In-universe, the Enterprise is presumably the same size it's always been. They simply scaled it up (or scaled Discovery down) so that the former wouldn't be dwarfed by the latter in that one shot. It's like how the Defiant was scaled down in "The Maquis" to better represent it being protected by a Galor-class cruiser, or…
Okay, but he hasn't played a noteworthy role in any of those stories. Most of the time he just stands in the background, or drops a few one-liners at most. A. She was a baby in Voyager, doesn't really count. B. The Iconian War ended three years ago. The original Klingon War storyline was dropping hints that he would…
Yeah, this sums up my own feelings pretty closely. When's the last time we heard from Captain Shon or Miral Paris? What happened to Ja'rod making a push for J'mpok's throne? STO's original characters keep getting pushed aside or retired outright for the sake of an unending stream of cameos meant to grab headlines, rather…
Thing is, TOS also had the Enterprise frequently traveling to the edge of the galaxy, or to its center. Demanding that Discovery adhere to that kind of "early-installment weirdness" rather than what was later established in TNG, and maintained in all sequel series to date, seems a little unfair. And when it comes to space…
So main character = Mary Sue in your mind? Is Harry Potter a Mary Sue? How about Aragorn? Or Sherlock Holmes? The fact that Burnham is fallible, and that she struggles to atone for her mistakes over the course of the season, proves that she's not a Mary Sue. She's a complex character, with plenty of strengths and flaws,…
I wouldn't mind them picking some stuff from the Path to 2409. That stuff is awesome. But hopefully the game story, and their depictions of races unseen in canon such as the Hur'q and the Tzenkethi, remain open to change on their end.
Burnham is the protagonist, just like Picard and Kirk were of their respective shows. Hell, Burnham's TRIBBLE-ups are what sets a lot of the plot into motion. She's not a Mary Sue in any way, shape or form. Oh god, I hope not. Canon aside, I hope the writers don't feel compelled to follow STO's nonsensical storyline.
Let's not forget that "bird-of-prey" is a generic designation applicable to multiple classes of ships (B'rel, K'Vort, etc). Just like Starfleet has "cruisers" and "destroyers", the Klingons and Romulans have "birds-of-prey". So it's entirely possible that Discovery's birds-of-prey are a new class that replaced or…
That might deter Starfleet from pursuing the tech, but do you think the Romulans or Ferengi or Borg would care? If Stamets and Straal discovered the network, surely they would too eventually. I feel like in order for everyone, everywhere, to reject spore drive, it has to prove either too dangerous to use (as in, no sane…
Not really, Discovery solved that problem in time to save the day in the very next episode. The reasons Starfleet abandoned the spore drive haven't been revealed yet.
Yeah, they didn't even bother to change the idle NPC dialogue ("that's not how cold fusion works"). I enjoyed "Secrets" and "Downfall", and the new maps/graphics/voice acting are all great. But the rest was a blatant copy-and-paste of the Fed tutorial, which is disappointing to say the least.
Both of those were used in the show. The holodeck was more like a big VR game instead of the "hard light" holograms of TNG, and the holo-communicators were also used occasionally in DS9, such as in "For the Uniform". And @jonsills I really hope that doesn't mean STO will become canon. I'd rather the writers be free to…
The maps, ship textures, and voice acting (Tilly especially) are great. But I can't say I'm impressed with the new tutorial. They didn't even bother to change the idle dialogue after boarding the starter ship, such as the cold fusion joke (which was a reference to Star Trek Into Darkness). I haven't gotten to the rest yet,…
I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of the Klingon ships in Discovery were 22nd century designs that remained in service for another century just because the Klingons had lost the ability to innovate. The new D7 seen in the trailer is what happens once they finally break free of that stagnant period and start fresh…
I wouldn't be at all surprised if all of the Discovery ships become playable at some point. There aren't that many of them. And I love this blog post! Would love to see some of this stuff make its way into the game itself.
I don't really like this. It's bad enough the TOS Starfleet characters only have a handful of unique missions to their name, but now it sounds like the Discovery-era characters don't have any unique content at all.
One bug that's been there for a least a year is that when you place your Tactical (space) officer in a dialogue, it uses your Science (space) officer instead. Also, all Federation ships still use a random number (lots of nines and sevens) in place of their name and registry number.
My initial reaction was "hell no", but upon thinking about it some more I'm actually really on board with it. It will make it easier to get new characters caught up to the main storyline, and the idea that you might stumble upon a major story arc while just bumming around Defera or the Klingon border is pretty captivating.…