In the history of American film and television, there are two dominant IPs .
Across decades, countless people have been affected.
One is Star Wars and the other is Star Trek .
The two works love and kill each other and compete with each other.
Even the competition between fan parties is fierce, comparable to Marvel and DC.
Especially the "Star Trek" series, this series is simply "phenomenal" in the United States .
More than 50 years.
7 TV series, 1 cartoon and 13 movies were derived .
Today we will talk about one of the independent stories -
Star Trek: Discovery series
Star Trek: Discovery is the companion installment to Star Trek: The Original Series .
As another extension of the original series, from the director to the screenwriter are the hardcore fans of the first generation .
They have also participated in the production of other episodes of the series to some extent, and have basically maintained the original flavor of the previous dramas .
The story of the first season, set ten years before the original series .
Many of the characters in it have left a deep impression on Mr. Pumpkin.
The heroine is Mike Burnham , who has starred in "The Walking Dead", the Sasha who is hiding in a confined space waiting to die .
She also has a special identity in the play - the non-biological sister of First Officer Spock in the "Original Series" .
Are you impressed?
First Officer Spock, Captain Kirk, the two male protagonists who are the most stealing in this drama.
There is also the captain Qiao Ji'an played by Michelle Yeoh , who is wise, decisive, sassy and A. As soon as he appears , he has the momentum of a big heroine and is full of the charm of oriental women.
The story of the first season of "Discovery" is actually very simple, it only tells one person and one thing .
People, Mike's growth and mental journey, the fusion of human blood and Vulcan soul.
The war between the Federation and the Klingons.
The seemingly simple plot contains the exploration of human nature and inner heart .
When you are trapped on another planet, do you choose to escape or integrate into the local civilization?
The collision between the different choices also hints at the style of the whole show: fast-paced and full of camera language.
If the first season of "Discovery" used sci-fi to push the limits of space , then the second season began an ambitious attempt to push the limits of time .
Extra-dimensional realm, contact of the third type, time travel ... Get rid of the slightly depressing atmosphere of the previous season, and the relaxed and novel pure sci-fi exploration is fascinating.
And the production costs of tens of millions of dollars per episode paid off significantly in terms of plot and special effects.
Compared with the reality and conflict of the collision of different species in the first season, the second season of "Star Trek: Discovery" has a faster pace and adds more suspenseful elements .
Captain Pike arrives, and he requisitions the Captainless Discovery for a new mission: searching for seven mysterious signals .
From the beginning of the Enterprise, one of the soul characters, Spock, is deeply in a psychiatric doubt, to the discovery that seven mysterious signals hide huge secrets, and finally to the end of the show.
The whole drama can be said to be full of doubts, and people can't stop watching it.
As the leader of the team, Pike must not only respond to the crisis of the Starship Alliance, but also track down Spock's whereabouts.
Especially when Discovery was exploring the third signal, the control AI got out of control , started killing for evolution, and privately ordered other fleets to round up Discovery.
This touches on a hot topic of the moment - artificial intelligence.
When AI runs out of control and attacks humans, will our future be controlled by AI?
Technology is changing with each passing day, and high-tech is emerging in an endless stream, but one thing is certain—
It is not AI that will determine the future, but how we manage and apply AI .
Under the various scientific terms that I don't understand, "Discovery" is still nothing more than telling the story of "human nature".
How to face the imminent cosmic war? How to heal the pain of losing someone important? How to face fear and death?
These issues come up over and over again, each choice helps shape a living, flesh-and-blood character, and each exploration provides us with a new way of looking at the world.
The upcoming third season of the story will follow the previous season.
The challenges facing female captain Mike, who travels into the future with artificial intelligence in order to save the crew, will be more complicated.
Because the setting in Season 3 is relatively anarchic chaos .
Mike and the crew need to find out what a powerful force can disintegrate the huge alliance fleet overnight.
Like the previous two seasons, big scenes, fast pace, and every frame is burning money every second.
The most eye-catching is the visual aesthetics presented by the future world.
Not to mention the comprehensive upgrade of various weapons, the scene is also more macro, its scene, mirror movement, scheduling , and the compactness of the plot are all considered a rare masterpiece!
"Star Trek" is a typical sci-fi genre film. It satisfies everyone's curiosity about outer space and fills us with more imaginations about that unknown field.
"Discovery" focuses on both exploration and war, and each episode builds a plot based on the pace of outward exploration.
But at the same time, the core storyline of each season buries a thread that runs through the season.
Whether it is a novel or a movie, excellent science fiction works are of advanced significance .
Writers and directors often want to discuss problems existing in the existing political system, culture or society through a science fiction film .
Take the "Star Trek: The Original", it was born of the 1960s, the cold war, the Vietnam War, the Berlin Wall, racial discrimination, women's equal rights ...... society will is in the period of change, people are also constant state of anxiety.
Every detail is a mapping of the human world from point to face.
Each season of Discovery is a new round of human exploration of the unknown universe.
In this process, human beings’ fear of their own destiny, the complex human nature brought about by this fear, and a kind of divine reflection beyond human nature will be born.
In the infinite deep space of the cosmic dimension, human beings are as small as a speck of dust. It is our instinct to explore the unknown, but at the same time, it also reminds us to constantly think about reality.
A work of art with long-term vitality must be long-term, rich and ideological.
This entire series of Star Trek shows us:
"Our goal is the sea of stars" is not an empty phrase .
Before the human body, the spirit has gone to the deep space, and human beings will yearn for freedom throughout their lives.
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