A Work in Progress

While I have many, many thoughts about the new Star Trek: Discovery, I'm only going to hit a few of the points right now (it still being NaNoWriMo and all).

(I figure by now that those of you who are going to see it, have. If not, I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum.)

• When the Starfleet delta symbol became visible in the sand near the beginning of "The Vulcan Hello", I was grinning like a fool just as I did during the last few minutes of Star Trek (2009).
• I adore(d) Captain Philippa Georgiou. I hope they find a way to bring her back. If not, they'd better keep the books coming.
• The moment I came to love Lorca:
  (from "Context is for Kings")
  
  LORCA (to SARU): Number One, you served with Burnham aboard the Shenzhou. What is your assessment of her abilities?
SARU: Her mutiny aside, she is the smartest Starfleet officer I have ever known.
LORCA: Huh. (to STAMETS) And he knows you.

  Ouch.
  
• I'm not wild about the uniforms, but I do think they are an interesting evolution from the ones used on Star Trek: Enterprise. But it does seem odd that they are not closer to the ones used in Star Trek (The Original Series). It will be interesting to see whether that's a piece of canon they try to resolve during the series run.
• I find it absolutely fascinating that there seemed to be more uproar about the use of profanity (the f-bomb) in "Choose Your Pain" than, for example, from the graphic depiction of the bodies in "Context is for Kings". Star Trek: Discovery does have a TV-MA rating, after all. (That is a topic for discussion at a later date.) That said, I completely understand and appreciate the "but ... but Star Trek never used profanity before" argument. Personally, I found the moment perfect and it added a brief injection of badly-needed humor at just the right time. I actually felt it was much appropriate and necessary that Data's exclamation regarding excrement in Star Trek: Generations.

Current word count: 7,068
Words this week: 3,200
Average words per day: 457

It was not a bad week, overall. While my word count was a bit lower than I would have liked, it was still forward movement.

The story ... well, the story continues to take an interesting turn. This week, my writing on it stayed chiefly on track with the current scene -- I just wish I knew where it was going to go.

In a way, I want November to be over so that I can go back and make notes about where I want this story to go and further set up the time, place, and the narrator's situation going into it. I think that will help immensely in tying it all together.

For a change, I don't yet know how this story is going to end. I suspect that it is more of a result of my not going for the usual 50,000-word mark, as the ending usually occurs to me somewhere around the middle of Week Two.

Until next week ... write on!

Current word count: 3,898
Words this week: 1,688
Average words per day: 241

My progress was slightly less than I had to expected it to be last week, but not by much. With everything else going on, I predicted a low word count.

For what I did write, the story took some very unexpected turns. One twist in particular caught me totally by surprise. I have no idea what the muse has in mind, but it makes for one heck of a chapter-ending cliffhanger. (I suspect, as with the first story, it is going lead down to some very interesting philosophical paths . . .)

We shall see what the next week shall bring . . .

Until then . . . Write on!