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

Assuming that new blood can write good stories & stuff that fits within the framework & principles of the previous shows.

 

Infinite Similarity in Finite Combinations

 

The Enterprise also looks different to the one from TOS

Which is why I say these shows should be set in the Kelvin timeline, or a new one where they can change these things as they see fit without having any issues regarding continuity

 

^ Yeah, in my headcanon, SNW is a parallel universe. Makes it easier to accept it for what it is rather than try to force it to conform to something from half a century ago.

 

Hmm....

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.... Bastards.

 

The man who created the character seems to be happy:

 

That was Michael Okuda, and he tweeted he was happy with the casting as well.

 

John Jackson Miller has a SNW novel due out Feb-Mar 2023. It was going to be Nov 2022 but the world we're in being what it is, it got bumped.

 

didn't they do a different streaming service thing to get non Paramount Plus nations to watch Discovery S4, maybe they'll pull that off

 

They stuck it on Pluto TV.

Pluto TV is utter crap.

 

The fact that they cast a human at all is the problem. He should have been an animated actor on the live action set.

It's like these producers don't even understand canon!!!

 

TAS is questionably canon at best, and that's really being generous to a (delightfully) bizarre series with "Kirk is a Jerk" and an inflatable Enterprise. I personally just think it's cool that we get to see the "real" Robert April after all this time.

I am, however, more than fine accepting Discovery and Strange New Worlds as part of the Prime timeline. Star Trek is nowhere near as consistent in its aesthetic or designs as Star Wars; that kind of visual refreshing is par for the course.

 

Would you settle for a live actor giving a very animated performance?

 

IIRC I think Roddenberry only really considered the animated episode 'Yesteryear' as canon.

 

Roddenberry, that horny old fart, has been dead for 30 years. What he thought really doesn't have to matter that much any more.

 

But Roddenberry's reasoning was because 'Yesteryear' also ties into TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" with the use of The Guardian of Forever time travel device and sheds light on Spock's past.

 

I think all of TAS should be embraced by canon, in all of its weirdness. TAS forever.

TOS writers like Fontana, Samuel A. Peoples, Stephen Kandel, Paul Schneider, David Gerrold worked on this. TOS director Marc Daniels wrote an episode. Ensign Not-Appearing-In-This-Series wrote one. Larry Niven wrote one, which was really just turning one of his own stories into a Star Trek, but that was fun and now there's a Kzinti in Lower Decks and Riker is talking about them on Picard and that's great. TAS forever.

 

Only if he delivers all his dialog while talking behind his hand.

 

That was a pretty good first episode.

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Kind of surprised/not surprised they made such explicit visual references to things going on in the world lately.

 

That was great! Co-written and directed by the guy who wrote Batman and Robin.

Anyway if Pike circumvents his beep chair destiny (which would be way more dramatically satisfying than letting it happen) that'll solidify Discovery and SNW as alt timeline shows which makes everybody happy! No downside! Everyone wins!

Anyway, Khan's

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Granddaughter is pretty awesome

"That'll never stick."

 

That was... neat!

 

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the prime directive, more of a guideline really

Overall a second-rate amalgam of every Trek cliché ever, a mostly unbearable attempt to meld the original Trek pilot with the incessant lecturing/lesson learning of Next Generation, with a splash of J.J. Abrams in all the wrong places.

Anson Mount has a smirk and sassy attitude that deserves a pie in the face with almost every line delivery. The whole thing is a master class in how not to do Trek. It's definitely a strange new and mostly bad ripoff of The Orville, just as the trailer promised.

The gene therapy scene made me think of just how much Ethan Peck resembles his grandfather. He may be the coolest thing about the whole show.