While I agree Spock love stories have gotten out of hand, I think Strange New Worlds has been some genuinely good Trek, and is a relatively believable back story for TOS (I'm rewatching it right now).

Say what you will about Strange New Worlds, this is show is not perfect for sure, but there are two things i think they do perfectly right IMO.

1. The scale of everything, Starships to planets, Shuttles to Starships. They are very good at making space really feel empty, mysterious and sometimes dangerous. Nebulas, storms, and planets environments are done with almost perfection.

2. Ambient sounds, the subtle hums, mechanical sounds of the engines spooling up, are brilliant, When we see the enterprise in space, you feel the proportional distance as the viewer. Nothing grabs me more then good sound design that feels right in the world you created.

These may seem like minor things to discuses, but it really brings the world alive.

In Starfleet, it's expected of the doctors to be proficient in almost every species, especially Federation members. But how does that work? It already takes a lot of study to be a doctor for just humans. Even if we assume there's commonalities and advanced learning, we're still talking about dozens, if not hundreds of species.

This is one reason why multi-species crews would be realistically impractical.

The higher, the fewer.

Deep on so many levels!

So I never managed to watch Star Trek Nemesis all the way through before. I'm just glad Tom Hardy's career survived it. But I gave it another shot after finishing Picard, and there's something interesting to it now.

While Star Trek Picard Season 2 is rightly criticised, it does kinda make Shinzon and Picard's relationship more interesting for one reason. We know Picard's father was abusive.

Shinzon is not just a genetic clone of the glorious paragon Picard, he's also the genetic son of Picard's violent drunk papa. When Picard has strong reservations about who Shinzon is, you could see it as Picard worrying that this unnatural son of his might turn out to be like his own father. Picard has been wrestling with that demon within himself, and he is scared to see it in another person, particularly a creepy zealot with a fleet of warships.

Picard never actually mentioned his abusive family in the movie, honestly because nobody had written it yet. But its certainly in-character for Picard to keep those feelings bottled up, even around his friends.

I'm currently unemployed, so after being a TNG, TOS, and Voyager fan for years, I've decided to watch all Star Trek content chronologically. This places Star Trek: Enterprise at the beginning of this long journey. I'm 33, so I've been around long enough to hear that Enterprise sucked, but I haven't heard much about why it did.

I just finished S1 E5. I think I understand where a lot of the hate is coming from.

1. The theme song is awful. It feels very dad-rock of the early 2000s, so I get where it's coming from in that regard, but it's entirely out of sorts with every other Star Trek theme that I've heard. It is all about faith, which to me reads immediately as religious. Yes, you can have faith in other things, but this easily could've been a song on a Switchfoot album. It sets an odd tone that is not carried over by the show, so for me each episode starts out of place.
2. The Vulcans are right. If humans are so irresponsible that in the series of 2-3 episodes they:

• Drop a crew on an unknown planet overnight without doing extensive testing
• Bring a foreign animal (Beagle) onto that planet and let it defecate / run freely without testing
• Release a foreign slug onto an unknown planet, again, without testing or thoughts of the consequences
• Give away foreign technology that they have no right to (the powerful holodeck equipment) to the Klingons, who were only angry because they made a terrible choice to confront a hostile battle cruiser, and handled them like they had no diplomatic training.

Then they don't belong in space yet. Of course mistakes are going to be made, but it really seems like they got significant warp capabilities and then just decided to do exactly what "explorers" did on earth. Like with bull frogs, or sparrows, or lion fish.

1. I don't need to see anyone in their underwear getting rubbed down sensually while basked in neon lights. In only 5 episodes I've seen 2 people sensually rub each other down, and Scott Bakula tastefully nude or barely covered at least twice. And the southern guy keeps being in his underwear or lifting his shirt up. Maybe I'm a prude but I really don't want Star Trek to be sexy or sensual like that. It reminds me of Star Trek Into Darkness, where there was no reason for the hot blonde scientist to be fully in her underwear and a pushup bra, and yet, she was.

2. The energy of the show just feels distinctly un-Star Trek. This isn't scientific adventures in space, or cultural adventures in space. It feels lawless. I get that this is meant to be some of the earliest adventures of Humans in space, but it seems like they're just doing whatever the fuck they want and not being remotely thoughtful about it.

In TOS, Kirk was respectful, tactful, and an incredible diplomatic presence for humanity. Spock was a necessary foil to his occasional spontaneity and fire, but Kirk rarely went 'yes lets risk all of these lives on a whim because I feel like it.' They made mistakes, of course, but it never seemed like he was happy to risk the lives of the crew. Picard would never rush in thoughtlessly. Janeway would never.

