New Star Trek Series - Star Trek: New Worlds = New Cards
Althea Biermont
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https://bleedingcool.com/tv/star-trek-new-worlds-pike-spock-and-number-one-set-for-new-series/
New show means new crew added to the game. Who would you like to see?
New show means new crew added to the game. Who would you like to see?
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@Banjo1012 , your thoughts please?
After seeing the end of Discovery season 2, this was the obvious direction to go in. I thought Discovery was going to go this direction. Wasn’t expecting a whole other series but I definitely like it! Those three already have shown they can form a really solid core to a great show
And then after few episodes it will turn into the train wreck.
And now, Shan can move this to Strange New Worlds...like she does.
Everyone gets excited and posts here. I may even have done it one time, my own self.
And, this is exciting news for everyone who loved the actors portraying the classic characters in Disco.
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I apologize for being pedantic. 🖖
Foster's is gnats piss. He's gone WAY down in my estimation.
Plus that Enterprise bridge...fantastic.
I think they have a huge opportunity. They have shows that take Star Trek in new directions. Now they can make a show in honor of what Star Trek was, with modern themes, graphics, and storytelling. If it were up to me, I would make it an answer to The Mandalorian. Episodic, with fresh new sets and themes each time. Move the story along slowly and steadily. Introduce new characters and new civilizations the way Star Trek did in the good ole days. The title suggests that they may go that direction. I can only hope that they do.
Hear, hear!
They're describing this as being tonally more like classic trek, both in optimism and more episodic style, so yeah, I'm genuinely excited for the possibilities.
ETA: "New ‘Star Trek’ Series Featuring Spock and Pike Will Be ‘Optimistic and More Episodic,’ Creators Say"
“I imagine it to be closer to the original series than even ‘DS9,'” Goldsman says of “Strange New Worlds.” “We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece.” Of the type of episode that “Strange New Worlds” might attempt that “Discovery” or “Picard” might not, Goldsman says, “It’s hard to do a shore-leave episode in the middle of a long, serialized arc.”
I readily admit my man crush on Pike.
...Has anyone ever suggested DS9 was especially close to TOS?
To illustrate the difference between the two sub-forums, @Dirk Gunderson started a thread there about this, 41 minutes before this one. As of right now, there are only four comments on that one versus nineteen in this thread. Two of the former were mine, and this makes the 20th in this thread unless someone else has chimed in while I was typing.
I think most would have said TNG was the closest series to TOS in tone and being episodic but now that Star Trek Picard has come you cannot say TNG without people thinking Star Trek Picard and this Pike show is going to be much different from Picard. As far as how close or far DS9 is to TOS, I think co-creator Akiva Goldsman is likely referring to the DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations episode and how DS9 was able to make an episode that recreated TOS with DS9 crew and a storyline that interweaved them both.
Such a great episode I have to put another photo.
And one to grow on.
I think Goldsman was referring to DS9 being the first ST series which totally gave up on being episodic. So imho he tried to point out how similar to TOS and TNG it will be in contrary to everything after those.
By the ’90s and early 2000s, a new wave of shows including “The Next Generation,” “Voyager” and especially “Deep Space Nine” introduced elements of serialized storytelling to a structure that was still essentially episodic.
“I imagine it to be closer to the original series than even ‘DS9,'” Goldsman says of “Strange New Worlds.” “We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece.” Of the type of episode that “Strange New Worlds” might attempt that “Discovery” or “Picard” might not, Goldsman says, “It’s hard to do a shore-leave episode in the middle of a long, serialized arc.” An excerpt from the article https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-spock-pike-episodic-1234608181/?fbclid=IwAR1iVFRy9V1yKEvjeZhf9FaJHFPYE9OMsexNRQVQgibxMrXA-Xb0IQ9kjZw
It is true DS9 is less episodic than TOS and TNG but many DS9 episodes were episodic as the article says it “was still essentially episodic.” DS9 did have ongoing storylines and character development in later seasons but many episodes were still easily accessible for viewers that had missed some previous episodes. But yes essentially I believe your interpretation is close in that Goldsman is suggesting the new show will be without a doubt more episodic than Picard and Discovery and maybe even more episodic than DS9. Goldsman though also points out that there will be some character development.
But episodes won’t be quite so contained as, say, “The City on the Edge of Forever,” the classic original-series installment in which William Shatner’s Kirk and Leonard Nimoy’s Spock meet Edith Keeler, a brilliant social worker played by Joan Collins whom history has fated to die young.
“I think one thing that we always struggled with [as fans] was that Kirk is heartbroken at the loss of Edith Keeler in ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ and has to be just fine the next week,” Goldsman says. “I think what we would want to do is keep the characters having moved through and recognizing the experiences they’ve had in previous episodes, but to be able to tell contained, episodic stories.
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I was wondering if someone would mention the double posting. I read the forums on most recent, so I never actually know which sub forum they are under. I look at all of them, but don't always respond.
To be honest, I have zero interest whatsoever. Some crossovers work really well. I think my favorite remains NBC's "Hurricane Saturday", which stranded characters from Empty Nest, The Golden Girls, and Nurses with one another during a hurricane in Miami. More often, though, I've been disappointed because they just felt like what they were: Contrived pretexts for putting different toys in the sandbox. Would I watch a CBS Trek crossover? Of course. Might it be the bee's knees? Yep, and I would cross my fingers that it would. But, as I said, I have no enthusiasm and would just as soon they didn't.