04-20-2022, 12:51 PM
Rolando wrote:
It is complete and utter fecal matter cashing in on the Star Trek name.
I think that WB (Harry Potter), Sony (Spider-Man) and Paramount (Star Trek) are throwing everything at the wall to try and make a cinematic and TV universe/multiverse to compete with Disney/Marvel and catching eyeballs is the only goal, not quality. There's enough diversity among the creators that through sheer statistical fluke they occasionally come up with something half-decent, but most of it is just garbage.
I have some hope for Strange New Worlds in that the creators are at least giving lip-service to faithfulness to the source and pledging that it will be a return to episodic Trek. In theory, going episodic will free them from the burden of ever-growing stakes that seem to always draw Trek writers into last-second Deus ex machina and Treknobabble wrap-ups. Joss Whedon was good at coming up with compelling stories/characters to match a succession of end-of-the world/universe-stakes stories. Trek writers do not seem up to that task.