Star Trek isn't really about "exploring strange new words" or even science/science fiction. Its about people, problems and the problems people face. Science is just the hook those are hung on. I think the bulk of TOS's episodes have a romance angle.
Keeping necessary articles of clothing in the quarters of one's partner is highly logical.
She's one of the show's leads. And a popular character to boot. She's better used than 75% of TNG, VOY or ENT's supposed main characters.
He's a reoccurring character. Like Q, Nog or Rom. He's been in less episodes than you have fingers.
He sits in the chair and gives orders. He also runs meetings to brainstorm the problem of the week. Pretty much in every episode. That's captaining.
She's could be used more. Though I do like the way she acts as Pike "voice of reason".
Ortegas is underused, but Navia shines in every scene she's in. Uhura has had several focus episodes. More so in Seasons 1 and 2.
What difference does that ratio make? How is it less "realistic" that the male dominated casts of past Treks?
Why does any character need to hang out with characters of their own sex?
Welcome to episodic TV. The show tends to have an underlying theme each season. Sorry if you missed it.
yeah...no.
Nope. Weddig Bell Blues is an intentional farce ( look it up). Even Shakespeare was known to do a farce or two as was TOS. Is it a good episode? No. But that's beside the point
Star Trek has been ripping off other properties since The Cage. Sometimes it improves on the source material, sometimes it doesn't.
1. Wow, yeah no. I hope I am in the right board to discuss star trek, a series that is
factually regarded as the
greatest and
most influential science fiction series of all time and I have the metrics to prove it.
The idea that star trek is not about science fiction is ....wow. is this real? Ok.
A lot of post star trek stuff since 2005 like Kelvin Timeline and Discovery has done more science fiction than SNW did in season 3 or even 2. Discovery is actually a lot stronger in the science fiction aspect and even the human and feeling aspect, what was the issue was how good or bad the science fiction was in discovery.
This whole soap opera thing has boiled over, I have seen every critic call this out and even fans. this is the reason season 3 has been poorly received.
This is a tv guide piece, I just read and other op-eds have written more on this matter
https://www.tvguide.com/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-spock-girlfriend/
The Paramount+ drama is shortchanging Spock — and the franchise's progressive legacy
www.tvguide.com
2. Why is Spock sleeping with Khan's niece or relative. how long did it take for Spock to sleep with Chapel when Tpring left him and now he is off to Laan? Gosh I miss the days of Kelvin Trek Spock who still got a lot of flak for dating Uhura for like 5 years without drama and Kelvin Spock is meant to be the fake spock.
In the real aspect of legit criticism, there is just no defense of how they write Spock on this show. There will not even be a defense if Kirk was written like this and Kirk was meant to be the ladies man.
3. I thought the show was an ensemble? Chapel is a nurse but she does more medicine than the actual doctor, is in every staff meeting, decides if kirk is good for a star fleet job even though
she is a civilian. she is in everything and can do anything and you think this is fair because she is popular? yeah, another example of bad writing. let's give a character jobs and work loads that she is not meant to be doing only because she is popular.
This is poor writing or perhaps the creators do not have much faith in their other characters. Have you seen game of thrones? that is how you do a true ensemble.
4. Kirk showing up all the time feels nothing more than a fill in and because they cannot write Pike as a true captain with good screen presence that can command his crew. so they have to remind is that Kirk will be Captain one day. Mount on this show is more of a supporting character. Also why not focus on the actual characters on the show like Ortega and Dr Mengba.
6. Una should be used more- exactly, in the true sense of fashion, Una should be getting more screen time and story lines than Chapel. this show was meant to be a spin off of Mount and Una and Spock right? Is Uhura on this tv show? oh right. I have forgotten.
8. Having more male characters makes a huge difference. TOS Spock always having to play of Kirk and Bones gave the series more weight and balance and also a different view beyond just a mostly female driven perspective.
I find it ridiculous that Spock has all this ladies drama problems and not once does he have male friends to confide in, that is not realistic. The female to male ratio on this show is poor and yes it is affecting the writing.
9. TNG was more episodic than SNW so was TOS and both of this series managed to chun out masterpiece episodes that are not just part of star trek but part of tv history. Episodic TV is not a definition of mediocre writing.
3 4.5 vulcan and wedding blues are examples of poor story telling without any depth. the fact that they ending wedding blues setting up laan/spock in that same episode shows poor writing and little depth and also made spock feeling for chapel very superficial. Jumping from one girl to another is already shallow for a human boy, so doing this to a vulcan like Spock is just sad. Vulcans are supposed to have more wisdom and feel a lot deeper than humans.
Also humans changing into vulcans and have a wrong idea of how vulcan act shows little depth as the writers failed to do their research.
12. Have you heard the phase
steal from the best but make it your own? stealing is ok but when it results to a mediocre versions of the original, you are in trouble and also that is what we call it poor story telling because we have seen the original and it was better.
Star trek should not even be stealing when they series set the bar for the best of science fiction series. Geez I think I am going to avoid some things here, like the whole.... star trek is not about science fiction.
