Star Trek : Strange New Worlds

robgmun said:
Karl Urban absolutely killed it as Bones in the new movies.
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He was easily the best of the JJTrek cast. Quinto and Saldana did alright, but were very much playing 'in name only' versions of the characters. Pegg was okay once he found a Scottish accent that worked. But Urban's McCoy was really the only character to get written within a postcode or two of the original portrayal and he nailed it without becoming a parody of De Kelley.
 
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SixTwoSix said:
The spock body swap, musical comet, fairy tale and space pirates were all pretty rough.
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Didn't mind the body swap and comet episodes, watchable but that was about it tbh. It's just nice that it doesn't suck as much and Discovery and Picard S1-2, not particularly high praise, but that's where we are with Star Trek. Picard S3 was a pleasant surprise.. :)
 
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I feel like this is the only star trek worth watching in atleast the last 10 years. It is really good. I enjoyed the different story for every episode with a lingering arc in there somewhere themes. Their are still moments of pandering to the woke crowd ( possibly only noticeable because it is looked for after such themes ruined other series' or played bigger parts than needed ) a little bit but its not nearly as noticeable as picard and discovery ( everybody just seeks to cry all the time on that ship, no way would they pass starfleet training ).
 
Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"

The Good

In his few scenes, Anson Mount remains the single best thing about this series.
Much like the old Enterprise team of TNG/Picard it's nice to see an actual starship crew on Star Trek, instead of the collection of neurotics that STD gave us.
Pelia, played by Carol Kane and the chief engineer on the Enterprise for this season after Hemmer's death, is shaping up to be a fun addition.
VFX teams remain on-point, as do the makeup department. And - joy of joys! - the Klingons look rather closer to Klingons* than whatever those things in STD were.
Writing and dialogue mainly great. The plot that kicked the main story off (a combination of 'peace is bad for business, so make war' and false flag operations) is an evergreen one, but this felt like a worthwhile take on it to me.
Neat directorial and camera choices abound.
Interesting direction to take M'Benga's character. Much more interesting than the 'daughter in a transporter buffer' deal from last season.
At least we got something approximating a proper D7 instead of this.


The Bad

Disappointingly small amount of Pike in this episode.
Seems like we're still going over well-trodden ground with Spock and his emotions here that was done already by other works. T'Pol and her Trellium-D exposure in Enterprise, various looks at Spock's dual nature in TOS and the films. I'm all for doing it if it brings something new and interesting to the party, but I get the feeling it's simply to show him having a relationship of some kind with Chapel. And we know that ends with her marrying Roger Korby, unless they plan to ignore TOS.
From my * in The Good - wouldn't it have been fun to show the Klingons as they were in TOS, with absolutely no explanation to the audience why they look like swarthy humans? ;)


The Kurtzman

La'an Noonien Singh :rolleyes:
Really? M'Benga and Chapel inject themselves with a serum, Hulk out, and mow through a whole mess of Klingons to get to where they need to go on the stolen Federation starship. Uh huh. Sure. Whose backside did the Modern Trek Write-O-Matic 4000™ pull that one out from?
I hate that they're teasing an arc involving a Gorn war.
 
I liked it!

The CG scenes of Enterprise doing its moves look flipping awesome, the way they've done the physics is convincing and visually and audibly really cinematic. I think I enjoy that more than anything else lol.

Also Spock's "thing" :D
 
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