Solid plan for pretty much any version of Trek.
Solid plan for pretty much any version of Trek.
65 million years is a long time. Our own fossil records are vastly incomplete and many species are just lost to time.
Impending extinctions could have caused all sorts of societal issues, much of their technology could have been destroyed in wars. Maybe they didn't want to colonise the neighbour of their dead world and be forever reminded of it?
Earth is populated by giant, hostile, creatures and is about to become environmentally inhospitable.
Star Trek has been paying homage to (copying) other properties since it started. Similarities to Forbidden Planet aside, Balance of Terror is basically The Enemy Below in space. TNG had its Die Hard episode with Starship Mine. Voyager had Janeway basically playing Ripley from Aliens in Macrocosm. TNG's The Enemy and Enterprise's Dawn are both essentially Enemy Mine.
This isn't some new thing Strange New Worlds invented. Star Trek has been borrowing familiar stories and putting its own spin on them for over 60 years.
Hasn't "Mudd's Women" been done a time or two in Westerns?
TNG's The Enemy was a take on the sci-fi movie Enemy Mine which itself was a take on the WWII movie, Hell on the Pacific.
TOS Arena is a take on a 1944 short story of the same name written by Frederic Brown.
TOS Arena is a take on a 1944 short story of the same name written by Frederic Brown.
To be fair, you're not going to get a young audience to show up to watch a show on a brand new streaming service. Young people watch more streaming stuff than linear, but the way CBS All Access was rolled out, it was pretty much guaranteed that only hardcore Trekkies were going to find it.
The only real mistake I feel like CBS made was the budgeting and the VFX off the bat. Seemed like a big waste of money, adding a lot of flash which didn't add to storytelling, and didn't end up attracting a new audience. I think they could've cut the effects budget in like half and still probably got 95% of the viewership.
Hell, the last act of the episode feels and looks just like a Western movie set during a duststorm. Blowing sand or dust, howling noises, two people subsisting in a sparse hut with minimal technology and hardware to make their lives easier. They even hang a cooking pan outside to let the gritty dust blast the surface clean. "Mudd's Women" seems like rustic Western story in some scenes.
A little from Column A and a little from Column B, I would imagine.I don't know if it's arrogance or ignorance that makes people think Star Trek was 100% original in everything it did.
If originality is such a strict metric in one's entertainment, one is likely to end up very, very disappointed. Or end up concocting a lot of comfortable stories in order to make one believe it's original.
I would add a Column C, but I'm already pushing it with the mods today.
And "Dawn(ENT)" was a take on "The Enemy(TNG)," only even more like Enemy Mine due to the reptillian companion who can barely speak in English. At least Centurion Bochra spoke in English and looked humanoid.
Dawn features hot and sweaty Tucker though so it edges it higher in points.
Hot, sweaty Trips usually do end in wackiness.
Don't take the brown acid
Star Trek has even ripped off itself. Look at DS9's Shadowplay and ENT's Oasis. The two episodes even have an actor in common!
Children of Time and ESquared
And both make me feel sleepy and bored.
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