ManaByte
Gold Member
I think the jokey tone fits with this time in Pike’s command. He’s had the Enterprise for a decade at this point. He runs a more relaxed ship. The informal family dinner shows that.
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JetBlackPanda
Member
I am in love with this show. Monster/Alien/Danger of the week on a Starship just feels so right for Star Trek.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
My Strange New Worlds Ep 2 review...
Hot garbage. Pike is so bad I yearn for Michael Burnham. His personality is literally "metrosexual idiot". Writers are soooo important for Star Trek and they don't have any.
Hot garbage. Pike is so bad I yearn for Michael Burnham. His personality is literally "metrosexual idiot". Writers are soooo important for Star Trek and they don't have any.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
This guy likes Picard.My Strange New Worlds Ep 2 review...
Hot garbage. Pike is so bad I yearn for Michael Burnham. His personality is literally "metrosexual idiot". Writers are soooo important for Star Trek and they don't have any.
Melon Husk
Member
I skipped through the second episode because everyone deserves a second chance. Still no. The Orville is a more mature take on Star Trek than this.
Bless your hearts trying to fit these new shows into Star Trek timelines. It's all Kurtzmanverse to me.
Bless your hearts trying to fit these new shows into Star Trek timelines. It's all Kurtzmanverse to me.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Yeah the crew dialogue is incredibly grating. And Pike is being pretty obnoxious on top of it. Everything else about the second episode was pretty decent.
FunkMiller
Member
Watched episode one.
Holy shit.
This is actually Star Trek.
Leaps and bounds better than all the other garbage they’re making.
Holy shit.
This is actually Star Trek.
Leaps and bounds better than all the other garbage they’re making.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I'm too poor to afford Paramount but I watched the first episode on YouTube and it was not bad.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
This is a solid review of ep 1...
Ep 2...
Ep 2...
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
You can get a month long free trial.
Oberstein
Member
It could have been worse. When Una initiated the lockdown, I thought she was going to hand out masks with the starfleet logo on them to the crew.
I liked the actress who plays Una, and I don't mind that she's
not human. It doesn't break the canon, I think, there was already a lot of vagueness around the character.
The ship is still gorgeous.
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Guy_who_thinks_hes_cool
Member
cant believe I missed this, thanks for the heads up
Wheeljack539
Member
So we've hit the first turd episode of the season I take it?
ManaByte
Gold Member
BadBurger
Banned
The first episode far, far exceeded my expectations. The production value was outright major feature film levels at times.
I think my favorite part was the way the actor portrayed young Spock. Very much like Leonard Nimoy, but more natural, more human. Less deliberate (especially when compared to Quinto's Spock). He did a really good job.
I think my favorite part was the way the actor portrayed young Spock. Very much like Leonard Nimoy, but more natural, more human. Less deliberate (especially when compared to Quinto's Spock). He did a really good job.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
This is Smiley Spock from the Pike era. So he’s more emotional than when he’s older with Kirk.
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BadBurger
Banned
This is Smiley Spock from the Pike era. So he’s more emotional than when he’s older with Kirk.
Ah, very cool. Had to look that up.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Third episode was a steaming pile. 
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
There are no attractive females in the Strange New Worlds cast.
Uhura in TOS = Hottie
Uhura in JJ movies = Hottie
Uhura in SNW = Not a hottie
Uhura in TOS = Hottie
Uhura in JJ movies = Hottie
Uhura in SNW = Not a hottie
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
My 3rd episode review:
Ep 1: 5/10
Ep 2: 3/10
Ep 3: 2/10
When will NuTrek end?
Ep 1: 5/10
Ep 2: 3/10
Ep 3: 2/10
When will NuTrek end?
ManaByte
Gold Member
When you stop loving Picard.My 3rd episode review:
Ep 1: 5/10
Ep 2: 3/10
Ep 3: 2/10
When will NuTrek end?
ipukespiders
Member
Third episode was not too bad - better than the first two. I wish the Doctor had a different actor, I can barely make out his dialogue.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I chased SNW with an episode of Enterprise last night. Mediocre Trek is such a breath of fresh air. Carbon Creek, where Romulans make First Contact with earth...
- Killer theme song.
- Cameraman isn't instructed that it's his job to keep viewers engaged.
- 1940s small town America isn't filled with evil white people.
- Sci fi dilemma takes precedent over character feelings.
- Protagonist becomes more hopeful person by end of the episode.
