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Space.com poses the debate-provoking question whether SNW S2 overdid the gimmicks (www.space.com)
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An interesting, deliberately thought provoking 🤔 question for a lazy long weekend Sunday morning…

Setting aside whether specific fans like specific ‘gimmicks’ (crossovers, musicals, bringing back Kirk or Khan) or tropes (transporter malfunctions), Space.com is posing the hypothesis that the proportion was too high in Strange New Worlds second season.

There’s no arguing that the season was successful in drawing in large audiences week after week. Taking a look back though, was there too much trippy-Trek(TM) dessert and not enough of a meaty main course? YMMV surely.

For my part, I can both agree that trippy Trek is something I’ve been wanting more of, and that I would have welcomed 2 or 3 more episodes were more grounded or gave the opportunity to see more of Una as a leader and dug into Ortegas backstory.

The 90s shows seemed to be bit embarrassed by trippyness, although Voyager found its pretext allowed even stern Janeway to pronounce ‘Weird is our business.’ One can argue that the high proportion in SNW is a feature, not a bug.

I’d still prefer a 12-15 episode season though.

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[–] Stamets@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The stunning things that SNW has managed to do with established characters... Uhura was already a wonderful character but they've managed to give her so much more depth than she already had. Same thing with Spock. Presumably Scotty as well in the next season. But M'Benga... Holy fuck. Dark dark chapter is accurate. The writing is superb and Babs Olusanmokun is spinechilling with his performance. The bredth of that mans acting ability is incredible. Everyone on the show can act incredibly well but holy fuck Babs.

Also that's a good point on the leg room. I can get very narrow minded and I never considered that. Huh. Definitely something for me to think about. Thanks!

[–] Reverendender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Babs Olusanmokun is amazing. I would watch that guy read a cookbook. If he did an audiobook of War and Peace, I’m willing to bet I could get through it and enjoy it.

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Oh for real. Motherfucker has a voice so rich, thick and buttery you could spread it on toast.