Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

It think the Voyager episode where Tuvok has a flashback of his days on USS Excelsior, Janeway comments that Sulu looks nothing like his portrait at Starfleet. Tuvok replies that Holo-technology at the time was limited.

It’s possible TOS-era had some Holo-technology, but that it was limited to very special cases like making portraits of important Starfleet figures like Cpt. Sulu. It’s likely that The Daystrom Institute had some kind of working holodeck on campus during TOS, but probably not one thar could be easily packaged into a Starship. It could be that the technology just wasn’t compact enough until the TNG era and the appearance of ships like the Galaxy Class.

Oh, just wait 'til you get to ep 2:-)

Yeah - won't be going out of my way to watch that one again

Okay avoid spoilers going in and just so people are aware two episode where released.

I was multitasking with the first episode and didn't grab my attention, so probably have to rewatch.

Second episode was not fond of but watch the whole thing anyway.

Just wondering how long it took for it to 'CLICK' with people, who/what was involved with it? It dawned on me pretty quickly. As I said I had no spoilers are prior knowledge watching!

"modify the deflector shields". Yeah that was going to be my suggestion as well.

When you have so few episodes, it's such a shame to throw a couple of them away.

I really don't get this line of thinking. Was The Inner Light a throw away episode? Or Darmok, or Yesterday's Enterprise, or Cause & Effect, or Relics, or the two Moriarty episodes, or the Nth Degree, or Evolution, or… I could go on. None of them advanced anything. We were in the same place at the end of the episode as we were at the beginning, just with a little adventure in-between.

I think people are just counting "episodes I don't personally enjoy" as being "throw away"? But that's a bit unfair. There is no grand narrative on SNW that needs to be advanced each week. The Gorn weren't attacking at the start of the Hegemony two-parter and they weren't attacking at the end of it either. Wouldn't have made much difference to anything if those episodes didn't exist… so they're throw away too?

Nah. They're all just episodes. Sure there's some you don't like personally, which is a shame, but I don't know what people are hoping for when they complain that this one or that one hasn't "progressed" anything.

But 26 mostly "throw away" episodes, if we're talking about episodes which don't advance any narrative beyond their own self-contained 45 minute runtime. And those TNG episodes I mentioned are known as some of the best of the series.

It's probably just semantics though. People want some serious Star Trek and consider the lighter / funnier / sillier ones to be just taking up space in an already short season. Fair enough, but that's a matter of taste really (and I tend to like the silly ones just fine, I think SNW does them well). It's not like we're constantly ending on exciting cliffhangers and then unexpectedly taking a break from the on-going story for an episode or two.