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Poll If SNW continues right up until Pike's accident should they remake/recontextualize The Menagerie?
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I've been thinking along the same line. We don't see what happens to Pike after "Menagerie". And we also don't know what happens to Number One after "The Cage" or M'Benga after TOS so there's a lot of room to play around. Ortegas and La'an are really clean slates, but I would really like to see what her reaction to "Space Seed" and later "Wrath of Khan" would be.
I hope they keep "The Menagerie" as canon, especially since they are spending so much time having Pike struggle with the fate that awaits him, but after "The Menagerie" they basically can do what they want, with no canon stopping them.
I'm hoping that they hold off on Scotty for Season 2 or 3 even so that can also give them another character they have more freedom with. That said, I wouldn't mind a younger Sulu getting the Cadet Uhura treatment. Him as a botanist would be different enough than what the audience mostly knows him for.
I'm not sure we'd ever see that, since both of those events take place after SNW.
QoM had some significant issues.
That said, either a shot-for-shot remake of Menagerie with the SNW cast and Kirk era Ent characters, or an adaptation from Pike's POV using his crew.
Done right, it would be amazing. Done badly and you've pissed off the fans.
Solution? "unscheduled" bonus episode aired after the official series finale.
I feel that accusations of ableism are far out of left field considering the nature of Pike's injuries, essentially being trapped in a dead body.
The existence of STRANGE NEW WORLDS doesn't make TOS go away. It's still right there on Paramount + or on Blu-ray.
I never said that TOS was going away.
Jumping forward in time to see Captain number one visit Talos would be a nice epilogue to the series.
Instead of remaking TOS, follow Pike after his promotion.
Why?
I guess the name of the show isn't Star Trek: Enterprise, so perhaps all the non-TOS characters could continue on another ship... I really don't see it happening, though.
1 season doesn't have to be one year. We could get 10 seasons of SNW in MASH-time, all taking place within a vague period. iirc, they had the time of Pike's accident jump around from 10 years in the first few episodes to 6 years by the season end.
1 season doesn't have to be one year. We could get 10 seasons of SNW in MASH-time, all taking place within a vague period. iirc, they had the time of Pike's accident jump around from 10 years in the first few episodes to 6 years by the season end.
That absurd Strange New Worlds crossover killed any possibility for Pike to be cured after Menagerie. Before that episode there was nothing in Canon preventing it. Now with Boimler and Mariner going on about how Pike's believed to be crippled until death up to the 24th century, they cut out the obvious escape route to have Pike cured after Menagerie. The episode (like a lot of Lower Decks in my opinion) wasn't even funny.
It was great!
Yeah I'm gonna agree that LD is easily the most overly praised modern Trek series I've seen. I really don't get it, but humor is subjective and apparantly everyone loves callbacks so, there ya go. I don't see the appeal of Deadpool either. Totally lost on me.
I would love for NSW to toss aside all canon, let Pike have an injury free happy ending, put Spock and Christine together and kill Jim Kirk at the conclusion of the series.
I need to see the exact wording of the dialogue in question.
"Maybe" is entirely non-committal, so "Maybe" it is.