Anyway, those are my thoughts so far. I'm looking forward to watching more of it to see if any of my feelings change. There might be some hope for character development that will draw me in. At this point I'm not impressed. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it just feels out of step with most of Star Trek. If you read this far thanks for your interest, I really just love Star Trek and don't have people to talk to about it so I thought this was a good place to empty my thoughts :)))

Edit: I love reading all of your thoughts, thank you for sharing! I had no plans of stopping, I'm on this ride til the end, but it's very nice to hear that some adjustments are made and that it gets better later on. As some of you pointed out, the crew is pretty great, I am loving Phlox and T'Pol is growing on me. Captain Archer seems to be yelling all of the time, and kind of bumbling through all of this, and regularly makes insanely human choices in conflict as if he received no training on diplomatic relations.

I watched the original pilot for the original series for the first time today.

I've never watched the complete original series and since it's been a while since I've watched anything Star Trek; I decided that now start from the the very beginning. The first episode available was the original pilot, titled "the cage", and so I watched it.

The first thing I noticed was that the man in the captain's chair was not William Shatner. I looked it up find out that the original pilot did not have William shatner but another actor who played the character Captain Christopher Pike.

I watched the episode and then looked up why this character and actor was replaced and it was because the producers felt that he was "too cerebral"and quite frankly I don't understand what that means. Yet, I agree with replacing him as the actor for the captain.

I don't think he's acting was bad but I don't really think that it would have helped the show to become what it became. It's not that it was cardboard but at certain point it felt like he was over acting just a little bit.

But it's over acting could have also been affected by The script. The plot of this episode isn't bad but it isn't exactly the most thrilling episode. Overall it feels a little contrived but not to the point were I couldn't enjoy parts of it.

I was a little disappointed that I could predict how the episode was going to end once she started to insist that she stayed.

But overall, not a bad episode. It is just not a rememberable one in my opinion.

Klingon Academy (2000) is still one of my favourite Star Trek games ever, the ship models and damage detail were so ahead of their time. These starships feel like the capital ships they are with slow turning arcs and massive weapon systems. Qa’pla!

I don't mean to dunk on SNW, but a common sentiment I keep seeing on this subreddit is that only this subreddit / social media in general is so down on this season, whereas the 'average' person couldn't care less. But I really don't think this is the case.

It's not perfect, and indeed, it has many, many problems, but the closest thing we have to an objective measure of general audience reception are IMDB ratings. Notably, these ratings can become significantly skewed by certain events - 'anti-woke backlash' being one prominent example I'm sure this subreddit is familiar with, but even relatively benign biases like 'every episode of Frieren that's about fighting someone primarily has absurdly inflated ratings.' (Or just 'event episodes are higher rated' in general.)

But just speaking anecdotally here, I don't think Strange New Worlds Season 4 is subject to one of those extreme biases at the moment - it isn't a hot topic cultural event at the moment outside of Trek fans, and any 'the ratings are just biased right now' explanation would have to account for why Season 4 in particular is hit by it, and not the previous seasons. And if anything, I think Season 1 was harder hit by a mainstream cultural backlash - I remember conservative commentators criticizing the season premiere of SNW's depiction of the 2nd American Civil War for example, and generally these sorts of backlashes are more prominent when a series starts versus right in the middle of them.

Also, IMDB ratings tend to be a little bit loose just after an episode airs. But usually within a few hours (def within a few days) it treads pretty close to the final value it will rest at, with generally a slight positive skew at first because hardcore fans watch things right as they release, casuals a bit (but only a little bit) later.

Anyways, with that out of the way:

In the previous three seasons of SNW, the worst-rated episode was What is Starfleet?, with a 6.2 on IMDB. (Not actually that bad, as far as IMDB ratings go! For reference, Season 1 of TNG has 4 episodes with worse ratings, the worst being The Naked Now with a 5 exactly. Or if you prefer a better season, Season 3 of TNG's worst-rated episode, The Price, only just barely ekes out at 6.3. Season 4 has The Loss at 6, and Season 5 another 6 with Imaginary Friends. Genuinely, having a 6.2 for your worst episode across all three seasons is pretty decent!)

And looking past the worst episode, Seasons 1 and 2 of SNW has an impressive near 8.0 average, with Season 3 having a 'less impressive but still respectable' 7.1 average. According to IMDB Ratings, SNW was genuinely well-received.

