Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Page 12 of 14)

I swear somebody had already posted that, but the post disappeared? Anyway, yes. This was the most Star Trek episode this season so far.

eps 6 is a redo of a Star Trek discovery eps of that ancient space ship traveling at near light speed with an original crew?

@some_one

eps 7. skipped it. bored by this type of thing

It however a prime example of my description for SNW: Its an anthology show now.
1 Action
1 Comedy
1 Fantasy
1 Mystery
1 Documentary
1 Backstory
1 Time travel
1 Old school Trek adventure
1 Cliff hanger to bring you back next year
And that's the season wrapped up.

This is my biggest gripe about these short streaming seasons.  You can do it for a narrow focus plot like Butterfly or Countdown.  Current time frame so no world building.  No long term character deep backstory.  We all know what a cop or federal agent is. We all know what a crime or terror plot is.  So the show focuses on: Define the bad guy, catch the bad guy.

SNW is riding the coat tails of decades of world building and even character defining.  They can get away with that for a few short seasons and then wrap the entire show up after 48 episodes.  They call that 5 years but really its only 2 broadcast seasons.  Without the duration of a 24 episode broadcast season there is no real story arc.  You don't get The Dominion War in 10 streamer episodes.  It can really only be a bunch of nods to something already defined like the Gorn, or well established like Starfleet as an entity.  But it can't ever truly be successful at building something new... They'll never define and flesh out a new race from scratch like TNG and DS9 did.  They'll never have really story arcs again.

Another boring episode, this series is going downhill fast. It seems to me that the writers have lost the plot of what Star Trek is supposed to be about and are getting hung up on political messages.

esp 8 @paisley1. havent watched it yet. But that picture does not look good.  Nurse Chappel needs to learn how to stand up to show her bits, she looks a real frump here. Quiff-man  must use a lot of Brylcreem

I am not sure about this. Feel free to correct me on this.

I think Pike pulled a Shatner.

Once he was a

, when he talked he paused quite a bit and was a tad loud. I always hear that Shatner paused alot. They even made fun of it in skits.

That was my thought on Pike.

To me... It basically retconned all of the deep education and studies of Vulcan canon.
All of the years and shows and movies about how important Vulcan institutes are... the diligent work to get into a limited number of slots at a prestigious university... meaningless as these changed crewmembers suddenly seemed to know all they needed to know... math, multiple sciences including nuclear reactors, logic ... somehow changing their genetics also magically gave them all knowledge in multiple disciplines.

@merc, I was just thinking that, the writers of SNW's clearly don't know or like Trek, so they're just mocking and deriding it, especially Vulkans, gone are the days where we become Vulkan as a way to learn more about them, now it's just for comedy.  I want the team responsible for Picard Season 3 to make all the Trek shows as that finale was sooo well done, like the tone was right, the action was right, there were no "and then" moments as the story made sense and tied in with what came before....the glory days, unfortunately it's going to be more of this crap.

I'm coming to the same conclusion. None of the writers actually like Star Trek or its legacy and have zero interest in preserving it.

If you wanted to make a parody or just some generic sci fi show, do what The Orville did, that managed to be more respectful while simultaneously making fun of Trek but wasn't actively crapping on it by re-writing lore just for lame jokes.

Its such a shame, I really like the set pieces and think the show "looks" great but its doing more damage to the legacy than good....and by god, Anson Mount (Pike) ,who has been my favourite character, clearly does not have the acting range or skill to play a Vulcan, his portrayal was abysmal, how did that go to air?

1 - I think this is one of the best write ups on what went wrong with nuTrek and what is needed to save it.  Just sharing with others that seem to be along the same mind as my gripes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_D317vyqk
They make a great point about the difference between 'concept driven' and 'character driven' writing that I hadn't consciously seen before - and now I can't unsee it.

2 - Agree with the writers not knowing/liking Trek.  After all the backlash of how they ruined the Klingons and turned them into f'ing disco dancing joke of the show they decided to stop - and just target the Vulcans instead of the Klingons.  Clearly they only know how to write one given way and will work their way through every species, ruining them all as they try to make them the comic relief.

3 - With every episode I get that much more fed up with this anthology format they've taken