Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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The hero of the new Star Trek series is the only captain that predates Kirk
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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' is about the only captain that predates Kirk

A bit of deep cut Star Trek trivia for those who might be newer to the Trek universe.
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Longtime Star Trek fans undoubtedly know this bit of trivia, but William Shatner's famed Enterprise captain, James T. Kirk, wasn't actually the first Star Trek captain.

It's a useful detail to keep in mind in light of the latest bit of news from the Star Trek franchise. On Friday, CBS announced the new All Access series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It brings us to a pre-Kirk era of the U.S.S. Enterprise's life, with co-creator and executive producer Akiva Goldsman describing it as "optimistic" and "more episodic" – an intentional nod to the original Star Trek TV series.

The show's central characters will include the characters of Spock, Number One, and Captain Christopher Pike as they were introduced in Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access. That means the actors behind them – Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, and Anson Mount, respectively – will be reprising their Discovery roles on the new show.

The Pike character's roots extend all the way back to the mid-1960s and the original Star Trek pilot, which never aired in its original form back then. "The Cage," as the episode was called, introduced the U.S.S. Enterprise and Leonard Nimoy's Spock. But in place of Shatner's Kirk, the episode starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike.

The story follows Pike and Spock as they venture to the surface of an alien world to investigate a distress beacon. Only it turns out to be a trap laid by the bulbous-headed Talosians, who capture Pike with the intent of using him to father a race of humans that could repopulate their world. Needless to say, the plan doesn't pan out for the Talosians and the Enterprise departs safely.

NBC rejected the original pilot, citing concerns with the pace and the belief that the story would fly over most viewers' heads. But the network remained interested in creator Gene Roddenberry's idea, and so a second pilot was ordered. That one featured Shatner as Kirk and it eventually aired as the third episode in Star Trek's first season.
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When the producer said something along the lines of, "We want to make a Star trek that's about an optimistic future", I was like yeee boooi!

Discovery, and more so Picard mangled one of the core ideals of Star Trek that I loved; People strive to be good, and the federation is an amalgamation of those people.
 
Goldman, Kurtzman and Lumet are still involved, so don't expect too much.
Glad they were inspired by The Orville episodic format, or one would hope the original Trek shows.
 
Kieppie said:
Goldman, Kurtzman and Lumet are still involved, so don't expect too much.
Glad they were inspired by The Orville episodic format, or one would hope the original Trek shows.
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This,

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amongst other related things made it into the 'pilot' episode.
 
dualmeister said:
Keen to watch. Unless it is woke.
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I think it was good, not great, just good, very much Star Trek nostalgia. It is just that the message for this episode hit an American event too current for my taste, and it was done for obvious reasons, but otherwise this is the closest it has been to Star Trek since the reboot.

7/10 I hope it will get better.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
This,

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amongst other related things made it into the 'pilot' episode.
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Hehe yeah I saw it and chuckled at it being used as a source for WW3, the fires scene were from the BLM riots so it almost balances out. I also cringed a bit when Spock mentioned missing his sister. I'm curious if any of the male cast will be referred to as a prodigy. Wasn't that kinda the case with Kirk or just more out of the box thinking?

Can't recall if the original Star-Trek ever mentioned WW3 happening, I thought they prevented it by the discovery of the warp drive.

There's probably much more that can be mentioned, but it was at least watchable. Then again so were the Picard & STD first episodes.
 
Kieppie said:
Hehe yeah I saw it and chuckled at it being used as a source for WW3, the fires scene were from the BLM riots so it almost balances out. I also cringed a bit when Spock mentioned missing his sister. I'm curious if any of the male cast will be referred to as a prodigy. Wasn't that kinda the case with Kirk or just more out of the box thinking?

Can't recall if the original Star-Trek ever mentioned WW3 happening, I thought they prevented it by the discovery of the warp drive.

There's probably much more that can be mentioned, but it was at least watchable. Then again so was Picard & STD first episodes.
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I guess in this universe, Trump won the American election, again.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I guess in this universe, Trump won the American election, again.
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Or perhaps his re-election triggers it :laugh:

I dislike this lazy type of writing. Even at the height of the Vietnam war footage relating to that never entered into Star-Trek. Although they may have made references to wars fought over political ideologies in their episodes.
 
Kieppie said:
Can't recall if the original Star-Trek ever mentioned WW3 happening, I thought they prevented it by the discovery of the warp drive.
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Star Trek First Contact covered it where Zefram Cochrane invented Earth's first warp drive 10 years after WW3, so that is cannon.

I'm quite curious about the security office, La'an Noonien Singh, maybe being a relative of Khan. That definitely doesn't seem to fit although they could work it in as she mentioned that her colony ship was attacked by Gorn and she was the only survivor. There were probably a few ships that escaped Earth with the Botany Bay.
 
Norrad said:
Star Trek First Contact covered it where Zefram Cochrane invented Earth's first warp drive 10 years after WW3, so that is cannon.
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Forgot about the movies. If they mention that and considering her background they need to cover the eugenics war as well.

Norrad said:
I'm quite curious about the security office, La'an Noonien Singh, maybe being a relative of Khan. That definitely doesn't seem to fit although they could work it in as she mentioned that her colony ship was attacked by Gorn and she was the only survivor. There were probably a few ships that escaped Earth with the Botany Bay.
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Yeah although such inconsistencies tend not to matter in these shows, or rather for these showrunners.

I kept seeing Drummer when I saw her

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