Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x01 - "Strange New Worlds"

I'm happy and a little surprised to see so many people enjoying this episode so much!

Personally I'm leaning more towards the 'Here are my 50 reasons why Strange New Worlds is the WORST TREK EVER' side (leaning a little bit more), but I'll spare you my negativity and talk about some of the things I liked.

I liked how La'an seems to be doing okay after the transporter accident that created her from Malcolm Reed and Tasha Yar (no seriously, I liked the character). I liked all the characters in fact and the sets look as pretty in motion as they do in photos. I liked that the episode had its heart in the right place and seems to be taking most of the continuity seriously. The foundations are here for a decent series I reckon.

 

I'm not talking just about the pylons. I said "the entire proportions of a ship". You'd have to take the ship entirely apart three time -- that we know of -- in her history. That's only technically feasible under the most extreme interpretation. The truth of the matter is that a LOT of the things that change during the franchise have no real in-world explanation and in some cases are downright impossible, but for some reason, an asian rather than a caucasian is where we draw the line.

 

The thread creator made a error, they admitted this.

Who says it is? With a crew of only 3 it could be a smaller ship.

George is his first name, Sam is his middle name.

They were investigating the the warp signature. They thought it was a warp engine, but their sensors weren't advanced enough to tell it wasn't.

Nah it was confirmed to be intentional.

Well he's not.

 

Really loved it, ship looks amazing, crew seem fun, Chapel has somehow managed to out do Detmer as my dream woman, the Earth bit at the end really hit me too. Even most of my gripes are the old fashioned not important types.
I do wish Spock wasnt again tied to a secret character. 2 siblings and now a Noonien Singh and a Kirk and Ive always hated small universe stuff.
Anyone else think the Kylies were an homage to the Buffy vampires ?
Also Pikes house seemed like a call back to Kirks house in Forever Christmas land

 

No, no. Forever Christmas Land was Picard's fever dream. Kirk's was Forever Breakfast Land, which is what we got here.

 

Likely the cherry on top of the discontinuity sundae. It isn't that one can't make the leap, but it is just the biggest leap they're asking people to make yet (there really is no real world connection that can be made) after asking them to make a lot of other leaps for this all to be "Prime". Changing Robert April's race isn't a dealbreaker for me, in and of itself, it is just more the big straw that breaks the camel's back.

Some folks are willing to go farther than others.

 

Then they are simply stupid. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

As others have mentioned, Sam, not George. Yes, he’s George Kirk, Jr., but he goes by Sam, and in both this episode and TOS he’s referred to as Sam.

And no, that’s not Paul Wesley with a mustache. ‪‪I made a joke earlier about being unable to process that not being the case. Sam Kirk is played by Dan Jeannotte, and that is defintiely the better decision, just like casting Rebecca Romijn as Number One/Una, and Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, rather than trying to be overly cute in lining up with casting limitations of the past instead of treating each character as truly unique characters worth giving backstory to.

 

I nearly did a double-take. Was that the Cerritos the aliens were seeing?

Major wins for the art department for this episode. It looked like a hundred million dollar production!

 

I didn't miss that. None of that explains how she would have known that Pike's plan was to beam down disguised as the natives at a genetic level or had time to create these injections specifically for those three officers. Pike didn't even explain his plan, he simply said "Let's go see the Doctor" and the rest played out as if M'Benga and Chapel had known this plan for a while.

 

It's not new, they just made a labelling error.

How do people keep attaching my name to quotes that aren't from me lol

No, it only had one nacelle.

 

Probably because over the course of a season they've spent a hundred million dollars on it.

 

No, it was a one-nacelle survey or science ship named the U.S.S. Archer.

 

It is true to Star Trek in one regard at least, it takes place in very compressed time frames. Spock making it from Vulcan to Earth in a couple of hours, Chapel being able to whip up a genome resequencer in a few minutes...

 

if I am been honest I thought discovery was a bit stronger for a first episode. This episode was average. I think people are more into the cast than the plain plot of the episode

 

I did immediately notice the nacelle pylon is very reminiscent of the California-class.

 

Sure, the time frame is a little easier to explain away, but the way it's presented I don't even see how she knew that was even the plan to begin with.

 

It's like a nod to both the California-class of the late 24th century and Ptolemy-class tugs of the 23rd century.

 

Maybe she anticipated the possible need and worked on it on the way from Earth to Kiley 90210?