Strange New Worlds disappointment

[Tomalak]

I'm genuinely surprised they are moving this quickly. That's uncommon these days.

It's not that unusual. Post-production takes so much longer now with the demand on VFX houses, that principle photography often wraps well over a year before the series gets to air.

They've done exactly the same thing with Starfleet Academy. The final season of Stranger Things started filming in January 2024 and won't be released until the end of November.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

It's not been strange or new enough this season, very uneven and fairly unoriginal.

 

[ichab]

Done to death in DISCO.

I stopped watching disco during season 2 so......

 

[fireproof78]

I stopped watching disco during season 2 so......

That was from Season 2

 

[Sketcher]

I'm kinda for a SNW mirror universe episode. It'd be nice if they do it like Enterprise and there aren't any characters crossing over. Feel like they'd use the episode to show how Mirror Kirk took command from Mirror Pike.

 

[cooleddie74]

Which we know from TOS happened through assassination.

 

[Tomalak]

Likely supported by Spock, as it was logical.

 

[aquova]

I agree with much of the sentiment here. I found this to be the weakest season of SNW by far, but it still was better than all of DISCO and PIC for me.

I like this website as it plots the user ratings (I think from IMDB?) on a plot, so you can get a sense of the general consensus about a show. It's not a perfect metric, especially for comparing between shows, but it gives a good sense for which episodes are the most and least liked within a series

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022-) ratings - Rating Graph

Graphs about ratings and trends of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds TV show based on 142641 user ratings.

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Four of the bottom five (actually six, since #5 is a tie) episodes were in season 3 -- What is Starfleet?, A Space Adventure Hour, Wedding Bell Blues, and Four-and-a-Half Vulcans, with only season 1's The Elysium Kingdom being more disliked. Funnily enough, I'm not sure these are my bottom four of the season, but I do understand the sentiment. On the flip side though, The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail is currently tied for the 5th best received episode, so there's that.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Imdb users dont like comedy it seems

 

[eschaton]

I went back and reviewed my feelings for other recent seasons of Trek, and I don't think the dropoff for SNW was as bad as in LDS's final season, which was pretty mediocre until we got to the very end of the season.

 

[Tosk]

Imdb users dont like comedy it seems

Or IMDb users like comedy just fine but found those episodes to be bad comedy.

 

[fireproof78]

Imdb users dont like comedy it seems

Comedy is highly subjective.