Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-review-paramount-plus-1848862048
Star Trek’s grand return, first with Discovery, and now with what feels like a whole flotilla of series, transformed the franchise into a series of heavily serialized adventures for the most part—a distinct break from the style that had largely guided the franchise for half a century prior. With Strange New Worlds, it re-embraces that format once more: and in doing so, stands apart among its contemporaries as some of the best Trek around.
On the surface Strange New Worlds, set to premiere May 5 on Paramount+, sits at a peculiar crossroads. It is, technically, a spinoff-prequel-sequel to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery—a show now waiting for its fifth season on the horizon—which introduced the main trio of Enterprise officers Strange New Worlds returns to: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as a younger Lieutenant Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as “The Cage” pilot episode character Number One, now finally named all these decades later as Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley. As Discovery went on after its second season to blaze a path in a future farther than any Star Trek show had seen before, Strange New Worlds inherits that show’s original legacy as a predecessor to the titan of all Trek, the original series.
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Rolling Stone likes it. What they say here makes a lot of sense. Even if it is Rolling Stone.
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https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-episode-2-review/
The second installment of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is as delightfully entertaining as the series premiere, highlighting the fabulous chemistry of this cast in various group permutations and fulfilling the franchise’s promise to the letter: Seeking out new life and new civilizations and maybe giving them an unseen helping hand along the way.
The beats of this episode are pretty basic: The U.S.S. Enterprise is studying an ancient comet, which suddenly seems poised to strike (and largely destroy) an M Class planet in the Persephone system, wiping out the non-warp capable species known as the Deleb that live there. Pike and friends are determined to figure out a way to divert the comet’s path. But when they learn it’s not actually a comet at all, they’ll have to deal with a threat from a highly advanced species that call themselves the Shepherds, whose entire existence is predicated on preventing anything from interfering with their so-called “arbiter” who brings life or destruction in its wake.
One of the most appealing aspects of Star Trek as a franchise is that it understands how much we, as a species, don’t and can’t know. I mean, the Enterprise’s remit is to find out what’s out there among the stars. And it’s the epitome of hubris to assume that the things we’ll encounter on that journey will be creatures that are remotely familiar to us. For me, Trek aliens are and should be weird and unknowable in a lot of ways—see also the glow cloud-esque Species 10-C on the most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery—and they should have beliefs and cultures that are often wildly different from our own. Part of the joy of this journey is the discovery, after all. -
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-episode-2-review/
The second installment of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is as delightfully entertaining as the series premiere, highlighting the fabulous chemistry of this cast in various group permutations and fulfilling the franchise’s promise to the letter: Seeking out new life and new civilizations and maybe giving them an unseen helping hand along the way.
The beats of this episode are pretty basic: The U.S.S. Enterprise is studying an ancient comet, which suddenly seems poised to strike (and largely destroy) an M Class planet in the Persephone system, wiping out the non-warp capable species known as the Deleb that live there. Pike and friends are determined to figure out a way to divert the comet’s path. But when they learn it’s not actually a comet at all, they’ll have to deal with a threat from a highly advanced species that call themselves the Shepherds, whose entire existence is predicated on preventing anything from interfering with their so-called “arbiter” who brings life or destruction in its wake.
One of the most appealing aspects of Star Trek as a franchise is that it understands how much we, as a species, don’t and can’t know. I mean, the Enterprise’s remit is to find out what’s out there among the stars. And it’s the epitome of hubris to assume that the things we’ll encounter on that journey will be creatures that are remotely familiar to us. For me, Trek aliens are and should be weird and unknowable in a lot of ways—see also the glow cloud-esque Species 10-C on the most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery—and they should have beliefs and cultures that are often wildly different from our own. Part of the joy of this journey is the discovery, after all.@George-K said in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:
One of the most appealing aspects of Star Trek as a franchise is that it understands how much we, as a species, don’t and can’t know. I mean, the Enterprise’s remit is to find out what’s out there among the stars. And it’s the epitome of hubris to assume that the things we’ll encounter on that journey will be creatures that are remotely familiar to us. For me, Trek aliens are and should be weird and unknowable in a lot of ways—see also the glow cloud-esque Species 10-C on the most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery—and they should have beliefs and cultures that are often wildly different from our own. Part of the joy of this journey is the discovery, after all.
I'd have loved to learn more about species 8472 back in the day.
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You know, back in the day we had 26 episodes in a series. Then it was 22. Streamng and premium channels have cut that down to 8 or 10. I think that's somewhat near-sighted.
If I was a content provider, I'd be searching for something that would allow me to do 26 episodes/yr. If you have a hit...75-100 episodes seems to be a magic number. When you hit that point, a show can be sold through multiple venues, even as it has become somewhat worn out on its original platform.
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Renewed for a third season.
Hopefully, they'll do another musical episode...Along with “Strange New Worlds,” the made-for-television movie “Star Trek: Section 31” recently concluded production with star Michelle Yeoh, and the new series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will begin shooting later this year.
ETA: "Discovery," which I stopped watching after season 2 has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Apparently some people like it.
Never got into "Picard," either.
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@Mik said in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:
Both Discovery and Picard were too preachy for me. Strange is a worthy successor.
I hope you're right.
This clip doesn't offer much hope, however. There's a difference between being cute and being cringe/stupid.
