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re: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4

Posted on 8/8/26 at 5:14 pm to
Posted by L5UT1ger
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 8/8/26 at 5:14 pm to
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Hoping it’s a sign that they listened to the complaints about season 3


Nevermind
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9794 posts
Posted on 8/14/26 at 8:40 am to
Episode 4 is out. I watched it last night. I was a little worried about this one because of the black and white theme of the episode, and SNW’s affinity for gimmickry… but I thought it was a good episode overall.

It was shot well. It looked good in B&W.

A few hiccups in the story I didn’t really buy… but the secondary story was also interesting. La’An has discovered there’s more background activity going on under her nose on the Enterprise than she thought.
Posted by CU_Tigers4life
Georgia
Member since Aug 2013
9496 posts
Posted on 8/14/26 at 8:59 am to
TBH, I didn't think E4 needed to be B&W. Also, the overall story was the weakest of this season. It was okay, but not anything special.

This season has become more gimmick-themed than the old fashion exploring strange new worlds.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38761 posts
Posted on 8/14/26 at 9:11 am to
I'm not a fan of Noir nostalgia and the away team was made up of three of the characters that I'm least interested in. The call-back to Casablanca was a bit too on-the-nose.

I'd've preferred a more straight-forward telling of that same story. An updated version of Errand of Mercy, where Kirk and Spock found themselves in a similar situation on a Klingon appropriated planet.

It felt like one of Picard's holodeck mysteries, and I hated those.
Posted by slough
Louisiana
Member since Jul 2020
355 posts
Posted on 8/14/26 at 11:23 am to
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Ortega has grown on me even though she is apparently superhuman after surviving a mortal wound earlier in the series.


Yes, I don't mind her as a character but it annoys me every time she shows up now because they gave her a big death scene and then plot armored her out of it because they wanted to have it both ways.

I wish the writers on this show would stop trying to inject so much comedy. It's weak and there's way too much of it.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
53136 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 11:57 am to
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La’An


Is she a distant relative of Data’s creator?

I’m a fan of a season long arc with stand alone episodes sprinkled in. I really liked the first two episodes but the last two have just been meh. The pleasure planet had some funny moments but just kind of fell flat overall. The noir episode had some decent scenes but I didn’t find the overall story that interesting.
Posted by CU_Tigers4life
Georgia
Member since Aug 2013
9496 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 12:19 pm to
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quote:
La’An


Is she a distant relative of Data’s creator?

I’m a fan of a season long arc with stand alone episodes sprinkled in. I really liked the first two episodes but the last two have just been meh. The pleasure planet had some funny moments but just kind of fell flat overall. The noir episode had some decent scenes but I didn’t find the overall story that interesting.


No..She's related to Khan Noonien Singh




There was an episode last season where she and Kirk when back in time and had to choose not to kill little boy Khan
.

Posted by BigAppleTiger
New York City
Member since Dec 2008
11131 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:11 pm to
I thought the episode was allright. The one complaint I have besides too many comedic and colorful episodes is the casting of James T. Kirk. I think the actor they chose is too neutered for the character. He is not physically or emotionally muscular enough for Kirk. Kirk's default setting was always more reserved and masculine and the lightness and vulnerability seeped out little by little. This actor is just a little too light and breezy for my liking. Not enough steel.
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9794 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 6:54 pm to
She is a descendant of Khan Noonien Singh, THE Khan of Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan.

The creator of Data is Dr. Noonien Soong.

This is a needlessly similar name, and I really have no idea why they did that.

Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
53136 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:19 am to
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She is a descendant of Khan Noonien Singh, THE Khan of Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan. The creator of Data is Dr. Noonien Soong.


Thank you. I thought I was going crazy I guess Data’s creator was more fresh on my mind and went there immediately. Now I know. That is a needlessly close spelling that could lead to confusion like Targ names.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38761 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:22 am to
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She is a descendant of Khan Noonien Singh, THE Khan of Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan.

The creator of Data is Dr. Noonien Soong.

This is a needlessly similar name, and I really have no idea why they did that.
Because they're both descendants of this guy:

Posted by RohanGonzales
Pronoun: Whatever
Member since Apr 2024
12892 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:51 pm to
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Because they're both descendants of this guy:


I really liked Donny
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38761 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 11:30 pm to
Today’s episode was a miss for me. It’s been done before and, much worse, it was boring. Just a waste that did nothing to move anything forward.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38761 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 5:41 pm to
This week’s episode is a good return to old school Star Trek, with near every cast member having a part, and a great shout out to Dewey Cox.

I was thinking that M’Benga and Chapel’s drama was going to lead to McCoy coming on board, but we got another original series character.

Hoping they can finish on all cylinders and not revert to gimmicks.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
11141 posts
Posted on 9/3/26 at 3:06 pm to
So this week the crew gets trapped in soap opera or something like that??

This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 7:27 pm
Posted by Filtiger
Philippines
Member since Apr 2009
391 posts
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:23 pm to
With so few episodes left, this was such a waste.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38761 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:33 am to
It needed less Soap Opera and more Q/Trelain. Not as horrible as the puppet episode, but meh.
Posted by drizztiger
Deal With it!
Member since Mar 2007
48924 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 1:11 am to
S4 has been terrible. It was so damn good and best Trek in a long time. I have no clue what they’re trying to do now.
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9794 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 6:15 am to
This was not as bad as I thought it would be. It had a few moments. But overall… it’s just more of the theater kids take on Trek.

The producer decision to force different themes on every episode this season is a giant misstep. The theme they need to emulate is Star Trek. Still kind of waiting on that to happen.
Posted by L5UT1ger
Member since Feb 2004
3104 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 8:52 am to
frick the people making this show with a splintery broomhandle. Im irrationally angry I waste my time watching this show.
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