More Trek
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wrote on 7 May 2022, 21:38 last edited by
Jonah Goldberg:
"Watched the first episode of Star Trek: Brave New Worlds. I liked it. But the idea that Earth would still be using giant windmills after we cracked anti-matter technology is just insanely stupid."
See my "preachy" comment above, LOL.
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wrote on 7 May 2022, 21:43 last edited by
Yeah, that occurred to me as well, but I wrote it off because it kind of worked. Not sure how realistic a show about warp speed, galaxy hopping and photon torpedoes really needs to be. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that.
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wrote on 7 May 2022, 22:04 last edited by Horace 5 Jul 2022, 22:18
I assume there were no birds anywhere.
When conservatives dominate pop culture, there'll be a scene in their version of Star Trek where the kid tugs on his dad's sleeve and asks "daddy, what did birds sound like?" Then the dad will describe the beautiful singing, lost forever to the avian genocide of windmills. Sometimes, he'll explain, society gets caught up by evil ideologues, like Hitler, Putin, and Thunberg. But eventually, the good, conservative progressives lead the way for a better future.
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I assume there were no birds anywhere.
When conservatives dominate pop culture, there'll be a scene in their version of Star Trek where the kid tugs on his dad's sleeve and asks "daddy, what did birds sound like?" Then the dad will describe the beautiful singing, lost forever to the avian genocide of windmills. Sometimes, he'll explain, society gets caught up by evil ideologues, like Hitler, Putin, and Thunberg. But eventually, the good, conservative progressives lead the way for a better future.
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wrote on 12 May 2022, 18:27 last edited by
Episode 2 was maybe better than 1.
A worthy successor and much better than Discovery or Picard.
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Episode 2 was maybe better than 1.
A worthy successor and much better than Discovery or Picard.
wrote on 12 May 2022, 19:17 last edited byEpisode 2 was maybe better than 1.
Maybe. At least its equal. I'm enjoying the Uhura backstory, and Pike's struggle with his mortality. I wonder how they'll deal with that, considering that it's canon that Pike dies.
A worthy successor and much better than Discovery or Picard.
And how. It also shows how well episodic TV can be done. I hope it keeps it up.
"Spock's girlfriend," LOL.
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wrote on 12 May 2022, 19:47 last edited by
Ah, but he doesn't die! He gets all messed up, but still alive, and as they dhow him here, in the chair like ST original. I cannot help but wonder if he will escape that fate.
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Ah, but he doesn't die! He gets all messed up, but still alive, and as they dhow him here, in the chair like ST original. I cannot help but wonder if he will escape that fate.
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wrote on 12 May 2022, 20:26 last edited by
Dinner was great. I actually loved the whole episode.
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wrote on 2 Jun 2022, 02:04 last edited by
Well done.
VERY well done.
It's Classic "Trek" at its best. It gets a bit maudlin and preachy in this episode, but still has the right mix of adventure and excitement. This could have been an episode from 1967, because Gorn. Yep, Gorn.
Episodic TV still works.
Oh, in sick bay, they showed a bag of "plasma" hanging...
That's really what it looks like.
It's usually a 500 ml bag, but who knows what it'll be in 300 years, right?
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wrote on 2 Jun 2022, 17:06 last edited by
But we did not SEE the Gorn, unlike the original, where they were reptilian.
Still, excellent Trek. Best of the spinoff series so far, and aren't the special effects great?
Mount is superb. The new Spock is believable. Some of the women are overdone, but what the heck.
Looking forward to E5, which promises to be funny.
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But we did not SEE the Gorn, unlike the original, where they were reptilian.
Still, excellent Trek. Best of the spinoff series so far, and aren't the special effects great?
Mount is superb. The new Spock is believable. Some of the women are overdone, but what the heck.
Looking forward to E5, which promises to be funny.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2022, 19:13 last edited by
Episode 6. SO Trek. TNG was good, this is light years better and more faithful.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2022, 01:02 last edited by
Very very "Trek-ey."
They've done an excellent job of telling the story of characters we all know into a contemporary setting - albeit set before ST:TOS.
A suffice amount of Trek Technobabble. The required amount of "just campy-enough" costumes. Sets are typical Trek from the 1960s, but not as cheap-looking.
The kid was annoying AF.
Spock is great, Nurse Chappel is...well @jon-nyc would hit that.
And the best hair of the show belongs to Pike.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2022, 01:05 last edited by Mik 6 Nov 2022, 01:05
I really hate his hair, but….it’s the future so what the hell.
In episode 5, did you notice the music in the the opening Spock dream? Straight out of the original. Awesome.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2022, 01:37 last edited by
Enjoying this SO much. It's a throwback in the best sense:
Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike feels like a massive gift to Star Trek fans. He’s full of the charisma and verve that made us fall hard for Captain Kirk, but has the sensitivity and philosophical bent of a Picard. He is the kind of man we’d all follow across the stars, into black holes, and to the surfaces of wayward comets. That’s because Pike is the kind of leader who believes in his crew. Thereby he believes in all of us.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds works because it feels so much like a great throwback to the bones of what makes Star Trek great. And Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike is emblematic of the values that made us love Star Trek in the first place. He’s all the greatest values of Starfleet wrapped up in the image of a classic swashbuckling hero. He is simply perfect.
In episode 5, did you notice the music in the the opening Spock dream?
In episode 6, did you notice the music at the end, when Pike is standing and looking out the window of his cabin, holding a glass of (not cheap) whiskey? Straight out of ST:TNG....at least a bit.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2022, 01:51 last edited by
Synthahol no doubt.
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wrote on 17 Jun 2022, 16:15 last edited by
And episode 7although it had its weak spots, did not disappoint. Loving this.
