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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season

Surprised they publicly announced it would be ending so soon.
Why? They're filming the 4th season now - so IMO better to just okay the 5th so the Writers room (which they feel has been good for the run of the series) stays together and they get full use out of the Canadian studio before maybe the shit hits the fan WRT the merger.

It also preps the hard core fans and maybe even makes them be sure to tune into all the 26 remaining episodes.

TLDR: There's really zero downside and if PICARD and Discovery are any indication, a marketing upside.
 
We still don't know what Skydance is going to do, assuming the merger happens. With this much run-up time anything could happen. they could even uncancel it. Stranger things have happened.
 
Why? They're filming the 4th season now - so IMO better to just okay the 5th so the Writers room (which they feel has been good for the run of the series) stays together and they get full use out of the Canadian studio before maybe the shit hits the fan WRT the merger.

It also preps the hard core fans and maybe even makes them be sure to tune into all the 26 remaining episodes.

TLDR: There's really zero downside and if PICARD and Discovery are any indication, a marketing upside.
Given the intensely negative response to any cancellation notices for shows I don't blame them. They're try to avoid any backlash further than what will occur
 
Pike's accident isn't the reason Kirk takes command, the accident doesn't happen until around 2 years later, if we go by Memory-Alpha's dating.

It happens either around 2267 based off Spock's dialogue in The Menagerie, or in 2266 if we go off Spock's dialogue in SNW Season 1 finale.

Or 2269 if we go by Pike's dialogue in an earlier episode of season 1, but we can just pretend he was rounding up for some reason.

My theory is that was the writer accidentally counted from the Discovery Season 2 episode where Pike finds out, which took place in 2257.
 
Pike's accident isn't the reason Kirk takes command, the accident doesn't happen until around 2 years later, if we go by Memory-Alpha's dating.

It happens either around 2267 based off Spock's dialogue in The Menagerie, or in 2266 if we go off Spock's dialogue in SNW Season 1 finale.

I suspect the exact letter of the Menagerie won't be held to, certainly not the implication (it was implied that Kirk met Pike when Kirk took command, and that was it - we've seen a far closer relationship so far). I wouldn't worry about the integrity of the record tapes on the Enterprise for example.
 
When Kirk first sees Pike in TOS, he calls him Chris and talks very informally to him, that implies they knew each other more than just a command hand over.
I think the line was something like "I met him when he was promoted to fleet captain". There was an ep in SNW where they temporarily promoted Pike to fleet captain and then he met Kirk.....
 
Even if it were the case that they didn't know one another, I'd be fine with retconning that. It's more interesting than Kirk just being some rando who takes command.
 
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