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

[indranee]

DS9 got away with gimmick comedy episodes because it had much longer seasons.

With ten episodes, it feels like a third of SNW episodes a season are gimmicks

That, in a nutshell, is my point.

 

[Nerys Myk]

DS9 got away with gimmick comedy episodes because it had much longer seasons.

With ten episodes, it feels like a third of SNW episodes a season are gimmicks

Which isn't a bad or good thing.
I didn't care for the first two episodes of this season. One a serious episode and one a comic one. Both are at the bottom the list because they we're as good as the others. The next two were a vast improvement.
SNW is about playing with genre. It usually does it quite well.

 

[Tosk]

It usually does it quite well.

Even though I hated eps 2 and 4 of this season, I agree with you on this.

Before now I had only one true stinker on my personal list, so it's been alarming to add two more within two weeks.

 

[Tuskin38]

I've liked every episode in the series so far.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

DS9 got away with gimmick comedy episodes because it had much longer seasons.

With ten episodes, it feels like a third of SNW episodes a season are gimmicks

But one could argue SNW's genre-hopping the way it does is its identity. A distinction that is a counter argument to accusations of stagnation or franchise fatigue. I dont the believe the latter is a thing personally.

 

[fireproof78]

Which isn't a bad or good thing.
I didn't care for the first two episodes of this season. One a serious episode and one a comic one. Both are at the bottom the list because they we're as good as the others. The next two were a vast improvement.
SNW is about playing with genre. It usually does it quite well.

It's been batting a little above .500 for me. There are a couple of episodes each season I'll skip.

 

[Firebird]

But one could argue SNW's genre-hopping the way it does is its identity. A distinction that is a counter argument to accusations of stagnation or franchise fatigue. I dont the believe the latter is a thing personally.

I appreciate the show is playing with genre and form. It's the execution that sometimes doesn't quite pass muster. However, I'm not insane, so I'm not gonna hold that against the rest of the series.

Episode 304 didn't completely work for me, so I shrug and welcome the next episode and the one after that. Keep 'em coming for the next two-and-a-half seasons! A mixed bag is a Trek tradition, after all.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

There will never be another DS9. There may be dozens of reasons why it did X, Y, or Z better than all the contemporary series. Since there is no way to go back now, Strange New Worlds deserves to be loved or hated on its own merits.