Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[Yistaan]

Sir John Talbot.

Talbot: Starfleet Command won't let me clear you for duty until this therapy certifies a full recovery from your hallucinatory experience on Boreth. So tell me again Chris, how many lights do you see?

Pike: There are four lights!

 

[UssGlenn]

In both this and in DSC, the rank stripes on the Enterprise uniforms matched the colour of the uniform.

However, there are shots in some of the trailers were Uhura has gold stripes not red, so who knows what's going on there. Maybe it's a reference to her wearing both colours at one point in TOS.

I'm pretty sure I saw a picture of Spock with silver stripes, so uniform upgrade? I think more time is going to pass in season 1 than we think. Una also gets an entirely new hairstyle at some point.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Spoiler: What he does

He's not a part of the Enterprise crew at any point in this story. He's an admiral, Pike's commanding officer, who comes to Montana to retrieve Pike when Our Captain declines to answer the phone. And there are indications that the actor will recur in this role a few times.

Regardless of the ages of the actors, my impression of the character is that he presents as older than Pike by a decade or more. And IMO he is very likeable.


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Well thank Gawd. I may have misinterpreted a different post, where I thought someone said the blueshirt with the mustache in the trailer was Robert April, but apparently that is Sam Kirk. This older black dude with grey in his beard is definitely someone I can buy as Robert April.

Maybe I just need to stop reading spoilers and wait for the 5th.

 

[Harpsichord]

I'm pretty sure I saw a picture of Spock with silver stripes, so uniform upgrade? I think more time is going to pass in season 1 than we think. Una also gets an entirely new hairstyle at some point.

The leaked image with La'an and Kirk from season 2 still shows the braids on La'an's uniform as red so who knows

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

‪‪At the SNW panel at Mission: Chicago they indicated there was a time travel episode in the works, which could explain Uhura with the gold stripes in the modified uniform in some clips and images.

 

[Tuskin38]

I hope so. We'll see on the launch date.

Still nothing about it being only in French.

 

[UssGlenn]

The leaked image with La'an and Kirk from season 2 still shows the braids on La'an's uniform as red so who knows

The photo where I thought I saw silver stripes, were blue when I looked, so I may have imagined that.

 

[Belz...]

Still nothing about it being only in French.

As I said the French version thing was on their website, not in the promo stuff.

 

[Mudd]

Spoiler

In the picture of the character people have identified as Sam Kirk, he has a mustache. Whether it counts as a pornstache is in the eye of the beholder.

Spoiler: Among the people who have identified the fella with the porn 'stache...

...is Captain Pike, who greets Sam as he arrives on the bridge for the first time - he's a scientist, and Pike says to him, "So, Mr. Spock will be your boss."

"Lieutenant Kirk hasn't reported aboard yet" or words to that effect are uttered earlier to Pike by one of the other characters, a tease and a misdirect which I suppose is supposed to get us excited about James Kirk being among the crew. It's a nice little surprise twist that made me laugh in the theater.

 

[antinoos]

Spoiler

Fred Bronson, the creator of the character of Robert April weighs in:

https://twitter.com/FredBronson/status/1520895051475210240

https://twitter.com/FredBronson/status/1521056588131307521

 

[cooleddie74]

"They can't just recast the same character with an actor with a completely different appearance or of a different ethnicity! People will notice and it'll destroy credibility and canon!"

 

[Donald G]

Spoiler: Among the people who have identified the fella with the porn 'stache...

...is Captain Pike, who greets Sam as he arrives on the bridge for the first time - he's a scientist, and Pike says to him, "So, Mr. Spock will be your boss."

"Lieutenant Kirk hasn't reported aboard yet" or words to that effect are uttered earlier to Pike by one of the other characters, a tease and a misdirect which I suppose is supposed to get us excited about James Kirk being among the crew. It's a nice little surprise twist that made me laugh in the theater.

Well, you have seen the first two episodes in which that character appears. Until I have the opportunity, please forgive me for trying to be a bit circumspect in my phrasing.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

Spoiler

Fred Bronson, the creator of the character of Robert April weighs in:

https://twitter.com/FredBronson/status/1520895051475210240

https://twitter.com/FredBronson/status/1521056588131307521

Spoiler

Related to the above, Fred Bronson responds to someone asking about a negative reaction here.

Really love to see this.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

"They can't just recast the same character with an actor with a completely different appearance or of a different ethnicity! People will notice and it'll destroy credibility and canon!"

Hey that sounds like something I'd say! I wouldn't say it about Batman 1966 though, because it's Batman 1966. They could've recast the Penguin with a literal penguin and gotten away with it.

But if The Batman 2 recasts Zoë Kravitz's Catwoman with someone who looks completely different, you can bet I'll be raising eyebrows.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Oh dear

wokeness, wokness, wokness so apprently spoilers below, please dont read.

Spoiler

Chapel is bisexual in SNW, like really?

And so Kurtzman Trek continues they have learned nothing from discovery.

Spamming warning given for identical post in two threads. Could have been trolling just as easily.

 

[eschaton]

For fuck's sake dudes, TAS had Klingons dressed in pink and pink tribbles as well. Just headcanon that the colorblind proofer picked the wrong skin shade for April.

 

[fireproof78]

Hey that sounds like something I'd say! I wouldn't say it about Batman 1966 though, because it's Batman 1966. They could've recast the Penguin with a literal Penguin and gotten away with it.

But if The Batman 2 recasts Zoë Kravitz's Catwoman with someone who looks completely different, you can bet I'll be raising eyebrows.

What about going from animated to live action?

 

[Noname Given]

say it with me now…Alternate Universe…

Yeah, we're not discussing JJ Trek/the Kelvinverse here.

For fuck's sake dudes, TAS had Klingons dressed in pink and pink tribbles as well. Just headcanon that the colorblind proofer picked the wrong skin shade for April.

And don't forget in that particular TAS episode "The Counter-Clock Incident", the Aliens have ships capable of Warp 36 (no, not a typo), so yeah if someone REALLY wants to harp on the episode's 'canonicity'; that would make the ENTIRE BERMAN TREK ERA NON-CANONICAL, as TNG and subsequent Trek series stated WARP 10 was the fastest warp speed possible.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Orions were also blue and wore green form-fitting jumpsuits with goggles. I mean...come on.

 

[Noname Given]

The Orions were also blue and wore green form-fitting jumpsuits with goggles. I mean...come on.

If you really want to get technical, as the art director on TAS was colorblind...