Amph "Hit it." - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [Paramount+]

Can't wait for it!

 

Yet again, pop culture is telling that I’m not allowed to die for at leas the next five years.

 

@The2ndQuest, like pretty much all Trek in Canada it'll be on the teevee on CTV SciFi and streaming on Crave.

 

Anson Mount is a ridiculously good looking man.

 

Well, he's pretty good as far as humanoids go.

 

Never give up, never surrender! is the perfect motto for the quest to find a working Trek formula. Someday it may actually happen again.

 

So Pike grew a beard, he's been traumatized by stuff! Probably the time crystals vision of his accident and maybe letting Discovery go.

 

I'd like to have hope this will be good

Unfortunately new era Trek mostly has not been (apart from Lower Decks), so if this is still being written and produced by the same people I'm sceptical it will work.
Good cast though, can't fault that

 

Well Discovery tried lots of crying and Picard tried moral nihilism. What else is there?

 

A new R-rated animated series about Federation attrocities in the Klingon wars? Sort of a Love Death Robots done in the style of the original animated Trek.

 

Are Klingons even allowed anymore?

We've seen nothing of them since whatever those things were early in Discovery.
None in Picard

Are they going to look equally terrible in this show if they appear?

 

I didn't like the reboot movies and haven't seen any Trek TV since Enterprise; the ads I saw just haven't interested me. But I may make the effort to see this one. Anybody know if they're making it so it's accessible to people like me who haven't watched Disco or any other recent shows?

 

...because he still has Q powers? Right?

 

I'm actually excited to see the new cast, especially the Khan descendent and young Uhura and M'Banga, but am I the only one who wished they were using more characters from The Cage/The Menagerie? I really want to see what the rest of the crew from that episode would have been like and what their dynamic was.

Especially Boyce. I really liked what litte we saw of his dynamic with Pike.

There were Klingons on Lower Decks (both TMP/TNG style and Disco-style)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was supposed to be...

Spoiler

Martok's

...skull, was'nt it? If so one can presume that the living design would look like, you know...

Spoiler

Martok

 

I suppose they could have, but why? Lower Decks had old-style Klingons existing *alongside* Disco-style ones, so IMO the inferrence seems to be that we're supposed to take the new version of them as not being a, say, Trill-style retcon but rather a "southern vs northern Romulan" situation.

 

Why did they change the design for Discovery in the first place?
It doesn't really fit with the established look of Klingons at that time.

 

I dunno. Why did they change the design for TMP?

Honestly, it's not something that personally bugs me all that much; aliens (including the Klingons) have undergone pretty jarring re-designs before in ST, and once the new style was refined come S2 I honestly don't think they ended up looking *that* different.

True, but I feel like the Ferengi was less of a re-design and more of a "our makeup is better now" (it came off as less the difference between TNG and Disco Klingons and more the difference between, say, Shaak Ti in the Prequals vs Ashoka in The Mandalorian/BoBF). Ultimatly, though, we'll have to wait until a previusly-established Klingon character shows up on a new show "in the flesh" to see what design they'll go with for them.

That being said, speaking of Ferengi (and feel free to answer this part in the Picard thread)...

Spoiler

Picard had a Ferengi skull on display alongside those of Sarek, Dukat and Martok.

Zek, maybe? Quark?

Riker, upon finding out Picard got the only Golem body in existence and thus he will not, in fact, be able to live forever...

 

I plan to watch it.

Though I hope this show shakes the visual disease that is JJ's Star Trek cinematography.

 

Personally I look forward to a triumphant return to 1960s sets, the ship being model held up by string and crazily shaking the camara around while people throw themselves across the room during battle sequences!