Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Premiere Episode

[Christopher Low 5,399]

Maybe they should change the name to Star Trek : Strange New Episodes.....

EDIT: I will have the (probably dubious) pleasure of watching "Subspace Rhapsody" tomorrow

Edited August 4, 2023 by Christopher Low

[vgbaron 3,724]

Well, I like it. I've been a trekkie since the original and have followed through Enterprise, Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9.  I consider Discovery an abomination

In many ways I find SNW sticking to the Star Trek mantra - lots of little references to the other shows. Spock is a developing character - in the original series it was obvious that Nurse Chapel loved him and this starts the ball rolling. I believe the nwriters are taking us on a journey and will have the characters in line with their natural evolution b y series end.

Lots of unanswered questions arising - Lt (Captain) Kirk saays his girlfriend is pregnant - Pike knows he'll be disfigured. The new engineer (played by Carol Kane) is this versions equivalent of Guinan. So far each episode has primarily been establishing different character's back story - I'd give it a chance to develop.

As to the musical episode - I thought it was entertaining - the majority had good voices and the sheer logistics of writing the dialog and the music and staging the whole thing was exceptional and they did move the story line along.

I do agree however that the crew attitude is a tad cavalier even for early starfleet.

[martin-w 3,263]

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

Maybe they should change the name to Star Trek : Strange New Episodes.....

EDIT: I will have the (probably dubious) pleasure of watching "Subspace Rhapsody" tomorrow

 

I'll be avoiding. I'll be watching Foundation instead. 

[goates 576]

 

2 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Well, I like it. I've been a trekkie since the original and have followed through Enterprise, Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9.  I consider Discovery an abomination

That's pretty much my feeling as well. SNW feels more like the TOS and NG with a more positive and optimistic view of the future. Too many sci-fi shows, and shows in general, want to be dark and gritty these days, so it's nice to have something different.

2 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Lots of unanswered questions arising - Lt (Captain) Kirk saays his girlfriend is pregnant

Presumably the same Carol and future son, David, from Star Trek II. On the other hand, introducing Kirk to La'an Noonien-Singh when there's another Noonien-Singh coming in his future is an interesting choice.

[dave2013 1,151]

22 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

The musical episode is..... Uhm..... ahhh......

Yeah, I must admit that I was a bit taken aback initially.  The music was actually pretty good IMO.

I suppose the writers just wanted to do something different and make a musical episode.

If you think about it, there have been some pretty strange episodes of Star Trek before.

I'm still liking the show overall.

Dave

[HiFlyer 9,376]

LOLZ....

 

[Fielder 3,750]

When Kirk's away, the kids will play...

[HiFlyer 9,376]

Can't stop grinning......

 

[martin-w 3,263]

When you said grinning you meant crying.

All that money spent for such..... can't type it here.

Last episode was okay though. 

[n4gix 4,961]

On 9/10/2023 at 8:24 AM, martin-w said:

When you said grinning you meant crying.

All that money spent for such..... can't type it here.

Last episode was okay though. 

That was awful! I cannot fathom why anyone would pay a subscription to view/listen this drek!

[HiFlyer 9,376]

1 hour ago, n4gix said:

That was awful! I cannot fathom why anyone would pay a subscription to view/listen this drek!

😁

[HiFlyer 9,376]

Ok, I was wondering a bit for awhile about why they chose somebody so physically dissimilar to the original Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, but that was my ignorance as I had no idea the actress was also a known (grammy award winning!) singer.

Again, ignorance on my part. Perhaps the showrunners had this musical thing planned all along.

 

[martin-w 3,263]

17 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

Perhaps the showrunners had this musical thing planned all along.

 

Yes, that's the mentality I would expect from them. They know nothing about science fiction or care about science fiction, so they turn it into a musical. 

Wasn't it that Chabon guy who said he didn't get science fiction? 🙄

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