Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3

Sorry! She's not the navigator: she's the pilot.

Looking forward to it. It has some flaws but it's nonetheless enjoyable to watch. Of the latest crop this is certainly the best. (I did enjoy the TNG season on Picard even more. But that was just one season.)

well hiss on you OP... you excluded Rebecca Romjin as Number 1. She's amazing. I have loved Romjin - as much as a gay man can love a woman - for years and years.

Dr. Roger Korby--with an accent I could not place (Scottish? Northern English)--makes a guest appearance in episode 2, and so does another surprise visitor from TOS (though they never identify him by name, but the actor they got is a dead ringer for the actor who originally played him).

Lt. Ortegas is even more like Che Diaz than ever this season. Soon she'll be finger-banging Lt. Uhura and delivering stand-up comedy routines about how she's fucked every woman on the Enterprise.

I looked online, and the accent of both Roger Korby and the actor who plays him is Irish.

The premiere episode was a pretty good ride. La'an blowing a Gorn's head off with a phaser (set to kill -- one of the few times in the franchise that's happened) was wild. For a moment, it seemed like Ortegas was going to join Tasha Yar.

The second episode was a good throwback to the original show. I didn't know SNW would bring back Trelane, so that was a great twist. John De Lancie voicing his dad confirms Trelane is a Q; it also makes the Peter David Next Gen novel "Q-Squared," which features Q and Trelane, sort of canon.

I just finished season 1 on Pluto? and really liked it. Plenty of references to TOS. The season finale was a time jump to TOS era, Kirk was captain of the Farragut. There was an engineer heard off screen with a Scottish accent. My favorite callout was in an earlier episode with T’Pring and standing behind her was a guy who could be immediately identified as the one her character conspired with in Amok Time (I think that was the episode). His 60s haircut was unmistakable.

I think they do a good job of mixing different series like “No 1” was in the TOS Pilot and she had long dark hair but it turns out she’s one of the forbidden genetically modified humans that was an episode of TNG (I think).

One thing I absolutely hate is the implacable villain, the Gorn. Just a more primitive Borg. So boring.

I have never been in favor of retconning everything to tie series into each other. But I am surprised that they didn't attempt to link the Gorn as an evolutionary origin to Species 8472. Their appearance is rather similar, and based on what I have seen so far in TOS and SNW, the Gorn aren't very communicative with humans either.

[quote] One thing I absolutely hate is the implacable villain, the Gorn. Just a more primitive Borg. So boring.

It's disappointing that in this season opener they defeat the Gorn the exact same way they did with the Borg in the second part of the famous "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter on TNG: by tricking them into going dormant.

The best part of this new series is the character development, but the actual plotting often evokes too many storylines we've seen before.

Well summarized! Plots are the weaker link of the show while character description is not too bad.

The first two episodes were okay. Honestly, I loath the Chapel/Spock plot line it's way too soap opera. Like really, in the middle of a massive crisis trying to save Pike's girlfriend Spock and Chapel spend 5 minutes talking about their relationship troubles?

I watched the season opener last night. I found it OK. The plot was a bit simple, but I appreciate that the episode was more about the character and the plot was just a vehicle. It became quite apparent though that the episode had not much new to say that hadn't been told in Trek already. In a way the entire show feels like rehash of previous ST shows exclusively for an audience that will never go back watching the 80s shows.

Ethan Peck's chest hair was apparently newsworthy enough to get nerd website coverage.

We got only a few seconds of Sam Kirk dancing this time around. Dan Jeannotte is ADORABLE.

Dan Jeannotte is beautiful and we got some great shots of his ass in the second episode....although I wonder if the SNW's uniform pants are padded "in the seat" like the original Discovery uniforms were.

Somebody needs to tell Rebecca Romijn to go easy on the facial work.

This last episode, again, was mostly good for the character interactions rather than for the writing. WE've seen zombis too many times before so that even Pike and M'Benga were joking about what a plot device it is to bring them in, and stories about Klingons defending their honor are always humdrum. They're doing a better job fleshing out Ortegas, but I wish they could do something about Rebecca Romijn's character--she's as dull and immovable as her facial fillers.

[quote]I wish they could do something about Rebecca Romijn's character--she's as dull and immovable as her facial fillers.

...and what was that 'thing' on her head? Was that supposed to be some complimentary, futuristic hairstyle? Who in the makeup department has it in for her?

Allegedly they did the hair style changes to accommodate some gravity-loss plot in the episode. (I haven't watched it yet.)

