What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Jayson1]

I like the movie but I hear the movie is more fun if you watch it with a group of people and get dressed up and all that.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

You are overreading.

Fair enough. Apologies.

 

[FredH]

No one has ever said a new Star Trek show needs a teenage cast. That’s not even what you said originally.

You moved the goalposts a tad by changing ‘young’ to ‘teenage’.

The cast of any Star Trek show tends to feature actors ranging between 25-40. This is considered to be ‘young’ in Hollywood terms.

I guess to be somewhat fair, as we get older (and this is purely my experience), younger people can look younger to us than they actually are. Christina Chong is apparently 41; I would have thought she was maybe 27. Likewise, Melissa Navia is apparently 40, and I would have put her as 23 or 24. But I’m seeing them through 56-year-old eyes. So I could see old farts like me seeing the SFA cadet characters and thinking “teenager”, whereas someone closer to their age might see them more accurately.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

@FredH

In the case of Chong I’m not surprised at all. In Vietnam I know people, a lot of people who look way younger than they are. My wife is nearly 40 and she tends to get placed in her early twenties.

Anyway. Star Trek.

Controversial Opinion

I have a huge tolerance for the silly. For the surreal. For the, shall we say, ‘off the wall’.

However, SNW is really pushing at the edges of my boundary when it comes to that. I liked the musical. I liked the crossover.

But I think it needs dialling back. Just my thoughts. I’m already prepared to be barraged with ‘no’ and memes so have at it. :-)

 

[FredH]

@FredH

In the case of Chong I’m not surprised at all. In Vietnam I know people, a lot of people who look way younger than they are. My wife is nearly 40 and she tends to get placed in her early twenties.

Anyway. Star Trek.

Controversial Opinion

I have a huge tolerance for the silly. For the surreal. For the, shall we say, ‘off the wall’.

However, SNW is really pushing at the edges of my boundary when it comes to that. I liked the musical. I liked the crossover.

But I think it needs dialling back. Just my thoughts. I’m already prepared to be barraged with ‘no’ and memes so have at it. :-)

Well, Vietnam sounds like the place to be!

I can see where you’re coming from, re the silliness. I’ve enjoyed what SNW’s done, but it’s true, there a difference between humor that arises from character and situation, and humor that arises from “let’s do that gimmick we can do because it’s a TV show” — which is how multiple sf shows eventually get around to doing a musical episode, a muppet episode, maybe a black-and-white Casablanca homage, etc. I don’t have any real problems with SNW doing, but it’s true that most of such examples are things that arise because this is TV, not because it’s in any way implicit in the premise. TOS effectively did something similar on occasion but always dressed it up as that planet where they’re just like the 1930s or whatever. This feels more like the equivalent of 80s sitcoms that likewise reached a later season and started doing “our characters as Casablanca/The Honeymooners/Whatever!”.

Still, they do at least still give it a loose sci-fi rationale, which to be fair is what TOS did too. Production-wise this is more like the 80s-sitcom situation, but plot-wise this is more like McCoy running into the White Rabbit and the various planets where they could reuse historical costumes.

 

[Tomalak]

One thing I have noticed is that Strange New Worlds doesn't often actually visit any Strange New Worlds.

 

[fireproof78]

One thing I have noticed is that Strange New Worlds doesn't often actually visit any Strange New Worlds.

That's ok. The next generation wasn't even close to next.

 

[Artoo Atari]

.... Production-wise this is more like the 80s-sitcom situation...

Next week on Strange New Worlds... Capt Pike and the Enterprise crew become trapped inside a video game and escape with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

The Season 4 teaser pushed me over.

Eh, whatever. I’m sure it’ll be alright. Or it won’t. In which case, whatever.

 

[FredH]

One thing I have noticed is that Strange New Worlds doesn't often actually visit any Strange New Worlds.

I’ve always wanted a series that specifically focused on exploring new worlds — not just some episodes, the whole series. Not even TOS did that.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It’s been said before, but Spock romancing, La’an or Number One finding acceptance. Kirk in the 21st Century.

These are strange new worlds for the characters.

 

[XCV330]

One thing I have noticed is that Strange New Worlds doesn't often actually visit any Strange New Worlds.

define "world"

 

[FredH]

Next week on Strange New Worlds... Capt Pike and the Enterprise crew become trapped inside a video game and escape with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters.

TNG did do Joe Piscopo…

 

[kkt]

I want a Star Trek show were all the actors are over 50 except maybe one youngster in his or her early 30's.

In an American TV or movie? Good luck with that.

 

[CoveTom]

Next week on Strange New Worlds... Capt Pike and the Enterprise crew become trapped inside a video game and escape with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters.

I would watch that.

 

[FredH]

In an American TV or movie? Good luck with that.

I’d actually be very happy to watch that, and it was an aspect I liked about the TOS movies. But yeah, they’d be unlikely to back that for long — which I think is unfortunate.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

For 50+ year olds on a starship, I have TOS movies 1-6.

 

[cooleddie74]

And TNG and those movies.

 

[Jayson1]

You can never have to many old people. It's time we take this planet back from the youngsters! Soon as my knees stop hurting and my butt wound heals back up that came back, the revolution begins!

 

[fireproof78]