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-=> Al Kaiser wrote to All <=-

 AK> I just finished watching the first two seasons of Star Trek DIscovery
 AK> on DVD from Netflix.

I forgot netflix still delivers DVD. We cancelled the streaming service
about two years ago and we're happy about it.

 AK> It is NOT Gene Roddenberry's Trek!  I do not think that he would have
 AK> approved of this series.  First of all for the language.  In all of
 AK> Trek I only remember one out and out cuss when the ship was crashing
 AK> into the planet Data said "Oh Shit!"  This one has out and out swearing
 AK> including the "F" word.  Also open gay kissing.   The suggestion of
 AK> "gaity" is OK but to have two male or female character kiss on screen
 AK> is a no-no.  Also there were aliens in this series that were never seen
 AK> again in all of Trek.  The whole Klingon war thing in the first season
 AK> was wrong.  This Trek was supposed to be a bridge between Enterprise
 AK> with Archer and TOS with Kirk.  The war with the Klingons was over and
 AK> we were in a truce, a cold war.  Remember The Trouble With Tribbles?
 AK> That was the way we were with the Klingons.  The Klingon makeup and
 AK> laanguae was all wrong.  The Klingon home planet was wrong.  The home
 AK> planet in Trek was "Kling" not Kronos.   Kronos came later in the
 AK> series.   Finally the out and out violence.  Murder by the fedration?
 AK> I think not.   They made Mudd an out and out criminal that should have
 AK> been given the death sentence or at least a life sentence.  They made
 AK> him a murder rather than just a scrondrel.

Don't forget Star Trek IV. "Why don't you watch where you're going you 
dumbass!" "Well a double-dumbass on you!!!"

Then the following conversation on colorful metaphors. Great movie that way.

 AK> Spock, who was a large part of season two never had a step-sister.  He
 AK> had a half brother who was never mentioned.  I saw only three
 AK> references to TOS one was Mudd and the other whas when Pike picked up
 AK> the future Spike and saw himself disfigured, also Vena and the
 AK> Talosians were in the mix.   They tried to get back to Trek cannon in
 AK> the last two scenes in Part II of Sweet Sorrow when they had a scene on
 AK> the bridge of the Entrprise as it appease, (modernly), when Pike was
 AK> Captain and Spock was the Lt. Science Officer.

I've seen some scene clips on youtube and Spock smiles too much. Pissed me
off. Not sure what that's about.

 AK> THey tried to write off all that happened over the two years by sending
 AK> the Discovery and her crew into the future.  For anyone left they were
 AK> resticted "under penalty of death" of every taking or mentioning
 AK> Discovery and the events that happened in the first two seasons.  Even
 AK> Sarek and Amanda were self quarrentined from talking about it calling
 AK> them "Ambasadors To the Federation." Sarek was an Ambasador, Amanda
 AK> never was.

 AK> Was this a two year effort with no more seasons of Discovery?  How do
 AK> you have a season 3 when Discovery and all her crew is dead or gone?

 AK> Well I'm waiting for "Picard" to come out on DVD. A friend says it is
 AK> very good and is "good Trek".  Though I do have a disagrement that Data
 AK> was blown to smithereens in the last movie, but he said that Data was
 AK> reconstruced from DNA taken when they tried to disassemble him when
 AK> Picard fought to call him sentient.  We'll see about that one.

I'm hearing the Picard show is all about Stewart saying 'F U' to Trump. 
Oh, gawd, I really crave star trek as I knew it growing up.


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