Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

flazio

https://youtu.be/OZ2u8747v_8

Do some other excellent covers of Star Trek and The Orville themes as well. Worth checking out.

Spon Farmer

I watched the battle with the Gorn episode earlier.

I’m really enjoying the series and it being an adventure of the week rather that one story.

I don’t understand some of the choices in the characters. There doesn’t seem to be any purpose in using the characters of Chapel, Uhura and Noonien-Sing rather than completely original characters.

The characters of Chapel and Uhura here are nothing like they are in the Original Series - they are in fact new characters with the same names. Plus it creates an unnecessary continuity issue as now Pike was Uhura’s first Captain but she didn't have any interaction with him in The Menagerie. I’m not that precious about the continuity but they could have been given new names so that we don’t already know their fates.

And throwing in a descendant of Khan is unnecessary - La’an isn’t an Augment and the show already has a genetically enhanced character so why does there have to be a connection to Khan? And why was Kirk’s brother included? He served no purpose whatsoever. The new shows need less “threads” like this. I did see a headline about Kirk being in the show - I had assumed it was Jim Kirk, but hopefully it was only about Sam. I would be interested in Strange New Worlds leading into a series that covers Kirk’s last two years of his mission but established characters don’t need be showing up here. It makes it all feel like a small galaxy.

And is transporter chief Kyle supposed to be the same Kyle from the Original?

corkie

And is transporter chief Kyle supposed to be the same Kyle from the Original?

Kyle was a recurring character played first by English-born actor John Winston in Star Trek: The Original Series, and later by André Dae Kim in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. He first appeared in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and was given onscreen credit as "Transporter Chief". He had no set identity until Spock addressed him as "Lieutenant Kyle" in "Who Mourns for Adonais?".

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kyle

Uhura was played by Nichelle Nichols, who appeared in sixty-six episodes. The character was voiced by her in two additional episodes, "The Enemy Within" and "The Menagerie, Part II", and appeared in stock footage in "The Paradise Syndrome". [3] For Star Trek's 30th anniversary, Uhura reappeared in archive footage from "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Mirror, Mirror" that was used in the Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Twenty-six year later, Uhura was portrayed by Celia Rose Gooding for her inclusion in the TOS prequel, Strange New Worlds. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nyota_Uhura

Be-careful of reading the wiki links, may spoil additional episode of SNW, if your still watching them.

There is episode threads on https://www.boards.ie/categories/star-trek

AMKC

So I was watching an episode on TNG today "Conundrum". It the one were some Aliens take over Troy, Data and O'brien and take over 10 Forward.

Before O'brien beams down to the planet he grabs some pattern enhancers from a part of the Transporter room. It got me thinking. Maybe that is what's behind the Transporter room on Pikes Enterprise. Maybe they keep there pattern enhancers and other Transporter stuff there.

So hopefully we get to find out in season two or the coming seasons.

corkie

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Play_%28episode%29

Pattern enhancers appear for the first time on Star Trek in this episode. Here, and in "Ship in a Bottle", three pattern enhancers are carried in a practical case. ~~ https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/observations/powerplay.htm

CramCycle

Have to say, finally binged watched the lot and while there are some issues, but compared to most sci fi season1s, they are minor. They took some common sci fi tropes, one or two just stealing from other movies and made them into decent TV. Hopefully that continues, it would have held up on its own IMO which is something other Trek wouldn't have in recent years. Like a merge between some decent TNG episodes, with some TOS styling.