SDCC Discovery Season 2 Teaser & Discovery Joins Star Trek ONLINE

Hello and welcome to Future Imperfect, I'm your

host Steve Megatron Phillips, or Edward Phillips

in this case, and joining me this week on the

USS Future Imperfect is... Captain Michael Dodd

from ThisWeekendGeek .net and welcome everybody

to, like I said, the Future Imperfect show where

we discuss Star Trek, Star Trek related things,

but also occasionally other sci -fi properties

and things that we find interesting going on

in the realm of science, technology, and beyond.

And in this episode of Future Imperfect, we're

going to be talking about Star Trek Discovery

because finally some new stuff has been released

by CBS. and we're going to be talking about the

San Diego Comic -Con trailer that was released

this past week, and also talking about Star Trek

Online because something has actually happened

with that, and oddly enough, with Star Trek Discovery

as well. So we'll be sharing some musings, some

thoughts, and hopefully some... Well, hope for

what's going to happen in the second season of

Star Trek Discovery, dropping in early 2019,

where it will have some competition against Game

of Thrones, which will be dropping around the

same time. Likely, anyway. My prediction is Super

Bowl when this comes out. Other than that, I

guess Steve, we should start at the beginning.

And that is talking about the Star Trek Discovery

Season 2 trailer, which seems to focus around

Captain Pike taking control of the USS Discovery

under Starfleet article blah blah blah technical

jargon. And focusing around some mysterious signals

that are... coming across the alpha quadrant,

across like 30 ,000 light years, and somehow

it's tied into Mr. Spock, who is Michael's adoptive

brother. And I gotta say, I like the way this

trailer looks. It looks like the money was actually

spent on the show. It doesn't look as, I don't

wanna call season one of Discovery bad looking,

but it didn't look like the budget was on the

screen. Here, this looks like a movie. It does

and I coming from Season one where I was like

the biggest skeptic And I still don't love season

one It's good, but I still don't it's still not

my like Favorite track I can understand where

most people would be kind of like oh, it's my

truck now, and it's like yeah, okay, you know

it truck is track, but I did feel like a lot

of season one just felt like It was it was super

dark. It was a lot of the CGI was kind of just

wasted kind of on everything and in watching

this trailer Seeing how they reincorporated the

the discovery uniforms and made them the TOS

colors Really was nice a nice nod the actor that's

from the humans I think it's Anson Mount is playing

Captain Christopher Pike, and I think he nails

the Jeffrey Hunter vibe really well. And I like

how he I think it's funny because I think I may

have predicted that Captain Pike would take command

of the discovery. I think so, too. Actually,

I'm pretty sure in one of our early episodes,

we kind of said what's going to happen in season

two, obviously. We did predict the Enterprise

would show up, though you predicted the Pike

thing. I didn't predict that like at all. At

least I'm pretty sure I didn't anyway. And I

predicted that they'd have number one take command

of the Enterprise, which is basically what's

going to happen. And. I really don't know where

this season is going to go. I do think they are

going to show an older. I think they're going

to show the young version of Spock and it'll

be either Zachary Quinto or another actor. entirely.

I think that they were skating around it and

I think they're still skating around it and that

he will show up by the end of the season or next

season. I think if they backed up a truckload

of money to Zachary Quinto's house, I'm pretty

sure he'd be more than happy to reprise the role

of Spock, which I think would be fantastic because

as far as I know, he's not doing a whole hell

of a lot right now. No. So I think that'd be

great. Did you see who they cast as number one?

No, I didn't. Rebecca Romaine. Oh. Mystique from

the original X -Men trilogy. That's pretty cool,

actually. She's playing number one, filling the

shoes of Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry's wife.

And yeah, it's going to be interesting to see

how they play this out. If I'm not mistaken,

I want to say... Wasn't Sulu or Scotty on the

original? I want to say... I wanna say Sulu was,

but I'm not 100 % sure on that. I'm gonna check.

Uh... No, they... Well, they... Yeah, they had,

uh... Spock. And, uh... Doesn't look like...

