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Nami Melumad, who has been scoring the animated β€œStar Trek: Prodigy,” has stepped up a notch and is scoring weekly episodes of β€œStrange New Worlds,” the new Paramount Plus series that chronicles the voyages of the pre-Captain Kirk Enterprise.
alright hype shit

The first three episodes of this show have the privilege of being graded on the mother of all curves, but this is a Kurtzman-Goldsman Star Trek series that (so far) seems very Star Trek-y.

Maybe the fact that this is the show Akiva Goldsman thought he was making all along when he was brought on for Discovery has something to do with it:
When Alex Kurtzman, the co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Discovery, asked Akiva Goldsman to join that series as a supporting producer, Goldsman believedβ€”based on internet rumorsβ€”that it was a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series that would follow the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. He was disappointed to find that this was not the case, and with his encouragement the Enterprise was introduced in the first-season finale.
Yes, one of the characters is related to Khan. Yes, Uhura and Spock are both mains. Yes, Nurse Chapel is cool now. Yes, Kirk's brother features prominently. This Kirk's brother:



This should be the most cynical and incompetent version of Trek yet and so far, it's not. "Listen to fans" I guess? God help us.

So what's the plot? It's basically TOS again but when someone says "evasive maneuvers," this happens:



instead of this:



Also, thanks to the stupid events of Discovery, Pike is fully aware he's going to be this in T-minus ten years:



This is one of the "running threads" throughout an otherwise episodic series that so far, don't really seem that important. The show is better for it. And apparently your dad is watching:
Paramount+’s β€œStar Trek: Strange New Worlds” garnered a 92% increase in demand for the week ending Friday, and became the top new series in the U.S. with 35.1 times the average series demand, according to Parrot Analyticsβ€˜ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other consumer engagement.

CAST (Crew?):

Unpolitical lead

Anson Mount as Pike

Spock 3: The Search For Spock

Ethan Peck as Spock

Numera Una (Her name is literally Una)

Rebecca Romijn as Number One

Newhura

Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura

Dr. Millennial

Jess Bush as Chapel

Star Trek Trivial Pursuit question

Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga

Matthew Murdock

Bruce Horak as Hemmer

Khanina Drummer

Christina Chong as La'an

Maverick

Melissa Navia as Ortegas


New episodes Thursdays on qBittorrent+

Hope springs eternal. Cue the next seven episodes being garbage
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