You Can't Bring 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Down
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Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake—but the best 'Trek' outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks.

"Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake—but the best 'Trek' outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks."

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think it's the best of the recent trek things. It's still not amazing but every episode isn't world ending disasters being averted by starry eyed heroes, so in that way it feels refreshing and very much like old TNG.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I mean, it's technically a prequel but other than Spock and the fact that's it's the Enterprise I don't really feel like the prequel element is relevant at all.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Or is it simply an appeal to nostalgia?

          It's all about milking the nostalgia, I imagine it's hard to get original ideas green lit with capitalist innovation at work when all you gotta do is throw in some legacy characters and people will watch it. Lower Decks is easily my favorite out of the current offerings even though it's mainly pandering to fans of the 90s shows but I haven't watched Strange New Worlds yet.

          • Wheaties [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            excited, naive trekies pitching a show: We want to bring back Star Trek, tell stories of exploration and adventure! To bring high-concept science fiction back to television in a way that excites both old and new audiences!

            a suit and briefcase made animate by sheer psychic weight of the intellectual-property mind-palace: But will it have Spock™ ? It's not a Star Trek©® television program without brand recognized character, Spock™

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I watched all of Picard but aside from the Hugh borg torture porn I can barely recall any story elements. Picard gets put in an android body and the android girl is part of some android race that's revealed at the very end of the season is basically it.

              • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                Ah, but you see, they needed the Federation to be "bad place" so they rolled back all that because Android slaves went angry and now androids banned but it's because of a discovery of the "not-the-mass-effect-antagonists."

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Because they've basically used Discovery to say the next few hundred years is the decline of the Federation and Picard doubled this down into the short term and now they're fucked.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                The liberals prefer perpetual crises that threaten the universe where only the exceptional chosen one(s) can fix it again and again.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Even if it's just silly I can ignore some glaring writing issues or characters not acting like proper Starfleet officers tbh.

        The problems with the other shows is that they're self-serious and complete nonsense at the same time.