They had... No, it doesn't look like they had

him. It must have been an earlier episode of,

uh... maybe where No Man has gone before the

second pilot I must have seen them on there and

assumed it was the same because they were all

wearing the same type of uniform as this version

but I think it's kind of cool that they put it

with this new you know the Lenny Kravitz getaway

or fly away song and then they have all of this

nice action moments. You get Pike showing up

and then you get a little bit of comedy. It's

just, I think that it's gonna go for that lighter

tone that TOS is known for and still have relevant

missions that still tie to season one but yet

will be new. So I'm very optimistic where they're

gonna take this. I still get a Mass Effect vibe

off of this and that's not necessarily a bad

thing because anything, pretty much, you can

tell where they're drawing some of their inspiration

from. In fact, when they showed their huge galaxy

map and they showed where all the signals were

coming from, I couldn't help but think of Mass

Relays. Yeah, thinking about the Normandy, especially

when you're looking at the little red dots, the

seven red dots showing up in space. Yeah, I was

going to say, okay, we're going to jump to the

Terminus systems today. I'm wondering what those

seven dots are. It almost makes me wonder if

that's like a splinter that has to do with like

maybe the red matter from the future. Yeah, that's

a possibility. Although I've got to feel it.

Here's my season two prediction. They're going

to encounter the frigging Borg. I assure you,

I've got a feeling, despite them saying this

ties into the Prime Universe, look what they've

done to the Klingons, I'm pretty sure we're going

to see the Borg, we're going to see more TNG

-era enemies show up. Or maybe we'll see Tholians,

because Tholians would be kind of badass too.

Well, Tholians would actually be pretty interesting

to see them get a new style. being that we really

didn't get to see much of them. Yeah, because

all we've seen is like the ship as far as like

I understand. I mean, we saw the Enterprise.

OK, but TOS, we saw them in the ship and that

was about it. And I think it would be interesting

to see them play out in this. But at the same

time, if they were to go to the Borg, I mean,

those could be trans war pubs that opened up.

or I'd be okay seeing more of the Orion crime

syndicates. I would be okay with that if they

somehow tied that into a long running plot thread.

I think that'd be pretty cool. I do think section

31 is gonna be a pretty big play and you're gonna

get Emperor Georgiou showing up to some degree.

See, that'd be pretty cool and I really hope

they do follow up on that. Although, I would

say I'm fairly optimistic for the season. Like

I said, it's gonna drop early 2019, which means

in terms of what it has to go, other big sci

-fi properties it's gotta compete against. Game

of Thrones comes out early 2019. I don't know

when The Expanse comes back. It got picked up

by Amazon, right? Was it Amazon or Netflix? Amazon.

I think it was Amazon. Yeah, so. It's certainly

got its work cut out for it. The only competition

it really has would be Game of Thrones But really

phasers versus dragons, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, um, we'll have to wait and see what happens

with that but Next year is gonna be a good time

for like sci -fi because the Orville comes back

as well in December we saw a trailer for that

I would have predicted that would have come back

during Super Bowl, but I'm guessing CBS if My

guess is we'll see the first part of the first

Two -parter episode for the season premiere on

Super Bowl Sunday That's my prediction and they'll

sell major ad space for it if they're smart or

we'll see it like No, no, I'm also gonna say

Super Bowl. They're probably gonna stick with

it. We'll probably see a big ad campaign ramp

it up to it I've got friends in Toronto that

are working on the show. They work in the costume

department though I haven't heard anything out

of them probably because I have NDA's so tight

that not even light can escape. I would love

Pike's captain's uniform. I think that the costuming

this year looks really on point. I was really,

really impressed with it. I've actually seen

some of the fan cosplays. There's a girl on my

Facebook who did a Discovery uniform and she

got all the little details right. It impresses

me. how much the fan community can do and when

you get the professionals doing it on the show.

I mean, say what you will about the Klingons.

Their costumes look great and the makeup looked

pretty cool, even if you don't like the design

of it. Yeah, I mean, I didn't like the designs

of them just because of the alien race. If they

would have named it something else, like I would

have been like totally done with it. It's still

it's still awesome work. Exactly, like I'm thinking.

