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Only six episodes, little room for the "genres". They've got no choice but to backtrack to the portents of Season One, since Pike's fate is as grim as it can get. They might remake the The Cage episode and then in the season's final episode have the Talosians reclaim him direct, rather going through the events of The Menagerie much later in time.
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JDA Talks Trek
https://youtu.be/MU8gzlYB3gs
INTRO: Strange New Worlds season 4 writers gave an interview explaining their creative philosophy — framing every episode as a genre exercise and describing Captain Pike's more emotionally open, less decisive characterization as an intentional creative choice rather than a writing failure. The interview confirms what audience scores have been showing all season: Strange New Worlds' writers are making a different show than Star Trek fans are trying to watch. Built around genre exercises and therapeutic masculinity rather than the command decisiveness and scientific rationalism that defined the franchise's best captains from Kirk through Picard.
VIDEO EXCERPTS: This is where it gets crazy. Bill Wolkoff chimed in. "It's beautiful how Anson is this paragon of masculinity." Wait, what? He's the dude with the hair who sits around and actually does not take action in almost every episode. He lets the women in the crew handle it. I would hardly call that a paragon of masculinity.
[...] So, yes, there are more genres coming. They're all within the Star Trek universe. They're all within what Star Trek can be. Your stupid soap opera, your stupid hangover planet, and your stupid musical, and your stupid puppets were not Star Trek. They were not. You just did the genres. And just putting a little Star Trek skin on the genre doesn't make it more Star Trek.
This is infuriating. These people know exactly what they're doing. They're just doing whatever the hell they want. And they don't want to make Star Trek. They want to make other things. That's very, very clear.
So, this is where we might actually have a little bit of hope, my friends. Season 5 is a slightly different animal. Just the fact that there are only six episodes, and this is probably the most I can say about that.
We've heard there's an end goal in season 5 everything is heading towards. Okay. Glad to hear that. So, season 5 might get back on track. But it's a little too late, guys. They didn't develop any of this stuff in the show at all. Like I mean, the show really wasted its potential. And that's what's infuriating. We've sat through it with the hope that we actually were going to get some real Star Trek for a while. It didn't ever come about. It actually went way off a cliff pretty fast.
And now trying to gear up towards a sort of back-end pilot to another show called Star Trek Year One or whatever they wanted to call that. So that they can reboot the original series. That was their intention. That's all they're building up towards and we know it. So it's not that exciting. It really isn't.
They really didn't give us much Captain Pike or or any real insight into him. They do the things where it's like, "Oh, he's crying on set. That's deep." It's fake deep.
If you look at original Star Trek, I watched a bunch of it this weekend, there is real camaraderie there. There is real emotion there. They don't have to tell you. They don't have to make the crying a big thing. Because Kirk did cry at one point as Spock died. And and it worked because it was genuine.
Where this was a skin suit soap opera for Star Trek...
SNW writers confirmed they have no idea what Star Trek is ... https://youtu.be/MU8gzlYB3gs
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MU8gzlYB3gs
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JDA Talks Trek
https://youtu.be/MU8gzlYB3gs
INTRO: Strange New Worlds season 4 writers gave an interview explaining their creative philosophy — framing every episode as a genre exercise and describing Captain Pike's more emotionally open, less decisive characterization as an intentional creative choice rather than a writing failure. The interview confirms what audience scores have been showing all season: Strange New Worlds' writers are making a different show than Star Trek fans are trying to watch. Built around genre exercises and therapeutic masculinity rather than the command decisiveness and scientific rationalism that defined the franchise's best captains from Kirk through Picard.
VIDEO EXCERPTS: This is where it gets crazy. Bill Wolkoff chimed in. "It's beautiful how Anson is this paragon of masculinity." Wait, what? He's the dude with the hair who sits around and actually does not take action in almost every episode. He lets the women in the crew handle it. I would hardly call that a paragon of masculinity.
[...] So, yes, there are more genres coming. They're all within the Star Trek universe. They're all within what Star Trek can be. Your stupid soap opera, your stupid hangover planet, and your stupid musical, and your stupid puppets were not Star Trek. They were not. You just did the genres. And just putting a little Star Trek skin on the genre doesn't make it more Star Trek.
This is infuriating. These people know exactly what they're doing. They're just doing whatever the hell they want. And they don't want to make Star Trek. They want to make other things. That's very, very clear.
So, this is where we might actually have a little bit of hope, my friends. Season 5 is a slightly different animal. Just the fact that there are only six episodes, and this is probably the most I can say about that.
We've heard there's an end goal in season 5 everything is heading towards. Okay. Glad to hear that. So, season 5 might get back on track. But it's a little too late, guys. They didn't develop any of this stuff in the show at all. Like I mean, the show really wasted its potential. And that's what's infuriating. We've sat through it with the hope that we actually were going to get some real Star Trek for a while. It didn't ever come about. It actually went way off a cliff pretty fast.
And now trying to gear up towards a sort of back-end pilot to another show called Star Trek Year One or whatever they wanted to call that. So that they can reboot the original series. That was their intention. That's all they're building up towards and we know it. So it's not that exciting. It really isn't.
They really didn't give us much Captain Pike or or any real insight into him. They do the things where it's like, "Oh, he's crying on set. That's deep." It's fake deep.
If you look at original Star Trek, I watched a bunch of it this weekend, there is real camaraderie there. There is real emotion there. They don't have to tell you. They don't have to make the crying a big thing. Because Kirk did cry at one point as Spock died. And and it worked because it was genuine.
Where this was a skin suit soap opera for Star Trek...
SNW writers confirmed they have no idea what Star Trek is ... https://youtu.be/MU8gzlYB3gs