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By Joshua Tyler
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There are fans who hate everything that Trek has done, but that is not sufficient. We all hate Star Trek: Discoverof course, but Lower deck Great, and so is the third term of Star Trek: Picard.
Then there is Star Trek: A strange new worldsA show that started things with a great first season. He seemed ready to carry on the franchise torch, and I want to love her.
Now, Trek Star: Strange new worlds in trouble. The quality of the show has declined after season. Instead of evolving and growing, a series led by Mount Anson has devolved.
Strange new worlds There are still two seasons left, which means it’s not too late to fix it. So I’ve drawn up this useful, easy -to -use guide on repairing the show and bringing it to a grescendo of significant potential.
This is what needs to happen, what must happen, to save Star Trek: A strange new worlds of himself.
Step 1: Narrowing the ensemble
Strange new worlds Started with a large primary cast, and has increased every season, weakening the show.
Captain Pike (Anson Mount) The series leader is theoretically, but the time of its screen is increasingly limited. Number one (Rebecca Romijn) is hardly on the show, Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte) is a punch, and Ortegas (Melissa Navia) goes whole chapters with no more than a single line.
Instead, we spend time with Erica’s little brother (Mynor Luken), who showed out nowhere and now in each chapter. Captain Pike, Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano), now appears to live on the ship. Oh, look, now James Kirk (Paul Wesley) is here again. Hey, let’s add a new chief engineer! Now, let’s bring in Scotty (Martin Quinn) to become the chief engineer assistant! How about a second helmet officer called Mitchell (Rong Fu)? Let’s give her a character arc. Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) has a new girlfriend? Let’s add it to the cast, too.
It’s overcrowded, and the ability to tell the show’s stories is disadvantaged by the need to fit so many characters. Speaking of characters…
Step 2: Tell stories about ideas, not characters
Star Trek: A strange new worlds has become a character -driven program. The show’s scripts revoke around people, and when the writers run out of ideas, they add more people only. That’s probably why the size of the cast has gone out of hand.
The bigger problem with this is that Star Trek is not a character -driven franchise. It’s supposed to be involved in ideas. All the most beloved and iconic chapters of the show are about big questions, deep understanding, and the nature of our universe and the people in it.
That’s always making Star Trek special. This is what made it different from everything else. When your stories are driven by character instead of being driven by an idea, your show comes like any other random TV show.
I do not need to know every detail of the chapel nurse’s personal history and life. I can get that on any random soap opera. The original series hardly told us anything about the show’s main characters; What we learned about them was a role of what happened along the way as part of their adventures. All I know about a turning deanna is that she likes chocolate and after dating it will be Riker. It was better that way.
On the other hand, Strange new worlds spent a lot of time on marriages, bar hangouts, and endlessly dating. It has become as much soap opera as it is an adventure series. And we already have plenty of soap operas on television. Speaking of romance…
Step 3: Stopped a spock content in a romance
Due to the view of sixty seconds in the original Trek Star where there is a Pig (Leonard Nimoy) Under the influence the influence briefly expressed interest in the nursing chapel, Star Trek: A strange new worlds Now subjected to three seasons of spock-stop dating episodes (Ethan Peck).
He was cute in one season when he was dealing with his fiancé. He became boring when he took part with Christine, and now has become absurd that he was screwing La’an (Christina Chong) just because they danced together once.
The show’s writers appear to be proud of the glittering turn of rationality and Star Trek logic is a loving juice that can’t stop making out with every woman who crosses his path. Literally it is a key piece of every single Strange new worlds CHAPTER NOW. Spock cannot enter a Turbo lift, much less goes on a mission away, without participating in some romantic women’s drama.
It’s too much. Even Captain KirkOperating on the performance of peak men, was this girl not crazy.
Step 4: Stop being silly, think about the audience
Star Trek has always had light moments. Spock and McCoy teased each other at the end of the episodes of original series was always a highlight of the show. Now and again, they would make a full episode, which was a bit goofy, like the one where Kirk has to learn to drive a stick shift on a planet Gangster.
Subsequent Star Trek Series And films followed that formula. They tried to hit middle ground where they told serious stories with a few light seconds.
Star Trek: A strange new worlds thrown out all out the window. The show makes only ten episodes of the season and spends five of them on joke episodes, Barcical recreations, puppet pantomimes, and full musicals. It’s like watching a high school drama club on a star.
Cut it out. If you want to make so many silly chapters, you need to increase your overall chapter. If you want to make five episodes just kidding, you need 24 episodes of the season. You get one joke episode per season if you do just ten. Only one. More than that is self-contaminating.
Strange new worlds He should be less interested in ensuring that the cast is fun and more interested in ensuring that the audience gets something out of it. That stopped happening shortly after the end of season one.
Step 5: Visit some planets, enliven and build
The strangest thing about Strange new worlds is that he no longer visits any planets. Each now, they beam down and run around the inside of a building for a minute, but that’s it.
The first season was filled with exploration, and the second decent had scenes on the ground. But the third season refuses to do anything that can’t film it in front of an LED wall, which generally means shipping inside. Or, if they feel daring, build an interior that looks like obvious green screenwork.
New planets mean new sets to build and new alien make -up designs to create. That’s a lot of work. So, instead of putting in some elbow grease, on the rare occasion the enterprise crew leaves the ship, they usually finish on a dark and empty environment where you can’t see much.
For example, in a chapter where they are supposed to investigate ancient ruins, they spend all their time in a dark room, blank with some vague things happening greatly lit in the distance. That’s not fun.
It is an unpleasant contrast to scenes on the ship, which is brightly lit, filled with color and contrast. That bright and hopeful look at first was the strength of the show, the strength they have left.
Build some actual sets and stop relying on that led wall so much. He doesn’t cheat anyone, no matter how big you project it.
Show us a strange color alien air and sun, a huge stone temple where you actually build pillars and structure that your actors can interact with and press on them. At this point, I’d settle for papier-Maché boulder.
I’m sure there’s a budget excuse for it all, but it kills the show, and I’m here to tell you how to fix it, not how to afford it.
Step 6: Draw your own ideas
Strange new worlds has become increasingly less unique. The first season had a few original series calls mixed with a few fresh stories. The second term deviates more towards a comb of other people’s notebooks, and the third term has received five straight episodes of torn things off. The show now feels like she gave Grok all her script writing.
The first episode of season 3 was a ripoff of The next generation “The best of two worlds.” The second brought in Trelaine from the original series. The third was a Zombie Hackey episode. The fourth was a Holodeck episode borrowed from Next gen Dixon Hill Adventures. The fifth is a Knockoff of the Movie An event horizon with a little of the Next episode “conspiracy” mixed.
The show is called Strange New Worlds. New is the reason it exists. Do something new. Something fresh. Something that’s all your idea. Take risk.
It’s not too late to save strange new worlds
In theory, Strange new worlds will be done after season 5. But parent -company Trek, Of the weightingRecently completed a purchase from Skydance, and their new owners re-evaluate everything.
If Strange new worlds Entering his fifth season with a big score and strong fan support, he may have a future beyond season 5. But for now, the show is devolution. Not only will it end, but future fans will ignore and forget it in favor of better Trek offerings in the past.
Star Trek fans want to love Strange new worlds. Follow this road map, and they will.