I'm hoping this year we see just more of the

Star Trek universe maybe fleshed out now that

we have 2018 slash 2019 special effects We have

more money put into the show The scope of the

universe is being expanded. We're not just tied

into this one little part where the war is happening

and I don't know just I've got some fairly high

hopes because Star Trek Discovery for me last

year was a pleasant surprise. It kind of made

me a fan of Star Trek again. It kind of got me

interested in it. So, yeah, hopefully we'll see

exciting things from it. If we did see a new

version of the Borg, I would be totally over

the moon for that because I'm a Borg whore. What

can I say? And with Discovery's Expanding it

out because 30 ,000 light years. That's a pretty

sizable chunk of the alpha quadrant in fact,

that's pretty much a good chunk of The known

universe if I know my star charts, right? I mean

I'm going mostly off the Modiphius role -playing

game for my knowledge here, but that's a pretty

sizable chunk of the known Star Trek universe

Yeah, well at least for this part in time Yeah,

exactly. Yeah, exactly. That's another thing

too. I got to factor that in, because this takes

before the original series. Yeah, bullshit. But

maybe we'll get more answers to that, because

at least Pike's uniform looks like it's supposed

to. An updated version thereof, not this Captain

Kirk's mustard shirt. It's got the Discovery

aesthetic to it, but the colors of TOS. Yeah,

it's got the colors, it's got the arm bands.

it looks like it should, it doesn't look goofy.

Yeah, it actually fits really well with when

you consider the uniforms they get in like Wrath

of Khan. Like Wrath of Khan would be the next

natural progression of those uniforms. Yeah.

And so it fits. And if you notice in the clip

where they're in the little spiral ships that

look like the things from Star Trek Beyond, It

looks like they have the motion picture uniforms

in it. That I didn't notice. Yeah, it looks almost

like the motion picture. Go back and watch that.

It's the same. I mean, it's the Discovery uniform,

but it's got the colors and aesthetic of the

motion picture, like the Kirk uniform from the

motion picture, where he's Admiral. That's what

they're wearing. Now that those are like the

greatest uniforms in the world, but they just

stand out to me. So yeah One of the other things

that happened with Star Trek discovery obviously

with getting the new trailer and getting a semi

release date Ford is this surprised me is Because

Steve plays a lot of Star Trek online and when

I saw this story pop up on Kotaku I'm like, okay,

we got to talk about this. There's actually gonna

be a significant story tie -in For Star Trek

online and as far as I understand it's actual

missions That tie into season one of Star Trek

discovery the first half of season one So before

they get into all the the mirror universe Content

So what will be interesting is to see how they

tie this in I'm assuming that they're going to

Make the character like because it sounds like

they're going to have a Like create a Federation

character from the Star Trek discovery timeline

which would probably be not much different than

how people are able to start a Dominion character

right now. Mm -hmm or start a 25th century Starfleet

or 23rd century Starfleet I'm assuming it'll

be the same general process and I'm wondering

if you're able to start in the discovery timeline

play through that and then go to the TOS and

then go to you know the 25th century like to

complete through the game like it would have

in the normal timeline I'm just curious how they're

gonna play that out or if it's going to be totally

separate. I hope they go the other route just

because it would make it more interesting from

a story standpoint to start a new character because

you could take that discovery character you created

all the way through the the entire timeline.

That's kind of what I hope that they do end up

doing and this might be enough for me to try

dusting off my old account maybe going back in.

I will say this if you haven't played in a long

time it's actually worth it. The DS9 expansion

is really cool. Like you get to play the Ferengi

infiltrating an enemy ship, the Iconians. Oh!

