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Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

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I liked Harry Harrison's Bloat Drive in Bill, The Galactic Hero. You increase the space between atoms of your ship until you are larger than the universe, then reverse to normal size at your destination.
 
Specifically, that's because the Ship is sitting still, it's the bubble of space it's inside of that's actually moving.
All this stuff has been made up after the fact. They just didn't want to deal with physics so they made up* some wotds.

*As in "read in some science fiction magazines."
 

As they look towards the end of their own time aboard the Enterprise, Kurtzman and Goldsman say they still have millions of ideas for stories they could tell. Goldsman’s biggest regret was not being able to bring William Shatner back to play a version of Kirk who decided to stay in Depression-era New York with Edith Keeler (Joan Collins), a soup kitchen operator he fell in love with in the episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” The showrunners tried to make that happen every season and even worked on several scripts for an episode.

Would Keeler have died by then, or would they (try to) bring Collins back too?
 
I wonder if one of the potential plot twists considered was that in the long run, it would actually have been the good version of history compared to our real history. (I suppose if Kirk had been the restraining force that curbed her from interfering until such time as WWII was won by the Allies, maybe she would have prevented other wars instead.)
 
I wonder if one of the potential plot twists considered was that in the long run, it would actually have been the good version of history compared to our real history. (I suppose if Kirk had been the restraining force that curbed her from interfering until such time as WWII was won by the Allies, maybe she would have prevented other wars instead.)
Bet it would have been a mirror universe origin story or something.
 
Season 4 won’t have an overarching villain. Hm

This season will be even more episodic than usual since Goldsman says it won’t have a “big bad” like the Gorn in seasons 1 and 2 or the Vezda in season 3. Instead, season 4 will focus on character-driven stories, particularly emphasizing the crew members who don’t appear on Kirk’s enterprise like helmsman Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) and La'An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong).
 
I mean no season really has unless one counts Pike's looming fate as a villain in an intangible way.

The Gorn had several episodes but they're spread across all three seasons so it's a much longer arc.

The Vezda were introduced in episode 4 and then revisited in episode 10 with no discussion about them in between. That's not an overarching villain that's juat a revisiting or a very delayed two parter.
 
The Klingons loom over the series as an enemy since they were antagonists in ENT, bad guys launching border raids during the early 23rd century, there was a brief but bloody war with them during DSC and they'll be the main bad guys again in TOS and TAS, but so far Pike hasn't had any catastrophic run-ins with Klingons, just tragic or unfortunate incidents. So they're not really the series' "overarching" villain.
 
Since SNW's attempt at an over-arching antagonist has been one my least-favorite elements across the first three seasons, I'm glad to see the show moved away from that in season 4.
 
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