I feel like any episode from S1 looks and feels like a different show than the mess we're getting this season.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-And-A-Half Vulcans"
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Welcome to it. Even shows like MASH and TOS could be extremely variable in tone.
…I have to say that’s a very strange take on Peck’s constant-emotions-under-and-often-over-the-surface performance.
DIS, DS9, ENT, TNG, and VOY were all pretty different shows by their third seasons, it's just the nature of television. And FWIW I don't feel like there's a been that big of a quality drop-off, but I don't think this season has had any episodes I'd consider all-timers either the way I would A Quality of Mercy or Those Old Scientists.
All those series by season 3 had established their identities, or were on their way. What is SNW's identity? Is it just a stalking horse or a slow rollout to a TOS reboot?
So, this one was another whose script was whatever but carried by the cast. I enjoyed this one because it made me laugh but I can understand those that didn’t like it.
A SF adventure show that tackles multiple genres and styles.
There were far fewer options then. Something as dreadful as early TNG wouldn't last long today. Even in the mid-90s it would have taken a hit. DS9, Voyager and Enterprise all had sharp audience dropoff over their run, particularly DS9.Trek fans are resilient. Hell they continued watching TNG even after S1 and S2.
You stopped watching?
That's a shame, Lower Decks only starts getting really good after its third episode.
Though given you thought there was anything good in Discovery's first two seasons suggests the rest of Star Trek just might not be for you given SNW is basically going back to the more standard, and successful, format of doing things.
If that was the case they wouldn't have gone forward with Academy instead of Legacy.
Or made the Section 31 movie.
Yeah, I don't get all the angst about what SNW's "identity" is. Its identity is an eclectic SF show that blends serious adventure with lighthearted comedy. It adopted that identity in S1 and hasn't wavered from it. I know the TrekCulture guys are fond of asking this, too, but it doesn't seem to me like a particularly mystifying question; whether one likes its approach to that identity is a different issue.
He either slept with another woman or rubbing one out deals with ponn farr just as well as actual intercourse does.
Now that's just insane nerd talk.
The way I look at it is this - I don't think SNW as it stands now is a show that would directly comment on January 6th or have a nonbinary space pirate character like it did in season 1. The manner in which this show tells its stories have changed, though the plots are still varied.
The uncontrollable animal attraction between Una and the rizziest of Vulcans was incredibly funny in its delivery. So good to see Rebecca Romijn get to just be as hilarious as she can be.
SNW mirrored TOS in that is was EXCELLENT out of the gate (unlike the Berman Era Trek series - they all sucked in gtheir early seasons.)
Also, sorry, but I don't see any quality drop and there are more good to excellent episodes than clunkers for me - so far I've only disliked S3 Ep. 2 and S3 Ep. 4 - the rest have been good to excellent.
VMMV of course.
SG1 is so much better (with some exceptions in the later seasons)
Yes.You stopped watching?
Indeed, yes. It continues on with the TOS style if a mix of stories.
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