To retrieve the Blade of Kaelas. So like your

Quark, Rom, or not Rom, but Nog, and then two

other characters. infiltrating it to to steal

it as it were because it's everything in in Star

Trek my mind what I love about it is it's so

connected with all of the cannon there's even

a point where you're you're summoned by agent

Daniels to go to the Kelvin timeline to stop

this the sphere builders and you actually see

the Kelvin timeline Klingons and the USS Constitution

and It's You get one mission there, but it's

still like it all ties together like every bit

of the timeline every version of the timeline

Gets covered in this game, and that's I love

the the expansive I don't necessarily love like

all the aesthetics or like the the kind of the

way the gameplay works, but I have fun with the

customizations the ability to spec out and design

everything and then I love the story and that's

why I play it. And so like adding this to already

what we got with DS9, it just makes sense. Like

we've had a Voyager arc, we've had DS9 arc, we've

had kind of sprinkled TNG throughout most of

it and TOS through most of it. So it's in some

huge enterprise plots, but it's a pretty solid

game. And so if you add this to it, it's going

to be It's gonna be pretty much just like Trek

out of this world So I'm looking forward to seeing

what they do with it Yeah, and I think the fact

that they're keeping it being supported especially

since the MMO You got a it's not unfair to say

that it that that genre is starting to Lose a

little bit of steam because I mean despite the

fact that wow is still the most dominant One

out there and it's just getting a new expansion

released in the last little bit the age the MMO

is starting to slow down There aren't as many

as there once were but the fact that Star Trek

is still it is free -to -play It's supported

by micro transactions and all optional material.

You can get it in game without paying a cent

but Good luck a lot of grinding It's a lot of

damn grinding. So good luck to you, pal. Good

luck with that. But yeah, I just I wasn't even

aware of that until you sent me the link to it

because I hadn't even it was totally new like

as of today because I haven't been online. So

it wasn't wasn't something I noticed until then.

Yeah, it was something I was kind of surprised

there wasn't more fanfare around it. But then

again. We just got the trailer. I'm actually

surprised there wasn't more like, hey guys, come

back to Star Trek online. Like there wasn't more

like ads on Facebook or something like that.

So, yeah, if it wasn't for Kotaku, I wouldn't

have known. Well, like I said, they just came

out with their latest expansion on DS9. So where

it's like eight or 10 missions or something like

that on DS9. And you get to... It shows how involved

the Changelings were, the founders, on a lot

of the impact of certain species in the Trek

timeline, specifically the Herc in the Klingons.

And why the Herc in the Klingons went to battle

in the first place. And that stupid founder from

DS9 that started the Dominion War is part of

the... The problem in this this expansion as

well Oh, sorry, go ahead because you you had

to free her To stop the dominion that disappeared

in the the wormhole because they they were ejected

in in like 20 30 years into the future from DS

9's timeline and took over the DS 9 station and

so that's that's when the you had to release

the original founder that was locked up to deal

with the problem. But yeah, like I said, I'm

still loving the game. In other Star Trek news,

actually, our good friends from This Week in

Geek over at Modiphius, who is the UK -based

publisher of the Star Trek official role -playing

game, Star Trek Adventure role -playing game,

just released a couple of books in the last little

bit. They released The Command Division. source

book. They also released the beta quadrant source

book, which talks about the Romulans, the Orion

Syndicate, et cetera, et cetera. I actually had

a chance to sit down with developer Sam Webb,

who is the line developer for Star Trek, and

how he just kind of fell into that job literally,

but also how he has a chance to work on different

books like science, ops. There's a Delta Quadrant

book coming out next year. So these guys have

the license for quite some time. I got a little

bit of info out of them. There's gonna be a starter

set coming out next year or actually, sorry,

closer to Christmas rather. So if you wanna find

out more from that interview, I'm sure Steve

can post a link on Geekcast Radio or you can

go over to thisweekendgeek .net, check out the

botched role that I did this week or last week

rather depending on when this episode airs. You'll

be able to find that over there. Just look for

my interview with Sam Webb. And so the other

thing, too, with Trek that we haven't covered

is IDW is doing a Star Trek First Transformers

crossover. Ah, yes. Actually, one of the artists

is on my Facebook. I didn't realize it. It's

an artist named Philip Murphy. He's drawing a

lot of the covers for this. And it looks surprisingly

cool. I'm actually surprised this hasn't been

done earlier. but star trek is no stranger to

goofy crossovers there was star trek i think

the first one was star trek versus x -men yep

star trek versus the x -men they had star trek

versus doctor who a couple years ago um where

captain kirk fights cybermen and captain bacard

and matt smith teal up against the borg and the

dollocks i think it's cybermen i think it's funny

though that they took star trek the animated

series and g1 and mixed it yeah you know what

i'm Kind of happy they did that because it makes

sense to me simply because animation versus animation.

