Will Decker is on the left and is portrayed by Stephen Collins. Michael Burnham is on the right and is portrayed by Sonequa Martin-Green.

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Round 1: 7/8

23. Will Decker was to be the new captain of the USS Enterprise following her refit. He served as Kirk's First Officer when Kirk assumed command during the V'Ger incident. He ultimately chose to merge with V'Ger to save Earth.

Vs.

10. Michael Burnham was the First Officer of the USS Shenzhou but ultimately committed mutiny to try to prevent a war with the Klingons. She later briefly served as Captain Saru's First Officer aboard the USS Discovery.

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Will Decker
35.3%
Michael Burnham
64.7%
Poll ended at .

Just watched 40y old #BackToTheFuture 1 & 2 the night before and did not care to review the 3rd one again since I finally saw it in full HD over a #decade ago

Chose to watch #ChrisLloyd in #SearchForSpock after reviewing #Directors cut of #STTMP nights ago.

They spent millions for 40th Ann. to make it into the movie we expected when we first saw those TV commercials back in 1980.

Its arguably as good as #Wise's #DayTheEarthStoodStill which is a bar almost as high in my judgement as 2001

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This movie is so bad and makes so little sense I’ll be writing thru the whole thing. So only the most WTF moments.

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In the scene where Spok arrives on the bridge the background behind Kirk and McCoy is blurred. Not out of focus blurred. Blurred blurred. But the space between them and Spok is clear. What’s up with that?

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Wormhole? Is that bad? Why does blowing up the asteroid stop it?
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So a faulty module related to the transporter and they don’t turn it off, killing two people.
Why are they even using the transporter on a not yet operational ship? They don’t need transporters at both ends to beam down to a planet.

@SecularJeffrey I don't know if you've been watching the theatrical release exclusively, but I believe there's at least one cut that's substantially longer, and therefore more comprehensible, to me anyway.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's a very lean half-hour cut set to Daft Punk's soundtrack from Tron (Legacy?) High energy! I recall seeing that on Vimeo, I think.

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I was in a mildly Star Trekky mood this morning, so I dug up my soundtrack to the original movie and listened to that on the long, arduous drive to work. A couple of thoughts:

1. In the main “hero” melody, the trumpets play a lot of slurs, whereas the TV version is clearly articulated. Interesting difference.

2. The Blaster Beam they used to denote the presence of V’Ger still sounds fucking amazing 45 years later.

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