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So awesome they're getting an Aenar onboard. And apparently the actor to play him is legally blind too. That's neat!Righteous. Getting pumped
Yeah, there is already quite a bit of excitement going on here.Is anybody watching the new one? Strange New Worlds? The entire premise of this one is "oh hey, you don't like New Trek™? We're gonna make a New-Old Trek™!" So, that's me. That's what I want.
...but I have absolutely zero faith that anyone at the helm of the franchise nowadays can actually do that??? Is this good? Is it ACTUALLY like Old Trek or are they those kinds of people who say a video game is "like Dark Souls" simply because it's hard? Like is this "look we made a episodic series so it's like Old Trek" but then each episode is absolutely nothing like Old Trek? Or...is it like Old Star Trek? I don't know!
I'm watching it. I love it personally, but I also love most, if not all of nuTrek so don't take my word for it.Is anybody watching the new one? Strange New Worlds? The entire premise of this one is "oh hey, you don't like New Trek™? We're gonna make a New-Old Trek™!" So, that's me. That's what I want.
It's greatIs anybody watching the new one? Strange New Worlds? The entire premise of this one is "oh hey, you don't like New Trek™? We're gonna make a New-Old Trek™!" So, that's me. That's what I want.
...but I have absolutely zero faith that anyone at the helm of the franchise nowadays can actually do that??? Is this good? Is it ACTUALLY like Old Trek or are they those kinds of people who say a video game is "like Dark Souls" simply because it's hard? Like is this "look we made a episodic series so it's like Old Trek" but then each episode is absolutely nothing like Old Trek? Or...is it like Old Star Trek? I don't know!
It still rules though. I dislike Seth McFarlane in general, but show was cool. And yes it's the superficial resemblance... But I don't care? It was nice to have this alternative take for a couple of years.I have to groan when people recommend the Orville. It gets a lot of the superficial trappings of Berman-Trek down. But:
1) 80% of the time it just straight up lifts plots directly out of old Trek shows without even pretending to hide it. It's nakedly creatively bankrupt. If you're just going to remake this episode of Voyager, why don't I just go rewatch that better episode of Voyager instead?
2) It gets the spirit wrong sooooo much of the time. Be it incessant toilet humor, or watching the Beverly Crusher character get raped by a goo monster, the captain constantly slut-shaming his first officer/ex-wife in front of the rest of the crew, it's frequently problematic and dismal.
3) I'm pretty sure Seth MacFarlane is a sex-pest.
I would say there are plenty of moments in the SNW pilot where the pace slows down, you can breathe in the atmosphere, and it's just two or a handful of characters just having a conversation. It just isn't that the *whole* episode and picks up the intensity of things when there's action or conflict on screen.
Okay cool, will pass. Give me slow paced morality plays or give me something else to watchIt's episodic, but in the new design and feel of NU. MCU quips, overly WIZ BANG wonder (i'm here for it, but none of that "TNG" feel: slower pace, debate based, chamber drama?)
So it's cool and I recommend - but if you want that early 90s trek feel, watch or re-watch Orville.
Only thing you gotta know isSo I just watched episode 1 of this new Star Trek thing. I really liked it! It was initially a bit off-putting that it is very obviously in continuity with a show that I didn't watch (Discovery), but other than that, it was just... Star Trek. Too shiny, and maybe 20% more tongue-in-cheek than old Trek, but this is the first Star Trek property since Voyager ended that has felt like Star Trek to me.
I am still EXTREMELY dubious about it, but I looked into it and I guess they're gonna put the first episode up for free on Youtube tomorrow. They did the same thing for Picard's first few season 1 episodes. I don't wanna sign up for ANOTHER streaming service if I don't have to so I'll check it out sometime soon. Expectations are low! Will they be met??? Tune in next time to find out!I think you should at least check SNW out. The story is a morality play. But if I can give one word to describe TNG's style it's "staid". This isn't that.
"I'm fine, but I must confess that my sister's death* is making me feel a lot of feelings" and it's like...he's VULCAN????? No Vulcan would ever say that??????????????????????
No offense, but the writers thought about it a lot more than you did.I don't trust these writers at all so maybe I'm just putting more thought into it than they did? Who knows.
Disco's main character, Michael Burnham, was adopted into Spock's household as a child. Spock was very close with Michael early on, but as you can imagine, a household headed by Father of the Century Sarek ended up messy, so they were somewhat estranged until Plot Events forced the two to interact and reconcile in Season 2. Season 2 also saw a grey goo near-apocalypse started by Section 31 threaten the galaxy, and the crew of the USS Discovery found themselves being forced to escape the galaxy by jumping 900 years into the future. And since this was a Section 31 catastrophe, it all got listed as Top Secret. Written out, it admittedly sounds hilariously messy and ridiculous, and it is, but the emotional resonance of it all was pretty well done. There's a reason why SNW ended up getting made, because the Pike/Spock/Enterprise bits of Season 2 of DISCO was really, really good.* Presumably something that happened on Disco
Doesn't strike me as any more ridiculous than Picard having a fish tank in his office but ok.Pike has a fucking fireplace in his quarters, what the fuck is this?