2nd October, 2017
You know, I’ve seen next week’s rota, at my regular job.
Really.
It’s been seriously chopped down.
I’m …
Well, let’s just say I’m not surprised.
In theory?
I’m down to two shifts, this week, and three, the next.
Any one who knows me, well? Can imagine how I feel.
Partly resigned to losing a job I like.
Partly nervous and expectant. I had a job interview last Thursday, for a position very local to me. I’ve still not heard about it. I don’t want to raise my expectations: and then not get it.
And … ?
Damn good and angry, to be honest! After all, going from being able to be pay for oneself — albeit by watching my budget, very carefully — to seriously struggling?
~≈€≈~
The upside?
The upside is that I’ve plenty of time to write.
Both the Teasers that I know people enjoy.
AND job letters: I need to find something.
It also means I have to occupy myself with something.
Frankly?
I’ve a lot of TV box sets I’d like to catch up on.
One of those? Is the recent Netflix/CBS All Access series that is …
Star Trek: Discovery.
Going by the first three episodes?
I think the latest entry in the franchise looks good.
~≈€≈~
Episode 1 — The Vulcan Hello — shows us T’Kuvma, a Klingon leader determined to unify his people under the teachings of Kahless the Unforgettable: by waging war on his people’s newest enemies, the Federation.
Meanwhile? On an unnamed desert planet, Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) of the USS Shenzhou has joined her First officer, Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in opening a well to allow the planet’s residents to survive a drought.
It’s once the pair re-join the USS Shenzhou that things start …
When the ship discovers something hidden in a nebula.
Episode 2 — Battle at the Binary Stars — shows us, in a flashback, Burnham’s original joining of the Shenzhou crew.
Taken to the ship by no less than her foster father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan.
Back in the present?
We find Commander Burnham thrown in the brig for mutiny: whilst, around her, the Shenzhou and a Starfleet group battle a Klingon fleet.
Once Burnham manages to escape, and speak to the Captain?
It’s then they decide that the only way to stop a massacre of Starfleet personnel is to kidnap T’Kuvma …
Episode 3 — Context is for Kings — is set some six months after Battle at the Binary Stars: showing us Michael Burnham now being hauled of to a Federation prison, after being court martialled for mutiny.
Only for the shuttle’s she on to break down: and be tractored about a very new Starfleet ship called the USS Discovery.
Its captain, Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs), wants to offer her a job.
And it’s not going to be easy.
~≈€≈~
Now …
Was this little lot any good, I hear you ask?
Yes.
The Star Trek franchise is one that’s been going for fifty-one years: and, much like its slightly older British cousin, Dr Who, produced stories that are good, bad and indifferent.
Thus far?
It’s focusing on the cashiered Michael Burnham — played with vigour and grace by Sonequa Martin-Green — given us a storyline that’s looks like it has depth and potential to it.
And positioning her opposite Captain Lorca, a man I feel will quite happily break the Federation’s rules in order to win a cold war against the Klingons?
Is something I found very watchable.
Talking of the Klingons?
I have to admit, I found the new look version to be absolutely stunning.
Granted, having them speak entirely in Klingon is something of a pain: but also adds a layer of authenticity that was very appreciated.
As was the overall look of this series.
It managed to synthesise previous members of shows in the franchise: AND look individual.
I’m going to make a couple of predictions, here, though.
Frankly?
Going on what I’ve seen, I think — think — Michael Burnham is going to be a senior member of Captain Lorca’s crew: gaol time not with standing.
I think Captain Lorca’s researches to help stop the war? Will lead him into some dark areas: we know he’s captured the creature that destroyed the crew of the USS Glenn.
I think that, by the end of this first series?
That Commander Burnham — passionate, logical and driven by her past — will be mutineering again.
~≈€≈~
The other prediction?
Is quite simply this.
That whatever happens?
I’m going to enjoy this show …
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