Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Paul Farquhar]

As this was the original series finale, I read that as foreshadowing the Kirk mission.

Which would have made sense if it had been the final episode. They clearly thought they weren’t getting renewed!

Flashbacks to Blake’s 7, where everyone thought they were cancelled until a new series was mentioned by an announcer after the “last” episode.

 

[MarkB]

Which would have made sense if it had been the final episode. They clearly thought they weren’t getting renewed!

They've been foreshadowing TOS in various ways the entire time, and this in no way felt like a series finale.

 

[cbwjm]

Nice to know that they're going to have more seasons, this felt very much like the finale to me (apparently it was going to be from reading other posts). Almost felt like there was a reboot of TOS planned for after the close of this season.

 

[Stalker0]

So the finale basically felt like the rest of the season as a whole.

A fun premise, enjoyable characters enjoying the moment....but extremely rushed, with a plot moving at warp speed, that takes no time to consider any sensible alternatives, and just goes "well its clearly this....so that's what we are doing....there couldn't possibly be another way".

I was thinking of Morrus this episode when I saw the planet, "ah, that's where the budget went!"

Ultimately I still enjoyed this season, I still had a good time, its still some of the best Trek I've seen since the Orville. But....compared to S1 and S2 this was definitely the weakest season by a good stretch.


I will say that M'Benga had a small but very important scene in this one. Basically once M'Benga realized that killing himself would stop the creature he DID NOT HESTITATE, and went right for the throat.....putting the creature off balance and letting him lock him up and delay him long enough for Patel to go Super Saiyan. That guy has some Cajones!

 

[James Gasik]

So the finale basically felt like the rest of the season as a whole.

A fun premise, enjoyable characters enjoying the moment....but extremely rushed, with a plot moving at warp speed, that takes no time to consider any sensible alternatives, and just goes "well its clearly this....so that's what we are doing....there couldn't possibly be another way".

I was thinking of Morrus this episode when I saw the planet, "ah, that's where the budget went!"

Ultimately I still enjoyed this season, I still had a good time, its still some of the best Trek I've seen since the Orville. But....compared to S1 and S2 this was definitely the weakest season by a good stretch.


I will say that M'Benga had a small but very important scene in this one. Basically once M'Benga realized that killing himself would stop the creature he DID NOT HESTITATE, and went right for the throat.....putting the creature off balance and letting him lock him up and delay him long enough for Patel to go Super Saiyan. That guy has some Cajones!

I like the entire Enterprise crew in SNW, but M'Benga is definitely a standout. His actor's charisma almost makes me forget the fact that the character has a hazy moral code and has actually gotten away with murder (but hey, he's far from the only Trek hero who has).

 

[Vael]

Here's hoping this season was a dip and the show will recover next season. I didn't hate the episode, but I never was on the Pike/Batel ship, so the extended life montage ... not to mention another Canadian shot genre show, but Peaches and Plums is how it's done.

I did enjoy both the novel use of a mind meld and how very shippy it was ... that is some old-school Kirk/Spock chum right there. And I liked seeing Scotty in dress kilt, it's a good look, more men should wear kilts. But yeah, I'm glad this wasn't the series finale, because SNW doesn't deserve to go out like this.

 

[Maxperson]

Why is this episode called New Life and New Civilisations, by the way? It's pretty much entirely about some very old and rather uncivilised life.

I think because of the very end of the episode where they've discovered so many new planets to go see that it will take a 5 year mission. And what is that mission?!

 

[Morrus]

Listened to an interview with the show runners last night. My takeaways:

1) The season was badly affected by the writer’s strike, on-off schedules causing acrop unavailability, along with not knowing whether it would be the final season.

2) s4 will have as many “big swings” as s3.

3) They figure the Metrons bit (“we may have to alter your perception of the Gorn again”) was “hinting” at the possibility of an unseen episode between now and Arena which explains the Gorn inconsistencies, but they don’t actually know. They’re done with the Gorn for now.

4) When asked about what TOS characters would be arriving in s4 and s5 all they would say is not Chekov.

5) Yes, whatsername probably did know The Doctor.

 

[pukunui]

I honestly thought the Vezda was going to corrupt the Enterprise’s computer system from within or something. Not just make a copy of Gamble’s body and then escape.

Nice to see Sam included again!

Marie turning into some kind of superwoman wasn’t what I was expecting! What a bittersweet ending.


I know I said this upthread, but I’d love to see a TOS reboot with this new bunch of actors. They could always do like all-new stories that take place around the stories in the original series so it’s not overwriting anything.

 

[Morrus]

I know I said this upthread, but I’d love to see a TOS reboot with this new bunch of actors. They could always do like all-new stories that take place around the stories in the original series so it’s not overwriting anything.

The showrunners and actors all agree with you. That’s what they want to do—they informally call it “Year One”. But that decision is not up to them.