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By Chris Snellgrove
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Fans are getting ready to watch Starfleet Academythe Star Trek: Discover Spinoff who will bring the doctor back from Voyage To help train the next generation of best and brightest of the federation. But Paramount is already preparing for their next big show: Star Trek: Year One, Could say more adventures about Kirk’s first year as captain of the initiative.
Strange new worlds Co-creator Akiva Goldman is waiting to introduce this new show to his company’s new management, but needs to be vigilant because Star Trek: Year One Runs the risk of completely destroying trekkie the bandom.
How Star Trek: Year One could end trekkies
The basic idea behind Star Trek: Year One Simple enough: using cast members playing young versions of Kirk, PigScotty, and the rest to revisit the earliest days of Captain Kirk ordering the most famous ship at Starfleet. Most of the cast are already in operation (minus some TOS characters will need to be re -drawn, such as Dr. McCoy, Sulu, and Chekov), and it would be relatively easy to use the present Strange new worlds Sets and designs to bring this new show to life.
If not treated well the life of this show will mean the death of Star Trek. It has the potential to be even more divisive than Discovery.
Persecuted paramount for theoretical replacement fans
Since Nutrek’s era began, there has been tension among fans because Of the weighting tries to appeal to two very different groups. The first group is the older Trek fans who have loved the franchise for days The next generation or even earlier. The second group are younger or theoretical fans that the network considers the future of this franchise.
That has led to constant arguments on -lein about how well Nutrek writers treated Canon, including arguments about everything from Spock having a secret sister to Starfleet cool in destroying a whole planet to end war. There were also arguments about tone because of the new shows (especially Discovery and Picard) Press to violence and gore in ways Trek shows would not be even earlier. And when Nutrek is not too bloody (very bloody) seriously, it is too silly, as seen in Strange new worlds Filling his 10 episode run with no less than three silly chapters focusing almost entirely on humor.
Star Trek’s security net removal can cause core cut
Because of this, Trekkie’s Fandom is a powdered mouth Trek Star: One year runs the risk of firing. After all we have already seen Kirk’s first year as the Enterprise Captain back in term 1 of Star Trek: The original series. It is inevitable that a new show with the same characters will be exactly in the same location and time period leading to endless arguments about how good One yearWriters honor the basic canon of the entire franchise.
That also extends to performances: although audiences generally enjoyed the actors portraying the original enterprise crew (Kirk Paul Wesley and Spock Ethan Peck are particularly great), there has always been a kind of narrative security net because Strange new worlds happens years before The original series. So whenever someone appears out of a character (like the non -emotion spock is mainly human -acting constantly and dating half of the ship), it can be explained away by saying that the character is still growing into who they are. But if these types of plot beats outside of character continue Star Trek: Year OneHe will make arguments for a canon paramount treatment worse than ever.
All the ways in which other Prequel Star Trek can go wrong
Those fan arguments will get worse even if, say, the new show starts to trespass Original Series plotting points. For example, Strange new worlds have given us a very different portrait of the Horn than we have seen before; How would this new show possibly find Retcon Kirk’s iconic encounter with one of these fatal lizards, especially after Snw showed us a sweet and kind horn? Poorly treated, the new show could effectively remove most of Trek’s most famous chapter from Canon, leaving fans nervously for what the new writers could remove next.
Other potential problems exist: For example, the new show could have a hard time equivalent to a mood The original seriesEspecially if it deviates too hard for the humor that used tos so sparingly. And the writers may not be able to resist giving his own long -term love that defines a cannon to Kirk, just as they did to Pike (someone who was supposed to end completely different Woman than Captain Batel, the apparent love of his life).
Also, even if they get everything else right, writers Star Trek: Year One It can fall to writing messy. That is what Strange new worlds Authors when they threw their season 3 diplomatic ethos the franchise out the air lock to tell a strange black and white story about the good fighting forces of the ultimate and irresistible evil forces.
As usual, I would like to be wrong: I have really enjoyed most Strange new worldsand I think these writers and actors certainly have them to create another great homage to The original series. But Paramount plays with a phaser fire here (Level 10, Baby) with the ability of this show to fully break the bandom. This is hoping that, as Captain KirkThe creative powers that will be able to beat this no win scenario and achieve the show that Star Trek fans are old and new have been waiting for.
