What threads from other Star Trek shows do you want Strange New Worlds to pick up?

[Tuskin38]

Well from pictures someone took during an outside filming session.

Spoiler

It might not be a thread pick up, but we'll be seeing the Antaran species from Enterprise. The leaked shots had a group of them protesting something. The Antarans were an old enemy of the Denobulans

https://twitter.com/onset_toronto/status/1419379280639840258
https://twitter.com/onset_toronto/status/1418222128474714122
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Antaran
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Breach_(episode)

 

[FederationHistorian]

Well from pictures someone took during an outside filming session.

Spoiler

It might not be a thread pick up, but we'll be seeing the Antaran species from Enterprise. The leaked shots had a group of them protesting something. The Antarans were an old enemy of the Denobulans

https://twitter.com/onset_toronto/status/1419379280639840258
https://twitter.com/onset_toronto/status/1418222128474714122
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Antaran
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Breach_(episode)

Spoiler

Well, that’s an interesting development.

Is it possible that the girl Kima in the “Children of Mars” Short Trek was Antaran as well?

 

[Tuskin38]

Spoiler

Well, that’s an interesting development.

Is it possible that the girl Kima in the “Children of Mars” Short Trek was Antaran as well?

Spoiler

I don't think so, she didn't have spots, but bumps. There was also another of her species in DSC Season 3, also didn't have spots, just bumps.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Spoiler

Well, that’s an interesting development.

Is it possible that the girl Kima in the “Children of Mars” Short Trek was Antaran as well?

Spoiler

There is an Antaran crewman on Lower Decks.

 

[Annorax849]

I’d definitely like to see some Tholians. I would think the three main villain races to be Klingons, Tholians, and Orions.

Then again I expected ENT villains to be Romulans and Orions and instead they started with Klingons and Suliban, so who knows.

 

[DEWLine]

Orion syndicates, due to their location and travel routes, complicating the Federation-Klingon relationships. The Tholians, I still don't expect to see much of, due to both distance from the Federation core systems and differences in life support needs. So I'd see the Tholians as more "mystery" than "threat force".

 

[BK613]

No real threads as I prefer there to be new worlds in their Strange New Worlds. That being said, I do hope someone picks up on the idea that a lot of those Commodores that Kirk bumps into during TOS would be Captains a decade or so earlier. So Stone, Decker, Wesley, Mendez, etc, could easily show up in some valid ways.

 

[FederationHistorian]

Spoiler

I don't think so, she didn't have spots, but bumps. There was also another of her species in DSC Season 3, also didn't have spots, just bumps.

Spoiler

Kanak of the Emerald Chain. Nothing else is learned about Kima's species.

 

[DEWLine]

No real threads as I prefer there to be new worlds in their Strange New Worlds. That being said, I do hope someone picks up on the idea that a lot of those Commodores that Kirk bumps into during TOS would be Captains a decade or so earlier. So Stone, Decker, Wesley, Mendez, etc, could easily show up in some valid ways.

Yes, please!

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

‪‪I would love to see Ensign Dawson Walking Bear from TAS as a Cadet on SNW.

He’s a character who had a strong previous appearance, but is still a mostly blank slate, and has the distinction of first appearing in Trek’s only “major” Emmy winning episode, TAS’s How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth.

‪‪He’s the kind of legacy character I’d prefer to see, smaller established characters with untapped potential, rather than those we know really well from TOS and the movies.

 

[Vger23]

I'd like to see an entire season dedicated to the backstory of Nilz Barris.

And if they don't they hate the fans. I'll riot like a fucking lunatic, boycott Paramount+ for 46 straight years, and throw half-eaten salmon at the television on a weekly basis.

 

[Vger23]

I’d definitely like to see some Tholians. I would think the three main villain races to be Klingons, Tholians, and Orions.

Then again I expected ENT villains to be Romulans and Orions and instead they started with Klingons and Suliban, so who knows.

THIS is something I could actually get behind. I grow somewhat tired of the Trekfandom desire to have follow-ons to random obscure characters and events (although if done well, it can be somewhat fun)...but Trek could use an infusion of "new blood" in the alien antagonist realm. Tholians would be a cool opportunity to expand on something that is actually worth expanding on, instead of showing a 5-episdoe arc out of nowhere about Janice Lester's secret relationship with Cyrano Jones or some other inane wanky crap.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'd like to see an entire season dedicated to the backstory of Nilz Barris.

