Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x01 - "Strange New Worlds"

... plus you can tell Spock is completely infatuated with T'Pring.
His side of the conversation was totally inline with being in love.
Right up till he insisted on answering the communicator, what a dweebe thing to do to an absolutely ravishing woman.
Obviously he wasn't in Ponn-Farr at that point.

 

After 63 years, I'm still a 15 year old ... most of my family and friends will confirm it.

 

I had the same thought. After the Reign of Berman, the Trek formula had exhausted itself into oblivion. So, unlike many fans, I’m glad that when Trek came back in the form of DSC and PIC it did so with a bit of an edge and the determination to do things differently. I think part of the reason SNW has been so well received—aside from the fact it’s off to a very solid start—is that fans basically don’t want anything different. They want familiarity and a tried and trusted formula. SNW feels quite a “safe” series. It certainly doesn’t take any chances in it’s opening hour. But I think that’s what the fans want and I’m totally here for it too. I like that there are several different and very distinctive iterations of the Trek universe currently in production. I hope each series can feel comfortable and content in honouring it’s own unique vision and style without having to conform to the gatekeepers and their narrow and subjective definitions of what Star Trek is and isn’t. IDIC.

 

My feelings about this series premiere? I think I can sum it up best saying the following...


I have already rewatched the title sequence. FIVE times. (This is in addition to the first watching.)

And while I have not had the time yet (I first watched it last night), but outside of LOWER DECKS, it is the ONLY EPISODE of the Kurtzman era that I have felt the NEED to rewatch the entire episode before getting the dvds. I have yet to feel this way about any full episode of the live action shows. (Though there are a couple scenes I rewatched, like Data's farewell in PICARD season 1.)

This is the best series premiere of the Kurtzman era. BY LIGHT YEARS!

This was a 10 for me. (Or a 1, whatever the system here calls for as the top grade.)

 

I seriously didn't notice because I read the words along with it. Really don't give a f'k what the order is...

Great episode. A little on the "Fan film connecting the dots and make the universe really small" syndrome but the feel was great. I was buttered up just having the damned classic narration back!

 

Entirely understandable.

 

The thread creator made a mistake, they admitted that, it wasn't intentional.

 

YES! EXACTLY THAT!

I have missed hearing that kind of mission statement in the title sequence. By doing this, SNW let's everyone know this show will be going back to the roots and core of the franchise.

 

Well they didn't do it in the Episode 2 thread

 

Oh man. My feels.

Watching this was like catching up with an childhood friend and asking what they've been doing all this time, and finding out they've been doing awesome. I don't hate my new friends PIC and DSC. But this seems like real, god honest Star Trek. The Star Trek I grew up with. I cannot tell you how happy I am to be reunited with it.

 

Trek's back, baby!

 

it's been back since 2017(well technically since 2009 but that's for the movie side)

 

I think it's more than that. It's that what Trek has provided to us from 1966 to the end of VOY is a hopeful, positive and tolerant world we can aspire to. DSC and PIC are brooding and melancholic, and downright cruel at times, a symptom of modern television, but not something that feels like what Trek has tried to give us over the decades.

In other words, I think we considered that hopefulness to be a fundamental aspect of Trek, the one thing that shouldn't change.

 

Pretty sure you know what he meant. See above.

 

To be clear, I like SNW a lot. But the "Star Trek is back!" rhetoric isn't something I agree with. I still prefer DSC and PIC. But this type of Star Trek is back. And it's back with a bang.

 

Which was my point. But hey, this place wouldn't be the same without the overreactions to triviality.

 

Sam Kirk is played by Dan Jeannotte:

 

very true: the early TNG music was often fantastic, it kinda disappeared afterwards.

 

Watch "The Booby Trap" and then anything from TNG S5 onwards, anything from DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. The difference is striking. (Other than times when the music changed to fit some theme of the episode, usually a holodeck program (Worf's "Ancient West," Bashir's James Bond or Vic Fontane program (specifically the casino heist episode), Voyager's '50s B-Grade sci-fi movie program.)

The music from episodes like The Booby Trap, Best of Both Worlds are great. Can hear them in my head right now. Any episode from S5? A vacuum. Wallpaper.