To be fair, Star Trek fans are literally the OGs of worrying about something the creators never intended to give Professor Tolkien-esque seriousness.
(And he made the Hobbit)
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"
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To be fair, Star Trek fans are literally the OGs of worrying about something the creators never intended to give Professor Tolkien-esque seriousness.
(And he made the Hobbit)
So here's a question, do you think they knew that Amelia Moon was an actual book series from 2024?
Well, that was thoroughly stupid. The campy retro scenes were more suited to Black Mirror's "USS Callister" or The Orville than a Star Trek show, the mystery was bad, and yet again we get a SNW episode where the actors are playing alternate characters and encouraged to ham it up. I really have no idea why the show would want to do "The Elysian Kingdom" again, as it was bad enough the first time.
And I REALLY hated the
2 out of 10. Honestly, this season is pretty dire so far. The goofiness has taken over the show and it's almost impossible to take it seriously any more. About the only good thing I can say about this episode is that at least it burned off its unfunny TOS parody along with its unfunny Clue/Knives Out parody in a single episode instead of doing an episode each on them. I just want fun, dramatic, or thought provoking Star Trek stories, but apparently the series wants to do anything but that now.
And I REALLY hated the
Spock/La'an romance at the end. The last thing I want to see on SNW is a stupid love triangle, but damned if they aren't serving one up like it's a CW show.
2 out of 10. Honestly, this season is pretty dire so far. The goofiness has taken over the show and it's almost impossible to take it seriously any more. About the only good thing I can say about this episode is that at least it burned off its unfunny TOS parody along with its unfunny Clue/Knives Out parody in a single episode instead of doing an episode each on them. I just want fun, dramatic, or thought provoking Star Trek stories, but apparently the series wants to do anything but that now.
Not just that. To me, it's highly annoying that Spock is being used as SNW's romantic hub to the extent that I cringe every time I see him doing moon eyes at someone... ANYONE. Obviously, they're trying to somehow beef up the character's hitherto latent love life by making it overt, but the writing is so below par as to make this a soap opera. Is he going to go through every skirt on the bridge (and elsewhere) by the time this thing ends?!
Anyway, I'm just going to make this short and say I couldn't stand this episode from beginning to the very end. And, no, I love fun episodes AND "ship in a bottle" (yes, I said that) stories. But they need to be written well. This deserves a big, fat, ZERO, but there ain't no zero up there, so I give it a one. We get only 10 episodes, people. Are they already creatively so bankrupt that this one got out of the shit pile?!
Most boring episode this series has done. Gave it a 1 out of 10 which I've never done before. The beginning with the nod to TOS was cool, but once it got into Clue territory I simply lost interest. Clearly these type of stories are not in the writer's wheelhouse. If you're going to do a holodeck or who dun it episode, make it more interesting than this.
Id also add if your going to have your cast spend so much time as other characters, watch DS9 FAR Beyond The Stars to see how its done right
Also enough with Spock romances. Tpring was one thing, but then Chapel and now Laa'n. I didn't know that "To boldy go " meant Spock's journey through female officers.
Id also add if your going to have your cast spend so much time as other characters, watch DS9 FAR Beyond The Stars to see how its done right
Also enough with Spock romances. Tpring was one thing, but then Chapel and now Laa'n. I didn't know that "To boldy go " meant Spock's journey through female officers.
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Yeah, it feels at this point like the show is becoming a vehicle for the writers to amuse themselves and give the actors a chance to mess around, all wrapped inside the pop cultural memory of Star Trek. There's nothing inherently wrong with that in itself, but it is a shame that this is the only live action Star Trek series currently on TV and in its first season seemed to promise to be the modern-day answer to TOS/TNG/Voyager, only to pivot so hard into fanfic tropes and constant meta stuff.
I still can't put my finger on what it was about the Star Trek parody in this episode that wrongfooted me so much. Maybe it's just the sense of having it dangled before us like that - "here's a send-up of the show you miss and want more of and which we share a title with, now let's dive back into Spock's latest YA romance and this week's genre pastiche".
They actively mine either tos or tng in episodes. This one did both. Enough is enough. I want some fresh storytelling. No trelane, no zombies, no holodeck, no making fun of TOS. Just give us some new fresh ideas. We've got 6 episodes left. We are unfortunately going to get another comedy. So that leaves us with 5 possible serious episodes left with what I hope is original ideas.
Your creative bones are waaay better than the ones writing the show.
And forgot details.
To be frank, I do think there's some flaws of this episode, it feels like the creators have run out of ideas when they had a lot more to work on.
The Augment Ban, Time Travel, Khan, The Gorn, Pike's doomed future, Spock's brother and more.
They have seemingly done a LOT more silliness, instead. Do we really have room for this, Trelane, AND puppets?
The Augment Ban, Time Travel, Khan, The Gorn, Pike's doomed future, Spock's brother and more.
They have seemingly done a LOT more silliness, instead. Do we really have room for this, Trelane, AND puppets?
I'll save every one of us!
If a character mentions biofilters, you can be sure they missed something.
The biofilters in "The Enemy Within" failed to prevent the Kirk transporter duplicate from being created, and that was in a story set five years AFTER this week's Strange New Worlds.
See, now, that I can get with. I've always felt that Cage Spock had a teeny tiny thing for Number One.
It’s one book.
No, this is the writers going back to the more serialized storytelling that made Star Trek so enjoyable.
Which is more then enough.
Community had the advantages of:
1) Being a sitcom, and
2) Actually being funny.
Honestly, I think that applies to most every romantic interest Spock had in TOS's 3rd season. Droxine, Zarabeth, the Romulan Commander... None of them were smart enough for Spock to be attracted to them, IMO.
100% agreed. It's like watching a 10 episode season of TOS where every other episode is trying to be a comedy like "I, Mudd," "A Piece of the Action," or "The Trouble With Tribbles." It just gets exhausting.
Because these shows are all failures from the start, or become absolutely the worst by the third season.
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