News Strange New Worlds casting/new characters
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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I'm still cautiously optimistic for SNW, but all this talk of randomly switching up one of the few Pike era characters we knew doesn't bode well for me.
That happened on DISCO. We've no idea if Colt is in SNW.
Except we don't know her.
We have zero conclusive information presented in episode, in either case, of whom this character is to be. So, "it doesn't bode well" is just borrowing trouble for a problem that doesn't really exist.
Colt, whomever ther character ends up being, won't likely be the main focus. It will be Pike, Number One and Spock. The rest will be supporting characters who occasionaly get to say "Aye, Captain."
This is coming from a person who's favorite captain is Pike, who's favorite Yeoman is Colt, then Smith, and who prefers the New Voyages comics to Discovery. None of that is going to matter in the production of Strange New Worlds. So if this possible misunderstanding of an unnamed character in on screen continuity doesn't bode well then it doesn't bode well to me that the show will be enjoyable.
SNW to premier on Paramount+ in Latin America
https://trekmovie.com/2021/06/24/st...-worlds-headed-to-paramount-in-latin-america/
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Why have new characters when we can have old ones? Who can show up on SNW without breaking continuity? Ironically, Harry Mudd doesn't know Spock in TOS, so he can't appear unless he misses Spock even though he's already been reintroduced. Sybok? General Chang? Young Admiral Cartwright? Garth of Izar? T'Pau?
Because space is 
ing big and Star Trek is more than fan service! 
ing big and Star Trek is more than fan service! 
In Smallville and Gotham, Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne met all the characters they "should" have only met once they were older. No reason Trek can't do the same (it pretty much already did in the Kelvinverse movies)
No reason at all save for its a terrible idea and makes space look inconceivably small by comparison. Smallville indeed.
I know two characters I wouldn't mind showing up: A) Scott Bakula as Admiral Jonathan Archer and B) Robert April.
April makes sense. Archer does not. Anymore than McCoy did on TNG.
Which is exactly why they're going to do it.
Except that McCoy was a beloved classic character and Archer is...Archer.
Beloved doesn't mean it makes sense.
Sure it does. It's all context. TNG was the first Trek spin-off ever. Seeing a TOS character -- who, after the show, had only been in movies every two years to that point -- pass the baton to the new ship on TV was 100% appropriate and fun. Having Archer in SNW would make no sense, other that bringing back a sub-par character for ... what? Anyway, isn't he supposed to be dead by this point? I thought Archer supposedly died a day after the Enterprise launched (under April).
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Fun, maybe. Appropriate. No.
According to the files from the Defiant as seen in IAMD, but Enterprise itself didn't even adhere to that as info about Shran also available in Archer's file was quickly contradicted in TATV.
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