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Fringe meets Westworld a bit
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I like the Starfleet uniforms a lot more than I expected.
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In a bar full of Star Trek fans who just booed CBS for splitting up a single long episode into two parts to drive app subscribers.
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Honest to god, the whole four nostril thing on the new Klingon design is *really* bothering me.
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Also, now I'm watching this outside of a bar, I'm noticing that the Klingons are either not speaking Klingon on-screen or have real bad sync
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Oh good, she's in a Kahhhhhhhhn prison.
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lol he just moralized himself into space. Also: where did these Birds of Prey come from? Learn from BSG: Always show fighter launches.
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I'm trying to decide if I should rewind to try and get the Klingon Zealot Leader's backstory, but it sounded suspiciously like Shinzon's
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Why is no one shooting at this ship that's sitting around tractor-beaming?
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The flickery hologram thing is going to get real old real fast.
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Oh good a super weapon.
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Yo, I can see this dude reading the teleprompter in his threatening broadcast.
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So why are they not falling anymore?
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Man this is episode one and we're already having the 'Starfleet's principles are bad and should be ignored' convo?
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I get that it is episode 2 technically, but it is really all one episode.
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That's not what a torpedo looks like. I mean... not even what the concept looks like.
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Ok cool. Starfleet just bombed a funeral and is super proud.
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What was her physical leverage exactly there? Also, she just did the exact opposite of what she argue they should be doing. Weird choice.
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That was a weird scene transition.
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Calling a character from your prequel show who wasn't at all in the timeline following "the Unforgettable" is sorta silly, no?
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Why is this court so creepy and dark when we know Federation justice systems are super transparent?
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Oh good, I guess we'll get the third act next week!
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Wait... why is she viewed as the cause of the conflict? She didn't *actually* fire weapons. It didn't actually happen.
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Errr.... they aren't going to do a Genesis plot are they?
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Also... Klingon weapons were already faintly ridiculous. Bedazzling them only makes them way more so and harder to understand as weapons.
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I mean... ehhhh? Like this was an unnecessary fridge-ing? She was already going to jail and also had sufficient motivation?
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Also... I know that the movies have started doing this for Big Screen Excitement™, but you *can* show someone's shoulders on the view screen
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Like... BIG FACE DELIVERING DIALOGUE/EXPOSITION sure, but maybe subtlety and body language are better for Star Trek?
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Notably, you could never have done Darmok in Big Face Viewscreen Mode, and that's the best and most Treky of the Star Trek episodes.
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I'm sorry I gotta go back to the fact that the Federation court was lit and set up super similar to a DS9 Cardassian court. Why?!
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Are we supposed to think that the Federation is wrong or evil in this scene? B/c they're doing like... basic totally correct justice.
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If the Klingons talked among themselves and said 'if only they had shot first we would be totally cool' I could see being more judgy but...
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There is zero supporting evidence her strategy would've worked any better than default Starfleet procedures so the Federation Court is right
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Also, she had just previously tried to use the Chain of Command thing so she's not just 'feels bad atm' but actually in the wrong.
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I feel there's a bunch of times in these 2 eps where the direction says 'sympathize with this person who is right' but unsupported by plot.
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I really love these uniforms for sure though. Thus far the costuming feels like the most flawless part of this.
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Man there sure was a lot of character building and interaction that apparently existed just for the trailer now that I think about it.
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Even there the dude has shoulders!
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But yeah, w/exception of the shot he was forced to put in the viewscreen, Abrams doesn't use the viewscreen to talk to good guys. B/c this
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Though it is *real* lazy, the close-up viewscreen shot on villains, making our crew seem tiny, makes some sense in movies.
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I mean it is dumb and shitty, but it makes sense.
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But in TV, especially Star Trek, you need to sustain the villains as having some depth, instead of just looming like Goldfinger or something
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I know this is a minor thing, but it's just so irritating.
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Especially when the Federation and the Klingons talking to each other is the only non-holo video communication in the show.
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Also, I liked the general Klingon culture stuff a lot. Just the four nostril thing was super super distracting.
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I guess because the first 2 episodes are apparently entirely Act 1 and 2 of the main character's story it makes sense everything Is Awful
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But sort of a depressing and crappy way to start out a Star Trek series, eh?