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posted by martyb on Saturday May 16 2020, @07:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-many-spinoffs-I'm-getting-dizzy dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by aim on Saturday May 16 2020, @07:05PM (1 child)

    by aim (6322) on Saturday May 16 2020, @07:05PM (#995104)

    If you want "new Trek", and haven't had a look at The Orville yet, then go check it out. The first episodes were still deep in comedy, but they quickly turned it into a decent SciFi series, very much in the line of Star Trek, with many ex-Star Trek people starring. Frankly, it is much more Star Trek than Discovery, even if they don't bear the name.

    That said, I'd love for some more modern things to come out. For recent TV series, I love The Expanse and Altered Carbon, The Man in the High Castle wasn't bad either. I'd love to see movies based off Iain M. Bank's Culture series, Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation series, something from Alastair Reynolds. Or going back much earlier, Larry Niven's Ringworld series or the Moties. There's many hard scifi authors that would merit getting their stories filmed properly.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Kalas on Sunday May 17 2020, @05:06AM

    by Kalas (4247) on Sunday May 17 2020, @05:06AM (#995258)

    I haven't finished season 2 yet but I wholeheartedly agree with this. "It's more Trek than Discovery" is exactly how I sold it to people when S1 was airing. For several episodes they were clearly trying to find the balance between comedic parody and serious homage but it's still a better showing than TNG gave us in its first season.
    I'm also pleasantly surprised that I'm not alone in loving Peter Hamilton's works. The Reality Dysfunction books were my intro to space opera if you don't count anything Dune. By God that was a hell of an adventure. It wasn't until just now writing about it, having read it thrice already, that I realize the reality dysfunction is humanity's encounter with the Great Filter. The filter here not being a technology or evolutionary hurdle as commonly imagined, but instead the knowledge that human souls and afterlives for sure exist and the unfortunate way humans had to learn about it.