Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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If you DON'T LIKE IT, why WATCH IT?!? Robservations #878
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False equivalency.
TNG overcame its rocky start and became a quality show, with huge merchandise sales, international acclaim, an Emmy nod for Best Drama Series, and four feature-film spin-offs.
By contrast, NuTREK has almost no merchandise to speak of, international apathy (most normal people I’ve spoken to don’t even know that new STAR TREK shows are still being made), some pity nominations for technical awards (SFX, makeup, etc.), and multiple TV spin-offs that no one watches in appreciable numbers (…one of which was cancelled).
TNG continues to be watched and beloved, 30-plus years later.
In a few years, when all of the hubbub over NuTREK has died down, no one will care, and it’ll be a mere footnote in discussions of the sad end of the franchise. They’ve had six years (14, if you count the Abrams movies) to pull a TNG season 3-style-recovery and produce something, anything worthy of the name STAR TREK.
They continue to fail. It ain’t gonna happen. Ever.
No classic episodes to be obsessed over and rewatched. No best-selling model kits with multiple pressings for decades. No tell-all making-of books. No retrospective TV specials or documentaries. Just Blu-Rays and DVDs being used as coasters and sold in thrift stores, and YouTube videos examining how STAR TREK went from the Rolls Royce of sci-fi TV to the junkyard.
Next season on ST:SNW…
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NakedMoleRat
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Pike will also realize at that time that he’s gender fluid.
Paul Andrew
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Finished the season last night.
My only question is what's up with the Gorn?
They don't seem smart enough to have invented space travel. Every Gorn you see acts very animalistic, even the one plunking away at the command codes on the wreck of the Cayuga barely seems sentient.
My only question is what's up with the Gorn?
They don't seem smart enough to have invented space travel. Every Gorn you see acts very animalistic, even the one plunking away at the command codes on the wreck of the Cayuga barely seems sentient.
Bingo…
The Gorn behave like wild animals…but how, exactly, have they created a space faring civilization??
I doubt that the writers have considered how, exactly, Gorn civilization works in SNW.
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Cephus
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That assumes anyone writing SNW can think at all.
NakedMoleRat
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Not to mention that hatchlings will eat each other so that only the most dominant ones live.
The production team can’t wrap their minds around the fact that other demographics beyond 13 year olds watch Trek.
Lightning
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Miss the bit where the adolescents were working together, and the away team was surprised? They are clearly laying the groundwork for reveals about the nature of Gorn society in the future. You don't have your Captiain call them Monsters if you aren't going to have him learn that they aren't.
I think we’ve already had a famous starship captain cover the whole “we could be in the wrong…perhaps you aren’t monsters after all” ground before?
Paul Andrew
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Yeah, but he had really subpar hair.
Lightning
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So you don't want Star Trek to do the classic Trek lesson?
OK….I anxiously await the rest of the lesser retreads of lessons better told by Star Trek, I guess?
NakedMoleRat
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#1 Don’t call it Star Trek.
#2 They’re incapable of doing so.
NakedMoleRat
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If you pay for it, it’s yours.
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