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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday May 17 2020, @01:32PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday May 17 2020, @01:32PM (#995351) Journal

    Those are a bunch of really good points, but I think in that there is a larger lesson. Babylon 5 did have those elements, but it wasn't about those elements. The purpose of the story was not to rub the audience's nose in how bigoted and backward they were. In other words, it was good science fiction that imagined how different a future society could be, not a screed about how much everybody now sucks. As such, it was not "Woke" at all.

    That is the difference that modern writers and producers don't get. What Babylon 5 (and many other shows, of course) did was storytelling, what modern writers and producers do is scolding. (and somehow it's a mystery to them why audiences are walking away)

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday May 18 2020, @10:21PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday May 18 2020, @10:21PM (#996049)

    The purpose of the story was not to rub the audience's nose in how bigoted and backward they were. In other words, it was good science fiction that imagined how different a future society could be, not a screed about how much everybody now sucks.

    ... except for the whole bit where one of the characters gets recruited into a totalitarian regime, which many audience members might have fallen for. Or the many issues they had with anti-alien bigots who were basically no different from current racist bigots.

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