Star Trek Discovery - Best Star Trek Tv Series

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. And today we want to talk about the new Star Trek Discovery series that's scheduled to air in 2017. And My thoughts are this is going to be the best Star Trek television series we've seen so far. And I know a lot of people are, uh, just can't see that right now, uh, and I can understand, uh, what their concerns are, uh, some of the or the teaser trailer we've gotten so far, for many, haven't, uh, been up to or really met expectations of what we were hoping to get. And I just want to start first with, um, one thing everybody's concerned about, and that's the look of the starship, the vessel. Um, so, you know, when we think about, um, the practicality and usefulness of a design of a starship, um, many aerospace engineers and designers will tell you that saucer-shaped vessels probably make very little sense in a design of a starship. So as a Trekkie, like many of you, um, I, uh, actually like the look of the saucer-shaped ships and all of the various designs of, uh, Federation starships. But if we really look at the facts, this— the saucer shape makes the less sense. And it's also a dated look. You know, when Star Trek came out in the 1960s, the UFO phenomenon was had just, you know, really got started a decade earlier or so with, um, um, spottings of UFOs. You know, you had Roswell incident, and I can't think of the gentleman's name offhand, but he was the first, uh, person to record a UFO sighting, I believe, or one of the most, I'm sorry, reputable people. He was a businessman who was flying. Again, I can't think of his name offhand. I used to know it. He was flying in his plane and he saw several saucer-shaped or disc-shaped crafts. He identified them as UFOs and it was one of the first major reputable UFO sightings. Sightings, but he described what was a saucer disc shape. And then that pretty much inspired what we, you know, what we see now with the UFOs being saucer shaped. And, uh, we've kind of been stuck on that ever since. But really, um, engineers will tell you that's not a very practical design. What is a more practical design would be something more in the shape of a triangle, aerodynamically speaking. And with this Federation ship, you actually get— excuse me— you actually get that triangle design, which I like because I think that would be more realistic. Now, A lot of people says it looks weird, it looks kind of crazy because they got the saucer shape on there and they got, you know, some people have compared it to Klingon-type vessels, which it does kind of, you know, remind you of certain Klingon-type vessels. And I don't know if that's going to be you know, something related to the Klingon Empire. Uh, I'm not really sure, you know, what the details are, uh, exactly what they're going, but, um, I have some theories and there's been many online across the internet and with Star Trek fans. But getting back to the, you know, to the ship itself, yeah, the triangle look I appreciate that it's being a bit more realistic to a design that would make a little bit more sense. It looks a little bit more structurally sound. And I'm not saying I'm in love with the design. I'm just saying that if we're really talking about engineering the design, that a lot of renderings of what we've seen of a Federation starship would not make a lot of sense. And going back to the saucer-shaped disc thing, that makes hardly any sense. You know, even though we've come to like that design, it doesn't make a lot of sense. You know, if you talk to NASA engineers today and various people in the space industry and the spacecraft or space exploration industry, they'll tell you that the saucer shape is, uh, you know, they wouldn't pick that to design a vessel. You know, it would be more than likely that you would have something that appears in a more of a diamond shape form— I'm sorry, or triangle shape form. And, uh, if you even look at the latest proposal for the space shuttle, or our next generations of space shuttles, they have this kind of triangle-style shape. And so, um, this shape, even though I know a lot of people don't like it right now, it will probably still be a little bit more realistic, a little bit more structurally sound than, uh, about 70-80% of the starship vessels we've seen. You know, also I want to say that this teaser trailer, I've heard many things online like, oh, they only had a couple of weeks just to put this together and throw this up on screen, and that this is the final look of it. And which, you know, I can believe that that could very well be the case. You know, that they're going to change this and we might get something a little bit totally different. And I'm going to explain why I think that's probably going to happen. You know, as well as address concerns about the CGI. Is this going to be the look of the show? And, you know, is this the best we're going to get? Some people complain that looks like Babylon 5 from the early '90s. So, um, we're gonna just get into some things I think will maybe make a lot of us Trekkie fans feel a little bit better and, and help them to understand why I think this is going to end up being the best, um, Star Trek series we've seen so far. So first, um, I want to— let's, let's look at, um um, what we, uh, what, what we got as far as who's, who's going to be doing this show and putting it