• thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I feel like the problem with Discovery is the same of the warp 10 episode in Voyager. A bunch of people create the most OP way of travelling and barely use it, and don't tell me that the ship is unique and Stamets is the only person in the universe in the following centuries to be able to use it, because that just doesn't make any sense, it's a cheap trick to justify why such an incredible technology has never been mentioned after, not even by a super villain that gives no crap about genetic augmentation.

    At least with Voyager you could just write it off as a badly written episode, but you cannot ingore a whole series. Yes even TNG had some magical guy make the ship travel fantaszilion light years, but at least it was out of their control and they could not exploit it.

    Also, Trek shows have not been the most consistent ever, but Discovery really went their way on completely distegarding every Star Trek lore existing in the first season which, personal theory, is a major reason for the writers to "get rid" of the ship at the end of season two. Discovery just did not make sense in the universe created by the othee series, to put it where it does no more damage.

        • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website
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          7 months ago

          Fuckin' jeepers, this is grasping at straws.

          There's no "lore" regarding the spore drive or the uniforms, so nothing to disregard.

          What specific lore about the Klingons was abandoned by Disco. Just one specific thing. Any single, specific thing.

          • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
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            7 months ago

            In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors. They also don't look like klingons at all, both in appearance and architecture, the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes and for some reasons they make ships out of coffins.

            I'm not against change, what I don't like is calling another thing with its name just because you get to be part of a franchise. The only thing they have in common with klingons of other series is the language and that they want to kill. All the modifications they made, just for the sake of it, makes it look like they wanted to use the standard scifi appearal of standard bad aliens and just put the name "klingons" on it. No surprise they reverted this change and discarded all of this in season two.

            Btw "the klingons started growing their hair again" might be the single most stupid line I've ever heard in a Trek show, especially considering the reason why it was said.

            • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website
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              7 months ago

              In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors.

              Like they are in TOS?

              They also don’t look like klingons at all

              Are you similarly upset by the change in appearance the occurred between TOS and TMP?

              and architecture

              Architecture? I don't know, the House Mo'Kai fortress we see in season two doesn't seem all that out of place. The rounded towers of the capital city seen in ENT is a greater divergence than anything we see in Disco. But that's also fine, because architectural styles change over time.

              the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes

              And apparently, according to experts in the language, that's the best Klingon has ever sounded on screen. Not really sure how that qualifies as a lore thing, though.

              they make ships out of coffins.

              One ship. The home of a cult leader.

    • porthos@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      A bunch of people create the most OP way of travelling and barely use it, and don’t tell me that the ship is unique and Stamets is the only person in the universe in the following centuries to be able to use it, because that just doesn’t make any sense, it’s a cheap trick to justify why such an incredible technology has never been mentioned after, not even by a super villain that gives no crap about genetic augmentation.

      That wasn’t really the reason, the reason wasn’t nobody else could figure it out or that nobody wanted to do it because it required genetic modification, the reason was that jumping on the mycelial network was actively killing it unless I am misremembering things which is in line with the rest of star trek’s ethos (how about the DS9 episode where they help the dominion destroy a trans warp gate for example? There are other technologies that are abandoned and hidden for the greater safety of the universe all over Star Trek, it can be really silly I agree but I don’t think discovery is unique here.