SNW - The Premiere Episode

[EddMarkStarr]

Over the weekend Paramount Plus made the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds available on YouTube.

Overall, I'm pleased by episode one. Just a few rough spots, but a good first impression.

See for yourself, let me know if there are problems with the link.

 

[unloadonme]

The video says that it's unavailable.

 

[Araucaria]

I liked this episode. As always with Star Trek, this episode tried to show relevance to current events. I found Captain Pike's speech before the two warring factions a bit too folksy for the situation, and at times the story threatened to devolve into a cheap parody of current life, as in the live on the spot TV reporter.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

The video says that it's unavailable.

I was afraid of that. Maybe try the "Watch On YouTube" link instead?

My YouTube account is a "grandfathered" YouTube RED account and I can watch videos that others have blocked.
But it also means that when I link to a video the blocks happen to others who try to watch - it depends on the type of account you have.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I liked this episode. As always with Star Trek, this episode tried to show relevance to current events. I found Captain Pike's speech before the two warring factions a bit too folksy for the situation, and at times the story threatened to devolve into a cheap parody of current life, as in the live on the spot TV reporter.

At first, I was kinda happy to see Paramount Plus making this available on YouTube.
But I feel that the whole Star Trek Universe has gone off the rails thanks to Discovery and Picard.
There's an air of desperation setting in at Paramount/CBS. A lot of money has been spent over the rights to Star Trek, and something has to click with fans of Old Trek.

Of all the predictions about the 21st century I heard as a kid, none of them included writers that can't write, or actors that can't act.
What's happened to Star Trek, Doctor Who, DC Comics and the MCU is so unbelievable that there are times when it feels like I'm trapped in some alternate universe of entertainment evil.
Whatever happens with the rest of the Strange New Worlds series, I still have no plans to subscribe to Paramount Plus. I'd rather spend my money on something else/anything else!

What I want is a Star Trek series about the formation of the United Federation of Planets.
We've never been given a Star Trek detailing first contact leading to interstellar friendships and the building of an alliance between all the members of the Federation.
The over-emphasis on Kirk, Spock and the Starship Enterprise has led to a one-dimensional universe of Kirk versus the Klingons/Romulans or Kirk versus the beautiful space-babe of the week.
Who are the member planets of the Federation? How did we meet them? Can we track the development of friendships that lead to political/economic alliances?

In summary: can we have a Star Trek that is not writen by adult children?

 

[Araucaria]

On further reflection, I think they made Captain Pike too much of a channeling of Captain Kirk, with the same personality, instincts, and idiosyncrasies. Perhaps their writers were not creative enough to come up with a completely new character, interesting in his own way.

Your thoughts on creating the story of first contact is intriguing. What Star Trek has done is to create a Federation with earth humans at the center of the alliance. Most likely things would not happen this way. If an when we make first contact, earth humans will probably find an already existing alliance, and would enter as a sort of junior partner to what has already been happening in space for some time.

One thought came to me. Perhaps an episode could be written that could detail a first contact between earth and the Klingon empire gone wrong, and earth would be forced to join the Federation for protection.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

On further reflection, I think they made Captain Pike too much of a channeling of Captain Kirk, with the same personality, instincts, and idiosyncrasies. Perhaps their writers were not creative enough to come up with a completely new character, interesting in his own way.

Your thoughts on creating the story of first contact is intriguing. What Star Trek has done is to create a Federation with earth humans at the center of the alliance. Most likely things would not happen this way. If an when we make first contact, earth humans will probably find an already existing alliance, and would enter as a sort of junior partner to what has already been happening in space for some time.

One thought came to me. Perhaps an episode could be written that could detail a first contact between earth and the Klingon empire gone wrong, and earth would be forced to join the Federation for protection.

YES - this is Awesome!

Your idea of an existing alliance of planets, with humans seeking to join (maybe out of necessity), would create a "non-human" POV orientation very different from Gene Roddenberry's budget-limited 1960's TV series.
Personally, the original Star Trek series has become a sort of sci-fi cancer that hobbles every reimagining into a distorted proxy for Kirk/Spock/McCoy/Enterprise storyline straightjacket.

Maybe Earth and the Klingon Empire started as friends but the relationship soured due to humans refusing to avoid other civilizations hostile to the Klingon's attempts to expand their empire's boundaries.



Remember Starbase Yorktown from Star Trek: Beyond?
What if instead of a Starbase it was the neutral intergalactic headquarters for the Federation of Planets?
It would expand the world of Star Trek away from the usual "gunplay/fist fight/torture dungeon/weapons fire/sexy space babe" mentality of trashy Trek - in my humble opinion.

 

[rareboy]

We have enjoyed all the episodes.

 

[PrinceCory]

Over the weekend Paramount Plus made the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds available on YouTube.

Overall, I'm pleased by episode one. Just a few rough spots, but a good first impression.

See for yourself, let me know if there are problems with the link.

I just subscribed to Paramount Plus yesterday so that I could catch up on the latest few episodes of Discovery; watch all of the 3rd season of Picard; and to watch Strange new Worlds season 1. So far, I have just watched the first episode of Strange new Worlds. I was previously all caught up on ST: Lower Decks and ST: Prodigy.