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Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

I don't watch it until Saturdays, at the earliest. Why does the time it drops matter? I go to bed at 10, and no show gets me up any later or earlier. There is nothing worth it in the entertainment industry for missing sleep.
 
For my house 9PM and midnight for an hour long TV show is a distinction without a difference. We're still not watching it until the next day only now I have three more hours for spoilers to show up.
 
So Ahsoka drops tomorrow at 6PM PST/9 PM EST and I gotta say I'm glad they are moving it to prime time slots. I'm getting too old to stay up until midnight or 11PM (Hint I'm only 33/34). and I gotta ask should Star Trek follow that model for Season 3 of SNW move it to either Wednesdays or Thursday at 6PM or 7? What's your thoughts?
Thing is, seasons 1 and 2 of Disco were released during prime time hours, 8:00 PM EST to be exact. At that time everyone whined and complained that Paramount+ (or rather CBS All Access as it was then known as) was "adhering to an outdated network model" and that they "needed to get with the times and start acting like a true streaming service" by releasing the episodes at midnight PST. Which is why they've been doing exactly that starting with Picard S1 and every season of each Trek series since then. And given that decision was made specifically to appeal to the masses, I don't see them walking back on that. Especially not after three years of no complaints on the matter.
 
I love how they remembered the Moon/Luna stuff from DS9 and referenced it.

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James. TIBERIUS. Kirk.

I never thought I would be so glad that he's on this show. Especially after Quality of Mercy where I was less than impressed. And I think they've hit the sweet spot for where / when / how he has been used. I think he should have been in 2.7 something episodes. But you can't do that and 2 wouldn't have been enough.

That said? I want something bad to happen to him. I want ONE episode next season that can make it look like he's not on a ballistic course for Pike's chair. I suppose the flip side of that is that he can continue to be "playing chess in Canada awesome" but that's hard to do, especially when we need Pike to be that awesome as well. J. Kirk can't just be as great as he was in TOS. He needs to be "not there yet" while still being crazy precocious.

Some combination of both? Wow. TV writing must be hard!
 
looks like SNW S1 Eps 1 and 2 are gonna air on CBS on “Star Trek Day”

I know it’s part of the celebration. But I wonder if it’s not also a bit of a trial balloon to gage interest to maybe put the show up on CBS in place of some delayed fall programming.
 
looks like SNW S1 Eps 1 and 2 are gonna air on CBS on “Star Trek Day”

I know it’s part of the celebration. But I wonder if it’s not also a bit of a trial balloon to gage interest to maybe put the show up on CBS in place of some delayed fall programming.
Yep. From TrekMovie:
https://trekmovie.com/2023/08/24/st...g-special-and-lower-decks-theater-screenings/
...Strange New Worlds on CBS

Star Trek Day will also feature special airings of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on CBS. Beginning at 8 pm (ET/PT) they will air the first two episodes (“Strange New Worlds” and “Children of the Comet”) back-to-back...
 
But I wonder if it’s not also a bit of a trial balloon to gage interest to maybe put the show up on CBS in place of some delayed fall programming.
Well, not fall programming, too late for that. But I guess they could be looking towards midseason since it's pretty clear there won't be any new content available then either.
 
I think that would be a good idea. Running DIS season 1 on CBS is how I started watching it and then signed up for All Access/Paramount+.
 
I honestly wondered if CBS might do that. If it is a trial balloon, they have 20 episodes now, which is almost a regular season worth. They'd have to trim a few minutes from each episode to fit commercials in but there's not really explicit content (I think Carol Kane got to drop an f-bomb but it wasn't as much as in PIC)
 
:beer::D:beer:

Trekmovie: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Continues To Rank In The Streaming Top 10
https://trekmovie.com/2023/08/25/st...ds-continues-to-rank-in-the-streaming-top-10/
..All in all Strange New Worlds has ranked on Nielsen’s Top 10 original streaming shows chart for five out of the first seven weeks of its second season run. Strange New Worlds has now jumped ahead of the third season of Star Trek: Picard which ranked on this same chart 3 times during its 10-episode run...
 
I need to get the discs of SNW. Of course I still need to get ST 5 and 6 in 4K. But I have The Motion Picture... 4 times! (Theatrical twice, DE, and Special Longer Version! You suck, Paramount Home Video Division.)
 
Because of how Paramount sold the thing. I bought the first four movies as part of the 2021 4K box, assuming that they would then sell me another chunk of movies in another subsequent box. But no, the next year they then sold 1-6 as a box. Then the DE of TMP came out. If I wanted the set with all of the goodies (including the television edit, which from 1982ish to 2001 WAS Star Trek: The Motion Picture) then that came with the Theatrical Cut again. But no Blu rays, because that would be silly, right?
 
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