I fully enjoyed all three seasons, hope you do too!

F-in' Riker...

Season 3 was pretty wild. Lots of fan service! Nice reunion with the original cast. Seven gets her own ship and the cliff hanger tag could both be spin offs.

Starting Strange New Worlds now! 🤘

I'd certainly read that

After seeing all the favourable comments here, I bought the first season on DVD. I only saw the first episode, but found it pretty good.

Pros:

The cast meshes quite well, and without trying to emulate the old dynamic of TOS or TNG manages to create its own. Black Bolt as Captain Pike is quite convincing, and the guy playing Spock does a pretty good job despite the size of the shoes he has to fill. 

The bridge looks awesome. The updated uniforms are a great mix of nostalgia and current fashions.

Chapel and Uhura had more things to do here than in most of the three original seasons of TOS!

Good, optimistic message very much in the Star Trek original philosophy.


Cons: 

This is a lost battle, I know, but I really dislike the video game aesthetics so common to modern visual science-fiction. The ships, planets and space vistas look colourful and exciting, but they don't look like ships, planets and space vistas. 2001: A Space Odyssey had more convincing imagery, and by far.

I'm not keen on the idea of Pike knowing what's in store for him.

Already too much incestuous plot lines and coincidences making the universe smaller. Samuel Kirk served on the Enterprise? Gah.

The Vulcans... It's not difficult to write to play a Vulcan right, in my opinion. They must appear either emotionless, or very much in control of their emotions. To many actors, it's interpreted as having Vulcans act annoyed most of the time, like grownups having a hard time tolerating the antics of immature children. (Other actors in the past, mostly in minor roles, just didn't seem to be aware of the Vulcans' nature; they played them as ordinary humans with funny ears). I thought that everyone involved in Amok Time, way back when, had found just the right tone; in this first episode of Strange New Worlds, however, Vulcans act more prissy than logical. Furthermore, I really much preferred their "finger kiss" to the ordinary kind displayed here; it looked alien, formal and endearing at the same time; a moment of intimacy that was all intellect and no hormones.


Could go either way :

I dislike retcons, but with shows set earlier in the Trek universe they are almost unavoidable. That being said, there are enough little discrepancies now to convince me that this series (and Discovery, from what I've seen) are set in a slightly different timeline than that of TOS, TNG and DS9. So the continuity purist in me can just enjoy the show and not mind if Spock suddenly has a human sister, if the Gorn were known years before Arena, or if the Enterprise looks way more modern under Pike than it did under Kirk.

Overall impression : pretty good, actually, and I look forward to more episodes.

After a few episodes of Strange New Worlds, I note that the good old Star Trek tradition of nonsensical technobabble is maintained.



The mere proximity of a genetically modified human causes the production of chimeric antibodies against alien diseases in our system? By Newton, it's a good thing that a reversed flow of tetryon particles didn't also cause the polymerization of our molecular DNA's lymphocytes! It might have caused the collapse of a CRISPER-Cas wave function!

Does anyone know of any places that still sell the 10.5 inch Eaglemoss model of the Enterprise A? Mine was broken this week, and they're sold out everywhere.