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       Star Trek: Discovery
       By: Neumatic Date: July 23, 2016, 5:44 pm
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       It took a couple seconds for my brain to register the fact that
       "this is real."  This is the new Star Trek.
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       Interesting.  Looks like the Planet Of The Titans-style
       Enterprise, and the number suggests that it's halfway between
       Enterprise and TOS, so we can expect a real earth-y, no-frills
       type of ship.  Hopefully they'll avoid some of the bigger
       "prequel" issues that Enterprise had (like how they just felt
       underpowered all the time) and find a way to carve out an
       interesting direction.
       For context, the ship looks like the old Ralph McQuarrie
       paintings from the 70s, like this:
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       This kind of feels like TFA, when they started using the old
       paintings and ideas and brought back to life.
       AND the show is PRIME universe.  PRIME!  That means everything
       that's not the JJ-verse.  Which means we'll probably get the
       old-school mainstay aliens  and designs: Klingons with real
       turtle heads, Romulans without facial tattoos, Andorians, all
       the good stuff.  And despite the era, I hope we get some more of
       the aliens running around the Alpha Quadrant like we saw before:
       Cardassians, Benzites, Bolians, Bajorans, Ferengi, etc.  I miss
       those guys.  Nothing against the great alien work in the JJ
       movies (especially Beyond), but part of the Trek universe are
       those Michael Westmore aliens.
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