Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[Mindworm]

"This video is not available"

Must be region-locked I guess. I can't get it either.

Does this one work?

https://www.startrek.com/videos/watch-s ... er-trailer

That one wants me to remove my ad blocker. I'm not going to listen to three minutes of random shit to watch one minute of video.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Well luckily none of us have ever had to do that with ads.

[Deledrius]

I see a lot of character development in this. As if the series started from the original motion picture with Kirk finding himself again as an explorer instead of getting wound up with the death of his friends. Here we know that Pike only has to look forward to his own demise, though I'm not certain if he's become acquainted with his prophecy yet.

I assume it takes place after Discovery, but I suppose it's possible they start earlier.

[McAvoy]

"This video is not available"

It's available to me.

It looks like... a reboot of TOS, with Pike standing in for Kirk.

Sounds fine to me. No more big bad event for a season. Episodic.

Though we know its not unless this is a nice full 20 episode season.

I think if they did it right for a 12-13 episode season is if they make it where the crew has to deal with an bad issue on a planet or species they have to fix. But instead ending it in 45 minutes like TNG or TOS episode it's over the course of a season.

[Deledrius]

Either one can be fine, but it comes down to "if they did it right" and so far they're still struggling with that.

Honestly it's hard enough to write a compelling 42 minute episode. Clearly, writing 13 of those telling one story is even harder, but these folks jumped in at the deep end.

[Frustration]

Wasn't Voyager considered to be an example of Star Trek returning to its roots by establishing a scenario more like that of TOS?

[TGLS]

Wasn't Voyager considered to be an example of Star Trek returning to its roots by establishing a scenario more like that of TOS?

I dunno, it was more like:
-> Paramount wanted a second Trek series to complement DS9 and to build their television network.
-> It was decided early on the captain would be a woman, and that the ship would be lost, basically building out of the "ship gets lost" plots in previous series.
-> Michael Piller wanted the Maquis and keep them around as a source of tension. Taylor, Berman and the Studio hated that so it didn't happen.
-> Jeri Taylor wanted Crips and Bloods in space, and so created the Kazon.
-> All these things get progressively forgotten, and all that's left is ersatz TNG.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

That's the first time I've heard of an explanation for why the Maqui stopped really being a thing on Voyager.

Myself I'm kind of tired of Star Trek prequel series.

[Frustration]

I think the real reason is that, given how advanced technology has become by the time of TNG or DS9, they don't think they can write interesting stories. (Or more plausibly, they don't think they can churn out entertainment that the LCD will enjoy enough.)

Hence the destruction of interstellar civilization in the latest Discovery season.

[CMWaters]

So, Paul Wesley from "The Vampire Diaries" is being cast for the second season of the show (because of course they already have a second season planned.

He's playing...

James T. Kirk.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235112252/