Contrast that with an 60 year old Rebecca Romain preaching "Would they accept me if I wasn't exemplary? When will it be enough to just BE an Illyrian?"
- Killer theme song.
- Cameraman isn't instructed that it's his job to keep viewers engaged.
- 1940s small town America isn't filled with evil white people.
- Sci fi dilemma takes precedent over character feelings.
- Protagonist becomes more hopeful person by end of the episode.
Contrast that with an 60 year old Rebecca Romain preaching "Would they accept me if I wasn't exemplary? When will it be enough to just BE an Illyrian?"
ManaByte
Gold Member
Ok we know you’re just trolling.
Ulysses 31
Member
I like season 3&4's theme song...
Pegasus Actual
Member
Turn on the subtitles you racist
Actually maybe that's why you thought the third episode was an improvement, because you didn't have to hear the dialogue.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
BadBurger
Banned
Hah! So true about the new stuff.
It's been a long road.... gettin' from here to there
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ManaByte
Gold Member
BadBurger
Banned
Oberstein
Member
This episode exceeded my expectations.
OK, it's been seen before (Balance of Terror, etc), but the execution was really good. It really felt like they were on a submarine.
Best episode of the season so far, Anson didn't lie.
OK, it's been seen before (Balance of Terror, etc), but the execution was really good. It really felt like they were on a submarine.
Well, on the other hand Hemmer and Uhura surviving this is almost impossible (the pressure should have killed them?), and Una is used as a filler in this episode, but hey, it passes.
Best episode of the season so far, Anson didn't lie.
ManaByte
Gold Member
It didn't break canon?
Strong episode. I appreciated how it was an action episode which still touched on ethics and philosophy (sacrifice and pacifism) and how the Gorn were a consistently formidable enemy beaten not because the writers nerfed them, but because the Enterprise crew out-thought them. The submarine-feel echoed Wrath Of Khan, but didn't make its inspiration too literal and did its own thing within a similar framework. La'An (despite her surname) and Hemer are two of the show's most engaging characters, so having the focus on them was welcome. The dialogue still stinks far too often, specifically the stupid quipping, and more specifically Ortegas' stupid quipping ("Into the brown cloud of death" was insubordinate and unprofessional), and I dislike how Peck confuses being unemotional for being completely po-faced and monotone (Nimoy was always expressive in voice and manner), but despite its flaws, SNW is recognisably Star Trek, which is a huge step up on what New Trek has produced so far.
Oberstein
Member
In detail, I guess you can always find something to complain about, but concerning the Gorn
We don't see them in the episode. Only their ships.
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
never have I seen a show that sounds so good, looks so good, but the writing and execution is so bad..
its like the fan fiction treks show with a bigger budget..
its not as horrible as discovery or picard.. but its really at best barely as good as enterprise was in season 1..which wasn't that good till the xindi war story arc started.
ever episode tries to distract from "THE MESSAGE" by waving a really shallow "hey remember this cool nostalgic thing?" flag in your face hoping you don't notice how stupid they are.
its like the fan fiction treks show with a bigger budget..
its not as horrible as discovery or picard.. but its really at best barely as good as enterprise was in season 1..which wasn't that good till the xindi war story arc started.
ever episode tries to distract from "THE MESSAGE" by waving a really shallow "hey remember this cool nostalgic thing?" flag in your face hoping you don't notice how stupid they are.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
My E4 review:
I no longer think Strange New Worlds is the best of the NuTrek. It's all just a swirling vat of diarrhea.
The last straw for me is watching Pike make a bunch of effeminate, worried facial expressions next to La'an and she's doing a Clint Eastwood impression.
I'm out. I'll check back in once Kurtzman leaves or when a new spinoff comes out that gives me a shred of hope.
It's been a long road...getting from there to here...
I no longer think Strange New Worlds is the best of the NuTrek. It's all just a swirling vat of diarrhea.
The last straw for me is watching Pike make a bunch of effeminate, worried facial expressions next to La'an and she's doing a Clint Eastwood impression.
I'm out. I'll check back in once Kurtzman leaves or when a new spinoff comes out that gives me a shred of hope.
It's been a long road...getting from there to here...
Pegasus Actual
Member
Ep 4 was kind of okay recycled Star Trek except for all the cringy zoomer dialogue. And I hated the contrivance w/ the brown dwarf and black hole timing. I mean they could have easily written that in to relate to their mission to the colony. Not sure the Li'an and bro backstory w/ deciphered lights makes any sort of sense either but my attention was waning.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Reminder that this poster really loves Picard.
