Still not gonna watch it. The poster neither makes it seem interesting, nor does it indicate someone learned from the debacle that was SNW S3.
Plus that fucking college jacket.
crap I’ve yet to start Strange New Worlds as “new trek” really doesn’t agree with me but I was willing to give it a shot. so…it turns out bad? The last Star Trek I watched was Picard S3 and I kinda enjoyed it but that was after I struggled through S1 and 2.
Well, imagine releasing an episode depicting how biological essentialism expresses in vulcans while the world revels in fascism and racists trying to tell us how people are hardwired based on perceived ‘race’ and ethnicity.
Or while civil societies struggle and fight back against lobbyists, radical capitalists, all kinds of power grabbing individuals, releasing an episode literally saying “good systems are good because good people are in charge”.
Oh, and there’s the speciesist episode.Then there’s even more and overt memberberries.
That’s six of ten episodes. Another episode is the second part of the last episode of season two. The remaining three episodes are okay.
Season 1 of SNW liked to shred canon almost every episode. And binge watching it:
spoiler
the serial reveal of a deep dark secret for nearly every member of the bridge crew got old real fast.
But the cast was good enough that I kept watching. In season 2 we got Carol Kane and a great cross over episode and that’s most of what I remember.
I got 3 episodes into season 3 and set it down. I’ll probably finish it just before season 4 starts and that will decide if I watch 4 or not. I still haven’t mustered the energy to watch Disco season 5.
SNW is largely good, but S3 has an unusually high number of goofy/gimmicky episodes that’s aren’t very good.
Also eugenics advocacy, biological essentialism, and some very gross takes from trek overall. Woohoo?
Jacket looks slick. I’m in favour of leaning more towards civilian higher education aesthetics and away from military ones. After all, aren’t we always being told Starfleet isn’t a military?
We are told Starfleet isn’t military, but what we are told and how it (often) acts and is structured like always meant an interesting conflict.
Also, I don’t mind that it looks more like higher edication than military. I mind that it looks too much like what we have nowadays. Star Trek fashion was, though memeable, it’s own distinct thing. Like we don’t do fashion today as people in the 18th or 19th century, why should 23rd or 24th century fashion look like ours?
ENT played that nicely, those costumes bridged the gap almost perfectly (especially Starfleet uniforms), looking enough like later (in the timeline) stuff but reminiscend of what we have today, like a natural evolution.Bur Academy is to be set in 32nd century, it should be as distant to us as the 10th century.
Alright, that’s fair reasoning. I don’t sweat it when a sci-fi future looks oddly contemporary, just like I don’t sweat it when a period piece does the Bridgerton thing of including modern pop songs and printed dress patterns. A little artistic licence doesn’t bother me for stuff like that, but I get the perspective.
Paramount: We need to ensure this new show attracts as many people as possible while maintaining a strong identity of Star Trek. How can we hit those points with the Ad campaign?
Marketing: Well our focus groups are saying that a lot of Star Trek fans are still yearning for something closer to the aesthetic of 1990’s Star Trek
Paramount: I zoned out there for a bit but I did hear aesthetic of 1990’s. Make that the core of advertising!
It’s not even the aesthetic we want; it’s the writing style.
It’s not even that, it’s the feeling we had when it was the 90s/00s and the good Star Treks were new…ish
It’s not even that, it’s Avery Brooke’s powerful voice and Patrick Stewart’s piercing eyes as they confront one another for the first time, the briefing room filling with tension as Sisko’s barely contained rage breaks against Picard’s steely reserve, knowing both are just surface defences covering the hidden hurt they reach feel, both victims of the same implacable foe, both denying themselves the comfort of…
We’re all nostalgic for the same things here, right? Yes? No?
Not sure if this is real or just a piss-take.
Reminds me of this old meme:
Please don’t make it a generic US high school drama. There’s already enough US-defaultism in Star Trek.
Also, the image is glossy, it feels like AI generated
I thought it was an AI head swap too…
So shiny that it’s uncanny
They are real glowy but the Klingon has a near mirror sheen going.
Well, they all look like really good F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Horny Trek
wtf did they use AI to generate this poster?
It’s just a lot of HDR processing. You get this when you extend curves to maximize range and then crank the vibrancy and definition sliders to the top.
it looks like AI because the older Stable Diffusion models had flaws that caused them to prioritize vibrancy instead of realism.
Yeah, and the AI generator was set to '90s
Or it is really bad photo editing/manipulation. That poster looks really bad.
Given the time period it was made (ie, now) it’s entirely possible there was some artist who was ordered by a manager to use more AI in their work and was forced to edit the output to try to make it look less like shit.
Yeah probably, none of them have extra fingers. But wow did someone screw the targ with this poster.
is it me or did they change Klingon physiology yet again?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure they were incapable of smiling before now.
They are part Jem’Hadar.Wrong character.Omg I hope that’s not a thing. Canonically Jem’Hadar can’t reproduce
Even better, there’s a female Jem’hadar. We see her in the first trailer.
I mean, it has been like 800 years. It’s not a stretch for that limitation to be overcome.
32century stuff. Everyone is a little bit of everything, so make-up gets to be whatever.
The more I see of this the more I realize that it’s probably not going to be for me. That’s fine, I’ll give it a try anyway.
I’m hopeful due to the presence of Tig Notaro, Paul Giamatti, Robert Picardo, Stephen Colbert, Oded Fehr, etc
Those are all the people and characters I want to see. Where is their poster?
Smiling Klingons? He looks like he doesn’t even care about honor!
and a science cadet at that.
Maybe we will finally see some of the supposed non-warrior Kjngons
like Alexander?
As long as the Ellison’s control Star Trek it will never have a return to form. So this will be as bland as SNW S3 was when Fascism is taking hold all over the world. I feel classic Trek would have something to say about that.
I debated coming in here and saying I wasn’t going to watch this due to Paramount and Ellison, but I decided I wouldn’t. But now here I am, saying it.
The light source is 3 different sunsets and everyone is too damn skinny
Please don’t suck…
No chance it doesn’t suck. They aren’t making it for you. They are making it for young people, new audience, so it will be a cookie cutter bs show, with bad acting, no real story with illogical plot holes all around. It will be pointless and cringe.
These companies are unable to make something good and the proof is that they don’t.
It probably will. That blonde woman wears what seems to be a damn college jacket.
Good summary of my expectations, but let’s give it a fair chance first.
Even if it’s the best Trek ever made, the reaction to the poster will stand.
I’m laughing already!
… it’s not a comedy? Oh dear…
