vulcan He...They could name a new laxative "the Vulcan Hello."susanRN92noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-82619203347152827972017-09-26T22:20:21.021-06:002017-09-26T22:20:21.021-06:00Star Trek: The Next Lens Flare Iteration
You'...Star Trek: The Next Lens Flare Iteration<br /><br />You're more optimistic about this show than I am, but that stands to reason. It perhaps is one of the better outcomes out of a flawed and troubled production. If it weren't for the After Trek fan show afterwards, I'd have had more problems with these first two hours. After Trek had one of the producers and a number of the actors, who without giving away the surprises of the new season, were at least able to explain the rationale of a built-in "prequel".<br /><br />I don't know about you, but in my broadcast region a football game ran late, so the network decided to push the show back twenty minutes, which screwed up my DVR. I ended up watching most of the show twice, and I didn't think the second viewing improved it - too much exposition, a strange dynamic with the captain and first officer, and a very, very gloomy battle that climaxes SPOILER ALERT with dead smirking admirals, ramming speed, cloaking devices, and Star Trek's most gruesome weapon of mass destruction, the loathesome corpse bomb. <br /><br />Since the network pushed the show twenty minutes and I missed the ending the first time, the second hour was at least as melancholy as Star Trek Nemesis, with many cues shared between those two shows. The last five minutes however, features some form of consequence that Nemesis lacked, and it was those last five minutes that seem to maybe - maybe? - redeem the show for me. It's almost too bad that Michael Burnham won't follow through with her character arc to become a Khan-like character, since that opportunity clearly exists. Instead, she'll be offered redemption - which is good, yes, and very human at that - but too safe an option in a television galaxy that has Breaking Bad, House of Cards, and Game of Thrones, and too unlikely given the very strong military tone of the season opener... especially given the premise of The Vulcan Hello (should that not have been a lovely "Live Long And Prosper"? Michael Frain teases that Sarek and the Vulcan Academy may not have the same agenda... fascinating!). Jeff Shylukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.com