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.
Shiny happy people holding hands
Not sure if this is real or just a piss-take.
Reminds me of this old meme:
I’m shocked it’s taken this long for someone to post that piece of comedy gold.
Yo Wonderbread, how’s that translation coming?
I’m pregnant.
Can’t see the Klingon’s arms, but does Starfleet Academy have an admission requirement that one be improbably swole?
For the men? Yes. Women must be slender with nice legs.
Wait, what if this is an in-universe recruitment ad?
I’m as fatigued with bad Star Trek as I am with bad Star Wars now.
I’m honestly not excited to hear of any new Star Trek until they have a major change to show runners, or enough people who enjoy classic and 90s Trek come out and say, “oh wait this new one is great”.
It’s not for us anymore, friend. They’ll milk the franchises we love until they’re just a husk, then dump it. Some upstart may revive it, but then it just gets put back into the cycle.
Welcome to pure greed capitalism; fuck you, pay me. Tomorrow is the next asshole’s problem.
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…
Are we sure it’s not an AI head swap? It does feel off.
Edit: At best, it feels like they took an AI pass to correct some lighting or something.
So shiny that it’s uncanny
They are real glowy but the Klingon has a near mirror sheen going.
Hopefully more of a community colleges vibe
Hmmm. A recurring cameo role for Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from Community) would buy a great deal of goodwill, from me.
There’s no way those actors posed for that image at the same time.
Well, they all look like really good F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
To be fair, it wouldn’t be the first time a Trek premiere’s promotional image looked like a poorly-done bag of ass evoking the general garbage stylings of the era.
I can’t help but still feel excited for this premier, from this ad. Maybe they knew it didn’t matter how they presented it, haha.
Also, they really underestimated Marina Sirtis’ impact on the series, based on her placement here.
They also overestimated Wesley’s crew commission. By rights he should be wearing one of his hideous Season 1 sweaters.
Starfleet CW
Horny Trek
Approves:
The TMP novelization’s version of the academy featured competitive orgies between the human and Deltan residences, iirc. Anything less than that, and I’m calling this show out for not being true to Gene’s Vision®.
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.
You could be right, this does look a lot like the fake HDR pictures that were common in the 2000s
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.
Wait wait, what? I missed that
I mean, it has been like 800 years. It’s not a stretch for that limitation to be overcome.
After the dominion war, why would the founders not only continue making Jem’Hadar, let alone changing them to include the existence of a second gender and ability to reproduce sexually?
a) why would they stop? Just because you lost one war doesn’t mean you dissolve your entire military.
b) perhaps the Jem’Hadar at some point seized control of their own cloning facilities and made the necessary changes. Or the Founders eventually turn over a new leaf and grant them autonomy. 800 years allows for any number of explanations.
32century stuff. Everyone is a little bit of everything, so make-up gets to be whatever.
I guess we can call it tradition at this point…?
Isn’t that character a Tellerite/Klingon hybrid or something?
Or rather multiple characters of varying hybrid-ness.
Looks absolutely insufferable.
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?
