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STAR TREK: The reboot on CBS

POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Saturday, August 23, 2025 03:21
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MOOSE

Monday, September 25, 2017 3:38 PM

Good enough to sign up for the CBS streaming service?

RIVERLOVE

Monday, September 25, 2017 6:00 PM

It would be good enough to sign up for the service if I was a person who ever does that, but I'm not. I guess I'll just have to live without it, like I do for a million other shows.

MOOSE

Monday, September 25, 2017 8:21 PM

Fair enough. I use Netflix and occasionally Hulu, but I'm not going to sign up for an additional service just for one show.

Well, I might sign up for the Stargate one if I hear their new show is good.
But, I'll just wait for STD >giggle< to come out on DVD or whatever.

ZEEK

Monday, September 25, 2017 9:26 PM

I hear the main character is the previously completely unknown adopted sister of Spock. Based on that alone I plan to never watch this show. That's some revisionist BS right there. If you can't make a show without royally pooping on past content then you shouldn't be making a show.

THGRRI

Monday, September 25, 2017 11:24 PM

I've watched the trailers, read the hype, and am a huge Star Trek fan. Nothing about this calls to me. Nothing, including the cast.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Moose:
Fair enough. I use Netflix and occasionally Hulu, but I'm not going to sign up for an additional service just for one show.

Well, I might sign up for the Stargate one if I hear their new show is good.
But, I'll just wait for STD >giggle< to come out on DVD or whatever.

I would sign up for Firefly.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I hear the main character is the previously completely unknown adopted sister of Spock. Based on that alone I plan to never watch this show. That's some revisionist BS right there. If you can't make a show without royally pooping on past content then you shouldn't be making a show.

Wait a gorram minute.
This STD is reportedly set more than a generation before TOS, or now the 2009 JJ Reboot. According to the Reboot, Spock is about half a generation older than Kirk, IIRC - Spock in school when Kirk was born.
So Spock has an adopted sister, half generation or more older than him, and he never knew about her?
Was this written during a writer's strike?

OONJERAH

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:33 AM

Written during a "the Fans are dumb; write
whatever pulp nonsense we want," phase.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

OONJERAH

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:24 AM

Maybe they need a Vulcan ... for clear-thinking & encyclopedic recall.
Nimoy croaked, curse the cigarettes, & was too olde now anyways. But
that doesn't explain a) the sister has to be older than him, & anyways,
b) There are lots of Vulcans; the new one doesn't even have to be
related to him ... & can have a different personality.

Yeah, even Brent Spiner, 68, isn't an ageless android.

Hmmm. So they're going to have a Vulcan, will they want an android too?
I'd like a centaur & don't think I've seen one since Disney's Fantasia.
I know! ... A friendly, sentient Spider. That would be ... new.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

ZEEK

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:05 PM

My understanding is she's not a Vulcan. She's a human who was adopted by Spock's Dad. Also, I read she can do the Vulcan death grip. What's that garbage? If they can just teach that to anybody why not teach all of star fleet? Seems like a valuable move to know.