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...Does anyone have a liking of the Star Trek TOS comic books and strips? There've been a lot - from the Gold Key title during tbe time of the NBC run, to today's IDW comics ! There was a newspaper comic strip, too !

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I just saw Discovery 2x02 New Eden which I give a 5/10. It's the most Star-Treky episode of Discovery so far. One nit-pick though: The Prime Directive is applied however in TNG 5x13 The Masterpiece Society @43:40 it's mentioned that the prime directive doesn't apply to humans. It could have been altered between the two time periods I guess.

I haven't watched any ST episodes in a while, but I watch clips fairly often.

Favorite lines:

"Where are you going to look for Spock's brain?"

"Get the cheese to sickbay"

^ I certainly hope it won't be cancelled. First seasons are often rocky -- the first season of TNG wasn't very good at all. It takes a while for them to figure out who the characters are.

It can't be easy to make money on any series in this day and age, however, when people expect everything to be free online (which is what TV always was, too).

So I watched this week's ST: Discovery. I like it and I hope it stays on. But the storylines are too complex. And now in the ST universe as a whole we've had three different Spocks, three different Amandas, and three different Captain Pikes. They need more originality.

Well I have seen all of deep space nine and enterprise now, Saw a couple episode of Voyager but I will have to rewatch them because I was too drunk to pay attention at the time. I had already had quite a bit of beer by the time me and my boyfriend tried to watch it. Then there is the new one Discovery which I probably won't get to see till its on a streaming service like netflix, hulu or amazon prime or if it doesn't come out on those I guess I'll just have to get the DVDs. So far I would say Deep Space Nine and Next Generation are my favorite. Though as for the doctors I like dr. flox from Enterprise the best.

Ironically, the Orville is closer and more faithful to Star Trek originals TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, than Discovery.

Discovery has the official seal, but underneath, its substance and character is different from the originals.

So is the Red Angel a time traveler?

Deep space nine is an excellent show- a few episodes are especially notable, the one where they're talking to someone who died decades before, which sadly I can't recall the name or season of, and of course "far beyond the stars".

Best Star Trek line in a while: "Sorry, sir. You know how I get around violations of causality."

^ So it was nice that they used clips from the original pilot to open the latest ST: Discovery episode. 50+ years of continuity are cool. But these plots are way too complex. I like it, but they needed to trim half the story lines.