And if they don't they hate the fans. I'll riot like a fucking lunatic, boycott Paramount+ for 46 straight years, and throw half-eaten salmon at the television on a weekly basis.

Only 46 years? A True Fan would boycott for 47 years. You are clearly a Poser.

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[Vger23]

Only 46 years? A True Fan would boycott for 47 years. You are clearly a Poser.

( )

I'd be willing to go to 47 if we get the results that we the fans deserve!!!!11!1!

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I think they will use familiar elements to tell stand alone stories that touch on modern day issues and connect to the characters on a personal level. Like exploring the idea of a friend dying and you can't be their which was a issue that happened during the pandemic. Pike gets word Boyce has gotten a disease back on Earth. He will be dead soon. The episode explores what Pike is doing knowing he can't be their. Also Pike feels guilt over how it makes him think of his own bleak fate. Or you can explore the failure of the Afgan war through the failure of the Nimbus III project.

This is honestly what I want more from SNW than spending so much time sequelling episodes of Enterprise/prequelling later series. With Discovery and Picard telling these serialized stories, there hasn’t been room for the smaller stories, the stories where the stakes are emotional and how they impact the characters first and foremost, and that’s what I’d like to see. These ideas in particular are the kinds of small scale, personal level stories that have applicability but can also have their plot wrapped up in a single episode (with emotional effects lasting over several).

I’d like to see Chapel be involved in showing her feelings for Spock in a more dramatic light - TOS established that and THEN her having joined to look for her missing fiancé, which makes for room to explore the idea of loving someone missing and the feelings that evolve in that time.

Also, going back to applicability, I want to see Starfleet in a post-war setting, of how to get out of the mindsets and views one develops in the name of fighting. Using SNW to explore how we recover from a war would honestly be something that I think we need at this point, while being something that doesn’t have to be every episode’s focus, can still offer episodic adventures.

 

[DEWLine]

Yes. This...the attempts to culturally and psychologically recover from T'Kuvma's War - better to call it that than "Burnham's War"? - seem to have taken at least 40 years, from what we've seen of TOS and its sequel movies, as well as parts of DSC...

 

[Tim Thomason]

No real threads as I prefer there to be new worlds in their Strange New Worlds. That being said, I do hope someone picks up on the idea that a lot of those Commodores that Kirk bumps into during TOS would be Captains a decade or so earlier. So Stone, Decker, Wesley, Mendez, etc, could easily show up in some valid ways.

They should be "strange" and "new" to Pike and co, but old and familiar to Picard and the Berman era. Cardassians, Breen, Betazoids, Benzites, Troyians, Rhaandarites, Megarans, ... umm... Medusans, Tellerians, ... the possibilities are endless.

 

[dupersuper]

They should be "strange" and "new" to Pike and co, but old and familiar to Picard and the Berman era. Cardassians, Breen, Betazoids, Benzites, Troyians, Rhaandarites, Megarans, ... umm... Medusans, Tellerians, ... the possibilities are endless.

I'd want them to mix in plenty of new new worlds as well, but those and others would be fun.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I'd want them to mix in plenty of new new worlds as well, but those and others would be fun.

Of course. As much as I love continuity and revisiting familiar faces, Strange New Worlds deserves every opportunity to make its own mark on the franchise and introduce and expand the galaxy as everyone else has before.

 

[FederationHistorian]

This is honestly what I want more from SNW than spending so much time sequelling episodes of Enterprise/prequelling later series. With Discovery and Picard telling these serialized stories, there hasn’t been room for the smaller stories, the stories where the stakes are emotional and how they impact the characters first and foremost, and that’s what I’d like to see. These ideas in particular are the kinds of small scale, personal level stories that have applicability but can also have their plot wrapped up in a single episode (with emotional effects lasting over several).

I’d like to see Chapel be involved in showing her feelings for Spock in a more dramatic light - TOS established that and THEN her having joined to look for her missing fiancé, which makes for room to explore the idea of loving someone missing and the feelings that evolve in that time.

TNG, DS9 & VOY had callbacks to TOS. DS9 & VOY had callbacks to TNG. And ENT foreshadows what was to come in TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY. Sequelling or prequelling episodes happens all the time in Trek. It only makes sense for SNW to have callbacks to ENT, and meaningful callbacks at that. And not the shallow ENT references made by DIS.

Doing so does not mean they can’t explore Chapel’s feelings for Spock, or flesh out the supporting cast with their own personal stories.