In order to truly shine, Star Trek Strange New Worlds has to boldly go in its own direction. Long term recycling of the original show will become stale, repetitive and dull. This might simply be a slow build to expansion, a laying down of groundwork of more to come, and hopefully this is the case.
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This is supposed to be the adventures of the Enterprise under Captain Pike, not a placeholder for Star Trek: The Original Series.īy using the classic characters and the known framework of Star Trek as its foundation, the new series could build on the familiar and create vibrant new additions to the universe, but so far it seems to be playing it safe and revisiting recognizable territory. Sam comes aboard the Starship Enterprise as a xenobiologist assigned to Life Sciences and, as Captain Pike noted with amusement, Lt. Strange New Worlds is a prequel set in the 23rd century about 6-7 years before Captain Kirk (William Shatner) takes command of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series. The trouble, however, is that fresh content is overshadowed by the homage the show is leaning heavily on what went before and not breaking out to establish its own voice. Kirk in Strange New Worlds The executive producer went on to explain why they brought Kirk into season two: Our goal was to tell a story of this Kirk, in this. The mystery of 'Lieutenant Kirk' was played throughout Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' premiere before the climactic reveal that it's actually Samuel Kirk, not James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a familiar face to fans of The Vampire Diaries on The CW.
And that is the direction Star Trek: Strange New Worlds should be heading: establishing and evolving its own characters and world, and not using the past as its crutch.
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