"Rate Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Topic

On a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent).

8

8 – amazingly even the singing one was good.

Caveat: I've only seen the first two episodes.

I like Anson Mount's performance as Captain Pike, but I feel that he's actually performing as James T. Kirk. Which is enjoyable, but Kirk is not Pike.

Ethan Peck is quite good as (young) Spock.

Wasn't sure about Celia Rose Gooding as "Baby" Uhura at first, but am coming around.

I mildly object to Nurse Chapel being on the Enterprise at this time, but Jess Bush is good in the role.

Mild objection to Number One being different than in the original pilot, but I suppose that would conflict with the way Spock turned out. Performance OK so far.

Two well-written episodes so far, felt very 'classic' Trek.

Did 'classic' Trek have a security officer?

Ship's doctor surprisingly underused so far, not one of the Big Three like McCoy was.

9, I really enjoy it.
I am not a fan of prequels but the plots and writing seems solid.

Having seen the first two season, it seems to be good solid Trek. 9

…I never heard of it. 🤷

1 – Terrible. "Muppets" episode! Singing episode! These writers are not Star Trek fans. They don't understand how Star Trek works. This isn't Star Trek. Alex Kurtzman has no clue. He and Abrams have completely undone the franchise. It is a woke infested disaster. Starfleet Academy is going to be even worse. Hopefully when the new owners take over they will hire some knowledgeable writers. Right now it is utter garbage.

As far as I am concern Star Trek died in 2005.

The writing is good and it has had decent continuing story lines that don't remind you every episode that there is continuity episode to episode. This demands something of the viewer, but is aided by the pre-episode flashbacks – it's not just what happened last week; it's here's a thing from four or five episodes that you have to remember now for this episode to make sense.

Overall, I like the approach of interspersing dramatic episodes with lighthearted ones. It's reminiscent of Supernatural, and impressive that they have done some genuinely different things instead of packaging the same-old on a different planet.

That said, all the lighthearted ones haven't landed with me, which is the price of having a franchise that appeals to a broad audience – everybody is not going to like every variation.

"It's reminiscent of Supernatural…"

How about being reminiscent of Star Trek.

The episodes really are a hit or miss. So a 6 to 9 rating. Last week's was good, except it was a cross between the movie "Enemy mine" and the episode were Spock is in charge of the shuttle landing in the land of giants.
The show is almost as good as Discovery, before the "jump the shark" moment when Discovery went into the future.

How about being reminiscent of Star Trek.

I love a conincidence. The episode JMcCarroll is referencing is an actual "prequel" episode for the Kirk/Gorn battle in TOS. It is 100% ST:TOS.

My point, however, was to the architecture of the series, not the content or the milieu.

The "Enemy Mine" story itself has deeper roots than TOS … the Illiad, the Mahabharata, etc. My fave of this archetype is "Hell in the Pacific". Well executed, plus you get Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune in the same movie!

Also, the TOS Kirk/Gorn is probably one of the worst ones. Having made gunpowder, as a kid, this was hilarious!

But besides that, what ST goodness should they invoke … shaky sets & wobbly props, "Rubber Suit Monster of the Week" Syndrome, mini skirts and gogo boots (I hope any fan of this has never critiqued footwear on the NSWF board), deus ex I don't remember how this technology worked the last time we used it, William Shatner (acting, pauses, stage combat), many 20th century Earth planets, or re-shooting the same story with different costumes to fill out the season?

Strange New Worlds only feels like Trek in contrast to the dark, violent, nihilistic and dystopian ST:D, Picard and Section 31 shows.

8.5? Maybe I could give it a 9. We are enjoying. We did not like Discovery. We were warned away from Section 31. But Strange New Worlds is worth watching.

There are some places where the technobabble could use some tuning. There are a few moments where we're shouting at the TV "Why don't you do this other obvious thing?" It's not truly consistent with be technologically a decade previous to TOW. The characters are not consistent with TOS, Spock is different, Chapel is different, but they're okay characters even if they aren't perfect renditions of younger versions of the canon characters.

So it's not what it could be. Maybe it will get there. It's more than good enough to watch.

I haven't seen any episodes.

I give an 8. Good but not perfect. I enjoy it enough that I bought the first two seasons on DVD.

I like it – a 9 from me

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Solid 7.

8,5

You have to rest 1000 to the hits… another malfunction…

Armand

9 for me
You cant love every story in any series

I have got used to the various younger versions who have settled into characters in their own right [despite some inconsistencies]

11 or 12. It is a very well done series. The only weakness I see is adding in the Kirk character as it just a waste of time.

I second Old Contemptible's comments, but I did think that the 2009 reboot alone was "okay". Everything after that labeled with Star Trek is garbage: settings, characters (original and "rebooted"), starship designs and most of the names used for the ships, etc.

I believe I remember reading that one particular series became so unpopular with fans that it was reclassified by the creators as an "alternate universe" – one complaint was about the redesigned Klingons. It's like the current slew of Star Wars movies and your favorite dessert: "Too much of a good thing…"

Saginaw+1

Actual FanFic is better than all NuTrek from STD onwards, like Prelude to Axanar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA), Star Trek Continues (https://www.youtube.com/@StarTrekContinues) and the anniversary short film Unification (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf--Kz1zcEU&list=RDqf--Kz1zcEU&start_radio=1)

Star Trek Continues is a faithful fan made reproduction of the original series and well worth a view, and looks very professional.The man playing Kirk is uncanny. Doing William Shatner must be his life's work.