This is why you don't have your scifi shows praise people who are still alive irl...
Seriously David Tennant's doctor praising JK aged horribly... espcially since Tennant is a trans ally who absolutely hates her guts.
I forgot about the JK praise. The second you mentioned it all I could hear was "Good Ol' JK!"
Yeah, that is a good episode, but holy shit that aged like milk. The only thing that really saves it for me is the fact that David Tennant is a trans Ally and has publicly spoken against JK Rowling, one of the few United Kingdom based celebrities to do so.
It did work out when Star Trek had Stephen Hawking appear though.
Stephen Hawking is the only person to have played himself in the entirety of Star Trek as well.
Wasn't there an episode where Kirk met Shatner or something? After finding an alternate reality where it was all a show
No no... remembered as I was typing..
I was thinking of when Dave Lister met Craig Charles
The fact that there are two references to Musk in Discovery is a bit disheartening. There's this one from Lorca but another when Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.
I choose to believe that in this alternate universe he kept his mouth shut.
This line was foreshadowing Lorca’s origin. You see, mirror Musk was actually competent, making him the precise inverse of real Musk.
I don’t care that the timing is suspect and there’s another Musk reference in Discovery, I’ll die on this hill.
Nah, Mirror Musk was exactly the same as he is now.
It is just that lying, bribing and being narcissistic are admiral traits in the Mirror Universe
It is just that lying, bribing and being narcissistic are admiral traits in the Mirror Universe
Lying, bribing, and being narcissistic are considered admirable traits among specific social circles in our universe, too, especially the ones that babble about "Dark Triad theory" as a good thing to be emulated.
Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.
I firmly believe that someone had to talk the writer responsible out of making Tilly a graduate of Bit Connect High School.
It rules that the Mirror Universe guy was a Musk fan. Possibly not an intentional dig, but it's pitch-perfect in retrospect. I love Lorca. What a fun character.
Mirror universe Musk was actually a great guy who selflessly tried to improve humanity, and mirror-Lorca calls him a great man because that's who good people in the mirror universe would praise.
Bahaha, in the mirror universe, Elon Musk died a pauper while trying to prevent the eugenics wars.
Mirror universe Musk was a proletarian hero who organized a mining industry revolution.
You could kind of feel it when their budget went down the tube and they started phoning in the script.
I feel like they had a really good opportunity to foreshadow Lorca being from where he is by making him say Von Braun instead of Musk.
It'd be one of those "of course this guy thought an SS officer was a good guy!" Moments
I feel like they had a really good opportunity to foreshadow Lorca being from where he is by making him say Von Braun instead of Musk.
Is there really that much difference between an Operation Paperclip nazi and an Apartheid emerald prince?
As much as I think Musk is dumb and shitty, von Braun was personally aware that concentration camp slave labor was being used to make his rockets and continued anyway. According to some prisoners, he also ordered corporal punishment of slave workers and had a hand in selecting who was fit to work and who would be sent to an extermination camp. However, we can't say for sure because of lack of documentation.
Even if we assume that the prisoner allegations are mistaken identity or whatever, I think directly being in contact with and benefiting from the Nazi death machine is quite a lot worse than Elon.
Von Braun was good at rockets
also Elon was not actually involved in use of slave labour or bombing campaigns
I lived with a Brazilian dude many years ago. He had just moved to Canada, where I'm from, and was going to university. Santos-Dumont got brought up at some point and I never forgot about him. It would be pretty damn cool to have Star Trek recognize it where most people don't.
His plane was built in Paris, so maybe the French also have some feelings regarding that matter
To me STD, Picard and SNW aren't cannon
EDIT: In hindisght I should have added ENT to the list but I forgot
Well, you're wrong. But have fun with that? Also its DSC. Unless you're calling TOS STTOS.
Kind of expect more of a Star Trek "fan" than being so close minded. Especially when Leonard Nimoy openly embraced changes to Trek canon.
But like I said. Have fun with that lol
Didn't Leonard Nimoy die 2 years before DSC was released? Also DSC changed a LOT of Star Trek lore, the other shows did not
Nimoy dying before DSC was released is irrelevant. His quote stands on his own. That quote being:
“Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae. Open your mind! Be a ‘Star Trek’ fan and open your mind and say, ‘Where does Star Trek want to take me now’.” -Leonard Nimoy Reuters Interview
I'm going to stick with Nimoy on this one and just be happy we're getting new Trek. Moreover, your complaint about "DSC changing a LOT of Star Trek lore, the other shows did not" is an outright lie. Both the TOS Movies and TNG had to retcon a bunch of TOS information. Information about how the ship ran, the warp scale, tons of information was changed. The entire look of Klingons was changed between TOS and TNG. Enterprise added a ton of new information, even holographic technology, and 'changed the lore'.
On top of that, you're just outright mistaken. Discovery has changed essentially nothing about Star Trek lore. It only added to things in it's absence. Go ahead. Name 5 things from Discovery that radically changed Star Trek lore. Holograms do not count as they were established in Enterprise and general basic visuals do not count either. The show was classified as a 'Visual Reboot' so any vague changes to overall appearances such as set design or the update to the TOS shuttlecraft design seen in Strange New Worlds don't count.
You want to talk about how it ruined Star Trek lore. Well go ahead. Please list 5 things that Discovery changed the lore of.
Well I never had a provlem with the "new" Klingons, and TNG kinda acknowledged the Klingon change. And the slight changes to visuals also don't matter as much. What I was refering to was the change of the technology advancment, in Voyager its clearly states that there were no Holographic techonology or replicators (which I guess was changed in ENT already). The change that botheted me the most was the war with the Klingons. It seems too big of an event to just add in. also the storyline with the screaming child was just plain dumb but that has nothing to do with retconing
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I don't recall Voyager stating there was no holographic technology. Could you please cite the episode in which this is stated? - Misc
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There are no replicators in Enterprise, Discovery, SNW or TOS. They use a technology called a 'food replicator' which uses mass blocks/nutrient blocks instead of generating the food stuff from a molecular level. - Not a change in Canon.
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"It seems too big of an event to just add in." No, the event fits perfectly fine. In TOS it is known that the relations with the Klingons are disastrous. They do not elaborate much on it but it wouldn't be a stretch to assume the relations are bad because of a war that happened 10ish years ago. Also, too big to add in? TNG added in the idea of dilithium. That's kind of a big deal. Same with how warp cores work. They upgraded phasers. They added the Borg in. The TOS movies added a litany of new technology and facts about the world. DS9 changed the trill entirely from what they were shown as in their first episode. They also added entire new alien species. All of these are big events or big pieces of technology. None were 'too big to add in'. Your complaint is completely invalid. - Not a change in Canon.
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Your opinion on the Su'Kal storyline is irrelevant and, as you pointed out, not a change to Canon in any way. Just throwing a dig at a storyline for absolutely no reason. - Not a change in Canon.
So I request 5 examples of changes to canon and you can't even come up with one. Would you like to try again? Or would you like to admit you just don't like the show and are lying about it changing canon to make the show look bad? Because that's sure as shit what it looks like.
You can not like the show. That's fine. No one is forcing you to like it. But lying about it only makes you look foolish, not the show. So if you can point out the changes in the canon then I will completely concede my argument. But i've been hearing this "DSC breaks canon" thing for years now and I have never found a single piece of information to corroborate that. It's always personal feelings or misunderstanding of what the lore actually says.
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To me everything after the cage isn't cannon. Checkmate atheists.
