Star Trek: Discoverycontinues to be a TV series under construction.
They were the showrunners, before departing midway through production on this new season undersomewhat cloudy circumstances.
I try not to pay much attention to behind-the-scenes stuff whats on screen is what counts!
Credit: Jan Thijs/CBS
butDiscoverys whole origin story is rooted in executive-producer parlor intrigue.
Co-creatorBryan Fuller leftbefore the series ever aired.
There was that silly-smart time-loop episode, and the swordsy trip to the Mirror Universe.
Theres a new commanding officer on the bridge: Anson Mounts Captain Pike.
Theres a new mission: Find the source of the mysterious signals spread out across 30,000 light years!
Theres the horizonal promise of a major appearance byYoung Beardy Spock(Ethan Peck).
I want to see where this goes, but Im not quite convinced yet.
I just dont get this weird reboot fascination with Captain Pike.
Theres honoring the franchises history, and then theres canonical dumpster-diving.
Jeffrey Hunter was terminally boring when he played Pike in the originalStar Trekpilot.
Will Pike bring the fun?
Reply Hazy, Ask Again Four Energy Distortions From Now.
Brother did spend an awful lot of time suggesting some big mystery around the Burnham-Spock sibling dynamic.
That is a Good Space Name.
There are so many Bad Space Names.
Like being cruel to be kind Odo.
Jet Reno is an engineer in the grand Starfleet tradition, capable of performing feats of technical wizardry.
When she does offer her hand, its covered in alien gore-gloop.
The Klingons killed my parents!
My stepfathers in trouble!
The captain whose death I indirectly caused has returned in an alternate universe!
Thats the sense you immediately get from Jet Reno.
Shes very DeForest Kelley, very Doctor Hologram fromVoyager.
TheDiscoveryofficers are shocked to discover that shes managed to take great medical care of her crewmates for so long.
Bodys just a machine, she says, no big deal.
Theres another version ofDiscovery older-fashioned, less serialized where Jet Reno is the Big Guest Star Arc of Brother.
If Jet Reno JET RENO!
is there, so am I.
