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I wondered if someone would cue up that line...

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Yet to watch it but will go for it today

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Interesting, Q .....

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Yes thought so too

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Very nicely done, with a perfectly balanced dash of John DeLancie at the end, preventing it turning into a mawkish nostalgia fest (or trampling all over canon and continuity).

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Another good ep … they’re finally getting Klingons right, gradually bringing the makeup back in line with the 80s movies and the TV shows from TNG onwards. Though I wish they’d pick up and deal with the human-faced ones. Enterprise and DS9 both confronted it head on, there’s no reason SNW can’t.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 4 Sneak Peek

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This week’s holodeck episode was absolutely pitch perfect from start to finish. Absolutely loved it, and that’s saying something because in TNG the Holodeck episodes were all too often fluff and filler.

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Watched it tonight, loved the episode.

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Season 5 will introduce both McCoy & Sulu in its final episode.

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Looking forward to seeing it.

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Just a reminder that Season 5 is still someway off, Season 4 is due in 2026. :)

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Ah right , getting confused,old age and all that!

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Yeah, Season 5 has completed filming, but isnt due for release until 2027, its a shorter season (6 episodes).

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Something to look forward to then

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Season 4 is coming in the summer, 1st episode on 23rd July.

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Excellent

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Really enjoyed the 1st episode of season 4.

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I have it to watch later :D

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Just finished watching it, Dinosaurs :)
It was a very good start to the season.

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I found the whole story really clever tbh

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Very Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey…

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And on that note did anyone else catch Pelia’s comment at the briefing?

“....I think I was in a phone box at the time"

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I think that's the third time she's referenced the Doctor.

We also saw the TARDIS very briefly.

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It is confirmed by writers her story includes her traveling in the Tardis and there was talks of a crossover

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi...gg-newsupdate/

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Terrible episode for me. it was stupid when Buffy did it and it is stupid now. At least in Buffy there was singing

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They subjected us to a musical episode a year or two ago.

I don’t mind stupid filler episodes when you have 23 or more slots a season to fill. US broadcast shows have always done it. But when you have only 10 episodes to write per year, and the technical resources to make every one of them look better than a feature film from 30 years ago, there’s just no excuse for it.

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I’m watching it now, and cringing. It’s embarrassingly bad.

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Painfully, awfully bad.

Was there nobody in the production meeting with the sense to stand up and say this shouldn’t be attempted?

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Hmmm, so this should be interesting when I watch it later .... :erm:

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I loath musicals, so I'm glad they resisted that.
I didnt think the episode was that bad, but certainly not great.
They have done far worse (like that horrible musical episode, I had to skip 90% of that, I just cant stand them).

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Much better this week. Big callback to the motion picture too, which actually helps make the ‘wormhole’ sequence in the film make more sense in the context of everything later established in the various TV series.

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I despair at this series now. Another stupid themed episode

Just up to the credit I was about to quit till the bit before. Giving it a chance but seriously be serious Star Trek haha

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Brave, referencing one of the poorer odd numbered original films. :D

Last night’s episode was frustrating. Full of very different ideas that never properly meshed together. I still think their biggest problem is they’re looking back at some of the fluff-filled TNG filler episodes and trying to emulate them as if they were core trek rather than realising most of them would never have got made had that series not had 23 or more episodes to fill each season. When you only have 10, they all need to be as good as Yesterday’s Enterprise, or Masks. Ironically, there were distinct emotional echoes of Inner Light in the last few minutes of last night’s episode but they felt tagged-on. That whole sequence felt like it belonged in a different (and much better) story.

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Yeah agree they are making filler episodes and no story arc. Is there even a central protagonist this time round. Not seen any big bad and if we have I forgot about due to as you put it all the fluffy stuff

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Stand-alone episodic story telling was a deliberate creative decision for SNW and one I happen to agree with. Arcs have a tendency to disappear up their own ar$3 after a while and actively deter casual viewers. SNW does have recurring characters and stories that build on one another but it has never had an over-arching season-long arc in the way Discovery or Picard had.

That said, there is no creative reason why it should suffer for that - TNG was made the same way and didn’t suffer for it. The current production team just don’t seem to ‘get’ Trek. They’re looking at a huge body of classic material and assuming we all loved all of it, and then re-making their own favourite bits. Sadly the result is an endless parade of Data/Wesley does something endearing and ‘ooh look Holodeck’ crap.

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But they are suffering for it now because obviously they are running out of storylines . This was just another intervention by Similar Q (no idea what the character is or species)

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Trelane is a TOS character who fans have long since retconned to be a member of the Q. Obviously he wasn’t written that way in the 1960s and his species wasn’t in mind when they created Q in the 1980s, and to be fair the SNW writers haven’t come out and said outright that this is what he is, although they’ve strongly hinted at it by having him speak to another unseen character voiced by John de Lancie the last time they used him.

I actually didn’t mind the idea of having him in the series but they just don’t seem to know how to work with the ideas they have.

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I skipped a lot of the episode, really not very good.

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It’s a problem with prequels trying to reference known ideas without tripping up over continuity.

In 'The Squire of Gothos’, the original series episode, it was certainly implied that Trelane knew little about humans or human history, as if he (it) had never truly interacted with humans before. And similarly we knew nothing about him. Yes here we are some ten years earlier showing otherwise. Of course maybe it can be hand-waved away by the Q wiping away all knowledge of these earlier encounters for some unspecified reason.

In the original series episode ‘Arena’, Kirk seemed generally surprised at seeing a Gorn, reminding himself that although the Gorn looks like a big lizard, it’s actually an intelligent being, a starship captain no less. It certainly seems that this is a first contact event. But yet SNW shows numerous earlier encounters with the Gorn, so Kirk should not have been taken aback. I do wonder if any of the subsequent few episodes of SNW will try to address this.

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This weeks I enjoyed even got the chills right at the start

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Much better … the ‘Mad Admiral’ trope is more Next Generation than original series (trivia - in the original series you never see anyone above the rank of Commodore. The first admiral is Kirk himself, in The Motion Picture), but they did it well, even if they maybe made it a bit obvious that he was going to cause trouble from the moment he walked on board. Maybe they just thought ‘we’re doing a Mad Admiral story, everyone knows when an Admiral shows up he causes trouble, what’s the point being subtle.’

I love the way they are using interactions between the Kirk brothers to fill out James T’s character and backstory. And if they don’t subsequently make a series set aboard Kirk’s enterprise with Paul Wesley as Kirk, it will be an utter travesty, and final proof that US TV execs know nothing.

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Shivers @ "Space the Final Frontier..."

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Admiral Fitzgerald (ToS The Mark of Gideon)
Admiral Westervliet (ToS For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky)
Admiral Fitzpatrick (ToS The Trouble with Tribbles)
Admiral Komack (ToS This Side of Paradise and Amok Time)

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Guess you can’t believe everything you read on the internet :D

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Well I didnt care much for this weeks either, its turning into another wasted season overall.

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Same I am about ready to give up on the show

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The oddball episodes notwithstanding, I would give it the benefit of the doubt, the last one of this series does sound like it could be good.

Next, and last series has to introduce characters from the TOS and only has six episodes, so probably can't afford any distractions. I'd stick with it.

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yeah I hope you are right

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Final episode of the season could of been good if I could of seen it! I don't know if it was intentional or an error on my screening because the action was all in the dark?

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I did not have any issues watching it, sounds like something your end.

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Yes, it was mostly based aboard the Enterprise, and that set is pretty brightly lit.