Spoilers Strange New Worlds jumps the shark... ("Subspace Rhapsody")

[cooleddie74]

"Source material"?

The same show that in 1968 had Spock's brain stolen by go-go boot-wearing women who enslaved caveman-like males on their planet? And the show that also had Kirk and company trying to learn why a planet was turned into a literal copy of Nazi Germany because a Starfleet Academy professor decided one day, "well, Nazism was MOSTLY bad to be sure but maybe they had a point with the efficiency thing"?

Trek jumped the shark almost 60 years ago and more fans need to realize that.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

It's one of the best episodes of the season get out of here..

Fuck the fanbase, and Roddenberry was not a person worth worshipping.

fans can sometimes be the worst part of liking something

 

[Nerys Myk]

"Source material"?

The same show that in 1968 had Spock's brain stolen by go-go boot-wearing women who enslaved caveman-like males on their planet? And the show that also had Kirk and company trying to learn why a planet was turned into a literal copy of Nazi Germany because a Starfleet Academy professor decided one day, "well, Nazism was MOSTLY bad to be sure but maybe they had a point with the efficiency thing"?

Trek jumped the shark almost 60 years ago and more fans need to realize that.

The shark is a feature, not a bug.

 

[Mudd]

I agree that it was SNW's "jump the shark" episode. I was surprised that SNW was so good at first, considering that it sprang from the dismal STD. I was a fan of the show for a while, but it seems like it has gotten progressively worse as of late. There is nothing wrong with the occasional goofy episode. Even TOS had "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "A Piece Of The Action", but SNW seems to have dropped its dramatic premise for a series of substandard comedies. The dismal (and derivative) holodeck episode that crapped all over TOS and Roddenberry was even worse. They had the opportunity to poke some harmless but loving fun at TOS, but instead took the opportunity to show how much they actually hate the source material. Their smug, arrogant and hateful derision was insulting to both TOS and the fanbase as a whole. The source material, by the way, is far superior to SNW.

People who never fail are people who never try. I can respect the SNW creative team wanting to try new approaches to a 50+ years old franchise to keep it fresh and current, but the musical episode was a failure. It's OK to fail if you learn from your mistakes and keep plugging along and improving. I hope that the makers of SNW can learn from their failure. Unfortunately, the series seems to be getting worse with each passing episode.

No. They're making a great, classic Star Trek series.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Now if only Disco had done a musical episode

 

[cooleddie74]

Or just more good ones period.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Or just more good ones period.

I loved all of Disco minus a few episodes here and there. Season 4 was the GOAT