Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[StarMan]

Really starting to look forward to this.

Been a long while since I've watched some random Trek. Given SNW is meant to be more episodic I thought I'd sample several Berman-era episodes. Watched VOY's Hope and Fear, TNG's First Contact & The Defector & DS9's Duet. I hadn't realized how much I missed just putting an episode of Trek on and enjoying a story with a well-defined beginning, middle and end.

 

[Yistaan]

M'Benga is up

https://twitter.com/StarTrekOnPPlus/status/1509485662810091522?t=NUu6zd-B01Mj3Tihje6jgQ&s=19

Spoiler

So now we know without a doubt M'Benga is chief medical officer, and he's not just a doctor working under an unseen CMO (Boyce or Piper). What in the galaxy happened between this show and TOS that results in M'Benga losing CMO job to McCoy?

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Spoiler

So now we know without a doubt M'Benga is chief medical officer, and he's not just a doctor working under an unseen CMO (Boyce or Piper). What in the galaxy happened between this show and TOS that results in M'Benga losing CMO job to McCoy?

M'Benga could simply have decided to go onto another assignment or something to not be on a starship for a while?

 

[fireproof78]

Spoiler

So now we know without a doubt M'Benga is chief medical officer, and he's not just a doctor working under an unseen CMO (Boyce or Piper). What in the galaxy happened between this show and TOS that results in M'Benga losing CMO job to McCoy?

Spoiler

He does a residency on Vulcan

 

[fireproof78]

Those cots look pretty inappropriate to a 23rd century ship TBH.

Looks like an emergency situation. Cots are a simple design for a reason.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I’ve been thinking about who ‪‪I’d most like to see appear as Robert April in SNW, and ‪‪I think it’d be Wes Studi.

He’s great in everything, and ‪‪I think would have the gravitas of an elder statesman/the first captain of the Federation’s first Enterprise.

Agreed. A great choice.

COTS!

Cots must LEVITATE!

And have blue glowy bits!

THAT is a 23rd century cot design.

Slackers! #ShowRuined

 

[Yistaan]

The Enterprise (and maybe Starfleet as a whole) obviously went through some severe budget cuts (yes, the Fed don't use money but they still use assets and resources) between Pike and Kirk.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Now, every little bit I find myself refreshing YouTube, just to see if a new character trailer has come up!

 

[cooleddie74]

It looks like a nice hybrid of the TOS Sickbay and Phlox's from ENT. And M'Benga's office is a near-replica of McCoy's complete with the shelving for alien skulls and knicknacks.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

It looks like a nice hybrid of the TOS Sickbay and Phlox's from ENT. And M'Benga's office is a near-replica of McCoy's complete with the shelving for alien skulls and knicknacks.

As well as knicknacks found in alien skulls and trumpet mutes!

 

[Noname Given]

The Enterprise (and maybe Starfleet as a whole) obviously went through some severe budget cuts (yes, the Fed don't use money but they still use assets and resources) between Pike and Kirk.

Sorry, but while maybe you can claim by the 24th century, the Federation no longer use the money; in the 23rd century of Pike and Kirk's time, the Federation definitely still used money and money was specifically referenced in many a TOS episode.

 

[Paul755]

Man, Bev Crusher and Geordi would love to have a sickbay and main engineering that big.

I’m very curious to see what todays production designers will do for the inevitable TNG visual reboot.

 

[cooleddie74]

McCoy in TOS implied at least once that some data had to be processed in "the lab," which could have been an unseen room of his Sickbay and analogous to some of what we see M'Benga operating in during the SNW timeframe.

 

[thribs]

Enterprise wasn’t the flagship back then.

 

[Tuskin38]

Enterprise wasn’t the flagship back then.

Nothing says it wasn't.

 

[cooleddie74]

Hell, after TOS I had the impression she was. Works for me.

 

[UssGlenn]

Enterprise wasn’t the flagship back then.

No, we had no data one way or the other. At least now we can stop arguing about it.

 

[cooleddie74]

It would make sense that the Constitution-class starship that had served so prominently under Robert April and Christopher Pike would be the flagship by the time James Kirk took command. Also, it's the same name as the United Earth Starfleet flagship of a century before, one of the most important exploratory vessels in human history.

Why not make the Enterprise NCC-1701 the flagship? She has a history both direct and indirect.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

It would make sense that the Constitution-class starship that had served so prominently under Robert April and Christopher Pike would be the flagship by the time James Kirk took command. Also, it's the same name as the United Earth Starfleet flagship of a century before, one of the most important exploratory vessels in human history.

Why not make the Enterprise NCC-1701 the flagship? She has a history both direct and indirect.

And she was the one assigned to some of the most dangerous or prestigious missions through the course of the series (M-5 simulation, the assignment Kirk diverted away from in "Amok Time" with the ship being the representative of Starfleet, etc.)

 

[cooleddie74]

And the way Kirk's career is referenced by future Starfleet officers and historians there's no way the Enterprise wasn't at the forefront of Federation news on many occasions, thus being the face of Starfleet. The flagship.