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By Joshua Tyler | Published
There are fans who hate everything New Trek has done, but that’s not nuanced enough. We all hate Star Trek: DiscoveryOf course, but Lower mallets It was great, and it was also the third season of Star Trek: Picard.
Then it is Star Trek: Strange New WorldsA program that began with a great first season. He seemed to be prepared to carry the franchise torch forward, and I want to love it.
Now, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds It is in trouble. The quality of the program has decreased the season after season. Instead of evolving and growing, the series directed by Anson Mount has been transferred.
Strange new worlds He still has two seasons left, which means that it is not too late to fix it. So I have gathered this practical and easy -to -use guide to fix the program and take it to a potential crescendo.
This is what should happen, what should happen, to save Star Trek: Strange New Worlds of himself.
Step 1: Narrow the whole
Strange new worlds He started with a great primary cast, and has become bigger every season, diluting the show.
Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is theoretically the series leader, but his screen time is increasingly limited. The number one (Rebecca Romijn) is barely in the program, Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte) is a phrase, and Ortegas (Melissa Navia) complete episodes is made without more than a single line.
Instead, we spend time with Erica’s little brother (Mynor Luken), who has just appeared out of nowhere and is now in each episode. Captain Pike’s girlfriend, Captain Batel (Melanie Scofano), now seems to live on the ship. Oh, look, now James Kirk (Paul Wesley) is here again. Hey, we add a new chief engineer! Now let’s bring Scotty (Martin Quinn) to be the assistant of the Chief Engineer! What about a second helm officer named Mitchell (Rong Fu)? We give you a character arc. Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) has a new boyfriend? Let’s add to the cast too.
It is overloaded, and the narration capacity of the program is being harmed by the need to fit into so many characters. Talking about characters …
Step 2: Tell stories about ideas, no characters
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds It has become a program based on characters. The scripts of the program revolve around people, and when writers run out of ideas, they simply add more people. That is why the cast size has gone out of control.
The biggest problem with this is that Star Trek is not a character driven by the character. It is supposed to be ideas. All the most beloved and iconic episodes of the program are about great questions, deep understanding and the nature of our universe and people in it.
That was always what made Star Trek special. It is what did it different from everything else. When their stories are driven by the characters instead of the idea, their program becomes like any other random television program.
I do not need to know all the details of the history and personal life of the nurse’s chapel. I can get that in any random soap opera. The original series barely told us anything about the main characters of the program; What we learned about them was a function of what happened along the way as part of their adventures. All I know about Deanna Troi is that she liked chocolate and once outdated Will Riker. It was better that way.
On the other hand, Strange new worlds It spends a lot of time at weddings, bars and endless meeting places have an appointment. It has become a soap opera as a series of adventures. And we already have many soap operas on television. Speaking of romance …
Step 3: Stop involving Spock in romance
Due to a sixty -second scene in the original Trek in which a spock (Leonard Nimoy) under the influence briefly expressed interest in the nurse’s chapel, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Now he has subjected us to three seasons of episodes of quotes without stopping Spock (Ethan Peck).
It was nice in the first season when I was dealing with her fiancee. He became boring when he got involved with Christine, and now he has become ridiculous who is fucking La’an (Christina Chong) just because they danced together once.
Program writers seem to delight in the lighthouse of rationality and logic of Star Trek in a sap of love that cannot stop kissing with each woman who crosses her path. It is literally a key piece of each Strange new worlds Episode now. Spock cannot enter a Turbo elevator, much less go to a mission outside, without getting involved in a drama of romantic girls.
It is too much. Even Captain Kirk, operating in Peak Male Performance, was not crazy this girl.
Step 4: Stop being dumb, think of the audience
Star Trek has always had happy moments. Spock and McCoy make fun of each other at the end of the episodes of the original series was always the highlight of the program. From time to time, they would make a complete episode, which was a bit silly, like the one that Kirk has to learn to drive a stick change on a gangster planet.
The series and posterior films Star Trek followed that formula. They tried to reach a midpoint where they told serious stories with some happy moments.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds He has thrown all that out the window. The program only does ten episodes per season and spends five of them on joke episodes, ridiculous recreations, pantomimes of complete puppets and musicals. It’s like seeing a high school drama club on a spacecraft.
Cut. If you want to make so many silly episodes, you must increase the total of your general episode. If you want to make five joke episodes, you need 24 episodes per season. You get a joke episode per season if you are only doing ten. Only one. More than that is self -complating.
Strange new worlds He should be less interested in ensuring that the cast is fun and is more interested in ensuring that the audience is obtaining something from it. That stopped happening shortly after the end of the first season.
Step 5: Visit some planets, cheerful and build
The strangest of Strange new worlds It is no longer visiting any planet. From time to time, go and run inside a building for a minute, but that’s all.
The first season was filled with exploration, and the second had a decent number of scenes on the ground. But the third season refuses to do anything that cannot film in front of a LED wall, which mostly means ship interiors. Or, if you feel expenses, building interiors that seem obvious green screen work.
The new planets mean new sets to build and new alien makeup designs to create. That is a lot of work. Then, instead of putting some fat in the elbow, on the rare occasion of the business crew leaves the ship, they usually end in a dark and mostly empty environment where you cannot see much.
For example, in an episode in which they are supposed to investigate the old ruins, they spend all their time in a dark and empty room with some vague things that happen with little light in the distance. That is not fun.
It is an annoying contrast with the scenes on the ship, which are brilliantly illuminated, full of color and contrast. That brilliant and hopeful look was initially the strength of the program, a force they have abandoned.
Build some real sets and stop trusting so much in that damn wall LED. He is not deceiving anyone, no matter how strongly you project it.
Show us a strange sky and an alien sun, a huge stone temple where you really build pillars and structures with which your actors can interact and support you. At this point, I would settle for a Papier-Maché rock.
I am sure that there is a budget excuse for everything, but it is killing the program, and I am here to say how to solve it, not how to pay it.
Step 6: Present your own ideas
Strange new worlds It has become less and less unique. The first season had some call returns from the original series mixed with some fresh stories. The second season biased more towards the cradle of other people’s notebooks, and the third season has had five consecutive episodes to tear things. The program now feels as if all its writing of scripts for Grok was subcontracted.
The first episode of season 3 was a scam of The next generation “The best of both worlds.” The second brought Trelaine from the original series. The third was an episode of zombie hacky. The fourth was an episode of Holodck of Budget Borrowed Next Gen’s Dixon Hill Adventures. The fifth is an imitation of the film Event horizon with a little Next gen The “conspiracy” mixed episode.
The show is called Strange New Worlds. New is the reason why it exists. Do something new. Something cool. Something that is all your idea. Risk.
It is not too late to save new strange worlds
In theory, Strange new worlds It is done after season 5. But Trek’s parent company, Paramount, recently completed a Skydance purchase, and its new owners are re -evaluating everything.
Yeah Strange new worlds It enters its fifth season with great qualifications and strong support from fans, it can have a future beyond season 5. But at this time, the program is being transmitted. Not only will it end, but the future fans will ignore it and forget it in favor of better Trek offers.
Star Trek fans want to love Strange new worlds. Follow this road map and they will.
