@startrek I just started following you so I haven’t had a chance to read many of your posts. I’m curious about your thoughts on “Strange New Worlds.” I think it’s the best Trek since TNG with the best first season of any series in the franchise.
I’m decidedly not a fan of most of the new Trek we’ve been seeing these last few years. But Strange New Worlds is something I thought we’d never see again, a genuinely good faith attempt to make a show that actually feels like Star Trek used to feel.
Season 1 seemed a little rushed in a lot of respects, introducing and neatly tying up character arcs at lightning speed, and sure some of the dialogue was a bit cringe. There were also wasted opportunities, for example a medical mystery episode where the solution ended up being both off-screen, and not involving the actual doctor, because they had to cram in so many different stories into one season. But in one series we got a modern take on all of the top “episode types” and it was honestly just a lot of fun.
Really looking forward to S2, I’ve not seen the first episode yet as waiting for someone else to finish S1 first but I have high hopes.
Of the five (six) new Trek shows, there are now more good than bad.
Good: Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Prodigy, (Orville)
Bad: Discovery, Picard
Eh, Lower Decks has its moments but it’s not really my cup of tea. I should probably watch The Orville though, by the sounds of it!
You should, it’s a good show and true Trek.
I loved the first series of SNW. Thought it captured “proper trek” (if there is such a thing) easily my favourite of the new live action shows (by a long way).
I have high hopes for S2
It’s worth noting that this isn’t a single account, but a whole board over on Lemmy (at startrek.website). That may be a lot of things to put on your feed.
Strange New Worlds is alright, in my opinion. It has its flaws, but it’s also doing quite a few things right.
One thing I’m partial to what they’re doing, is how they’re looking at issues with established Federation policy, that isn’t just the standard Prime Directive issue. The only problem is that since they’re a prequel, it means that they’re limited in what kind of changes might come up from those issues.
One example would probably be the Illyrians, who are explicitly stated to have used genetic modification to have genetically modified their colonists rather than rely on the standard environmentally-destructive array of terraforming technologies, or biodomes. In an attempt to appease and respect the Federation attitude/laws around genetic modification, they tried to undo all of their changes, becoming extinct when it went wrong and drove them to extinction.
Since only Earth and the Klingon Empire have been shown to have problems with genetic modification (the Klingon Empire used a modified version of Earth’s anyway), and Earth’s Augment program was panned as “going too far”, is it right for Earth to impress the consequences of its own actions on the Federation, and through that, everyone else?