together. And we know that Bryan Fuller, who's been involved in, you know, many big Hollywood productions and TV shows, uh, he had signed on, but due to a demanding schedule. He was unable to continue to be at the helm of it. So although he's kind of delegated that responsibility to someone else, he's still signed on as an executive producer, as well as people who are directly involved with or who were directly involved with the Star Trek reboot. So that should bring us a lot of comfort because the Star Trek reboot, um, I think it did an excellent job of rebooting the Star Trek franchise. Even though this version of Star Trek will happen in a totally different timeline, um, it will be, it will be slightly different, but, uh, I think we can rest assured that the people who wrote the 2009 Star Trek reboot. And also going back to Bryan Fuller, who's worked on, uh, you know, Deep Space Nine, he's worked on Voyager, um, you know, he's had a really good, uh, uh, career and relationship with the Star Trek, um, um, TV series, but also, uh, you know, I think he understands, uh, Star Trek, you know, more in depth than just, you know, anybody coming in and trying to, uh, you know, put this, put this show together. So I think he's a true fan, and I think he will know how to get the job done. As well as that, we also have some, um uh, producers and writers from The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, you know, all the— some of the best Star Treks, um, that were created, uh, we have the, uh, the brains of those individuals. So we know the stories will be good. We know that the, uh, direction of the show should be excellent with, with that lineage of, um, producers and writers, you know, on board. Also, you know, there's going to be— this is going to be the— has to be the most expensive, uh, what will be expensive television show on, uh, you know, they're talking about $7 million plus budgets per episode. So on just a 12-episode season You know, you're talking north of $80 million, you know, that, um, and I believe if I'm not mistaken, they may be doing 13 episodes. So, um, yeah, that, that should, you know, that, that means they're gonna have a big budget. We got Hollywood producers, we got, uh, the budget, and, you know, I'm confident that they're gonna really, um nail this TV show. I don't think that they're going to spend this kind of money and come in and fail us Trekkies. You know, also, as I look back on some of the earlier TV series, I wasn't really a fan of Star Trek Enterprise. I just couldn't— could never really get into it. I did get into Voyager. Um, no, no, don't get me wrong, I watched it, but I just— it— I felt something, you know, was missing with Star Trek Enterprise. Um, and, you know, Voyager, uh, I got into Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, you know, all of these, um, these, uh— but of course my favorite was the original. I'm one of those guys. And, oh, and that's, that's the point I was leading to next. That this takes place, from what we know, this will take place about 10 years before Captain Kirk series takes place. So I like that timeline. I think because they've chosen that timeline, it's going to be a lot more interesting. And, you know, I think we're just going to get a certain feel and look that we really, uh, a lot of us Trekkies, we really will be able to appreciate. Because I think what a lot of our— of us Trekkies, that Captain Kirk, um, timeline is the best. You know, we've had Picard from The Next Generation, we've had Captain Janeway, we've had, uh, Captain Sisko, we've had all these people in these different timelines, these futuristic timelines. And then we've had Enterprise that was far in the, uh, in the past. But I think for a lot of us Trekkies, our favorite timeline has been the timeline of Captain Kirk, which is the 22— uh, I believe it would be probably like 2250-something, uh, because I think Captain Kirk's timeline was like 2260-something around there. And so I think that part of the Star Trek universe is going to be, you know, for a lot of us, our favorites. And I think we're going to get a lot of great information in a, you know, in that, in that time, in that world around where Captain Kirk was, you know, ready to be groomed and formed. And, um, you know, also, um, there's a lot of speculation about, uh, what it— you know, who exactly— what the— this ongoing story, or I'm sorry, this, this, this, um, this story we've already heard that they're keeping us in a mystery about. And there's been some speculation about that, but one, one theory that I like has been it's gonna be relative to what happened to Captain Garth of Iser, I believe he is called. And he was supposedly the model for Federation captains. And on the original series, there's an episode where You know, Kirk is basically trapped and ambushed on this planet. Well, I mean this, I believe it's a space station. Um, and he meets Captain, you know, Captain Garth. He basically, um, you know, we get to understand who he was, how he became this megalomaniac. How he lost his mind. Um, and, and basically, uh, you know, some of the theories is that some of the crew, uh, you know, or I'm sorry, it may be about his crew who had to actually, uh, basically, uh, take the ship back from control of him because he had lost his mind and, um become this megalomaniac. And it's a great, it's a great episode. Uh, I can't seem to