More Trek
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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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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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Yeah, there were some 'miracle occurs here' moments. Still better than Discovery/Picard.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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E9 was an improvement.
Yeah, and Vesuvius was worse than Mt. St. Helens.
It wasn't good. I found it tedious and boring. It seems like they're trying to shoehorn the characters (Uhura) into the storyline so that they fit the "established canon."
"The Orville" is more imaginative, although I really hated this week's "Woke AF" episode.
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Season Finale: 4 out of 5 stars.
The minus: I really HATE time travel/alternate history stories that try to resolve themselves so that everything sort of works out.
The plus: Great seeing Pike and Kirk together. Good backstory on the Federation/Romulan conflict (where are the Klingons, by the way???).
Nice space battle(s), but it's getting a bit too predictable, and after watching The Expanse, I HATE "swoopy" maneuvers.
Satisfying conclusion of the first year, with a minor cliff-hanger regarding #1 that opens the door for future tales.
Still, this is light years beyond "Discovery" and "Picard" (of which I've watched neither of the last seasons).
