@startrek I just started following you so I haven’t had a chance to read many of your posts. I’m curious about your thoughts on “Strange New Worlds.” I think it’s the best Trek since TNG with the best first season of any series in the franchise.
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I loved season 1 of Strange New Worlds, really felt like they get the star trek formula, exactly what I wanted to see. Haven’t watched the new episode yet, so I can’t comment there.
I think that it has been pretty fantastic. Have you watched Discovery? If you like Pike, he is pretty awesome in season 2 of Discovery. Might be worth a watch for you.
@End0fLine I’ve watched Discovery and it’s pretty good, but doesn’t hold a candle to SNW, IMHO.
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The addition of Captain Pike completely changed the dynamic of Discovery for the better. Lots better.
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Strange New Worlds is alright, in my opinion. It has its flaws, but it’s also doing quite a few things right.
One thing I’m partial to what they’re doing, is how they’re looking at issues with established Federation policy, that isn’t just the standard Prime Directive issue. The only problem is that since they’re a prequel, it means that they’re limited in what kind of changes might come up from those issues.
One example would probably be the Illyrians, who are explicitly stated to have used genetic modification to have genetically modified their colonists rather than rely on the standard environmentally-destructive array of terraforming technologies, or biodomes. In an attempt to appease and respect the Federation attitude/laws around genetic modification, they tried to undo all of their changes, becoming extinct when it went wrong and drove them to extinction.
Since only Earth and the Klingon Empire have been shown to have problems with genetic modification (the Klingon Empire used a modified version of Earth’s anyway), and Earth’s Augment program was panned as “going too far”, is it right for Earth to impress the consequences of its own actions on the Federation, and through that, everyone else?
I loved the first series of SNW. Thought it captured “proper trek” (if there is such a thing) easily my favourite of the new live action shows (by a long way).
I have high hopes for S2
