Up to this point Anson Mount’s job has basically been to be Mister Charisma and resident Jaime Lannister lookalike, but seeing him play a snivelling weasel was quite impressive. Guy can act.
This is rapidly establishing itself as some of the best Star Trek ever. One terrific episode after another.
It should not be possible to keep hitting it out of the park every damn episode.
Are you guys really going to convince me to pay for another streaming service that is basically just good for the Trek that I used to get on Netflix?
This thread got me to. Just finished Ep4. Oh lots to not think too hard about but that was always true in Trek. And I’m glad I did. But really other than doubling back to Picard there’s not much I’m going to watch on this streamer.
And now all caught up!
I’m guessing that spending eternity playing fantasy adventures with your mom, adoptive or bio, can get old. Maybe at some point she wants a cloud of her own.
Time for her being decades per several seconds for “us”also opens up the similar bit in an Orville plot line for a later season episode. What does this eternal consciousness of human origin evolve into after an experienced fifty to a hundreds of thousands years?
The Good Fight is excellent.
And I’ve heard 1883, Evil, Mayor of Kingstown, and The Offer are pretty good.
If you are a soccer fan, it can be worth it.
I finally took the plunge on this show and am loving it. I have my minor gripes, but after this last season of Picard was so lackluster I had serious doubts they could make a good Trek series again. I’m delighted to be proved wrong. And since she hasn’t gotten a lot of love in the comments so far, I want to note that Ortegas is probably my favorite “new” crew member. The snark content of the series overall is a little high for my liking (one of the aforementioned gripes) but Melissa Navia does a good job as the bridge cutup without it ever becoming annoying. And I especially enjoyed watching her total badass turn in “The Elysian Kingdom”:
Hemmer: It felt is if my brain were being squeezed through my nose.
Ortegas/Sir Adya: I did that to a man once.
There’s a reason why some call it Pike’s Peak.
That caught my interest but only for Champions league games…i guess ill wait for SW season two or maybe PIC S3…
I like her too. She was underwhelming initially, I thought, but her character has grown.
I also didn’t care for Nurse Chapel at first, but now I think she’s awesome.
I also like Hemmer. He plays the “grumpy engineer” trope but also is a decent guy with a sense of humor. It’s great when you don’t just have every character as an archetype, but flesh them out into being real people.
I can’t really think of any of the crew members I dislike, now that they’ve had a chance to develop. Maybe this is sacrilege, but this is my favorite version of Spock also.
I think it’s a little weird that they dealt with Rukiya so quickly. She was presented as M’Benga’s reason for being in Starfleet and for being aboard the Enterprise. He figured he would find a cure for her disease somewhere in the cosmos; it was his whole character arc. Now it’s done. Is he going to stick around still, or will he retire? If he does stick around, will the writers find a better motivation for him than “Doctor?”
I’m also fascinated by the choice to just redress the Enterprise sets rather than shooting on location somewhere else. On the one hand it let them do fun things like Hemmer’s “magic,” but on the other hand it looked like the Enterprise had crashed into a local theater production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I think I understand the logic, in Star Trek the ship is a character too and it gets dressed up the same way as everyone else, but it also reminds me of the episode where they walk though a normal ship’s corridor full of boxes because apparently they don’t have a cargo bay set.
I liked it all the same, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was seeing them run up against the limitations of their time and budget and I would have liked it if they had done some scenes that were more “Medieval with bits of Star Trek” rather than “Star Trek with bits of Medieval.”
But they have huge crew quarters.
See? It’s just like the original series!
Hemmer’s kindness and understanding over the doc’s need to rescue his daughter was very impressively written and performed.
I also wanted to note another actor who did a terrific job actingh in a completely different manner was Christina Chong, who plays Noonien-Singh; she’s a humorless tough lady most of the time, so seeing her as a spoiled princess/southern belle carrying a pocket dog was hilarious.
The way he instantly said, “Let me help you.” That got to me. It was unreserved and immediate. Really well done. You would have expected him to grump about how the transporter buffer was being misused in an unauthorized way, or something along those lines, but no, he felt for the doctor’s pain.
That’s one thing that Strange New Worlds does a good job of driving home. These people are all doing this to make the galaxy better. They care about their jobs and other people. It’s not preachy or cliched either, it comes across as sincere.
Absolutely. Her singing was shocking to me, and I love the way she stoically stood there as the dog kept licking her. So funny.
It reminded me of this moment from TOS: “City on the Edge of Forever”.
Damnit guys…i dont want another streaming service!! I pay for Hulu and dont even use it. At least i use Disney once in a while
Apparently Paramount…hey…Paramount…Anson Mount…? I digress.
Paramount is saying “We won’t censor old content from past eras.” Uhm…Ok. The majority is Trek. Kind of a low bar, but good? I guess?
I looked around and they have Twilight Zone too? And The Offer? Hunh. I guess im in.
The solution is staring you in the face… cancel Hulu and use those funds on Paramount+ instead. Until you realize you aren’t watching P+ and then cancel that.
Yeah the correct answer, if you’re not going to sail the high seas, is to wait until there’s some stuff you want to watch, sign up for a month, watch it, and then cancel. This is a bit more annoying when it’s a show that comes out weekly and you have to wait until it’s all out, but saving money usually wins out in the end.