/strek/ - Star Trek ★

it doesnt have any deeper meening writers just thought that daft punk is cool

>>8105 (OP)

>Is it a Breen?

funny thing is when I was watching the episodes, my online trek buddy kept asking me if that was a Breen. Took me a while to notice her, the kept cutting away from her too much. But to answer your question, hey, if they redesigned the Klingons so much, why not the Breen. Though the problem here is the normies they hope will watch the show have no idea who the Breen actually are so why even bother. Though ofc that makes the justification of redesigning them easier, so whatever.

>but is it a robot, or is there a being underneath?

I'm guessing a proper humanoid, you can see her chin in some shots.

>Is the helmet a medical necessity, or is it simply used to increase efficiency?

I wanna say for efficiency, but I'm not 100% on that bc they didn't have her do much to justify having the helmet. Frankly, I agree with >>8106 and also think they just wanted someone with a cool helmet or someone had just seen a Daft Punk video and thought to put that in somehow.

>Is it Romulan tech acquired in the Earth-Romulan War?

I doubt the writers know what that is. But in case they do, no, I think not. Again, they just wanted a cool helmet lady.

I'm curious why the ship's name is on the helmet. Just in case it gets lost and you'll know who to return it to? It also seemed like she got killed (I don't remember all the details), so we'll probably never see her again, but I do wonder if we'll see the same tech on another person. And if they'll actually take time to explain it then.

>>>/tv/

>>8123

Why does it matter?

Having to explain everything in detail makes it less interesting.

It's a slave. They had its head replaced with a popcorn machine, as a joke.

>>8122

Bynar have to be in pairs.

>>8147

Generic Alien Crewman #23

Possibly some reimagining of a Trill? Those things on the side of his head are where a Trill's spots should be.

>>8123

the breen hate the federation.

>Discovery's writers wouldn't dare make it an android

There is absolutely no reason to think that they wouldn't be this stupid, but since it's apparently already dead I guess we'll never know. When they go to read alert you can see it's helmet light up with the RED ALERT sign, so my guess is it's some kind of robot.

It's hard to muster up a fuck to give about any of this new shit though.

>>8105 (OP)

The guy with the implants on the top of his head I think is human with some sort of cyberkinetic assistence either for piloting the ship (think enhanced digital interface such as what the cardassians used on DS9) or I think it may be like Geordis visor and it is used to stop some temporal lobe epilepsy or something. Definitley don't think he is an android. There is also a talking robot for about 4 seconds on the bridge which simply says "impossible" when the Klingon fleet warps and decloaks. It looks like a pretty archaic simple robot, not complex or sophisticated enough to resemble an artificial life form like Data or Lore. It does actually look like a Breen though.

Don't have a clue if that other guy is Bynar but tbh I think it is probably a new alien race and it sounds like they may also be some sort of endangered spieces as the guy talks about how their only purpose was to be hunted and destroyed, doesn't seem like the sort of civilization which would reach warp drive or anything like that so I think there will probably be a bit of a unique back story to him.

>>8153

Maybe it's a cyborg.

Maybe it's a syngenor in disguise.

no one is asking the important question here.

can I have sex with it?

>>8158

> it sounds like they may also be some sort of endangered spieces as the guy talks about how their only purpose was to be hunted and destroyed, doesn't seem like the sort of civilization which would reach warp drive or anything like that so I think there will probably be a bit of a unique back story to him.

Aren't you talking about Saru? He's a Kelpien.

>>8161

It is not anatomically correct so the best you'll get is rubbing your dick on its metal chassis.

>>8164

what was that other shit he said about his home planet? there's on two species on the whole planet or something just insanely stupid and unlikely.

>>8183

> He said his homeworld does not have food chains, that species there are either predator or prey, with nothing in the middle. Kelpiens, as prey, were hunted, bred, and farmed.

Which doesn't make sense as farm animals bred for food tend to be chunky, lots of meat.

He's all skin and bone, no way his genetic history involved being bred for food.

And that line about sensing death, because that's exactly what farm animals are bred for, right!?

This whole show has nothing but shitty aliens made up purely for some bullshit plot point or throwaway line of dialog that doesn't even pass a basic logical consistency check.

>>8183

I guess the only explanation I can come up with is that the predators there are like the Hirogen and derived enjoyment from the suffering of their prey, if only because it makes the hunt more challenging.

I assumed it was a robot.

>>8183

I think he's just speaking figuratively about the whole "sensing the coming of death" thing.

I do like the idea of an alien species that evolved from some kind of skitish prey animal, like a deer or a mouse, with the instincts that come with this, instead of the classic human style omnivore or the idiocy of a predatory warrior culture. Every continent except antarctica has developed warrior cultures on earth and humans only rarely eat the other humans we eat. That only aliens who are predators would do this is a silly notion in the extreme. If you have ever seen an angry bull, you have seen what peaceful and docile herbivores can do when riled up.

Sorry about the rant.

I think Saru is referring to his skittish and nervous nature as a prey species, when he says he has been bred to sense death. He's just being metaphorical.

