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"Strange New Worlds" Feels like ACTUAL Star Trek!!!
2 years ago
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I just finished watching the first season, and HOLY CRAP!
It actually feels like Roddenberry Star Trek!
Not "Nu-Trek" not "J.J. Lens Flare Star Wars-Trek"...
But actual TOS and TNG faithful Trek!
Even the opening title and score is a throwback to a mix of TOS and TNG era trek.
I grew up with TNG when there were still new episodes every week. And saw all the TOS movies (even before I saw the actual series). I loved Voyager (Screw the haters, Janeway was awesome!) and Deep Space 9 (Sisko punched Q) and even Enterprise (Quantum Leaping over the terrible opening title song)... Hell, in High School I often got in trouble for reading Star Trek extended universe books.
I even finally got into TOS and The Animated series in my 20s.
And I loved them all.
Then the worlds biggest "Anti-Nerd" J.J. Abrams managed to not only ruin Star Wars, but Star Trek as well, and it has all been off-road, upside down, and over a cliff since then with the likes of the recent movies and shows like Discovery and Picard being too dark, gritty, "edgy", and pointlessly retconning.
Now with Strange New Worlds, sure it has more modern set design and CGI (The captain's quarters are gorgeous!), bit it also has the writing and acting, and most important, the OPTIMISM that TOS and TNG were known for!
It's even got some of the campiness and humor that TOS is more known for.
It's not all dark and gritty and "FUCK YOU! Everything is terrible, always has been terrible, and will never get better!". It has actual bright colors, some TOS easter eggs and set design.
The peopel that made this show are Trek lovers.
Also the ships in SNW don't run on space mushrooms and eight-legged trans-dimensional pigs.
It has actual optimism and does like TOS and TNG did where we overcame and leaned from the bullshit of the past to have a brighter future.
I actually got a bit teary a few episodes in, not because it was a sad episode or anything like that (even though one or two hit me in the feels), no, it was like I finally found something that isn't suffering from terrible "millennial writing" or trying to be "hip and edgy".
If you are a fan of TOS and TNG and not a big fan of the J.J. or "Nu-Trek" stuff, you have GOT to see "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".
Man I really wish we still had 22+ episode "seasons" instead of this 10 episode mini-series stuff.
The better news is that SNW has already been renewed for a 3rd season and the 2nd season is coming out some time this year.
It actually feels like Roddenberry Star Trek!
Not "Nu-Trek" not "J.J. Lens Flare Star Wars-Trek"...
But actual TOS and TNG faithful Trek!
Even the opening title and score is a throwback to a mix of TOS and TNG era trek.
I grew up with TNG when there were still new episodes every week. And saw all the TOS movies (even before I saw the actual series). I loved Voyager (Screw the haters, Janeway was awesome!) and Deep Space 9 (Sisko punched Q) and even Enterprise (Quantum Leaping over the terrible opening title song)... Hell, in High School I often got in trouble for reading Star Trek extended universe books.
I even finally got into TOS and The Animated series in my 20s.
And I loved them all.
Then the worlds biggest "Anti-Nerd" J.J. Abrams managed to not only ruin Star Wars, but Star Trek as well, and it has all been off-road, upside down, and over a cliff since then with the likes of the recent movies and shows like Discovery and Picard being too dark, gritty, "edgy", and pointlessly retconning.
Now with Strange New Worlds, sure it has more modern set design and CGI (The captain's quarters are gorgeous!), bit it also has the writing and acting, and most important, the OPTIMISM that TOS and TNG were known for!
It's even got some of the campiness and humor that TOS is more known for.
It's not all dark and gritty and "FUCK YOU! Everything is terrible, always has been terrible, and will never get better!". It has actual bright colors, some TOS easter eggs and set design.
The peopel that made this show are Trek lovers.
Also the ships in SNW don't run on space mushrooms and eight-legged trans-dimensional pigs.
It has actual optimism and does like TOS and TNG did where we overcame and leaned from the bullshit of the past to have a brighter future.
I actually got a bit teary a few episodes in, not because it was a sad episode or anything like that (even though one or two hit me in the feels), no, it was like I finally found something that isn't suffering from terrible "millennial writing" or trying to be "hip and edgy".
If you are a fan of TOS and TNG and not a big fan of the J.J. or "Nu-Trek" stuff, you have GOT to see "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".
Man I really wish we still had 22+ episode "seasons" instead of this 10 episode mini-series stuff.
The better news is that SNW has already been renewed for a 3rd season and the 2nd season is coming out some time this year.
"Why is it always an alley?"
"Captain, where are my pants?"
One of my favorites was "It's hard when your tragic backstory starts with a silly name."