remember the name exactly of it. I think it's of something like Of Gods for Men, something like that. I could be saying it incorrectly, it's been so long since I saw it. But, uh, it was a really great episode. And we think the series, or I'm sorry, the, you know, the story that they're talking about, this mystery story that we know might be about this character. But to get into, you know, even though we don't— we haven't seen the show yet and we don't have all the details, we really don't know what to expect. But why are some, some, some, some reasons I think it'll be better than the previous Star Trek series, or will be the best Star Trek television show we've gotten so far is because of the lineage, lineage and legacy of Star Trek. You know, because Star Trek has done so— we've had so many, uh, TV series and spin-offs of Star Trek. We've had the movie reboots. Um, I think that because of that there is a lot of things we can look at, or the producers of the show and the writers of the show can look at and, and sift through and go, okay, we got this right, we didn't get this right. And so I think from all of their past mistakes with some of the TV series, I think they can learn, uh, a lot from that. Also Uh, the last TV series we had ended in, uh, 2005, I believe. So, um, they ended before we got the Star Trek reboots. So the Star Trek reboots were just awesome, I think. Uh, and I, I, I think we're going to get a lot of pulling from that, and that's something that the earlier TV series didn't have. They didn't have this, um, the sophisticated storytelling we have now. They didn't have the, uh, um, you know, what I believe is going to be a great set because of the budget and, you know, the future of our film technology. Uh, and I also believe even the storytelling is going to be a lot better than what we've seen so far because some people feel like this may actually end up being an anthology where we just explore various areas of the Star Trek universe in the various quadrants. So it won't be just like, you know, the captain sitting up on the bridge of the ship and, you know, he's going fire phasers and, you know, everything's pretty much taking place there. And, you know, that it will probably be something we've never quite seen before. you know, uh, places, you know, in areas we've never seen before, and just focusing on, uh, you know, something different. And I don't know, I think this might be, uh, uh, you know, what we need in order to, to, uh, hit an area of what we've seen so far with the, you know, with the Star Trek series and the red shirts beaming down and only so many, you know, people coming back. But, uh, you know, um, you know, we don't have a lot of information. There are some speculations about, uh, uh, you know, who the crew is going to be and, and who the aliens are going to be, and we're not 100% sure as to, you know, exactly who they're going to be. We, we, we do have— well, there was a some casting information around the internet about who's, you know, I'm sorry, yeah, because Michelle Yeoh, I believe her name is, she's supposed to be a female captain. And, you know, it's also going along the lines of, you know, the same legacy that's been Star Trek of diverse, you know, diversity amongst crew, you You know, of course you're going to have crew members across racial and gender barriers, but also they're going to now be introducing the first gay character. I believe he might be a lieutenant. And so to me that makes a lot of sense. This is the future. You know, as we look at our politics, I guess you could kind of look at the Starfleet Academy as the naval forces across space. You know, they're like a Navy. And, you know, like here in America, in our military, we had Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but then it moved on to where it was fully acceptable for gay members of the community to, you to be able to openly serve in the military. So I think that would make perfect sense that we would see characters like that in the far distant future, representative of the gay and lesbian communities. So I think that's— the show is going in the right direction. I'm not concerned at all about it. I think it's going to be awesome. I think we've learned a lot more sophisticated, you know, storytelling. And like when I did my review on Rogue One and I said that in this, in the Star Wars universe, that we've come so far in storytelling and we've come so far in film techniques and CGI that You know, it's very hard for the earlier incarnations of these various shows to compete. But, you know, I'm very confident that this Star Trek series is gonna get it right. That, you know, I know the trailer looks, to some people, it looks a little bit amateurish. I hear people saying that, you know, which is, you know, people are really getting good with doing CGI on their computers at home. And a lot of the fans, you know, they're doing a lot of these various Star Trek, uh, uh, you know, shows and film. And I mean, some of the CGI quality does look very good. So, you know, with, with, you know, this show spending this kind of money, you know, we're, we're looking to see something along the lines of, uh, you know, I mean, to me, one of my, my, uh, one of the, uh, science fiction shows that did it the best with CGI and space and spaceship and spacecraft was Battlestar Galactica. I never heard them having a huge budget concern about doing