Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Episode One Review

KEEP UP ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

[Wolfgang]

"... A tiny hull fracture could lead to a person being sucked out into space and killed." - Dave Cullen

"Correction, sir. That's, 'Blown out'."
"Thank you, Data."
"A common mistake, sir."

[joelellis]

"All of these people, except for Worf, were generally happy people."
Worf said it himself, "I am not a merry man!"

[FatNorthernBigot]

This show got made when they accidentally found out a positive male role model could be quite watchable and popular. Doesn’t really say a lot for modern writers, does it?

[avnrulz]

Watching reviews of current Trek is like watching a review of Rome burning under Nero.

[nathanwilkins]

"You bet I'm tired. You bet. I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives. I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't and who is going on the landing party and who isn't...and who lives...and who dies" - Jeffery Hunter, Captain Christopher Pike.

The type of writing that these, "writers" of "new trek" will never understand.

[gavcarl]

Nice to see everyone once again has a "tortured history". It's like watching an episode of the X-Factor.

[infinitelybanta]

And Counselor Troi had Lwaxana as her mother, the most trauma of all!

[GalacticGod]

Yeah, I don't know if I would yet call this series a, "Return to Form, but at least this is a step in a better direction than their last two attempts at a Star Trek series.

[Bopperann]

I'm not returning to the abusive relationship that is modern Star Trek, but I'll listen to you dissect it.

[Tiberiuskirk]

She talked about the Gorn like everyone knew what she was saying. Which in fact no one including her should know that. Since the Gorn were not known til Kirk was stuck on a planet with one.

[Excalibur]

There's an episode of Voyager that tackles humanity taking responsibility for giving anti-matter tech indiscriminately years before the founding of the Federation and Voyager sees the literal fallout of a civilization because of that. But that episode explains HOW the alien race acquired the tech. How the hell do you gain knowledge from simply OBSERVING an explosion?

[yodamaycry]

One of my big gripes with the character Tuvok on Voyager was that he was constantly annoyed with Nelix or impatient or grumpy, which in my mind is a very emotional state of being for a species that is supposed to be stoic by nature. And I get the same vibe from this new Spock. It seems like he's scowling all the time, like he doesn't want to be there. And I totally agree with you, everybody as a whole is way too emotional and broken to be holding positions on a starship. I've seen astronauts, they're very happy successful people on the surface, which is all I'm really asking for here... have multiple layers, you know; have a surface and then have something deeper, but at least HAVE a surface. Geeese.

[CtrlOptDel]

Audience: "We're tired of current year politics in Star Trek."

Producers: "We hear ya, we hear ya..."

Producers: "..."

Producers: "...DONALD TRUMP STARTED WORLD WAR III!"

Audience: "MOTHERFU—"

[lchambers]

Dave Cullen. Doing God's work by watching new Trek, so no one else has to. 👍

[thesantarogan]

"I have to disagree here." Oh thank you !!! I thought I was the only one not convinced by this new show (so far, ep. 2). So many people are just satisfied with it because it's kinda better than DIS or PIC. Star Trek spirit has definitely died with ENT. Period. Leave it alone, please.

[lokitus]

This franchise needed to end peacefully and quietly. This is not NüTrek: it's Zombie Trek.

[ConMag-Fhionnghaile]

I saw what they did to Uhura, the way the crew talked to a Captain of a starship and passed immediately. Not to mention Not Trek's obsession with the Noonien Singh family. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a Picard somewhere on Pike's ship who forbodes something called Borg eventually.

[brettcooper]

I find Peck's voice is the most off-putting. Nimoy had such an amazing voice, even besting Takei's, in my opinion. You always knew when you were listening to Leonard Nimoy speak, without even seeing him. The voice was all you needed to know.

[MattMSG]

I used to always give SF shows some time to establish themselves and find their feet, because establishing a baseline is much harder when you're not working with our familiar, everyday reality.

With seasons being so short, and so badly made, now entire shows never get out of that experimental stage.

[malicethedevil]

I appreciate your takes, I miss the ol' days of Trek that showed what Humanity could become, while imperfect and riddled with flaws, humanity showed such promise in becoming something beyond our modern world was. Star Trek offered people an optimistic hope for a future where our trivial problems were a thing of the past, and a hope for a future of understanding, knowledge, and excellence. Not anymore, it's all modern problems, all of our modern issues and pessimistic outlooks bleeding into the stories.