Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

I’d say it was the worst forum on the BBS most of the time. I lost it one time and got my first and only warning I’ve ever had here.

 

I managed to navigate that forum and not get in any signifcant trouble but dang, there were times I couldn't help myself.

 

It's interesting that leaving Federation space into the uncharted frontier was controversial and dangerous for the crew, which implies they mostly spend their time exploring Federation space. Makes sense though because in TNG they were able to get back to Earth rather quickly. Space is big I guess.

 

Earth is a close or as far away as the plot demands.

 

Like Qo'noS being just 80 hours from Earth at the warp speeds of 2151. The peer-reviewed velocity of storytelling convenience.

 

In TOS S1 they got back to Earth in Tomorrow Is Yesterday. Yes it was 1967; but Spock stated they were on a course in that direction when they encountered the black star that threw them further in said direction. The point being that they were very much in range of Earth when the situation occurred.

Then in TOS S2, we have Assignment Earth, where the Enterprise is specifically ordered to return to Earth via time travel to the year 1968.

The point being: as stated above, Earth is always only as close as the plot requires.

 

Even in TOS they were within Federation space a majority of the time, and visit Earth and other Federation core worlds like Vulcan a few times.

 

The analogies between the 23rd century and 18th-19th century European colonization of the world were very close in TOS, and intentionally so. The Federation might have considered a great deal of unexplored space to be part of "Federation space."

 

I wish I had.

The Haters were merciless.
(was also why I left for awhile after the last episode aired)

 

I both enjoyed the Hell out the forum and detested some of the content. Some posters just made things unpleasant or at the very least awkward.

 

Trek Movie: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wins Saturn Award For Best Streaming Sci-Fi Series
https://trekmovie.com/2022/10/26/st...aturn-award-for-best-streaming-sci-fi-series/

 

Well deserved.

 

I love this show.

I'm currently experiencing my first-ever glitch with P+, though. I've been trying to watch the first episode of SNW, and apparently the last time I watched it was right at the end of the end credits. When I go to start the episode, it takes me right to the last second of the end credit and starts episode 2. There's no landing page where I can hit "start over"

 

The whole interface is messed up up since they put the ads into the episodes themselves and didn't adjust the controls and auto-skip to reflect the additional runtime

 

If you try watching from the Keep Watching row, you are indeed taken to the last point you left off at. You must add the show to your List, and when clicking, you are taken to the series' page where you can select the episode and given the option to resume or start from begining.
Curious design choice, that could use tweaking.

 

What I find interesting is the Canadian version of Paramount+ specifically "erases" an episode's status as having been watched after ten days or so specifically to avoid this very problem.

 

That doesn't sound like a really good option either. Both ways feel like bad coding to me. It doesn't sound like a difficult algorithm to solve.

 

Is that why the preview slider box doesn't match up with actual show? On the plus side, I can fast forward through commercials now. For a while there I couldn't watch it on my computer at all since it thought I had a certain unmentionable add-on turned on even when I didn't, even on a virgin browser.

 

Yeah, you can skip through the ads now, but the slider doesn't include the ads, and it jumps to the next episode before the current one is over

 

Same. I started making sure I rewind the current episode I watched back to the beginning before exiting, leaves it set up for another viewing.