Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Spear · 16-06-2026 05:02PM

A bit of a shift in tone for this one, both in terms of it an SNW trailer and trailers in general.

There's a lot more emphasis on the Spock/Kirk connection, and hinting at that being the future. I'd say there's more Kirk than Pike in this one.

And as trailers generally go, they're giving away very little in this one in terms of any particular tropes for the individual episodes. There may be one horror one, and one fantasy themed one perhaps.

Stark · 16-06-2026 05:43PM

Yeah the tone is definitely staying away from the silly tone that marked the season 3 trailers and even the first season 4 trailer (muppets). Hopefully a sign of what's to come for the season.

DoctorEdgeWild · 16-06-2026 05:53PM

Yeah, definitely hopeful after seeing that. Although I do wish they'd leave the moral messages a little less overt. TNG was very good at this. Quantum Leap was probably the master. Telling very clear morally challenging and affirming stories WITHOUT the need to spell them out. Let the viewer do the work.

Spear · 16-06-2026 07:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124555617#Comment_124555617

Exactly, they were confident enough of the muppets sequence that they were willing to lead with it at a major convention. And with the series 4 weeks out, that episode is almost certainly 100% finished, yet not a single frame of it appears.

The tone seems to have shifted to a more traditional sci-fi/space based approach, more shots of Enterprise zooming about, a few glimpses on alien worlds, that kind of thing.

No hint of an overall arc though either.

AMKC · 17-06-2026 07:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124554149#Comment_124554149

Any chance of it being repeated on ITV? Not for me for someone else.

LambshankRedemption · 19-06-2026 04:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124555509#Comment_124555509

"Perhaps what happens next will define everything"

Is that them subtly saying, "We are going to see what the ratings of Season 4 are like before we make a decision on Year One"?

Mav11 · 19-06-2026 02:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124558441#Comment_124558441

If they are on satellite they should be able to get ITV4. I doubt that it will move back to ITV1.

breezy1985 · 19-06-2026 03:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124562242#Comment_124562242

Year One sounds terrible. It's essentially sacking Pike and phasing out La'an in exchange for the annoying version of Scotty, constantly love sick Spock and Pinocchio Kirk.

Sounds like a huge downgrade.

LambshankRedemption · 20-06-2026 02:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124563657#Comment_124563657

I agree. If SNW is successful, could they not just keep doing it for a few years more? Is that not how making a profit ususally works? Identify something consumers like and then keep making it and selling it to them.

I dont know about others but at this point i am spocked out. They took arguably Star Treks most iconic character and have over used him. Putting him in Disco was a mistake. In SNW we have had angry Spock, laughing Spock, hungry Spock, Spock fully human, Spock in love, Spock playing the lute to ease his stress.

Anson Mount as Pike is very enjoyable. I'm not much of a fan of new Kirk. La'an is a great character.

fritzelly · 20-06-2026 03:51AM

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Well thank god that is never gonna happen

fritzelly · 20-06-2026 03:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124565275#Comment_124565275

Not gonna happen - Kurtzman is out, they were trying to buy out the IP (maybe they have) but rather they bring it in-house and do something different that is not owned by one person/studio

Guy1ncognito · 20-06-2026 07:10AM

The last good series of Star Trek was enterprise. The latest stuff STD SNW etc that comes straight from Alex Kurztsmans toilet bowel is absolutely terrible. There was a character in DS9 who was meant to be a take on Frank Sinatra, thankfully they limited him to the hollodeck, but his best scene was in a mirror universe episode were he is shot to death and I wish this whole kurtzman universe would be killed of in a fire fight with the cardassians, awful stuff, Star Trek academy Jesus H this franchise is dead. Just how I continues in Trump land with the grasp they have of paramount I don’t know.

LambshankRedemption · 20-06-2026 07:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124565345#Comment_124565345

I respectfully disagree. SNW season 1 IMO is the best Trek in 30 years. I enjoyed Enterprise despite its rocky beginnings. I pretty much hated Voyager.

Stark · 20-06-2026 03:20PM

Lower Decks and Prodigy are very good for what they are (though they don't fill the gap of serious adult Trek).

SNW season 1 was decent though as someone who grew up with TNG as "My Trek", still left me feeling that something was missing. If you're someone for whom TOS was "your Trek", I can see how you would be all over it. It captured the vibe of the TOS era perfectly.

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