{"id":2638,"date":"2018-01-07T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:08:52","slug":"std-despite-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/std-despite-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"STD: Despite Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the previous 6 episodes of <em>Star Trek Discovery<\/em>, I decided to take a peek at the second half premiere to see if I&#8217;d like it any better.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The characters and story are still meh, and I&#8217;m simply tired of them dancing around the idea that this show is NOT set in the Prime universe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2639\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/std_s01e10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/std_s01e10.jpg 720w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/std_s01e10-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re currently in *a* mirror universe.\u00a0 They started in another mirror universe.\u00a0 Tonight they made reference to the <em>Enterprise<\/em> episode &#8220;In a Mirror, Darkly&#8221; by mentioning the USS <em>Defiant<\/em>, but that schematic in the screenshot is not of the <em>Defiant<\/em> that appeared in that episode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2640\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/defiant_mirroruniverseepisode-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/defiant_mirroruniverseepisode-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/defiant_mirroruniverseepisode-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/defiant_mirroruniverseepisode-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/defiant_mirroruniverseepisode.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The nacelle struts are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The primary hull has notches.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the producers\/showrunners still want us to believe that this is the Prime universe.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll sit out the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the previous 6 episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I decided to take a peek at the second half premiere to see if I&#8217;d like it any better. I didn&#8217;t. The characters and story are still meh, and I&#8217;m simply tired of them dancing around the idea that this show is NOT set in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/std-despite-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STD: Despite Yourself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-star-trek-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}