I like the show, but it keeps nostalgia bating and it’s getting annoying. The balance of terror what-if was cool. I don’t think I will ever get over that they chose to make a boy band joke instead if doing klingon opera in subspace rhapsody. The wedding episode was fun but after watching it, annoying.
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better
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https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-quality-season-4-2000658880
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StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 hours ago
a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half
I greatly enjoyed this season (no really, the good ones are so good), but I must agree here about the nose dive.
That documentary episode is probably my least favorite Star Trek episode of all time.
And that finale? Too much unwelcome Mass Effect 3 energy in this ending for me to enjoy.
Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!
Absolutely my least favorite treknobabble of all time.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Season 3 was pretty good tho.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either
Especially the questionable Vulcan episode…
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I don’t understand the dislike it gets. It had a couple fun episodes and that’s a bad thing?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
- They waste too much time as a high school romantic drama.
- The musical was just the lowest point in the Star Trek Franchise since the 70s homo-erotic animated series.
- Fireplace on a starship…just shoot me now.
- They spend a lot of time drinking and having parties. A lot of fucking around on Starfleet, what happened to all those sensors that need re-calibrating and re-aligning?
krunklom@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Yeah beats me. It’s still the best tell since the aughts.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 17 hours ago
This is the problem with modern TV shows. We only have 10 episode seasons now vs the 20+ long ones from the TNG era. If these were all episodes in a season that lasted 20 episodes I doubt we would be seeing as many complaints, but as it is 10 episodes does not leave much room for any change of pace mid season. This season, while in my opinion was quite well written, was a little all over the place and didn’t really seem to have a lot of direction. It really bounced around a lot, which wouldn’t be a problem as much if there was 20 episodes to work with, but when you only have 10 its hard to justify some of the “fun” or experimental episodes.
As an aside. My least favourite episode “This is Starfleet” was also my favourite story in the season and if it was shot as a normal episode I think would have probably be my favourite of the series so far. It really captured the “Classic Trek” vibe for me.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
They need to hate something. Discovery has ended, Lower Decks and Picard too, and Academy isn’t out yet, so what are they gonna hate on?
hallettj@leminal.space 15 hours ago
They set a high bar with the first two seasons.
I felt like there were highlights in season 3. But it also felt uneven. The episodes I liked felt good, but not great. The first two seasons had great episodes.
There was also a distinct lack of social commentary, which I feel is important in Star Trek. The best we got was Terrarium. Definitely a fun episode, but it’s core is a trope we’ve seen a number of times. What Is Starfleet looked like it was thinking about commenting on something, but frantically pulled the ripcord partway through, and went in a direction I wasn’t comfortable with. (Which is too bad because I thought the directing in that episode was very cool.) There’s nothing on the level of Ad Astra Per Aspera. Instead we got 5 episodes of mortal struggle vs unreasoning monsters.
the list of unreasoning monsters
Gorn, plant zombies, the “pure evil” on Vadia IX, the ship-eating ship
dethstrobe@startrek.website 17 hours ago
I also really like Season 3, but I do feel it is the weakest of the 3 seasons we got so far.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
one word: musical.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Agreed. It was still good tho.
troed@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Agree - I enjoyed it a lot.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They boiled down the essence of Enemy Mine into a torn episode, fuck the haters this season was excellent.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Terrarium was pawbably the only genuinely great episode this season, and it still didn’t really do anything new as there have been several Enemy Mine episodes in past series (The Enemy - TNG, Dawn - ENT). This season also had pawbably the worst SNW episode to date in Four-and-a-Half Vulcans, which was just all kinds of problematic.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 5 hours ago
I found four and a half vulcans the weakest episode in my opinion, but a friend of mine loved the episode. My biggest problem with the episode, other than why was it really necessary, was actually pointed out by Kirk in the episode. They didn’t actually even act like Vulcans they were just dicks, Pike especially was uncharacteristically rude and would have never treated anyone the way he treated Spock in the episode.
Most of the season scored between 5-7/10 for me. Terrarium was an 8.5, Vulcans was a 4, This is Starfleet was a 3, but if it was filmed differently could have been so much better. I really this that This is Starfleet had one of the better stories and checks a lot of “Classic Trek” boxes for me.
brem@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Zammis approves.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.
BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Season three was freaking amazing!
It’s like the album your favorite band made when they were trying to get kicked off the label and did all the dumb shit they always wanted to do but didn’t have the money.
Season three is some of the best ST ever made
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 5 hours ago
Somewhere in Season 3 is where I finally completely lost interest. It’s been slowly coming for me for a while. It wasn’t even a conscious decision, I stopped watching mid episode and haven’t cared to start again. I don’t even really remember what was going on (some Gorn related thing). At some point I had pulled out my phone and stopped paying attention.
Apparently, this season seems to be controversial, some people really love it and that’s great. Not here to hate on it or try to take that away from them. But I think post Discovery Trek really isn’t for me and I’m just feeling done.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 4 hours ago
My interest was lost in the Holo deck episode and I havent been back. Does that episode get better?
kuneho@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
to me it’s more like post Enterprise that I just can’t get into anymore. Time to time I try again though, hoping one day I will magically like them.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel’s storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.
I don’t understand why they didn’t just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.
I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives…leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them…as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.
None of this “Universal Star-child” bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.
Maven@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
My entire issue with this season was how they handled the Batel stuff. I thought it was really really interesting and then she just kinda… poof…
Her struggling with being a gorn host wouldve been significantly more interesting and it wouldve made more sense while being sadder.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
It’s usually a bad sign when they have to say that.
The only way anything can be better is when the majority of everyone says it’s better.
Saying it out loud doesn’t make it better.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
the thing plaguing nutrek is the showrunner, plus the constant poor writing, and discontinuity with trek, which really turned off trek fans. Experimented with STD, and picard, yea those shows dont cut it at all. snw needs better acting too.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
“they should keep politics out of Star Trek”
Ah I see the problem here.
The problem is that I thought I had to care about your opinion, when I really, really do not.
Go back and watch literally any episode, ever, and come back and apologize for this embarrassment of a post.princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
[…]the aggressive push of current Political issues.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_and_Uhura's_kiss
In the episode of Star Trek: The Original Series titled “Plato’s Stepchildren”, season 3 episode 10, first broadcast November 22, 1968, Uhura (played by Afro-American actress Nichelle Nichols) and Captain Kirk (played by white actor William Shatner) kiss. The episode is often cited—incorrectly—as the first interracial kiss on television. It was, however, the first instance in which a kiss between a black person and a white person on U.S. television was scripted, as an earlier kiss on Movin’ with Nancy was unscripted. The episode aired one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down nationwide laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
Star Trek has always been political.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I, for one, loved Season 3, NGL. 🤷🏼♂️
k2r@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Season 2 was already meh