re: Star Trek Strange new Worlds Season 2

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Seriously. The oddity of this episode was that it was the first of the season but, in this era of binge watching, most audiences won't notice it as more than a blip. Spock could always carry an episode on his own. Shatner just wouldn't have stood for it.

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I don’t know that “most” folks binge watch, though a significant number do I’m sure so maybe as you say it will be a blip.

I primarily didn’t like the episode because of the ridiculous “action hero” versions of M’Benga and Chappell. It was simply lazy writing for them to use a drug that turns them into fighters instead of using their wits to escape.

I’m a little worried with the Spock-Chappell ‘shipping plus the whole trying to shoehorn Spock’s TOS-movie character arc into this show by, as someone else mentioned “giving him the feels”. Remember Spock in Amok time smiling and saying “Jim!”

Season 1 of Strange New Worlds was great. Season 2 is off to a bad start. I hope it gets better.

I’ll also add that in 1968, having a bridge with alien, a black woman, a Russian and a Asian was pretty radical for the time…maybe even more so than having a Hispanic lesbian at the helm today. Diversity for diversity sake has always been part of Star Trek…but to kinda make the point that we get past the need for that.