Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[harshness]

Abandon all hope of Science being part of the Science Fiction equation.

Treating sub-atomic particles like some sort of nanites or magic pixie dust is obscene.

 

[long_time_Dish]

Yep, that's why I would've done something different there, but otherwise, it was an enjoyable episode...

 

[harshness]

There can only be so many suspensions of disbelief in a single episode.

 

[Jim S.]

Abandon all hope of Science being part of the Science Fiction equation.

Treating sub-atomic particles like some sort of nanites or magic pixie dust is obscene.

It reminded me of what I dislike about the new generation Doctor Who -- everything being fixed in the last moments in a torrent of technobabble.

 

[long_time_Dish]

It reminded me of what I dislike about the new generation Doctor Who -- everything being fixed in the last moments in a torrent of technobabble.

Trek has always had technobabble. Voyager was probably the worst offender in that category...

 

[Jim S.]

Trek has always had technobabble. Voyager was probably the worst offender in that category...

I didn't watch Voyager, but, it's not the technobabble by itself, it's the miraculously fixing everything at literally the last minute with a deus ex machina -level event.

 

[long_time_Dish]

I didn't watch Voyager, but, it's not the technobabble by itself, it's the miraculously fixing everything at literally the last minute with a deus ex machina -level event.

Voyager was famous (infamous?) for technobabble explanations for why something (when at a crucial moment in the plot) would or wouldn't work. It got old after a while.

This episode really had two literally last minute crises involving the "strong nutrinos". One of the solutions I could "buy" inasmuch as it got the ship out of the problem. The other was plainly absurd and was basically, as harshness stated, "magic pixie dust".

Other than that, I enjoyed the episode.

 

[KAB]

I started to watch today's new episode and quickly found it was yet another ridiculous "throw-away" episode. That's at least three this season. Unbelievable!!!!!

 

[Foxbat]

I started to watch today's new episode and quickly found it was yet another ridiculous "throw-away" episode. That's at least three this season. Unbelievable!!!!!

When I saw the "Previously on Strange New Worlds" review, I was "Oh, no!" but powered through the episode. Carole Kane gets several great lines, which…

Spoiler: …Pelia Spoilers…

…appears to be the last episode for her character as she chooses to remain behind to help the inhabitants of the Roger Dean Yessongs World

keep their existence hidden. Pelia is going to hang out with "Max", the "Miracle Worker" who won her over with his scones. I will miss her, but her character wasn't part of "Those Old Scientists" and this leaves Scotty in charge of Engineering on the Enterprise.

Overall, I liked it a lot more than I expected. But it's almost an Apple iPhone Tick — Tock cadence, serious episode, light fluffy episode, serious episode, etc.

 

[harshness]

Star Trek: The Return of Runa

 

[Ronnie-]

IMHO this season of SNW is the worst season of Star Trek made.


I've made it through 3 of the ones aired so far. Stopped the others before half way. And really didn't like 2 of the three I've seen.

A show that was so good, and this is terrible


Hell, I even enjoyed Discovery enough to finish all the episodes. This has just not held my interest at all this season.

 

[Foxbat]

Star Trek: The Return of Runa

(edit: Oh, and it gets worse in IMDB. This episode has received more 1-star reviews

I can't imagine who would give it an 8, 9, or *shudder*, a 10…)

 

[N5XZS]

Had to say I fell asleep, when this silly drama in fantasy castle world!

Wish they stop swinging back and forth between silly storys and more realistic Star Trek storys.

 

[harshness]

IMHO this season of SNW is the worst season of Star Trek made.

Too many cooks in the kitchen, combined with too many chiefs and not enough indians. There are upwards of a dozen "producers" of varying degrees (at least four levels).

Some cinematic aspects are interesting, and the costuming is over the top, but the storylines are either monumentally failed rehashes or outright inane. A textbook example of putting lipstick on a pig.

It seems to have become a competition for the bottom, story-wise.

 

[Foxbat]

I found someone who gave it a 9-out-of-10 rating, and his argument is basically that the original Star Trek was full of "silliness" when you look at "A Piece of the Action", "Shore Leave", "The Squire of Gothos", and "The Trouble with Tribbles", just to name a few. This Season is the show runners getting the familiar characters where they need to be, and wrapping up the non-Canonical characters with plausible scenarios for why they weren't on Kirk's Enterprise.

I see his point, but it doesn't mean I have to like things like Soap Operas in Space or Space Opera - The Musical. One other thing he said was the 5th and final Season would be fully serious; they're getting it all out of their systems.

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[long_time_Dish]

harshness nailed it. The show is over-produced. Too many people thinking they know what the show ought to be, with everyone having a different idea of this or that character and how they should be.

They lost the idea that Star Trek is about "Going Where No One Has Gone Before" and has substituted "Going To Weird And Silly Places That Other Shows Have Gone Before Because It's Easier"

The first season was very good. What about that did they not learn from?

 

[KAB]

And they end the season with a "space baby".

 

[Foxbat]

And they end the season with a "space baby".

Maybe it was "Q"…

 

[Keith Brannen]

And they end the season with a "space baby".

And the episode was fairly good up until that part (if you again, as always, ignore some science), then after it made the whole episode seem idiotic.

Yet another disappointing season, never thought it would be worse than the last season. Sort of glad the series ends next year, in a shortened season. The writers/producers just never seemed to get it.

 

[harshness]

More eye candy at the expense of a story.

I couldn't get over seeing a Gorn crewman in the shuttle bay of the future Enterprise. The cat-faced girl was baffling.