Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Discussion – New Life and New Civilizations
Season Three wraps up without a cliffhanger. When an ancient evil resurfaces, Pike faces a life-altering choice to stop it.
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So a couple of thoughts (spoilers below).
I know they can get away with it, but the eye gouging. Really? I was OK with Picard being a “mature” Star Trek, but SNW should be aimed at a wider audience. I’m not squeamish, but I don’t want to chase people away from the series.
Anyone else feel like this was written as a series finale, not a season finale? No cliffhanger and it feels like a lot of stuff got skipped over (the Doctor and Gamble, for example). Like there was supposed to be two-hours of material here and it was cut down to a standard episode.
I’m of two minds on Batel & Pike’s “fairy tale” story. On one hand, it’s sweet and gives him the life he will be denied. On the other, he now has to live with the memory of something that never happened. A child that will never exist. Gonna sit and process on that one for a while.
And now we wait for “Early 2026” for Starfleet Academy and hopefully later in 2026, Season Four of SNW.
You could be right about the structure as a series finale instead of a season finale. Season 4 was ordered in April 2024 and filming on season 3 wrapped up in May 2024, so the story was probably broken and the script written before they knew they’d be getting another season. (They use 12 day shooting schedules.)
This is the most pronounced version of one of my concerns with the series: they don’t seem to understand the difference between fantasy and science fiction, so we get major episodes of our science fiction show that are fantasy stories.
I also struggle with her becoming this because of the Human/Gorn/Illyrian influence, but Spock was untouched, when his Human/Vulcan combination is there, too. Is the Illyrian cure really that influential?
I really hope we get the two seasons of Academy and the last two SNW in 36 consecutive weeks and move on from Kurzman.
> Anyone else feel like this was written as a series finale, not a season finale?
I said the same thing as we were watching it! I thought the eye part was also a bit much, but there seemed to have been a bonus theme about cults that got lost in the shuffle.
Also, “Time Traveling Doctor?” Are we getting a surprise crossover? I doubt it, since the BBC can’t keep their mouths shut about anything, but they’re leaning into the Friendship of it all, aren’t they?
Maybe she met Rasmussan.
That’s a fair guess, but Matt Frewer’s shuttlecraft wasn’t seen earlier in the season.
Good catch with the cults. There was probably more written about Gamble lording over the people.
“Time Traveling Doctor” was a joke. I wouldn’t read any more into that. I think it was a quick bit to make Who fans giggle.
So a couple of thoughts (spoilers below).
I know they can get away with it, but the eye gouging. Really? I was OK with Picard being a “mature” Star Trek, but SNW should be aimed at a wider audience. I’m not squeamish, but I don’t want to chase people away from the series.
Anyone else feel like this was written as a series finale, not a season finale? No cliffhanger and it feels like a lot of stuff got skipped over (the Doctor and Gamble, for example). Like there was supposed to be two-hours of material here and it was cut down to a standard episode.
I’m of two minds on Batel & Pike’s “fairy tale” story. On one hand, it’s sweet and gives him the life he will be denied. On the other, he now has to live with the memory of something that never happened. A child that will never exist. Gonna sit and process on that one for a while.
And now we wait for “Early 2026” for Starfleet Academy and hopefully later in 2026, Season Four of SNW.
You could be right about the structure as a series finale instead of a season finale. Season 4 was ordered in April 2024 and filming on season 3 wrapped up in May 2024, so the story was probably broken and the script written before they knew they’d be getting another season. (They use 12 day shooting schedules.)
This is the most pronounced version of one of my concerns with the series: they don’t seem to understand the difference between fantasy and science fiction, so we get major episodes of our science fiction show that are fantasy stories.
I also struggle with her becoming this because of the Human/Gorn/Illyrian influence, but Spock was untouched, when his Human/Vulcan combination is there, too. Is the Illyrian cure really that influential?
I really hope we get the two seasons of Academy and the last two SNW in 36 consecutive weeks and move on from Kurzman.
> Anyone else feel like this was written as a series finale, not a season finale?
I said the same thing as we were watching it! I thought the eye part was also a bit much, but there seemed to have been a bonus theme about cults that got lost in the shuffle.
Also, “Time Traveling Doctor?” Are we getting a surprise crossover? I doubt it, since the BBC can’t keep their mouths shut about anything, but they’re leaning into the Friendship of it all, aren’t they?
Maybe she met Rasmussan.
That’s a fair guess, but Matt Frewer’s shuttlecraft wasn’t seen earlier in the season.
Good catch with the cults. There was probably more written about Gamble lording over the people.
“Time Traveling Doctor” was a joke. I wouldn’t read any more into that. I think it was a quick bit to make Who fans giggle.