that series, and I thought that the— how they did Battlestar Galactica, I thought it was very much in competition, if not beyond, with a lot of spaceship movies I've seen on the silver screen. so I, you know, I don't think this is going to be the finished product. You know, as they, as they're, you know, making statements about. I, you know, I think we're gonna really get a much more spectacular look. You know, I, I think this is just like a teaser. I, I think we're gonna get something a lot better than this. And I think the storytelling is going to be awesome. Like I said, we get the big Hollywood wigs on this thing. It's not like— I don't think this is going to be like, you know, some of the earlier shows where you had maybe Gene Roddenberry or his son on it and they were, you know— I think this is going to be, you know, at the, you know, at the Hollywood level, at the big screen level. That we're, you know, that we're gonna get. Uh, you know, also a lot of people are complaining about, uh, uh, it being on CBS, uh, you know, Access, um, CBS All Access. And, um, and for the rest of the world— I'm sorry, that's just— that will be just for North America. For the rest of the world, it being, um, you know, um, on Netflix. You know, which obviously would be great for the rest of the world. But I can only say that what they're doing with this show is no different than what's been done with Game of Thrones. You know, you have to pay to watch Game of Thrones, what's been done with Westworld. And when you're dealing with large budgets like that, you know, a lot of these premium services that, you know, they're gonna need to be able to, I guess, you know, pay for these shows, Uh, you know, if you're doing it on a scale like they're doing this show, you know, this isn't like a regular, you know, uh, TV shows. This is— this isn't going to be a regular TV show like the Star Treks we've gotten, you know. And that's another reason why I think it's going to be the best we've seen so far, because I think they're really going to do these like mini movies. Um, and you know, again, I, I'm drawing all this from the budget You know, uh, like I said before, 7 million plus per episode. Um, you know, the people involved, you know, we got all the major people who were involved on the Star Trek reboots, Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country. We got the people who were involved in Star Trek: The Next Generation, uh, Star Trek: Voyager. Star Trek Enterprise, Deep Space Nine. So we got all of the people involved that have done excellent jobs for the Star Trek, uh, universe. And, um, you know, I think they know what's at stake. I think they understand the mistakes that have been made past and prior, you know. And again, that's the great thing about being able— having a long legacy and a long history of something. You have something 50 years in the making, you know. You know, Star Trek is much more, uh, older than the Star Wars universe, you know. And so because of that, you can go back and you can go, okay, this works, this doesn't work. So, you know, I'm very, uh, confident, you know, in this series, uh, you know. And I think it's going to be the best Star Trek TV show, even better than, dare I say it, the original Star Wars. Because even though I like the original— I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on Star Wars— even though I like the original Star Trek, it is my favorite. You know, the Captain Kirk ones, I still watch all the episodes. I still prefer them to any of the other spin-offs. I think that, uh, in the 1960s, uh, how we— how they view space exploration and some of the adventures they had were, you know, a bit silly, you know, a bit just kind of done a bit silly, you know. And, uh, it was good, it was good TV, and I'm sure for the 1960s it was great, but I mean, due to the lack of sophistication Uh, you know, whereas the old Star Trek, I thought the acting was better. Even though people say William Shatner overacts, I still think that the acting was greater. I still was more invested in the original Star Trek, uh, series than any other. But, and then I loved all these Star Trek movies with the original crew. But still, even so, the where we've come now with what space exploration will probably really be like and what we probably encounter. Uh, I, I think this, this new series is gonna, you know, be more on par with that. It is going to take, you know, from that history, but I think it's going to change a lot and it's going to shape it more into, uh, you know, what we, what we come to expect. You know, you're not going to have I don't think, you know, Captain Kirk on planets fighting, you know, a lot of these, you know, crazy jealous humanoid aliens, like, you know, like, you know, he doing some of the other shows and, you know, just some of the weirdness that the 1960s produced. You know, obviously we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna see that in, you know, today's, uh, you know, versions of, you know, of our Star Trek shows. But, uh, you know, guys, uh, you know, we just have to patiently wait. And I think, you know, this is going to be the best of them all, uh, because of some of the reasons I've underlined. Uh, please, uh, voice your comments and concerns in the comments section. Let me know what you think. Let me know what your concerns are. 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