So why the hell not? so the fact that I can have

cat people and like I don't know blitzwing is

kind of entertaining to me, so I've seen some

of the in progress covers that have been posted

to this guy's Facebook He does posted out on

Twitter as well and the artwork seems pretty

on point. I don't know what the story is But

you know what? IDW treats its properties pretty

well, so it won't be stupid, it won't be silly,

it'll be interesting, obviously it's gonna, my

guess is it'll involve around energon and dilithium,

and somehow the Klingons will get involved, because

I think they're on the cover to one of the issues

actually, so we'll have to wait and see what

happens with this. I'm excited, I might buy the

first issue digital, and if I like it, I'll pick

it up. Yep, I will I will definitely be interested

in this oh Another thing to mention before we

leave you speaking We didn't cover this one before

too if you have Netflix and at this point who

the hell doesn't Check out, there's a show on

there called The Toys That Made Us, and they

did an entire episode dedicated to Star Trek

toys. And you'd be surprised how many people

have handled the license for Star Trek over the

years, to varying degrees of success, from art

asylum to playmates toys, to other license holders.

And there's some pretty interesting stories on

there. In fact, if I had disposable income, I

would love to get the Spock. Police helmet simply

because it is so stupid looking and it's ridiculous.

I think it would make a nice centerpiece of a

collection But I don't know Steve is there anything

else in truck that we had that we can talk about

okay two other things, okay The the first one

is that they reveal that they're gonna do Star

Trek short tracks It's a series of monthly short

-form stories that will function like bonus content

and air on CBS All Access in conjunction with

the larger Star Trek Discovery series. CBS says

that short tracks will air in installments of

about 10 to 15 minutes as an opportunity for

deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters

and themes that fit into the expanding Star Trek

universe. So among these... planned episodes

are a Harry Mudd episode directed by Rainn Wilson

and starring him of course, a sidebar for Ensign

Sylvia Tilley, an episode starring Aldous Hodge,

no idea who that is, as a man stranded on a deserted

ship and a dive into Lieutenant Commander Saru.

Ooh, that'll be interesting. So yeah, that's

that's one of their things They're still being

kind of tight -lipped on what the other series

are gonna contain I'm still hoping for a Captain

Picard series limited edition series, but One

can only hope Or one where all the captains come

back together For like one kind of insane miniseries

But yeah, there's that. And then the fact that

they've cast their new Spock, but they haven't

revealed who it is. So they are gonna have a

new Spock. So hopefully we'll find out sooner

as opposed to later. Yeah, it says they're casting

a new Spock and it's not a possibility it's been

done. So they're just going to... They're going

to keep that probably tight -lipped for quite

some time it'll probably be towards the end of

season two where they or towards the end of season

two where they Kind of discover that as they're

saying that the mystery involves mysterious red

spots that are occurring throughout space and

Pike seeks out and takes command of the discovery

in order to further investigate this mystery

in Spock's disappearance Whoo, yeah, so we'll

see what happens, but yeah, that's pretty much

all I got on track Just couldn't leave those

out. So yeah, be sure to be keep listening here

to Future Imperfect as we find out more topics

to talk about. Maybe we'll take a deep dive into

one of the movies or maybe take a look at a character

or piece of technology or other big news because

hey, water was found on Mars today. So that opens

up new possibilities for terraforming. So maybe

we'll talk about the Genesis device or something

like that. I'm sure we could figure out something

to talk about here on Future Imperfect because

hey, we talk about everything. Actually, you

know what, Steve? Have you watched The Expanse?

Steve? No, I have not. Well, maybe an idea is

for what the tide is over till next year with

Star Trek. Maybe we'll try the first couple episodes

of The Expanse and we'll see if we like that.

Cause I know you watched Lost in Space this past

year. I haven't. So maybe you do the Expanse,

I'll do the Expanse, I'll do Lost in Space, you've

already done it, and we'll maybe find some sci

-fi to recommend to people, maybe to tide them

over, because I'm sure people have seen classics

like Battlestar and Babylon 5. Maybe we'll see

some of the lesser -known stuff that's out there.

Oh yeah, totally. So anyway for this edition

of future imperfect I have been your captain

for this voyage out here in the Alpha Quadrant

But I've been joined by my faithful fleet admiral

Stephen Phillips and until next time In any case

see you