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

[fireproof78]

I was under the impression that TNG just split eugenics War and world War 3 into two separate conflicts. One in the 90s, one in the mid 21st. Possibly grouped together colloquially, but not moving the eugenics war or Khan's origin.

It's still a retcon regardless and ignores TOS, which is hardly a surprise given Gene's attitude at the time TNG was written.

was pretty clearly stated that the Eugenics War was the last World War and every series since TNG has made that a mid 21st century conflict. So you can either ignore the 90s dates from Space Seed and WoK, or you can ignore the rest of the franchise from 1987 and onward.

Exactly so. The timeline doesn't line up from TOS.

Yeah, no. The tiny group of people it actually would please are parts of the fandom who should be thoroughly ignored.

Honestly, making it all a fantasy would undermine many people's investment in the show the way Pike resisted the fighting on the Kaylar in The Cage at first.

 

[Ovation]

It would make a whole lot of fans incredibly happy.

Who? All 12 of them? None of whom are going to watch anyway, given its status as “NuTrek garbage” in these hypothetical “whole lot of fans’” eyes? The idea is absurd.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Who? All 12 of them? None of whom are going to watch anyway, given its status as “NuTrek garbage” in these hypothetical “whole lot of fans’” eyes? The idea is absurd.

"Absurd" is being kind. It's more like "Bobby Ewing in the shower" level of stupidity.

 

[fireproof78]

Who? All 12 of them? None of whom are going to watch anyway, given its status as “NuTrek garbage” in these hypothetical “whole lot of fans’” eyes? The idea is absurd.

I still thought Strange New Worlds being cancelled would make these fans celebrate in the streets, and not watch but someone is still forcing them to watch it.

 

[Quinton]

It would be. It would make a whole lot of fans incredibly happy. All of the issues with the show would then be resolved and there would be no reason to hate on it.

My favourite moment in Pike's 46-episode-long dream was when La'an never reported her temporal mission to Pike, who somehow dreamt it, anyway.

 

[Nerys Myk]

TBF Rain Robinson did have a model of a DY-100 in her office

She also had a Talosian action figure. We gonna say that means something?

She’s clearly a Star Trek fan.

 

[fireproof78]

She’s clearly a Star Trek fan.

Star Trek is canon in Star Trek. You heard it here first people!

 

[Mudd]

SNW is part of the same canon timeline as TOS.

The End.

 

[Starflight]

Having a concrete pre-show timeline is disadvantageous IMO, a lot of genre fiction works best when there's a loose, flexible framework rather than a rigid in-universe history. Same for when people try to map the galaxy, it's a fun exercise for fans but there don't need to be distances and locations and travel times worked out for the purposes of the actual series.

I still just ignore WW3 whenever I watch 90s Trek, it never made much sense to me. They can sidestep a lot of the messiness of the timeline by just never bringing it up; the only worldbuilding that really matters for Star Trek storytelling is that the 23rd century is abstractly better than the present, and that Earth has joined with an unspecified number of other planets to form the UFP at some point in the (recent or distant) past.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

It would be. It would make a whole lot of fans incredibly happy. All of the issues with the show would then be resolved and there would be no reason to hate on it.

 

[Leviathan]

I miss the days of 20+ episodes per season.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I miss the days of 20+ episodes per season.

I think we all do.

 

[The Wormhole]

20+ episodes a season can be a real slog on rewatches. Besides, there's usually only ten good episodes anyway.

 

[Nerys Myk]

20+ episodes a season can be a real slog on rewatches. Besides, there's usually only ten good episodes anyway.

So true. I did a Trek TV rewatch years (decades???) ago, TOS to ENT.

 

[Turtletrekker]

20+ episodes a season can be a real slog on rewatches. Besides, there's usually only ten good episodes anyway.

To quote Fry on Futurama, "You know, Star Trek? 79 episodes? About 30 good ones?"

 

[fireproof78]

20+ episodes a season can be a real slog on rewatches. Besides, there's usually only ten good episodes anyway.

20+ is a slog to me. After about 8 to 10 I'm tuning out regardless of quality.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

You're not supposed to watch them all on the same day!

 

[Tuskin38]

I think we all do.

I don't. Unless they're like a 30 minute show or something.

10-13 is perfect for something like Star Trek.

 

[Captain Jollydark]

My favourite moment in Pike's 46-episode-long dream was when La'an never reported her temporal mission to Pike, who somehow dreamt it, anyway.

It's been a while, but now I remember why I chose the "ignore comment" option for Phoenix219.

 

[Turtletrekker]

It's been a while, but now I remember why I chose the "ignore comment" option for Phoenix219.

It's amazing how some people can't comprehend the fact that we don't all worship at the altar of William Shatner as James T. Kirk and actually have legitimate investment in the newer shows.