Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x09 - "Subspace Rhapsody"
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Look, all I want as a One True Star Trek fan is for everything to be exactly the same as I remembered it, but also completely different with no surprises but a lot of suspense.
so then the episode is a pre-destination paradox. Boimler was always supposed to go back in time and put their break up into motion.
I wonder what the timeline looks like where he doesn’t and the two are living happily together.
They vacation on Wrigley's pleasure planet.
Which is fine and all but SNW is cutting close to TOS in its mold and they never had consequences..TWOK was the first time someone said, "I'll bet that Khan guy is really pissed off."
There are some pretty good Trek episodes where it's just a character's life or future that's at stake.
"For the Uniform(DS9)" is one angry Starfleet Captain's vendetta against another Starfleet officer who not only betrayed his uniform but betrayed him. And the episode ends with a planet's atmosphere rendered toxic and its surface uninhabitable because one man wanted to get back at another.
uninhabitable to the Maquis. I think the Cardassians could still live there. It was the reverse of what Eddington did.
And, on a more personal level, the fact that their relationship isn't even a footnote in Spock's biographies down the road did not exactly bode well for their long-term prospects.
"Oh, this passionate romance you're having now? Nobody even knows or cares about it in the future. It's completely forgotten by history."
That's gotta sting.
Works on a meta level, too. "Why, some people still insist that your whole love story isn't even canon!"
I love those. It’s a lot easier to be emotionally invested in one person’s fate than that of millions/billions. That many is too impersonal.
I just described what an ‘edge’ is to me; I didn’t subscribe to the idea that there always needs to be one in Trek. Trying to be edgy all the time is a good way to end up with a shitshow. But if there’s never any lasting consequences there aren’t any real stakes, either, and that’s how a drama peters out.
Made him some soup and hosted his Katra didn't make the cut.
It was the 1960s. They made every episode self contained so people wouldn't feel lost if they missed an episode. They couldn't binge or record tv back in those days. So they did the right thing.
Fair. I disagree on drama petering out but I appreciate your explanation.
They had soap operas and nighttime drama series.
Soap operas had way more episodes a year. They had ton of flashbacks because they the airtime to do it. Basically filler time. A regular tv show did not have that luxury.
"Oh, that wife Spock eventually gets in the 24th century wedding DECADES from now? She's in the books. You? Not even a paragraph."
More episodes means more chances to miss episodes. They could, and did, do serialized story telling before VCR's. Yes, they did do episodic TV for the sake of casual viewers but serialized TV shows were there too for those who could handle it.
Soaps were the redheaded stepchild of TV. Cranking them out live five days a week, but no respect.
No weekly serials come to mind from the 60s. But I think there were some.