Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

I think it's fine and competently made but... all my critiques of The Orville (it's warm nostlagia, nothing we haven't seen loads of times before, reheated plots cobbled from multiple episodes) apply here.

Discovery season 2 is still peak modern Trek for me.

 

So, no Enterprise?

As we saw with Rutherford in an episode of Lower Decks: Starfleet is very chill about people wanting to try out new departments.

It's quintessential modern live action Trek for me, and not in a good way.

 

Yeah, other than Pike there's nothing to like about STD season 2.

 

So now that season 1 has officially aired , and season 2 is in the can, how long until we get a season 3 announcement?

 

SNW is so much better than DSC and PIC it isn't even funny.

 

Una and Spock were nice as well.

 

Agreed and I actually like the other two series.

 

Considering how random this tweet from Sam Witwer (voice of Maul, Doomsday in Smallville, etc.) is and that Season 2 is filming or has already filmed (I'm not entirely up to speed on SNW's filming schedule), I'm going to guess that Witwer has already been cast as Sybok and he let it slip mostly unnoticed on social media disguised as a casting wish. (For what it's worth, Henry Cavill also "wished" to be Geralt from Witcher publicly well after he'd already been cast behind the scenes)

https://twitter.com/SamWitwer/status/1544363273193078784

 

It finished a couple weeks ago.

 

Sam is welcome in whatever role!

 

According to The Ready Room, Season 2 is going to take more risks, play it less safe.

They're also going to do something that Henry says Trek has never done before.

New Lounge in SNW Season 2. They created it because the regular Mess Hall used the AR wall set, which meant it could only be used sparingly. Called the 'Port Side Lounge'.

 

I wonder what "more risks" and "play it less safe" mean exactly.

 

Thinning out the cast!

 

I don't want to say good-bye... best first season since TOS.

 

That actually has more of an art deco feel that TOS was known for. I can totally buy that being a bar in TOS on some Starbase. The colors and shapes are really good.

 

Creative way to light the set and actors, too.

 

Maybe their scripts to stop being like fan fiction or even better stop copying anything Star Trek (and not only). Write their own aliens, own mysteries and own stories instead of "borrowing" from everything sci-fi out here.
I love this cast and it is a shame they are trapped in recycling stories. I wish TPTB of the ST universe to leave TOS in peace and move on. Of course this is not possible for SNW... damn prequels!

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cft_BUiLfYs/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Maybe this has already been said but it's now clear the "uniform change" was only for the timeline shenanigans of ep10. We could see a change somewhere down the line, but it looks like it won't be during S2.

 

6 days ago - on 7/1/22.