Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[pengbuzz]

Maybe they should have named this series Star Trek: How The Ship's Chef Got Command.

 

[Treadwell]

It should be noted that ships labeled "U.S.S." in TOS tend to signify Starships--as in "Starship Class", later codified as "Constitution Class".

Nothing stated onscreen established that, either, although I agree it was the intention.

 

[Gregatron]

Nothing stated onscreen established that, either, although I agree it was the intention.

Right. The only thing that comes close is Spock’s sensor scan of the Constellation in “The Doomsday Machine”:

SPOCK: By configuration, a Starship. Stopped in space. She appears to be drifting.

 

[robn1]

But—something tells me that it was intentional not to make Kirk an equal to Pike.

You misspelled cuck.

 

[Ron]

I realize it's impossible to follow William Shatner but geez, that actor isn't even close.

 

[Krieger]

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My thoughts on the season finale…

The “My Good Buddy Chris, The Ship’s Chef” schtick is getting tiresome. I realize that they have to make use of the gigantic Colorado Ski Lodge Set they use as Pike’s quarters but does he have to cook and wash dishes in nearly every show? I guess it’s become the substitute of what used to be the setting for conversations in the Captain’s Ready Room but it’s the casual sitcom kitchen schtick that is growing old…

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….eventually, Flo is going to show up to Pike’s Diner and demand that the officers “kiss my grits!”

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The actor playing Kirk is HORRIBLY miscast. This guy has none of the physicality and charisma of William Shatner. The appropriate actor chosen to play Kirk, at a minimum, should be a match for Anson Mount’s Pike.

This guy would be a more appropriate recast of Wesley Crusher, or Lt. Kevin Riley, but certainly NOT James T Kirk.

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But—something tells me that it was intentional not to make Kirk an equal to Pike.

you nailed it. Lt. Kevin Riley.

 

[Gregatron]

If Captain James T. Riley meets SNW’s slutty Chapel, then it’ll be “I’ll Take You Home Again, Christine” one…more...time!

 

[pengbuzz]

I realize it's impossible to follow William Shatner but geez, that actor isn't even close.

They didn't even try, to be frank.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

you nailed it. Lt. Kevin Riley.

Yep…

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Seems like they found New Nu Kirk off the set of Dumb and Dumber 3.

I guess after all the money spent on Pike’s quarters, they had to get Kirk at scale.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Take Bruce Campbell, shrink him down to the size of a teenager, remove all of his charm, humor, and swagger, and you get Strange Nu-Kirk…

 

[kamandi]

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Sisko occasionally cooked in his quarters, but not every meal.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

It’s like they took the original, made a zerox copy of that and then took the copy and made a zerox copy of that one. Each copy gets more blurry and less recognizable.

 

[Gregatron]

 

[pengbuzz]

Well, since the Memory Alpha "explanation" is that this episode is basically "Balance of Terror" shifted due to Pike's trying to alter his future (yeah, it's BS, I know), they could always say "Kirk was altered due to the change in time".

I'd rather they actually cast a Kirk who looked and acted like TOS Kirk instead of the strange love child of Jim Carrey and Bruce Campbell.

 

[kalkamel]

 

[The Terminator]

Reboot-kirk might have been better used for a Brisco County Jr. reboot......

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Give reboot Kirk The boot!

He’s the first Captain Kirk that I’m pretty sure is still a virgin when he takes command of his ship.

 

[asalaw]

Star Dreck, indeed. Now Stranger Things, OTOH, there’s a show. This season was fantastic. Paramount should hire the Duffer Brothers and fire Kurtzman, Goldsman, the whole bunch of them.