Posted on May 1, 2022
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' goes there, boldly
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Today's Trek fan gets to belly up to a buffet heaped with an array of options; there's a flavor for every taste.
There's Star Trek: Prodigy for kids.
And Star Trek: Lower Decks for yuks.
And Star Trek: Picard for some old familiar faces.
And of course Star Trek: Discovery for ... um. Space fungi, I think? Oh and time travel, lots of that. And heavily serialized storylines that have a tendency to get way more complicated than seems strictly necessary.
Today's Trek fan gets to belly up to a buffet heaped with an array of options; there's a flavor for every taste.
There's Star Trek: Prodigy for kids.
And Star Trek: Lower Decks for yuks.
And Star Trek: Picard for some old familiar faces.
And of course Star Trek: Discovery for ... um. Space fungi, I think? Oh and time travel, lots of that. And heavily serialized storylines that have a tendency to get way more complicated than seems strictly necessary.
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' goes there, boldly
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Worlds — the nature of fate. In different ways, this Enterprise crew is struggling against the roles they've been assigned, and ceaselessly question themselves and others. And while there are, in those first five episodes, a few recurring narrative threads that will likely unspool over the course of the season, the series seems most at home telling old-school, strictly episodic Trek stories — the kind that get resolved at exactly the :50-minute mark, come hell or high water.
Contemporary visual effects (and a Paramount Plus budget) have given the Enterprise a facelift. Its hull is now studded with hundreds of teensy, warmly glowing windows, its bridge is more sleek and interactive, its sickbay more Apple-store-chic, and its crew cabins far, far more lux than you remember.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds doesn't make any apologies for that, which is part of its charm. It doesn't particularly care about the version of the Enterprise or its crew you may or may not be holding in your head, and heart. It simply wants to tell Trek stories the way they used to be told — one space battle, one diplomatic summit, one alien virus, one spatial anomaly, one transporter accident at a time."
..."Worlds — the nature of fate. In different ways, this Enterprise crew is struggling against the roles they've been assigned, and ceaselessly question themselves and others. And while there are, in those first five episodes, a few recurring narrative threads that will likely unspool over the course of the season, the series seems most at home telling old-school, strictly episodic Trek stories — the kind that get resolved at exactly the :50-minute mark, come hell or high water.
Contemporary visual effects (and a Paramount Plus budget) have given the Enterprise a facelift. Its hull is now studded with hundreds of teensy, warmly glowing windows, its bridge is more sleek and interactive, its sickbay more Apple-store-chic, and its crew cabins far, far more lux than you remember.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds doesn't make any apologies for that, which is part of its charm. It doesn't particularly care about the version of the Enterprise or its crew you may or may not be holding in your head, and heart. It simply wants to tell Trek stories the way they used to be told — one space battle, one diplomatic summit, one alien virus, one spatial anomaly, one transporter accident at a time."
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I'm loving all the new series and movies coming out. I'm not a big fan of the animated series, but I know there are others who are. Discovery is a great story. I do enjoy Picard for the nostalgia. I got hooked on ST in the TNG days. It's had its ups and downs, but I'll still eagerly watch.
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The ONLY recent Trek worth a damn is strange new worlds. Even then, none of the current Trek Series can compare to Deep Space 9 or Voyager.
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