You Can't Bring 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Down
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Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake—but the best 'Trek' outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks.

"Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake—but the best 'Trek' outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks."

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Or is it simply an appeal to nostalgia?

      It's all about milking the nostalgia, I imagine it's hard to get original ideas green lit with capitalist innovation at work when all you gotta do is throw in some legacy characters and people will watch it. Lower Decks is easily my favorite out of the current offerings even though it's mainly pandering to fans of the 90s shows but I haven't watched Strange New Worlds yet.

      • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        excited, naive trekies pitching a show: We want to bring back Star Trek, tell stories of exploration and adventure! To bring high-concept science fiction back to television in a way that excites both old and new audiences!

        a suit and briefcase made animate by sheer psychic weight of the intellectual-property mind-palace: But will it have Spock™ ? It's not a Star Trek©® television program without brand recognized character, Spock™

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I watched all of Picard but aside from the Hugh borg torture porn I can barely recall any story elements. Picard gets put in an android body and the android girl is part of some android race that's revealed at the very end of the season is basically it.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Ah, but you see, they needed the Federation to be "bad place" so they rolled back all that because Android slaves went angry and now androids banned but it's because of a discovery of the "not-the-mass-effect-antagonists."

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Because they've basically used Discovery to say the next few hundred years is the decline of the Federation and Picard doubled this down into the short term and now they're fucked.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The liberals prefer perpetual crises that threaten the universe where only the exceptional chosen one(s) can fix it again and again.