paramount+ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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I probably won't get to watch this as I don't presently have Paramount+. But I would love to see it succeed - and be good!



Also, it's about time!

 

[Beebo Brink]

Honestly, I've given up caring about continuity and timelines. I want good stories. I want good writing. I want good acting.

If some mishmash of background details and naming conventions wants to call itself Star Trek this or that and shoehorn its way into the odd decade or year that hasn't been staked out already, fine. If it's good and true to the spirit of the original series, I'll watch it. If it's just a veneer of Trek souvenirs painted over a Space Opera western, then I'm not interested.

For me, that means stories with heart, that wrestle with principles and morality, with concepts of good and evil. So far, the visual patina of Strange New Worlds looks promising, so I'm willing to give it a chance to see if there's any depth beneath.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well, I've found that in one of the recent new series, namely in Lower Decks. It's animated but aside that the most trekky series of all new official Trek ones so far. Of course for me that is.

Picard Season II - we've got see. Just looking at one episode gives not enough insight into that. But the new Stargazer looked cool, but maybe a little but too many Dutch Angles.

 

[Ghost Pepper]

Honestly, I've given up caring about continuity and timelines. I want good stories. I want good writing. I want good acting.

If some mishmash of background details and naming conventions wants to call itself Star Trek this or that and shoehorn its way into the odd decade or year that hasn't been staked out already, fine. If it's good and true to the spirit of the original series, I'll watch it. If it's just a veneer of Trek souvenirs painted over a Space Opera western, then I'm not interested.

For me, that means stories with heart, that wrestle with principles and morality, with concepts of good and evil. So far, the visual patina of Strange New Worlds looks promising, so I'm willing to give it a chance to see if there's any depth beneath.

I read that it'll be more optimistic and episodic than Discovery and Picard, a style closer to the original series.

We're going to do stand-alone episodes," Kurtzman said at the time. "There will be emotional serialization. There will be two-parters. There will be larger plot arcs, but it really is back to the model of alien of the week, planet of the week, challenge on the ship of the week with these characters pre-Kirk's Enterprise."

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' 'Episodic' Approach Has One Major Exception

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well I don't trust any longer the PR bullshit of the new generation of Trek showrunners. I only trust the results - some are good, some are not so much.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Strange New Worlds had better go a completely different direction from Discovery, which I'm increasingly cheesed off at.

Despite the inclusivity, diversity, representation and empowerment... it feels like the show-runner wants to make these things look BAD because the crew can't EVER stay focused on any crisis without stopping to talk at length about their feelings in each and every occasion where time pressure is critical and lives are on the line.

Not to mention that every Burnham/Book sidebar means backing up, enabling the wildly out-of-sync subtitles to figure out what they were mumbling at each other.

I've been rooting for the dark matter anomaly for -several- episodes now.

Edited to add: whomever designed the current character arc for Tarka, Book and General Ndoye needs to be fired and banned from the industry. Each one of the characters makes me want to slap them silly. And Ndoye is acting more like a scared cadet than a general. It's just embarrassing.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Strange New Worlds had better go a completely different direction from Discovery, which I'm increasingly cheesed off at.

Despite the inclusivity, diversity, representation and empowerment... it feels like the show-runner wants to make these things look BAD because the crew can't EVER stay focused on any crisis without stopping to talk at length about their feelings in each and every occasion where time pressure is critical and lives are on the line.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I gotta say though, with as grumpy as I was getting with Discovery this season... the final episode wasn't bad. The guest cameo, was a nice touch.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I gotta say though, with as grumpy as I was getting with Discovery this season... the final episode wasn't bad. The guest cameo, was a nice touch.

 

[Ghost Pepper]

I'm surprised that some hadn't posted this here yet.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk for Season 2 of Paramount Plus Series

I thought that the series took place years before Kirk came onboard?

 

[Free]

I thought that the series took place years before Kirk came onboard?

Sue Prize!

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I'm surprised that some hadn't posted this here yet.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk for Season 2 of Paramount Plus Series

I thought that the series took place years before Kirk came onboard?

I'd lay odds that Strange New Worlds is going to use "The Menagerie" as a framing thing, so the series is probably going to be Pike reminiscing about his days on the Enterprise before he got disabled.

 

[danielravennest]

I'm surprised that some hadn't posted this here yet.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk for Season 2 of Paramount Plus Series

I thought that the series took place years before Kirk came onboard?

Presumably Kirk didn't start out in Starfleet as a captain. So this would be him at a lower rank.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Presumably Kirk didn't start out in Starfleet as a captain. So this would be him at a lower rank.

I didn't think of that, though Kirk didn't serve aboard the Enterprise as a junior officer. But, he might have been ferried to one his assignments, like Tarsus, by Pike's Enterprise.

 

[Ghost Pepper]

I'd lay odds that Strange New Worlds is going to use "The Menagerie" as a framing thing, so the series is probably going to be Pike reminiscing about his days on the Enterprise before he got disabled.

"The Menagerie" actually used parts of the pilot episode of the original series "The Cage." According to what I read "The Menagerie" took place 13 years after "The Cage."

 

[Free]

Very Voyager-esque.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I got a strange new world for them to arrive at:

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Very Voyager-esque.

I like how the new season of The Orville is shaping up.

 

[Free]

I got a strange new world for them to arrive at:

TO YOUTUBE!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

So the pilot episode has aired now, and - surprise! - most critics and audience both love it! That's really nowadays something you don't hear much about the newer bunch of Star Trek series.

Most common comment about it is: this is Star Trek, looks like it and feels like it! While it clearly shows that it is in the Discovery universe and references it, it has a completely different tone and feel to it. And Anson Mount really gives a great performance as Christopher Pike, just like many hoped when he first showed up in Discovery.

Ok, the Enterprise while still being pre-Kirk looks vastly different and much more modern, but that's no issue. And it's got its own Kirk, Lt. Sam Kirk from which we haven't seen much yet. So we've got the first official Trek series with actors since ages which feels like Star Trek. And it had a good start, so let's see to where it will go from now on.