Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[cooleddie74]

I'm just glad the thing displays colors other than blue.

 

[cooleddie74]

Also, there were angled, vaulted bulkheads in the TOS Briefing Room and so far as I know it was never located next to a curving part of the hull. I think they just did it that way because it looked good.

Both in the 1960s and now.

 

[Mudd]

What's really noticeable is that they're using monitors or probably a back-projected display (the latter reportedly used for the Stargazer bridge in Picard) that's misaligned so that the gridlines don't match the display frame.

 

[NCC-73515]

View attachment 27367

Context to that:

I had always wondered: If the famously-unlabeled buttons on the TOS bridge had been labeled, would those labels have been visible? In 2005, I did an experiment during the filming of "In A Mirror, Darkly" (ENT). For this experiment, I had hundreds of small clear labels printed with small numeric codes. I asked Alan Kobayashi to stick them onto most of the backlit "jellybean" buttons on the re-created TOS Enterprise bridge set, thereby labeling each button. Those labels were on the buttons when the episodes were filmed. When seen on screen, those labels disappeared completely. In other words, while the labels were visible to someone sitting at each console, when you saw them on screen, you could not tell that they were labeled. So, my theory is that the buttons on the "real" Enterprise bridge are indeed labeled, but you couldn't see them.
BTW, I had a similar thought during "Encounter at Farpoint," the first episode of Star Trek: TNG, in which I did not label most of the small buttons on the Enterprise-D bridge because I thought they'd never be visible on television. After seeing the first TNG episode on screen, I decided that I might be wrong, so (after consulting Bob Justman) I gradually added alphanumeric codes to all the buttons on the TNG bridge.

 

[Belz...]

The Argus Array is on the map twice.

Of course. Argus II and Argus VI appear on this map.

 

[FredH]

Well, I guess “Argus Arrays” are a thing now, and retroactively always were from at least the 23rd century on. In any given episode, “the Argus Array” is probably just the nearest one, or the one in a referenced system.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Context to that:

That's a really nice way to say they did hours of work with zero reward

 

[Donald G]

Well, I guess “Argus Arrays” are a thing now, and retroactively always were from at least the 23rd century on. In any given episode, “the Argus Array” is probably just the nearest one, or the one in a referenced system.

The mythological figure after whom the Argus Array(s) is/(are) named had 100 "all-seeing eyes." Theoretically, the Argus Array network could conceivably consist of - or be designed to eventually consist of - a hundred subspace telescope installations.

 

[Mudd]

The mythological figure after whom the Argus Array(s) is/(are) named had 100 "all-seeing eyes." Theoretically, the Argus Array network could conceivably consist of - or be designed to eventually consist of - a hundred subspace telescope installations.

This actually makes some sense as a retcon. The "Argus Array" may be what they call their deep space/frontier threat detection or astronomical detection network.

I looked it up on Memory Alpha, something I never bother with, and see that it has been referenced on four or five occasions, in different contexts.

 

[Belz...]

See? I can brain!

 

[cooleddie74]

A new image has been revealed. Pike in alien makeup and Spock with some kind of forehead enhancement. This may be connected to the forehead goop that Dr. M'Benga was applying or testing out in one of the M'Benga character trailer shots.

 

[fireproof78]

The Argus Array is on the map twice.

I think they're still copying from 24th Century Starcharts without really thinking of what should or shouldn't be there.

Unless the array is actually multiple installations designed for detection. Someone referenced the Greek figure "Argus" and having multiple eyes. It could indicate that it is meant as a multi point sensor array rather than just one station.

 

[Noname Given]

See? I can brain!

Brain and brain, what is brain?

(Hey, somebody had to...)

 

[UssGlenn]

The fact that it is called an array at all points to multiple installations, telescopic arrays use more than one telescope, that's why they are called arrays in the first place. These are just spread across space rather than being next to each other, but if they all work in consort it's still an array.

 

[Harpsichord]

A new image has been revealed. Pike in alien makeup and Spock with some kind of forehead enhancement. This may be connected to the forehead goop that Dr. M'Benga was applying or testing out in one of the M'Benga character trailer shots.

Looks like Pike is disguised as one of the aliens he interrupts at the start of the trailer:

 

[nightwind1]

This actually makes some sense as a retcon. The "Argus Array" may be what they call their deep space/frontier threat detection or astronomical detection network.

Kind of like a twenty-third century DEW Line.

 

[Roald]

New clip, some new shots
Paramount+ TV Spot, 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' - iSpot.tv

 

[mattman8907]

We're down to officially a week. Next monday we'll probably get confirmation of the show's premiere episode title also maybe a sneak peek at the Opening credits.

 

[Roald]

We're down to officially a week. Next monday we'll probably get confirmation of the show's premiere episode title also maybe a sneak peek at the Opening credits.

The title of the premiere is simply ‘Strange New Worlds’

 

[mattman8907]

The title of the premiere is simply ‘Strange New Worlds’

that has yet to be confirmed by CBS or Paramount plus. it's through second hand unconfirmed sources.