Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

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Now THIS Star Trek show I am actually excited about. I just hope they don't fuck it up like they did with the potential of Discovery before it started airing. Starts up in May and is supposed to be more episodic like TOS and TNG were, not some huge season long arc that is boring and disappointing like Discovery.

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I'll watch it when I have sound

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It looks really good

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It looks really good

So far....I'm trying to not get my hopes up TOO HIGH, but I am actually really hopeful.

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So far....I'm trying to not get my hopes up TOO HIGH, but I am actually really hopeful.

I wonder if they've finally realised that woke is a niche market

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I wonder if they've finally realised that woke is a niche market

Unfortunately I'm sure there will be some woke-ism involved, but I just hope they don't overdo it.

And the chick playing Nurse Chapel is hot.

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I went into the episode very hopeful because I have actually been looking forward to it since it was announced, even knowing the train wreck that NuTrek has been (although I have only watched Discovery, I am not watching Picard until I have finished Voyager). My biggest takeaway so far is that I didn't hate it.

I liked it for the most part, but there were some things that really bothered me. First, for the "big secret" that the existence of Discovery was supposed to be, they sure did bring it up a lot. Do we need to hear that Spock misses his sister? Did they really need to base the whole episode around Discovery going into the future? They had a shuttle that was named the Stamets? Really? Second, I could have done with the whole romantic thing and almost sex scene between Spock and T'Pring. And I suppose we will see a lot more of their relationship only because there is such a disconnect between what their relationship was as shown in the SNW pilot and how it had devolved into what it was in Amok Time. Third, are they retconning the Gorn now? If that much was known about the Gorn and what happened to La'an (since it was obviously in her file), why was Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise acting like they had never seen or heard of the Gorn in Arena?

I guess those are mostly minor and just what I have off the top of my head right now, but I definitely think the series has potential and I am still hopeful going forward. It's definitely a big step up from the dumpster fire that is STD.