Geek Alert!

You know that I don’t watch much TV, right? I can’t deal with all the commercials and I’m too old to see paying for it as anything but a big fat ripoff. Jen, Oni and I DO watch on the weekend when we have our “High Teas” though.

Given this, it’s no surprise that I’ve only yesterday watched the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery and, holy fucking WOW, it IS awesome!

The show begins, not on the Discovery but the Shenzhou with Captain Georgiou (played by Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame) at the helm. 

They’re checking out a wonked up satellite at the far end of Federation space when First Officer Burnham (played by Walking Dead star Sonequa Martin-Green) comes upon a Klingon ship AND, unsurprisingly, duh, there's a Klingon out for a spacewalk. He attacks and, in her effort to escape, she offs the dude. This does NOT make the Shenzhou especially popular with the Klingons.

Now then, the show is set ten years before the original Captain Kirk series (set in the 23rd century). Klingons are still the bad guys, still warring with the Federation – the Treaty of Alliance is another century off.

Here’s the deal, these pre-Alliance dudes are something radically special. They’re beyond Worf brown. They’re a brill, lustrous obsidian Black and they are beautiful. Scary as hell too.

There’s one albino Klingon who is so pale, so amazingly white – his skin is shimmeringly iridescent. Because he is so radically different, Voq was an outcast and felt he had a LOT to prove. There’s a scene where he’s petitioning the head Klingon, T’Kuvma, for the chance to do some important but sehr dangerous revenge-on-the-Federation shit. T’Kuvma is so kind, so open, so unprejudiced. 

The original Trek ep Let That Be Your Last Battlefield came to mind.

I’m thinking that between Number One and Captain Georgiou, both female and NOT Caucasian and the Klingon convo, this show’s gonna be fantastically egalitarian AND asshole-boy challenging – this. on top of the fabola stories AND visuals. NO cabbage was spared in doing up the sets, costumes, makeup, special effects and general cinematography. This is one wildly gorgeous show.

Oh, another thing – apparently Burnham/Number One, born human, was raised on Vulcan by Sarek – Spock’s daddy – after her parents were offed by Klingons. Yes, Number One is Spock’s adopted sister! TOO damn COOL!

Oh yeah, we’re also deeply into the series Lucifer.

Bored with being the Lord of Hell, the devil relocates to Los Angeles, where he opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective. (source) 

The show’s intriguing, witty as fuck, twisty, human and just flat out fab.

I can’t wait for Tea Time today!