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- 2022
- TV-PG
- Paramount+
- 2022
- TV-PG
- Paramount+
Summary The Star Trek: Discovery spinoff follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) as they explore the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Created By: Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
- 2022
- TV-PG
- Paramount+
- 2022
- TV-PG
- Paramount+
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Season 1 Premiere: May 5, 2022
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7.7
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Summary The Star Trek: Discovery spinoff follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) as they explore the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Created By: Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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96% Positive
24 Reviews
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4% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
80
96% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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All of the classic “Trek” series that came before took until their third season to truly “get good.” So did “Picard.” Let’s then celebrate this show that set out to reach the stars and somehow got there faster than even the legendary series that paved the way for it.
No longer just a spinoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes boldly into its second season with terrific crew chemistry, more far-flung adventures on tap, and even more depth added to characters who already feel like classics.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 582 User Ratings
7.7
76% Positive
441 Ratings
441 Ratings
8% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
17% Negative
97 Ratings
97 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 582 User Ratings
7.7
76% Positive
441 Ratings
441 Ratings
8% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
17% Negative
97 Ratings
97 Ratings
Somehow the way “Strange New Worlds” addresses our present moment feels the most effective narrative choice to date.
I’ve asked for Kurtzman and company to just let Star Trek be Star Trek. With Strange New Worlds, they finally have, and the power of possibility is palpable throughout.
“Strange New Worlds” is at its best in its fifth episode, which delivers more cheeky fun and short bursts of character development with economy that are more meaningful than the paragraphs of breathless character exposition found in the first four episodes.
Strange New Worlds Season 2’s premiere is exciting and emotional… once it figures out who it wants to be about.
Comfort blanket Trek with a great cast, snappy writing and plenty of strands to unwind in future episodes, Strange New Worlds achieves everything it intends. But there’s a lingering feeling that there’s perhaps not quite enough that’s strange or new.
OMG, my favorite episode of any ST franchise. I just loved this episode. In fact I have watched it about 15 times. There is no other ST episode I have watched even half that number including the very first borg episode in TNG. I know nearly every word from every song.
But then I loved the buffy musical episode immensely as well. So if you never liked "Once more with feeling" from buffy or even the Lexx musical episode I guess you are not going to like this episode.
I think I will go watch it again
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This show is strange. Great actors, great visuals, the first two episodes are hands down the best Star Trek I've ever seen, excepting possibly "The voyage home"... and then the writing and direction dives off a cliff hard, while the other qualities remain. Situations in the following episodes are physically inconsistent - we see a video feed from a remote outpost under attack that the Enterprise can't spot, cut to the ship hanging right above the outpost, the outpost gets destroyed, and the same video feed still plays. It's jarring, completely unnecessary, would have been trivial to fix, and every single episode contains multiple such blunders.
Characters are paraded around as if moved by overly ambitious writers who have never heard of "show, don't tell", behave irrationally and inconsistently with positions they've argued just before, and more like extras who wandered onto set instead of trained officers. Occasionally, the Enterprise feels like a shuttle with a crew of 16, who get to save the universe in every single episode, from scratch. It's disturbing to see first real greatness and then watch that potential wasted so unnecessarily. I'll watch the next season to see where it goes, but, man, did this leave me disappointed.
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Of course i welcome all new stories. So please continue. The camera and animation arrangements are top. That alone makes it wortwhile watching. However what old actors appear to have and new actors dont are lessons to speak loud and clearly before a camera. The series need a new studio audio recording to become understandable. Furthermore every startrek series comes obviously with tesocial parameters fromthe time they were recorded in. This series are no exemption from this fact. But due to the fact it claims to overdo the original series it sends a message of we know it better then our ancestors. We are the new wisdom in social behaviour and we are the god to know it all. Tha robs the series at least another 3 Stars.
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There are a lot of comments that this show closely resembles the original series. The original series was noteworthy for the inclusion of black females, this new series still has males in it, even a white one. Other than that social justice statement very little is similar to the original series. The original series made the cast sit on crappy, plastic school assembly hall chairs, the new series is all nice chairs and acres of glass, just the thing for a combat style ship. The original series had a quasi military hierarchy to match it's quasi military role, the new series dumps that approach for one that could be best described as emotional middles school consensus, so very wake and unrealistic. The dialogue in the original series might be described as, common, semi-formal, now it's pubescent cool. The original music score may not have been anything to write home about but the new one you would write home about- to say it's not very good.
The actors, well the captain delivers one of the most wooden intro's you are likely to hear (the 5 year mission speech). The doctor, a mere faint shadow of McCoy and the nurse, well has the doctor's role and virtually no chest, a recurring mis-targeting of what the original series was. Gone are the days of attractive women with big **** in short skirts and in with women who, well, you wouldn't look at twice (with the exception of Spock's mate).
Put another way, it's out with a target audience of young adult males 17-25 and with kids
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This show started out as something that had potential. Yes it leaned on tired interpersonal drama to tug it along, and yes it kept resorting to angsty-teen comedic elements that weighed it down, but when it actually decided to focus on its name sake, exploring "strange new worlds," its story telling was okay and it managed to punch above the rest of the mediocre to just plain bad Star Trek that has unfortunately taken over the franchise in recent years. But it can't decide if it is low-rent comedy for angsty-teens who want poorly scripted interpersonal-drama, or a legitimate science fiction drama for adults, and the former seems to be winning out. Season one had a point where it looked like it was going to keep getting better. It was casting off its legacy of being attached, story-wise, to that train-wreck called STD, and it was focusing on good storytelling and intriguing concepts. I was looking forward to season two. But then season two actually arrived and it was like they brought in a whole new writing team that had been ported over from a low-budget WB Christmas special or something. Not to say it doesn't have strong moments, but unfortunately it has become gimmicky, deciding that it wants to focus more on the angsty-teen stuff and the interpersonal drama. And then came the cross-overs with angsty-teen cartoons, and musical episodes that felt like a waste of time and potential -- literally the the lowest possible forms of entertainment that a show can dip into (and usually the stuff that writers don't resort to until 8 seasons into a show that won't die and they have plain run out of ideas for it). We are there in season two...that does not bode well for its future. Honestly, my hopes of Strange New Worlds becoming the quality Star Trek that so many fans have been looking forward to has been greatly diminished. It just isn't there anymore. The fan base has been supplanted by a simpler audience and the quality of the show is catering to that demographic. The chances of that improving are likely zero.
So my review is that SNW is merely okay science fiction that, at this point, has more bad about it than good. It can be interested, it can even be good, but mostly it is just more teen television trying to moonlight as quality entertainment on occasion.
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Production Company:
- CBS Television Studios
- Roddenberry Entertainment
- Secret Hideout
Initial Release Date: May 5, 2022
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 5 Nominations
The CAFTCAD awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