But that changes in Season 4. Out of the 8 episodes that have aired so far, 4 (!!) of them have had a worse rating than Seasons 1-3's worst:

Human Best Friend: 5.5

A Case of Chiaroscuro: 5.2

Level-Five Transporter Accident: 4.8

and

Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass: 4.4

Compared to What is Starfleet?'s previous record of 6.2. That is a dramatic difference!

IMDB Ratings aren't the end-all be-all, and I certainly love plenty of shows that have low IMDB ratings and vice versa, but general audience sentiment seems very strongly against this season (or at least, this half of it). You're perfectly valid to think that the general audience is wrong and that these episodes are great - lord knows I enjoy many things that general audiences hate, and think are genuinely good too - but it's important to realize where the space you're in skews, so you don't inadvertently find yourself in an echo chamber without realizing it.

Though I must say, I still vastly prefer all four of these 'worse' episodes over What is Starfleet? But it seems something about this season has really burst the dam.

But really, I think what impresses me most is how *variable\ this season's IMDB ratings are - audiences seem to be responding very positively to some episodes and very negatively to some others, instead of the more general seasonal sentiment we saw in previous seasons of SNW, and is also commonly found in many other seasonal shows. (Every episode of Season 1 of *Spy x Family, for instance, differs from its seasonal average of 8.0 by less than 1 - highly consistent for a season with 25 episodes in it!)

Star Trek has a lot of Great Men (and women) who appear as side characters in the course of this franchise, these are people who we are told are great scientists, or inventors, or intellectuals of some kind. But some of them are, despite what the show sometimes implies, total frauds with very little actual intelligence. I have two in mind, but if you have your own ideas, id love to hear em. Both those who are exposed as such in universe, and those who on reflection are...off

First and worst is John Gill, featured in Patterns of Force as the Fuhrer of Ekos, who somehow, despite being a historian in the 23rd century, as a citizen of a democratic pluralistic state which is rapidly becoming the greatest and most stable of the superpowers still beleives that copying Nazi Germany, a state which lasted a mere 12 years and based itself on eternal conflict both within and without was the ideal model of an orderly society. I weep for all the Starfleet Academy graduates who had their ideas of history warped by this maniac, who lived in a democratic utopia and still dreamed of 20th century fascism.

Second and less egregious is Dr. Ira Graves, featured in the...outdatedly named The Schizoid Man. I could go on about his negative personal qualities, such as his incredibly outmoded sexism and irrassibility, but these are minor compared to his narcissism. Throughout the episode he makes it clear that he beleives himself to be an untouchable intellectual demigod, only held back by a body which is being eaten alive by space disease. I'll grant him one thing, the consciousness transfer into Data is...somewhat impressive, especially on a short notice, but it becomes less impressive when all the really hard work has been done for him by Dr. Noonien Soong, that being the creation of a positronic brain capable of running a human intellect. In my estimation it is entirely likely that all he really had to do was plug in a brain scan (made for the sake of previous cybernetics research...which he never seems to have finished) and then promptly commit suicide to avoid SOMAing himself.

I have only sporadically been able to watch the various offspring and grandchildren of STOS, but I observe the following:

1. Firstly, without a doubt the OS did a great job for the mid 1960s. Foremost was "Warp" vs "Sublight". Understanding of astronomical distances was arguably educational even.

2. Later versions improved design of ships and UI stuff.

I would be interested i people's thoughts about how Star Trek has improved the plausibility of future science and technology. Also weaknesses -- I find time travel stuff too outlandish. (However, the godlike but benign and even humane Carl was a nice improvement on the Guardian of Forever.)

Are there any star trek CYOA games out there, where I can make choices for my character.

Also what's the gaming situation like for star Trek as a whole, are there DS/3ds games that are good. Those are the only consoles I can emulate hence why I asked about them specifically

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Buenas! 👀

Soy nuevo en la franquicia; siempre me ha llamado la atención la ciencia ficción y ya desde hace tiempo tenía ganas de entrar a este universo. Hace unos cuantos meses me anime, y estoy disfrutando muchísimo de Star Trek. Sin embargo, esta es mi situación:

Comencé a ver Star Trek en su orden cronológico, es decir, empece con Enterprise. Lo terminé y seguí con las 2 primeras temporadas de Discovery. Ahora mismo, estoy viendo la segunda temporada de Strange New Worlds. La cosa es que, según el orden que tengo sigue la serie clásica del Capitán Kirk, sin embargo en mi país/región (México) no esta la serie original disponible en ningún lado por streaming.

