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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
2022 · TV series · 4 seasons
Created by Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
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I really enjoyed this article. It was a very pleasant read. The author should write a book and or movie script. The original Doctor Who Silurian episodes were fun to watch. Makes sense to connect dinosaurs or the remnants of Silurian civilization to dragons and deities. Star Trek Strange New Worlds S04E01 deals with the dinosaurs and Mars @ 65 million years ago. The story is rather intriguing and fun to watch as well. Invincible S04E04 deals with the various ages that planet Earth has gone through and has a different take on the meaning of Hell and Satan and why they exist. Last episode of the Season 4 is rather interesting, as well as it relates to the possible next phase or not, of human evolution.
"There is no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade, and the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy coming down means it's truly the end of an era."
There are episodes yet to be broadcast, but still ... :'-(
Eh, the current 10-hour seasons are the worst of both worlds.
Telling a story in a "tight 90" means making very deliberate choices about what to include, what not to, and how to make scenes do double duty. Having 23 episodes a season lets you slow down, spend time with the characters that's not all focused on the season plot, it lets you have B-stories in every episode. A 10-hour season doesn't get to do that, but it doesn't enforce the same discipline as 90-120 minutes.
Compare Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I greatly enjoy SNW, but the characters and their relationships with each other are in no way as substantial as in DS9 (or even TNG, which was much less character-focused than DS9).
They did that on the last episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds (rotary phones).
I only knew memento mori from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds E01S04 episode title.
And I didn't know the Latin of the other phrase being discussed here... but I'm just a high school dropout blue collar worker, so I guess it depends at least to some extent who you associate with.
> They are competing with other entertainment. They are competing with other TV and movies. The only thing they aren’t competing on is the exact show.
I.e. the only thing they aren't competing on is the one that matters.
Shows are not substitutable. If I want to watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I won't be interested in watching Mandalorian or The Boys instead. Especially if I've already seen the other two.
Boltzmann brain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (1x08) actually had an episode on this:
https://screenrant.com/strange-new-worlds-boltsman-brain-star-trek-space-god/
I think we only got new Trek due to Paramount trying to sell Paramount Plus.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is terrific and has the spirit of the original series.
Star Trek: Lower Decks is also amazing in a very different way. It's like the writers made an adult cartoon show for all the super fans that references every meme, while still being very endearing and true to trek.
Star Trek: Picard, is also supposedly really good, but I have only seen one episode so far.
Check out Ursula K. Legion. One of her stories, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, was recently adapted into an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Yes, that is what I should have said (and it was also what I was thinking at the time, since it is not uncommon for sci-fi episodes to take plots from other stories. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-episode-6-review-lift-us-where-suffering-cannot-reach/ is another such example).
The Lexx musical episode was an innovation, recently copied by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
* Lexx "Brigadoom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ
* Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "Subspace Rhapsody" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3-CgRitwc
Paramount Plus generally (exclusively?) shows me ads for...other shows on Paramount Plus. Which I'm obviously already paying for.
Most recently, it showed me an advertisement for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I've already seen every episode of that series, and at least one their systems is well aware of this fact. In fact, Star Trek shows are the ONLY things I've watched on Paramount Plus.
There is clearly no thought going into their ad selection whatsoever.
If you liked that episode, you might want to see the show "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", which tells the story of the crew before Kirk, and how the Captain of that crew (Pike) got into that position
So does Strange New Worlds[0].
[0]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Memento_Mori_(episode)
It was the same with most recent Star Treks too, including all of the new movies. They may as well have been titled “Generic Sci Fi Movie” and “Generic Sci Fi TV Show”
Strange New Worlds is the only Star Trek in a long, long time that has been worthy of the name Star Trek.
But well known and deeply loved IPs sell, so we get a ton of generic media with the name slapped on it.
> I cannot pay for Marvel movies without paying for Alladin and Little Mermaid (Disney+)
> I cannot just pay for Star Trek Strange New Worlds without paying for... I don't even know what, honestly, CBS All Access / Paramount + / whatever it's called these days holds no other interest to me.
Do Blu-rays and VODs just not exist anymore? You can absolutely pay for just what you want. I mean honestly how much does a collection of all the MCU movies through Endgame cost if you were to buy them discretely? $20 per in iTunes/TV, and what was it something like 20-25 movies? So $400-500 if you wanted every single one, and you can get at least some of them for cheaper if you get the Blu-rays off Amazon and Renting is an option if you only want to watch a particular movie once.
Or $80/year if you don’t mind subsidizing Walt Disney Animations and Pixar. Honestly I think it’s a toss up whether renting, buying or streaming is more economical because it comes down to your habits, and streaming is only the clear winner if you binge a lot.
>>because no one has to buy all those services and in fact few do
I don't know if it's strictly the case. I think it depends on how we slice and dice.
I cannot pay for Marvel movies without paying for Alladin and Little Mermaid (Disney+)
I cannot just pay for Star Trek Strange New Worlds without paying for... I don't even know what, honestly, CBS All Access / Paramount + / whatever it's called these days holds no other interest to me.
I get Prime, but increasing amount of movies I want are behind complex channel bundles. wtf is STARZ?
If you are a family with parents, children, and perhaps even a grandparent, you will have an increasingly comparable number of subscriptions, monthly outlay, and hassle ("I want to watch X; is it on any services I subscribe or do I have to commit my life to yet another" is a privileged but unnecessary problem I do not desire to have and it's solely on industry's shoulders)
Netflix had promise. Netflix was the Spotify of visual content. My one place with simple good interface that I can find all the content available, or at least good 80-90% of the middle of bell curve. The one monopoly I wholeheartedly desired to remain a monopoly.
Here's a statement of personal perspective: "For me and anybody I know (friends & family), we are 100% moving toward Cable days in any and every way that matters to us". While we may be able to find a lens through which that is not technically the case, I personally find that immaterial. The immense prolifieration and fractalization of streaming providers benefits them, and is absolutely 100% against my convenience, budget, preference and best interest.
Check out Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!! Nothing like the other “new trek” shows (Discovery/Picard) which I couldn’t finish because they felt nothing like Trek to me. SNW follows the moral/philosophical issue of the week format with lite tie ins between episodes. Very happy so far
88 pages from 2021 involving Wilfred Laurier social sciences?
You know what's more interesting, in the months since this study it has become much more clear what's really going down.
NYTimes realized their echo chamber and practically ordered their journalists to exit their echo chambers. Which upon doing so they somewhat returned to better journalistic standards, NYTimes suddenly showed some excellent legitimacy.
CNN is basically in complete collapse because they were too late. Can't see how they recover without some absolute hail mary.
Rachel Maddow had a bit of a sabbatical and then got rebranded and is on air far less. MSNBC ratings not looking so hot lately.
Meanwhile Fox is in dominant #1 position. There's objective measurements that the democrats moved far left creating the polarization. You have star trek discovery a ultra top secret missions best of the best crew... but every character is LGBT. Wtf are they trying to say? Even Trek fell into this same trap as those above.
Has anyone checked out Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode 1 where they literally say second US civil war. The story was intentionally weak as hell to ensure everyone who watches it sees they are talking about the USA. The importance of getting those 2 parties talking together again. That working together for a better future is really the only way.
Even Trek suddenly realized their own mistake. It makes for such an amazing first episode.