Star Trek thread

[contrail]

Does Paramount currently have the rights of both the movies and the series?

No not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek#..._ownership

[not.sure]

So far 'Discovery' sucks. It has a chance to be good though. We'll see.

It seems very slow and not very useful if you don't speak Klingon   All the downloads I've seen so far just have blanks for the Klingon bits. Even searching for subtiltles. It seems nobody can translate Klingon.
Someone has put the episodes together AND added Klingon subtitles which is very good as you don't get the preview at the begining of each episode. Must have been a lot of work. I suppose there has to be a homosexual relationship (a real one) not implied   A little annoying to me, at least

[joew771]

So far 'Discovery' sucks. It has a chance to be good though. We'll see.

It seems very slow and not very useful if you don't speak Klingon   All the downloads I've seen so far just have blanks for the Klingon bits. Even searching for subtiltles. It seems nobody can translate Klingon.
Someone has put the episodes together AND added Klingon subtitles which is very good as you don't get the preview at the begining of each episode. Must have been a lot of work. I suppose there has to be a homosexual relationship (a real one) not implied   A little annoying to me, at least

I think you just may need to enable subtitles on your media player. I've gotten every episode with subs. Either hard or soft. Depending on which one I downloaded. But every one I got had klingon subtitles.

[Exodius]

I can see the discussion and see people saying they hate how the "rebooted" Star Trek with young cast. How the new movies changed the personalities of the characters but there is something that you guys forgot.

JJ Abrams' Star Trek (first movie) starts in the same timeline as all the series that we watched (TOS, TNG, VOY), BUT at the moment Romulans and Spock got sucked into the Black Hole, the movie setting moved to Alternate Universe.

As a pure example, in Wrath of Khan, Spock has not entered Starfleet Academy as a command-track cadet and he did not take the Kobayashi Maru test while there. Kirk secretly reprogrammed the simulator so that it was possible to rescue the freighter. Despite having cheated, Kirk was awarded a commendation for "original thinking".

In JJ's Star Trek, Spock was an Instructor at the Academy and it was him that created and maintained the Kobayashi Maru test. Kirk was sent to disciplinary hearing which sent Kirk to the "No Fly List".

Another thing is that in TOS timeline, Kirk's father (George) lived long enough to see his son become captain of Enterprise but in JJ's movie, he was killed off just after Kirk was born. Thus new personalities. On one side you have Kirk who lived with his father and on the other you have Kirk who lived his life without one.

There is a scene in Fringe that explains Alternate timelines perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnA-C6DmRSM

Also, http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Alternate_reality

That's also something that bugs me the most... Four founding species of the UFP are Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites. And although we see abundant quantities of Humans and Vulcans, two other species are not all that much in the Series apart from Enterprise.
They were the founding members and, yet, they appear only here and there...

Discovery, however, is set in the same universe as TOS, TNG and others serving as a prequel before USS Enterprise "has boldly went where no man has gone before"...

the one thing I can't understand is the spore drive on the uss Discovery surly the spin that the ship does before the drive starts up would make everyone so sick they would be cleaning it up for weeks and as for the dampers they must be working overtime. Spore drive = Spin drive to me lol

I can't wait to see what will they do with the story to explain how Spore Drive does not exist after the Series end.

[joew771]

The reboots can kiss my ass. They suck.

I'm also waiting to see how Discovery explains where the spore drive went, but I have a theory.

It can only be used by the tardigrades, which are sentient, or by a genetically modified human. But using a sentient being without their consent is illegal. And genetically modified humans are also illegal. So that may explain why there is no spore drive in the future.

But I do wonder how they will explain it in the show.

[RobertX]

Which one is more effective: Spore Drives, Lightspeed (i.e. Warp) Drives, Transwarp Drives, or Slipstream Drives?

[joew771]

Which one is more effective: Spore Drives, Lightspeed (i.e. Warp) Drives, Transwarp Drives, or Slipstream Drives?

Duh. The spore drive. It let's you teleport to anywhere in the galaxy in an instant.

[RobertX]

So can Transwarp, and it's utilised by the Borg.

[joew771]

No. Transwarp is fast, but it doesn't let you teleport anywhere instantly.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Transwarp_conduit

[RobertX]

Yes, I'm sure Spore Warp is impressive, but how long a distance can you travel using it?

Transwarp is fast, and, you can go to the other side of the galaxy.

Now, onto a different sphere, I am binge-watching Voyager until the newer Discovery episodes will resume airing.