Pablo Fernandez

Tag: Star Trek

  • What Star Trek: Discovery should have been

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    Star Trek DiscoveryMy opinion of Star Trek: Discovery is positive, but there’s still something that annoys me and since it’s a bit of a spoiler, you should stop reading here until you watched season 1.

    Star Trek: Discovery shouldn’t have been a prequel. STD (oops, unfortunate acronym) should have been a sequel to all the other Star Treks we had. I don’t understand why they made it a prequel. It’s not trying to explain an origin story; if anything, it’s destroying Star Trek cannon.

    If it was a sequel, in the 25th century:

    • the uniforms wouldn’t be an issue
    • the introduction of new races wouldn’t be an issue
    • the introduction of a human that went through Vulcan academy wouldn’t be an issue (she could be Spock’s protege, instead of Spock’s father’s protege)
    • the Klingons looking different wouldn’t be an issue
    • flat screens and holograms wouldn’t be an issue
    • the use of a sort of holodeck wouldn’t be an issue
    • discovering a way to teleport through the galaxy without needing warp drives wouldn’t be an issue
    • we could have Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9 cameos.

    The BorgWhy make it a prequel then? There’s no advantage to having it be a prequel. You could still have a war with the Klingons if they wanted to bank on their fame (although a war with the Borg is much more frightening in my opinion, specially since peace with the Borg is impossible).

    They couldn’t have the flip phones, I mean, the communicators, which apparently are iconic enough to put on one of the posters, but aren’t the badge communicators also iconic? And if not, it feels like a small lose.

    I don’t understand this obsession with needles prequels, are people afraid of the future? of moving forward and seeing what happens next?

  • How Star Trek into Darkness should have ended

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    Stop reading if you haven’t seen the movie yet, as obviously this will be a big spoiler.

    I think Star Trek into Darkness should have ended with Kirk dead. I don’t care if they revive them in the next one, that’s fine. A friend told me:

    I didn’t even realize that Kirk was dying, they wouldn’t kill him, it was just a small setback.

    I think story tellers should be bolder and surprise us more.

    I think they should have shown McCoy doing something with the body that can be later, in another movie, revealed as putting it in stasis. I think Spock shouldn’t have chased Kahn and have a fist fight. He should have been busy making sure the good of the many outweigh the revenge of the one by saving the Enterprise and making sure his crew was out of danger.

    Hold on Pablo… you mean you want to end a movie with one of the main characters dead?

    Yes, that would have been brave, although not new. Someone did it before and it might be familiar:

    What about Kahn?

    He should have run away. That’s it. Hold on… even better… he should have fled with his crippled ship.

    But then… the bad guy won?

    Yes. It would have been brave and it would have built a lot of tension and expectations for the next movie. Although, it wouldn’t have been the first franchise to have the bad guys win in one of their movies:

  • It's not a theory!

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    “The car is not starting”, he said, “I have a theory, the tank must be empty.”. That’s not a theory! That’s a hypothesis.

    A hypothesis is the first part of a theory, it’s how a theory begins and it’s what we have when we think we have an explanation for something. When we go and confirm that explanation (check the tank is actually empty), proving the hypothesis, then, we have a theory.

    I’m tired of hearing the word theory when they mean hypothesis. In Start Trek they do it all the time. Captain Picard asks La Forge why the friking thing is not working and after thinking for 1.5 seconds, La Forge says: “I have a theory, maybe the…”. There are no maybes on a theory! That’s a hypothesis. I think I’ve heard the word hypothesis used correctly in Star Trek TNG twice. Somehow, my wife started to use it correctly. I’m surprised. I suppose she got tired of me shouting “that’s a hypothesis!” every time La Forge opens his mouth.

    I leave you with the official definition of hypothesis:

    an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved:

    Several hypotheses for global warming have been suggested.

    And then we reach the conclusion that all that we talk about all the times are not theories or hypothesis, they are not formal; but somehow I’m OK with using those words informally. By the way, I’ve learned this on school. I can’t remember if it was in the last years of elementary school or on the first years of high school.

    This is the first of a probably infinite series of post about my pet-peeves. Muhahaha.

  • Sound in space

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    I wonder when we will start to see DVDs of space tv-shows, like Babylon 5 and Star Trek, where you can pick to watch them with no sounds on space. I’m really pissed off at the sounds of the Voyager on the presentation, they don’t even add to the scene, it only makes a beautiful presentation feel childish (stupid and ugly).