SPOILERS: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it's happening
Discussion
CheesecakeRunner said:
xeny said:
The scene with it hanging upside down behind Spock - did the composition remind anyone else of a certain other film?
And the scene with Betel going nose to nose with the Horn youngling. They’re a blatant rip off. I struggle with them as a species too. How they evolved to be tool using and build space ships when as youngsters they just eat each other is beyond even the usual suspension of disbelief that Star Trek requires.
It was still fun though.
CheesecakeRunner said:
And the scene with Betel going nose to nose with the Horn youngling.
They’re a blatant rip off. I struggle with them as a species too. How they evolved to be tool using and build space ships when as youngsters they just eat each other is beyond even the usual suspension of disbelief that Star Trek requires.
There's a lot more to them than "youngsters just eating each other", given the reaction of the one that came across Batel.They’re a blatant rip off. I struggle with them as a species too. How they evolved to be tool using and build space ships when as youngsters they just eat each other is beyond even the usual suspension of disbelief that Star Trek requires.
Short treks are worth watching but frustratingly outside of the US, we only seem to get season 1 of Short Treks. Does anyone know why we in the UK don't seem to be allowed Short Treks season 2, either on Paramount+ or on Netflix? I know that one of the episodes from Season 2 is on Youtube, but it's annoying that we're not allowed to watch the rest on Paramount+, the supposed home of Star Trek.
Great stuff all round, proper Trek. You know who was a pleasant surprise as well.
Made me realise just how much I've missed having a weekly episodic series to look forward to in this current desert of descent TV.
Some of the comments on here do make me laugh. Oh no, its not as good a cliff hanger as the best that's ever happened over the past 60 years
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Relax, stop being so anal, enjoy life and just be happy that proper Star Trek exists again
Looking forward to season 3.
Made me realise just how much I've missed having a weekly episodic series to look forward to in this current desert of descent TV.
Some of the comments on here do make me laugh. Oh no, its not as good a cliff hanger as the best that's ever happened over the past 60 years
. Relax, stop being so anal, enjoy life and just be happy that proper Star Trek exists again
Looking forward to season 3.
robemcdonald said:
I thought it was pretty good, much better than last week.
I thought it was strange to go with the Simon Pegg version of Scotty and not the James Doohan original.
In what way do you mean? We never saw him before his tie in TOS so I didn't immediately connect this version to the Pegg one? I thought it was strange to go with the Simon Pegg version of Scotty and not the James Doohan original.
C5_Steve said:
robemcdonald said:
I thought it was pretty good, much better than last week.
I thought it was strange to go with the Simon Pegg version of Scotty and not the James Doohan original.
In what way do you mean? We never saw him before his tie in TOS so I didn't immediately connect this version to the Pegg one? I thought it was strange to go with the Simon Pegg version of Scotty and not the James Doohan original.
(Obviously in my opinion)
robemcdonald said:
The actor seems to have very much channeled Simon Peggs performance in the JJ Abrams movies.
(Obviously in my opinion)
Maybe they want to hint that SNW (and by extension, Discovery) is not in the 'Prime' universe?(Obviously in my opinion)
It's clearly not in the JJ-verse of the new films but perhaps they just want to give the impression that nor is it in the exact same universe as the TOS we are familiar with...?
(AFAIK it has to be made under the same constraints as the Abrams films of being a certain percentage different to the original)
robemcdonald said:
The actor seems to have very much channeled Simon Peggs performance in the JJ Abrams movies.
(Obviously in my opinion)
Gotcha. I can see what you mean, I just took it as this is what he would have been like in his younger days. It reminded me a lot of his TNG episode where he suspended himself in the transporter. We know Scotty is a genius but I don't seem to remember him being given much in the way of opportunity to properly think outside the box and invent things out of nothing as much in TOS or the films. I think it's a good way of showing just how great an engineer he was. LaForge and O'Brian were always making things, Scotty seemed to just be very good at stopping the ship flying apart. (Obviously in my opinion)
The0perator said:
Cliffhanger though... during a writers strike.. could be out on a cliffhanger
Easy, write your own ending. Everyone gets back alive, they cure Pike's girlfriend and they all live happily ever after. Including Pike, who has somehow already altered his own timeline without realising it, and lives to an old age.
Flip Martian said:
The0perator said:
Cliffhanger though... during a writers strike.. could be out on a cliffhanger
Easy, write your own ending. Everyone gets back alive, they cure Pike's girlfriend and they all live happily ever after. Including Pike, who has somehow already altered his own timeline without realising it, and lives to an old age.
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