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Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

It was a rule in the writers room in DSC Season 1 to not bring up the Romulans because of 'Balance of Terror' according to one of the writers.

There was a TNG era Romulan Empire emblem on a tent and a sign on Qo'noS in the S1 finale, but that's it.
 
The Romulans are the only enemy from this time period they can't use without really pissing all over continuity and in a huge way, and even DSC made no mention of the Romulans until the ship arrived in the 32nd century so I don't think we have much to worry about in that department.

Also enemies they haven't met yet (Gorn, Borg [mostly], Q, Dominion...).
 
The Romulans are the only enemy from this time period they can't use without really pissing all over continuity and in a huge way, and even DSC made no mention of the Romulans until the ship arrived in the 32nd century so I don't think we have much to worry about in that department.
Didn't you read Enterprise: The First Adventure? That was Captain April's first mission on the Enterprise... right into Romulan space. And it ended with everyone being sworn to secrecy to preserve canon. No doubt they'd have done the same if ENT wasn't cancelled and I'm sure they'll do the same here.

And like ENT's Romulans were dressed exactly like the Nemesis ones from 200 years later, the SNW ones will probably be dressed exactly like the ones from Picard S1:lol:
 
I hope they restrict exterior shots of the Enterprise to about 4 or 5 different ones that they recycle over and over. Oh, and the nacelles mysteriously change from shot to shot as well.
Oh my gods, I'd love that! Would be just like watching TOS all over again.

As long as SNW doesn't use them once every month or more often bring them on. The Empire has left its period of near-isolation after the war so let the occasional D7 show up and take potshots at the Enterprise. Even the old non-canon novels about Pike had him occasionally tangling with Klingons.
There was something planned for the 'Early Voyages' comics which would have had Pike's grandfather be the one who had that "disastrous first contact " with the Klingons.
 
I don't watch any modern Trek shows, i tried them all but they did nothing for me, BUT, i admit i did watch the couple of episodes of STD that had Pike and the Enterprise in them, and i did like the ship and crew a lot, so i will be looking in on SNV when it launches, so fingers crossed it's good.
 
I'm hoping they're going to stick to their plan of giving every series its own tone, and make Strange New Worlds feel very different to Discovery. In a good way. There'll be something very wrong going on if there's five Star Trek series in production at once and a Trek fan doesn't like any of them.
 
I'm hoping they're going to stick to their plan of giving every series its own tone, and make Strange New Worlds feel very different to Discovery. In a good way. There'll be something very wrong going on if there's five Star Trek series in production at once and a Trek fan doesn't like any of them.
It's going to be episodic, which is already different from the other live action shows.
 
That's true, but I was also thinking about the way the characters talk, how professional the atmosphere on the bridge is, the stakes, the cinematography, whether the camera keeps doing backflips, whether everything's tinted blue, things like that.
 
Didn't you read Enterprise: The First Adventure? That was Captain April's first mission on the Enterprise... right into Romulan space. And it ended with everyone being sworn to secrecy to preserve canon. No doubt they'd have done the same if ENT wasn't cancelled and I'm sure they'll do the same here.

And like ENT's Romulans were dressed exactly like the Nemesis ones from 200 years later, the SNW ones will probably be dressed exactly like the ones from Picard S1:lol:
That was actually FIRST FRONTIER, by Diane Carey.
ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE was Vonda McIntyre's account of Jim Kirk's first mission as Captain of the Enterprise.
 
That was actually FIRST FRONTIER, by Diane Carey.
ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE was Vonda McIntyre's account of Jim Kirk's first mission as Captain of the Enterprise.
Final Frontier! First Frontier was her dinosaur book.
Although yep, my bad I got my TOS prequel novels mixed up.
 
It would be interesting if they gave us an episode like The Menagerie where we get flashbacks of the previous crew under Captain April from back when the ship first launched. No missions where everyone's sworn to secrecy at the end though please.
 
The Enterprise should always be a ship with some history on it. The hard thing for them is making the past feel archaic.

Star Trek: Enterprise had trouble with that. "The Menagerie" worked so powerfully because the past really was the past, even if recent, and felt like it.
 
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