Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Is Almost Upon Us! Discuss What You Want

HOLY BALLS REALLY?

I thought for sure that had never happen. If they somehow improved as much from S3 to S4 as they did with every previous season, they'd be the best Star Trek show, which might just drive me insane, because it's already nigh-incomprehensible that what very clearly started as a Seth MacFarlane vanity project (very much fart-sniffing as @Snarf Zagyg so correctly put it) and had some really eyebrow-raising idiocy in S1 (but also hints of future greatness) is really "up there" with the best of TNG.

Even if they just maintain the quality of S3 that would be a hell of an achievement.

And there's so much about that show that makes me grind my teeth. The bad jokes/crude humour (a lot less of it in S3 than S2 which also had less than S1). The lack of visual style/panache. Seth MacFarlane casting himself as the main character (GRRRRR). But somehow... somehow...
Just another in a long line of people who created/produced/wrote/directed a show that they also played a part in. At least he had the good graces to only direct 7 of the episodes and had others direct him, for the most part. There's already an IMDB entry for the first episode of season 4, but no information there yet.
 

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WHAAAAAT?!?!

Do not lie to us. Do you have a cite?
Initially confirmed by Scott Grimes last August.


Reportedly confirmed by Hulu last October.


IMDB landing page for season 4.

 

I have to say, I was not sold at all on Paul Wesley as younger Kirk, and I'm still not sold on him in the role, but I like the way they're writing the character A LOT. They're capturing how he's observant, sensitive, calm, confident but not overbearing... I dig it.
 

I've been enjoying the ride so far, it was nice to get a new Trek that felt like Trek (to me). So I guess I'll take more of the same. I'm pretty interested in the whole "Pike knows his fate" angle, I forget if that came up much after s1 but it definitely has a positive effect for me.

Also, Orville s4?! Woo! I remember reading something about some cast not liking being under MacFarlane's control and that being problematic? But man I have really enjoyed that show as Kirkland Brand-Trek, I liked the idea of it being a passion project for a guy that only had humor to his name.
 


I have difficulty engaging with anything Seth MacFarlane does, ever since his stint as the host of the Oscars, and tbh I didn't care much for his stuff before that.

The Orville is a departure for MacFarlane, and one he has a passion for. It doesn't sit like much of his other work, which i also don't care for.

An episode or two to check it out isn't a big commitment.
 

The Orville is a departure for MacFarlane, and one he has a passion for. It doesn't sit like much of his other work, which i also don't care for.

An episode or two to check it out isn't a big commitment.
I'll say the first episode or two definitely seemed like "ok this has to look like a comedy for the execs, before I can prove that I can do serious." The 🙄 jokes taper out after the first few episodes.
 

1. There is something magical when a band plays "the hit(s)" and the whole crowd is energized. It's such an amazing feeling.
The only time I got to see BÖC was in the winter of 1990/91. The show was at a BAR in Austin.

I was in my first year of law school at UT, and had broken my foot. I went with a friend who was on break for her grad school program and was visiting her family in neighboring Bastrop.

There are several stories about that night, but the relevant one is that they played nothing but their best-known songs. It was like a time traveler’s concert: a major band playing decades of hits in a venue the size they probably hadn’t performed in since their earliest days.
 

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