Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"

[fireproof78]

and to all TOS fans.

This TOS fan was not insulted.

Perhaps this episode was the SNW creators’s way of telling the audience that they’ll give the fans what they want so that they (the creators) can make a living, but they think it is beneath them.

What a bullshit statement and it assumes a state of mind not anywhere close to what of shared by the producers.

SNW generally emphasizes entertaining stories. That is their purpose. They have thinly-veiled social messages like TOS did, but they are secondary to the story

That was TOS purpose too, straight out of the writer's bible. Entertainment first.

 

[Starflight]

Perhaps this episode was the SNW creators’s way of telling the audience that they’ll give the fans what they want so that they (the creators) can make a living, but they think it is beneath them.

I don't think this is their intent at all - the parody clearly has come across as tone-deaf to many people (including me), but it's definitely not a case of them going "we hate TOS, we hate you, here's us taking the piss".

The worst you could say - and the explanation I'd probably go with - is that some of the production staff on SNW feel that their show is offering a modernised "update" to TOS, and that the original is campy and dated by comparison, which is a lame attitude to have, but their intention was definitely fond satire rather than cruel mockery. They just botched the execution for some viewers.

 

[Michael]

^ This. I have a hard time seeing the whole thing as an intended affront to the original show or its fans (even though I personally think they could have done a better job at it). They obviously love the original Star Trek and I don’t detect any malice whatsoever in the way they spoofed TOS.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I realize that it may be unreasonable for young creators to love a TV show that is more than 50 years old and was made for a different era. I get it

You do realize that the two show runners are in their 50s and 60s, right?

 

[Mudd]

I enjoyed the parody.