No idea what he might be referring to when he talked about being bred for food though. Maybe Kelpian brain is a delicacy somewhere? But who would be stupid enough to go to all the trouble of breeding sentient cows for food? Doesn't human level intelligence and problem solving ability make it a pain in the neck to keep them under control? I can also only imagine that the rest of the galactic community would take a fairly dim view on anyone in their neighbourhood keeping sentient livestock, ethically speaking.

>>8183

>Kelpiens, as prey, were hunted, bred, and farmed.

This is why my vote is to nickname him space-cow.

>>8183

>>8187

>we wuz prey species

>we wuz all biologically bred and shit (fuck yeah science)

>nevermind my 2 eyes pointing forward

literally an entire alien species based on ass-pull victim culture. and the award for Outstanding Wew in a Series goes to…

>>8229

>>8225

>humans only rarely eat the other humans we kill

Look, I was typing in a hurry ok.

>>8224

Yeah, all sharks are prey as well…

Oh, wait. You’re just pulling 18 wheelers from your hershey highway,

>>8451

As far as mammals go:

Mongoose, dolphin, and tree shrew.

Mammal predators with eyes on the sides.

>>8184

maybe they eat bones?

>>8187

I'm hoping for a Ferengi spinoff where a guy like Quark runs a restaurant with these guys as the meal and the wait staff.

>>8209

Ameglian Major Cow

>>8147

>my first guess was Orion

<Greentext used for obvious reasons

>>8105 (OP)

Considering they killed it right in the first episode (or was it the second? I skipped some parts), I'd say it's nothing. The writers just thought it would be cool.

>STD

>any depth at all

lel

>>8451

>>8452

>As far as mammals go:

>Mongoose, dolphin, and tree shrew.

>Mammal predators with eyes on the sides.

holy fuck you're retarded. I never said all predator species have 2 eyes pointing forward. I implied that exclusively prey species don't. There would never have been a need for them to adapt that way so they wouldnt have them unless they were once predators and went back to being exclusively prey so the eyes would be vestigal.

This Kelpien horse-man character is supposed to be exclusively prey. Unless his species used to be predators, then it makes no goddamn sense for his eyes to point forward.

>>/reddit/

>>8875

>>>/reddit/ so you don't get lost.

>>8147

>Eyes literally on the back of the head

BRAVO

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>>8105 (OP)

It's role was to drop some dope ass beats so the crew can party when off duty.

The uniform badges have a small sliding compartment that reveals E.

>>8894

I'm real happy for you STD and Imma let you finish but Interstella 5555 is the greatest spacelectromusic of all time.

>>8895

>nterstella 5555 is the greatest spacelectromusic of all time

whoa now, check that privilege… our afrofuturists bruthas might disagree

>>8896

>our afrofuturists bruthas

>>8898

Why would people stop using C? It does what it does very well.

>>8898

C, because it works, can be fast and is a lower level language (ASM would be lower still but I rather doubt something like that would be used for most applications). The Microsoft stuff is bizarre however.

>>8905

Why the fuck does Laurelai keep popping all the fucking time? And why the hell is someone on the STD staff heading off to L's hole on the ass-end of GitHub of all places for code?

>>8910

Who the fuck IS Laurelai and why is it something we care about?

>>8931

par for the sjw course at this point.

I am shocked when it turns out that one isn't a rapist, pedophile, or sjw. (three ways to say the same thing)

but yea, modern mainstream media is pretty vile right now, if this is who they want to employ.

>>8933

>the /hebe/ incident

That is what I was referring to. I always wondered why the fuzz wasn't interested in either of them at the time despite people bringing up they had access to pizza.

As far as the other stuff, it's interesting to say the least. On the one hand the staff could have looked up "stuxnet source" and - well - the dialogue is just as bad here as it is everywhere else on this show. On the other hand Trek shows are usually somewhat careful with references. Anything is possible and the dialogue certainly is odd with the lurker stuff and all that. Just the fact that Wes is getting mentions at all is not positive.

>>8942

>On the one hand the staff could have looked up "stuxnet source" and - well - the dialogue is just as bad here as it is everywhere else on this show.

If it wasn't for the "lurker" comments before and after showing the code, I'd stand by my original theory >>8899 that it was maybe a lower level CGI supervisor trying to slide something in past the producers, but the dialogue choice sounds like it was written exactly to emphasize the inclusion of this code as handpicked by the writers.

>>8944

these people are willing to find and disseminate child porn in the hope that they might get someone they disagree with in trouble, and they all have huge important jobs in hollywood.

another reason I broke from gamergate when they refused to dox people.

>>8945

In Laurelai's case no such thing needed to be done due to horrible horrible opsec on Wes' part…personally I'm not going to dwell on it too much but it is odd that:

A) CBS basically owns Bethesda/Zenimax

B) Laurelai's public profile has gone up in recent years inexplicably even with a lolcow rap sheet longer than the source code for Windows 10, to the point where there's acknowledged work with traditional media

C) Imageboards have been targeted in the recent past by the same interests in traditional media, with boards conversely frustrating their efforts here and there (from Gawker to Paid Mods v1.0)

D) There's been a push for the last 20 years to merge Hollywood and the gaming industry, and more recently pro sports with gaming

>>8948

May or may not be random, but everything gets interesting when you bring in S-tier lolcows.