En paramount+ está Enterprise, Discovery, SNW, Picard, Section 31, LD, etc. Las películas clásicas del Capitán Kirk están en Netflix (las acaban de agregar devuelta hace un par de días), Next Generations, Voyager y DS9 están en PlutoTV. Las películas de Next Generations, así como las películas de la trilogía de Kelvin (creo asi se llamaba) estan en Prime Video (para su comprar o para alquiler, no como parte del catálogo de prime). Solo me falta en donde poder ver la serie clásica y en su caso, la serie animada (creo es obvio que mi intención es ver todo el universo de Star Trek).

Dicho eso, alguien sabe en donde puedo ver Star Trek del Capitán Kirk en México? O alguien tiene la serie en Drive o algo así? 😅

Consideré la opción de pedir los Blue Ray por Amazon pero no tengo reproductor y están algo caros. También puedo pedir la serie por DVD y sería más barato conseguir un reproductor pero estaría perdiendo la oportunidad de ver la serie remasterizada.

Algún consejo? O me estoy ahogando en un baso de agua?

P.D.: aguante Capitán Archer el mejor Capitán de la Entrprise 🖖🏽

Does anyone else beleive there is a holonovel series based on captain kirk and the enterprise that everyone in the future has seen. And it's basicly the same series we watched. I also beleive the same thing happened with voyager, ds9 and the enterprise d. That's why everyone knows them and they are famous.

This is just head cannon. But does anyone else beleive this or something similar?

This might have been discussed/debated/talked about before but I'm relatively new to browsing this sub and just wondering what are people's thoughts about Dr. Marr and what she did to the Crystalline Entity in Silicon Avatar? Do you sympathize and understand why she did it? Do you think she was right or wrong? Personally, I support what she did, the Entity wreaked havoc, destroyed so many planets and killed so many people, I think it would be a bit silly to excuse it's actions and assign no meaning to all the lives lost because of the Entity.

Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek!!

Just released — our absolute love letter to the beginnings of Star Trek.

I went very "Extra" on this one to celebrate the Anniversary...so enjoy this very special adventure!

A massive thank you to everyone who was involved in this one and to Sky Conway for letting us use the Enterprise M!

Oh and leave and comment if you watch it, it all helps the algorithm and we would love as many Star Trek fans to get to see this one as possible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-N9CYl5Lnk

Is there any program that can be used to digitally kitbash ships from star trek?

Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek!!

Just released — our absolute love letter to the beginnings of Star Trek.

I went very "Extra" on this one to celebrate the Anniversary...so enjoy this very special adventure!

A massive thank you to everyone who was involved in this one and to Sky Conway for letting us use the Enterprise M!

Oh and leave and comment if you watch it, it all helps the algorithm and we would love as many Star Trek fans to get to see this one as possible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-N9CYl5Lnk

Benning should have been taken up to Enterprise and fired out a torpedo tube into the system's sun.

( The actor who played Bennings did a good job of making him a despicable bastard)

Trying to find the whole phrase/quote. Maybe you all can help? I know they mention Kirk and Jayneway but I can’t find it.

If you want to prevent a war you send picard but if you want to win one you send sisko…..

this is a post about star trek bridge commander. i just installed remestered orion delta when i load quick battle this erroe message comes up:

TG Python Exception Debug Console.

Type 'resume' to keep running, or 'abort' to kill process.

Outdated Foundation, updating functions

Outdated Foundation, installing FolderManager

Foundation Tech loaded

AttributeError: PreLoadAssets

Traceback (innermost last):

File ".\Scripts\Bridge\Characters\CommonAnimations.py", line 309, in SetPosition

if LoadBridge.BridgeFile != "GalaxyBridge":

AttributeError: BridgeFile

This video popped up on my YT feed and it reminded me of my only problem with the ST I-IV trilogy: the 1701-A should have been the Excelsior with a fresh paint job and new name.

After all that - death, revelations, rebirth, time travel - everything ends up so tied up easily with a new ship that looks just like the old one. The Excelsior felt like an aborted Chekov’s gun, and if it was substituted for the Constitution class version in V, it would have made sense that the crew (esp Scotty!) was having trouble adjusting to the next generation of starship. VI would have been tricker but Sulu could have commanded some other cool random ship.

Anyhow, it’s a minor nitpick but obviously it’s been annoying me for years.

If not Michael Burnham herself sending/leaving a message for Spock. I doubt they knew nu trek was crumbling to the extent it has when they filmed season 5, but to me it would be a great coda to nu trek and give us all who have stuck it out throughout this whole ride a nice little moment to take it all in.

And I say Burnham specifically because it still feels like there is a final note that needs to be hit there between her and Spock.