So pumped for the final voyage of Michael “The Burn” Burnham and crew!
“Let’s Fly!!”
“Let’s Fly!!”
from the article:
Both of the above ideas, however, are based on a fallacy commonly made by showrunners: that kids only want to see shows about their peers. If "Star Trek" was about younger people, the thinking goes, then younger people will tune in, right? "Star Trek," however, has always been about older characters. Here's my personal (and yes, very specific and opinionated) pitch: The central appeal is that the main characters are mature and well-formed, some of them with unbreakable codes of ethics or command styles they formed many years ago. The franchise is about thoughtful professionals who are good at their jobs, and Trekkies like to see them ply their skills with aplomb. Youthfulness is antithetical to "Star Trek." We don't want to see someone grow up. We want to see them already grown up.
I will hereby offer them the solution, free of charge: don't make more "Star Trek," and don't make younger "Star Trek." Make good, serious, cerebral, thoughtful, slow-moving "Star Trek" that appeals to nerdy kids. The ratings will be lower than you want, but I assure you, you'll be creating a new fanbase that will stick around for decades.
Sheesh. I had to look up that rating. I'm not a fan of the show, but had no idea how low the audience rating it.21% Rotten Tomatoes score from audience for last season... I think that's pretty generous.
Just give us a full season of Captain Tilly & the mirror universe, forget Michael Burnham, and have the crew go to war against the Mirror Universe Borg who are peace loving hippies bent on bringing DEI to the universe.
That was about the same for me. I didn't make it through all of S3 though. I just couldn't despite my strong desire to see some new Star Trek. This just wasn't Star Trek. Just a generic sci-fi super soap.I gave up after Season 3. Rewarding Michael Burnham time and time again for disobeying orders and causing the deaths of countless thousands, the final straw was giving her the role of Captain. That, combined with SMG's overacting, and I realized this show had a pattern that didn't work for me.
Love Strange New Worlds, though! When they had the guts to show us that Kirk will always be the better captain than Pike, I was all in.
A disastrous coq au vin accident.That was about the same for me. I didn't make it through all of S3 though. I just couldn't despite my strong desire to see some new Star Trek. This just wasn't Star Trek. Just a generic sci-fi super soap.
I'm having issues with SNW though. I'm just finding that when things turn actiony, it's looking more like something from a Marvel super hero show/movie. That's not what Star Trek is, but that's what the producers seem to want to make.
I can still watch SNW at this point, and my criticism are easier to ignore because of some actual interesting stories, and some borderline decent dialogue. But, I mean, I'm really thinking that Pike isn't going to have his disfiguring accident the way it was supposed to happen. I'm pretty convinced that it's going to happen in his quarters while he's cooking, and some plasma conduit ruptures while he's making the crew dinner again. I mean, it's what he does most of the time, so it makes sense.
I'm pretty convinced that it's going to happen in his quarters while he's cooking, and some plasma conduit ruptures while he's making the crew dinner again. I mean, it's what he does most of the time, so it makes sense.
Burnham has Disney style leadership.I personally love the "down time" aspects of SNW. It's good for chemistry and character building. It's like Ten Forward on TNG, or Tom Paris' black-and-white Flash Gordon knockoff, or baseball or Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine.
And for me, Pike's leadership style is kind of new to Trek:
- Picard: "Parent"-style leadership
- Kirk: "Buddy"- or "Boyfriend"-style leadership
- Pike: "Boss/CEO"-style leadership
- And back to Burnham? Uh, "Rebel" or "Criminal" style I guess? She sure lost her Vulcan-ness pretty fast. So weird.
I personally love the "down time" aspects of SNW. It's good for chemistry and character building. It's like Ten Forward on TNG, or Tom Paris' black-and-white Flash Gordon knockoff, or baseball or Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine.
And for me, Pike's leadership style is kind of new to Trek:
- Picard: "Parent"-style leadership
- Kirk: "Buddy"- or "Boyfriend"-style leadership
- Pike: "Boss/CEO"-style leadership
- And back to Burnham? Uh, "Rebel" or "Criminal" style I guess? She sure lost her Vulcan-ness pretty fast. So weird.
I personally love the "down time" aspects of SNW. It's good for chemistry and character building. It's like Ten Forward on TNG, or Tom Paris' black-and-white Flash Gordon knockoff, or baseball or Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine.
And for me, Pike's leadership style is kind of new to Trek:
- Picard: "Parent"-style leadership
- Kirk: "Buddy"- or "Boyfriend"-style leadership
- Pike: "Boss/CEO"-style leadership
- And back to Burnham? Uh, "Rebel" or "Criminal" style I guess? She sure lost her Vulcan-ness pretty fast. So weird.