>>8952

what the fuck did I just watch?

>>8954

Burn it down, pookie.

>>8954

>thinking their audience doesn't want to watch a show with no cops and with buildings burning everywhere

this is why the MSM eats ass.

>>8933

Can't take this mulatto seriously. She's also a fairly coarse race mix, it's difficult to believe that her brain is highly refined while her outer features are in transitional disarray.

Any background to why her name's Michael? Is she supposed to be transsex also, or is Michael just an occasional name for a girl? My guess was that it's the latter, that we're supposed to take Michael as a perfectly acceptable girl's name; but, also, that it's some idiotic writers board's notion of a way to subvert the viewer's white supremacist assumptions about binary gender. Like the same way you can't tell which race(s) it is, its sex is 15% uncertain. Really makes you think, goy! This is the sort-of substitute we're now getting for TOS's actually provocative philosophical quandaries or TNG's exploration of topics such as law and Shakespeare quotes ‒ not challenging just annoying.

>>8971

It' to be edgy. Though there have been quite a lot of women named Michael, even though it's always been considered a man's name.

>>8971

Apparently Brian Fuller (the former showrunner who got kicked off the project) is known for giving female characters male names. He's a SJW, so it's to be edgy or something.

>>8948

When we know nothing about them, we can imagine that they are more interesting than the arrogant cunts like the main character or any of the other characters in the show.

Same reason Saru is so much more interesting than Michael. The most important thing he did in the 3rd episode was done off screen, so we can only guess at how he made the case for bringing a convict to salvage operation for retrieving top secret research materials.

I mean, bringing a convicted mutineer to help get all those secret projects that aren't even supposed to exist, knowledge about which could change the course of the entire war if anyone else found out about it, kind of projects, seems like an idea so insanely idiotic that surely they cut Saru arguing for this to keep him mysterious and make him seem smart, without having to actually try to come up with some kind of logic, any kind at all, that could make this seem like a non-retarded idea, somehow.

>>9007

>bringing a convicted mutineer to help get all those secret projects that aren't even supposed to exist […] seems like an idea so insanely idiotic

Not necessarily. If a mutineer has a talent that could be used for a secret project, why not?

The main issue is that we keep getting told that "Michael is so awesome", "the best of Starfleet" but we actually never saw her do something "awesome" or worthy of being called the best of Starfleet.

>>8971

>Is she supposed to be transsex

No, she's a stronk black womyn.

Her name is Michael because like >>8973 said, Brian Fuller has a habit of giving male names to his female characters (see the character Georgia Lass in Dead Like Me, she's always refered as George).

>>9017

> If a mutineer has a talent that could be used for a secret project, why not?

Being a black woman is a special talent that makes you uniquely capable of retrieving top secret materials who's secrecy is a matter of state security?

How the fuck does that work?

>>8998

What got him thrown out, not toeing the line hard enough?

>>9017

DLM was him? Aww. I remember liking the concept of the show back in the day.

>>9024

AFAIK the details aren't really public. CBS asked Bryan Fuller to step down as showrunner last October. Officially, there was talk about how he had too many projects on his plate (and Discovery had already been suffering delays at that point), so he'd be returning his full attention to "American Gods". Some of his ideas got dropped, including "more heavily allegorical and complex story" points (read: commentary on the US election).

>>8901

>>8904

>>8905

>>8931

>>8933

>seeing laurelai in strek

it's a small world we live in

>>9024

>DLM was him?

Yep

>>8933

It's nice that we still get under their skin.

>>9108

What can we do to stick in their craw even more?

>>9195

>What can we do to stick in their craw even more?

CBS is dependent on this being a lure to their streaming service, attacking their bottom line is the best way to go about that, that means presenting the decoded SJW messaging in such a way as normalfags can digest it, and also start dumping torrent links and file locker upload links ASAP all over normalfag ST outlets and encourage piracy over paid access, with the ultimate goal of getting people to tune out completely or bankrupt the show.

>>>/tv/918527

>>9196

>the ultimate goal of getting people to tune out completely

Why I do think that it's very concerning that Laurelai got a mention in the show, I don't think this will be a problem. It's on life support anyway; maybe about a dozen people signed up for All Access because of it and there's little in the way of confirmed toys and other merch and any possible second season is in 2019 at the very earliest. Netflix will NOT want to spend more money on this shit and I doubt Les Moonves will want to shell out 6-8 million an episode for something noone wants to see, propaganda or not.

>>9020

>Being a black woman is a special talent that makes you uniquely capable of retrieving top secret materials who's secrecy is a matter of state security?

Absolutely yes, thinking anything else would be evil racis white privilege!

>How the fuck does that work?

Shhh, white privilege.

>But

Nuh uh, white privilege.

>>9236

Literally from the writer of Batman and Robin.

>>9263

Oh shit that's sad. That movie should be fucking memory holed.