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CBS is launching a new Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds, which will be a TOS prequel set prior to Kirk assuming command of the Enterprise. As in season 2 of Discovery, the new series will feature Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romjin as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Spock. Discovery has been polarizing for Star Trek fans with many fans criticizing the writing of both Discovery and Picard, saying it deviated from the defining characteristics of Star Trek. Despite the criticisms, Mount's portrayal of Pike in Discovery was generally received well. The story for the pilot will be developed by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet, the first two of which are executive producers of Discovery. Because filming of TV shows has generally been halted by COVID-19, it is not known when the series will film or premiere on CBS' streaming service.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 16 2020, @11:56AM (5 children)
You just ain't got faith of the heart is your problem. Seriously though, the annoying as all fuck song stayed in the intro through the entire four seasons.
But, yeah, the show itself was fine. Not Kirk and Spock good and the multi-episode story arcs all over the place were somewhat annoying but it was still quite enjoyable.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday May 16 2020, @08:16PM (4 children)
Clearly. I might be remembering wrong about when they dropped the lyrics, as I recall they did have some kind of instrumental piece for the last seasons or so at least. Which was a lot better then the singing one, could also be that there had never (?) been a singing soundtrack to any Star Trek show before -- not counting Kirk singing etc.
That said the epic arc of the temporal war was interesting, or could have been but it sort of went nowhere and fell flat or wasn't developed really well. At least the Doctor and the Pilot (Trip?) were fun characters. T'pol was kinda shit since it was so clear that "we need a seven of nine"-character preferably somewhat hot to appeal to that demographic that still needs some kind of wank-fantasy in space.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2020, @08:25PM
yah-y for mind-reading decease ... even getting rid of TV doesn't solve this ^_^
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 16 2020, @09:03PM
T'pol was fucking annoying, and yeah the wank-fantasy was also kind of annoying. Of course with Vulcans you have pon farr so there had to be a scene with that as well.
If Trek is to have wankfests, then they should go all-out and feature a young Lwaxana Troi getting gangbanged by Klingons and Ferengi all at once, with male starfleet officers cheering in the background and throwing gold coins and other space-bucks at the orgy pile.
Patrick Stewart can guest-star as the creepy old man watching the orgy, who says, "Now do ass-to-ass!" [fjcdn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2020, @06:44AM
The instrumental version was used in all seasons for the closing credits.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 17 2020, @12:09PM
Fired up an episode in the middle of the last season to check before I posted that. Vocals remain through the whole thing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.