Ortegas going rogue is the first time the character has been interesting (and given more to do). Pike and M'Benga seemed really blasé about being chased by zombie Klingons on an abandoned planet. Meanwhile, I'm tired of the Captain Batel Gorn plot.

I'm probably in the minority on this, but I find SNW really lacklustre and this season so far has not grabbed me at all, to the point where I'm probably just going to wait until it's done before I think about watching it.

Honestly, I was never really into the idea of yet another prequel. The main selling point of it for me was always the eye candy that is Anson Mount and Ethan Peck, but even that's almost not enough incentive anymore. I literally fell asleep during the lastest episode.

Again, I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't think the episodic nature works as well when there is only 10 episodes a season, and the character arcs they do carry forward through multiple episodes are subpar (like enough with the soap opera romance shit...I don't care about Spock and Chapel or Pike and Batel).

I really wish the producers of current Trek (assuming they survive the Paramount/Skydance merger) would move forward with new material rather than prequels. I know they are pushing doing a new version of TOS after SNW ends and I don't want that at all. I'm not opposed to bringing back established characters just sick of the 23rd century at this point.

Personally, I feel like the two best Trek shows of the modern era were LD and Pro. Picard S3 was good, only because it brought back familiar faces we haven't seen in 20 years and did something different (though I had some issues with the how the story progressed and the retreaded elements e.g. long lost son, the borg, etc.).

I'm with you. Their approach is: Which genre have we not done yet? We should do a horror episode. What would be a suitable plot? For season 4 they're planning a puppet episode. And they want me to take the show seriously as a drama show? They are churning out lots of "very-special-episodes" without regular episodes. Can't say I care for it. I moved from watching every episode to occasional tuning in a few years ago when Discovery hit a low. I guess I'm kinda done.

R22 I absolutely agree. The whole genre jumping almost every week makes this show feel very unsettled in what it's trying to be. TOS, TNG and the other 90s/00s treks had the benefit of 26 episodes a season. While they played with genre, the majority of the season was very much sci-fi/character drama. Also with a longer season, you have far more time to give character and episode or two. I think the first season of SNW balanced it better. Now it just seems to be every week we're doing something totally different. It's too scattered.

I'm open to see what they do with Academy, but SNW just ain't doing it for me.

I like the show a lot, but I don't disagree about it throwing in too many elements and losing focus on being a "Star Trek" series.

There are things I liked with the last episode: the new guy who is Mr. Scott does a terrific imitation of James Doohan and he's very appealing. I don't understand why both he and Ethan Peck (as Spock) are doing uncanny impersonations of their originals but Jess Bush (as Nurse Chapel) and Celia Rose Gooding (as Uhura) seem nothing like (respectively) Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols, although I do like them as performers.

The guy who plays Jame T. Kirk, Paul Wesley, did a pretty hammy imitation of William Shatner in this episode, and since he's so rarely on the show I couldn't figure out at first who the actor was. I did like the final few seconds of the show during yhe credits when he instead did an imitation of John Travolta looking in the mirror in Saturday night Fever--he was actually good at that.

Nobody else much distinguished themselves as the late Sixties-early Seventies holodeck scenario other than Anson Mount, who seemed believably an entirely different character. Babs Olusanmokun was hilarious dressed much like Link from "Mod Squad," however.

It was a pretty weak episode except for the romantic tension between La'an (that name!) and Spock. The show is much better at character than it is as plotting.

The new guy who plays the overeager nurse is pretty hot.

Episode five fell a little flat. Interesting idea, but the execution was a little slow at times. Killing off Gamble the nurse so soon after he was introduced was a surprise.

Well, thanks for bringing it up here, r27.

The demon presence that possessed Gamble was pretty much like Pazuzu in "The Exorcist"--it tormented people by pretending to be the voices of people they loved.

I thought the episode was much scarier than the zombie episode earlier this season. It still wasn't a great episode, though.

I do like the fact they're laying for the groundwork that Roger Korby is ethically challenged.

I was disappointed again by the last episode. This has not been a good season for the show. There are too many episodes where the characters play someone other than their actual usual characters, like they're getting bored with playing their parts.

This episode four of them had to disguise themselves as Vulcans for a mission, and then afterwards refused to turn back to humans, which they said was illogical. Anson Mount does have some comic chops, but he overdoes it: he played his Vulcan variant like a robot with a mechanical voice. Because of some weird plot gimmick they had La'an become violent and aggressive and manipulative--I think the idea (which they never said) was that she was becoming like the faction of Vulcans that rejected logic and split off to become the Romulans.

I do love the little guy who plays Scottie--he's so adorably puny, and he does James Doohan's accent exactly right.