Star Trek Discovery is the latest inception of Star Trek, non-free, yes folks this didn't go to a regular network, it is on CBS all access pay website. That was the first mistake. My hypothesis as to why it is on a pay site, well it's because no sponsor wanted to touch it, JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek is utter garbage and has ran out of steam, Abrams second instalment did not do well. And the third entry flopped.
So what advertiser would even touch this? Also the early trailer released depicted a half Klingon half Federation ship, with Klingon score playing in the background, this was a flop of a trailer on Youtube and Trekkies were enraged by the nonsense. So it was tabled and re-slated for a fall release instead of January.
You can see this was a cash grab right off the hop. Regardless of it's pre-release mess, I decided to give it a chance. First off the Klingons in this show look strange, they speak Klingon but certainly look non- Star Trek, they look like a freak of nature, but so did the Klingons in the original show, so I can't really make a big stink over that, they evolved over the years,with larger ridges and also different attire, so I can forgive that. Also on a side note, in one of the DS9 episodes it was explained that the Klingons in the original Star Trek were some sort of genetically altered version of that race, so that kind of explains this a bit in this show.
The ship in this instalment doesn't look half bad, but regardless, this show for some reason doesn't feel like Star Trek, it feels like some distant cousin of the original iterations of the show.
What went wrong?
They were trying to recreate that idiotic Jar Jar Abrams lens flare effect, it looked like crap, and they need to go back to steady cam mode instead of cinematic constant panning mode, it was trying to be a big budget film, but the director had no clue as how to do that, so they just tried to copy Jar Jar Abrams style and it doesn't work. Quit trying to be big budget film and just be a Star Trek normal television show, all this fluff is absolutely unnecessary.
The tilted camera angles and panning while tilting the camera was irritating. It was like they tried to have a new angle for every scene, I really wanted to like this, seriously I did! I can't forgive this big cinematic mess, it's trying to be something that it's not, it's not being shown on a 100ft screen it's being broadcast on a small screen and maybe even an tablet, laptop or smartphone, so this director needs to go, the moronic executives need to hire someone who knows how to use a camera, having it panning while on a tilted angle makes it look like the director is a moron and can't find the subject he/she want's to focus on.Very sloppy story telling. Note to directors, fancy floaty-cam doesn't work on the small screen!
Final Thoughts.
This show like back in 1966 needs a re-shoot, it has lost all Trek lore and is almost an abomination. Now don't get me wrong there are some things I like, such as the makeup it was well done, the space scenes looked great, the captain was pretty cool, I liked her, and I didn't mind the rest of the crew either, but it just feels like a Star Trek wannabe, felt more like Stargate to me.
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