New Star Trek Series Announced!: "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” · 12:05pm May 16th, 2020
CBS All Access today announced a series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series will feature fan favorites from season two of Star Trek: Discovery, Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
The series premiere was written by Akiva Goldsman with the story by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Goldsman, Kurtzman and Lumet will serve as executive producers in addition to Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. Aaron Baiers, Akela Cooper and Davy Perez will serve as co-executive producers. Akiva Goldsman will remain an executive producer and a key part of the creative team on Star Trek: Picard as well. The series will be produced by CBS Television Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
“Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck’s portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season,” said Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming, CBS All Access. “This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek.”
I haven't seen any of Discovery myself (avoided it like the plague, actually), but Anson Mount's Christopher Pike seems to be quite popular, and I personally enjoyed the tie-in novel The Enterprise War. So who knows? Maybe this one will turn out to be some good. Y'know, provided it's actually about exploring strange new worlds and not just one conspiracy after another or whatever like Discovery.
I hope this one turns out to be good, I truly do.
The summary mentions Akiva Goldsman, and that pretty much means that I'm out. Sorry, the premise of the show sounds good, but any project that has *that* guy attached to it is gonna be shit, I am sure of it.
You too? Jesus. What is so horrible about that series that makes everyone scorn it so vehemently?
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Never heard of him. Would you care to enlighten me?
But at any rate, I'd rather reserve judgement until the thing actually comes out. If it turns out to be any good, I'll let you know. In the meantime, I remain cautiously optimistic, even if I'm not too keen on its predecessor.
Well, first of all, I don't have CBS All-Access, so I don't actually have access to it. But even if I did, I've heard, read, and seen enough about it to know I want no part of it.
The visuals are all wrong for the time period it's supposed to be in, that being before The Original Series. I get that they don't want it to look like a 1960s set, but not to that degree. The tone of the show is dark and gritty, not at all like Trek is meant to be. It throws numerous monkey wrench's into the overall continuity, and then tries to cover it up by having Starfleet just cover those events up, as if it makes it any better. What it actually does is turn Starfleet from an optimistic, inspiring organization into a bunch of liars who will cover up things in the name of "not letting it happen again". And also to say "that's why we never heard of it before". It's just a case of dumb writing.
Oh, and the protagonist is some adopted sibling of Spock that we never heard of before and will never hear of again because classified. So the fact that they didn't learn from Star Trek V should be a red flag.
Admittedly, I'm not as vehemently enraged over it as a lot of other fans are. I tried to put a curtail on that a while ago. But that doesn't mean that I don't dislike what I'm hearing about.
Strange New Worlds will technically be a part of this "Discovery-verse" as I like to call it, but if it can pull off what it's selling here, and do it well, then I'll be willing to forgive stuff like the redesigned visuals. What I want is a good Star Trek series that tells good stories and has people actually boldly going where no one has gone before, and doesn't keep up with this stupid dark and gritty conspiracy stuff.
I hope they don't disappoint me.
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He's the screenwriter who gave us Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and the Lost in Space movie, for starters. He also worked on Transformers: The Last Knight, and The Dark Tower movie, both of which I understand were panned by reviewers, and not without good reason I'd imagine. You can read more about him and his film ups and downs here.
Well now. I can get behind your criticisms of the show with the way you laid them out.
My usual experience with people hating that show was "Ess Jay Dubyas ruinin' mah Star Trek!!" (Which I just found ironic in the extreme, given how progressivism is baked into the franchise from The Original Series and onward.)
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The other thing to note about Michael Burnham is that she's actually the first Trek protagonist that isn't a captain or commanding officer of any sort. Every other main Trek character–Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer–they've all been in positions of power; they're responsible for their crews and ships/stations, and the choices they make have a lasting effect. Burnham is not in such a high-ranking position. So when things happen in relation to her or because of her–like, say, sparking a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire that lasts the entire first season!–it just feels weird.
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Huh. Weird...