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.
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?