Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Paramount+ | Release Date: May 5, 2022
8.4
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Universal acclaim based on 381 Ratings
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ShaManaMay 27, 2022
The franchise needs new writers. Sorry to the current people that work on the Star Trek shows, but almost all episodes are poorly written. Great visuals and production values. Love the actors, but the stories and characters are just silly andThe franchise needs new writers. Sorry to the current people that work on the Star Trek shows, but almost all episodes are poorly written. Great visuals and production values. Love the actors, but the stories and characters are just silly and boring.

2023 addition: I like the actors, like the visuals, like the setup, but yet I couldn't place why I don't like the show... until today. It's shallow, flat, no development. In older Trek shows, the problems were met by the crew, interconnected with their personal issues, but shared and felt by the majority of the cast, where the captain takes the leading role in almost everything.

Here the crew stories are self-contained. One or two of them solve the issue, the rest orbit around, if present at all. The side plots also involve one or two, and the two lines barely interact. Shallow. That's what was bothering me.… Expand
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johndoe43May 28, 2022
Will the money obviously spent on production, one has to ask "Why did they skimp on the writers?' The writing is horrible with the story constantly lurching from one contrivance to another.
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Fluid_DynamicsJun 7, 2022
They're trying, and they're talented at the visuals, but the team running this show just isn't the right kind of people to be running Star Trek. They've shown that over, and over, and over, and over again now. They're great if you enjoyThey're trying, and they're talented at the visuals, but the team running this show just isn't the right kind of people to be running Star Trek. They've shown that over, and over, and over, and over again now. They're great if you enjoy Hawaii Five 0, since it's some of the same writers. It's a great, extremely valuable franchise, whose numbers on Netflix, Amazon, syndication over the years, have shown that the older series (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager) have endless re-watchability. It's for the people working on it I'm sure, but it's just not the right people. You're destroying a beloved franchise.… Expand
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norseJun 18, 2023
This show is strange. Great actors, great visuals, the first two episodes are hands down the best Star Trek I've ever seen, excepting possibly "The voyage home"... and then the writing and direction dives off a cliff hard, while the otherThis show is strange. Great actors, great visuals, the first two episodes are hands down the best Star Trek I've ever seen, excepting possibly "The voyage home"... and then the writing and direction dives off a cliff hard, while the other qualities remain. Situations in the following episodes are physically inconsistent - we see a video feed from a remote outpost under attack that the Enterprise can't spot, cut to the ship hanging right above the outpost, the outpost gets destroyed, and the same video feed still plays. It's jarring, completely unnecessary, would have been trivial to fix, and every single episode contains multiple such blunders.

Characters are paraded around as if moved by overly ambitious writers who have never heard of "show, don't tell", behave irrationally and inconsistently with positions they've argued just before, and more like extras who wandered onto set instead of trained officers. Occasionally, the Enterprise feels like a shuttle with a crew of 16, who get to save the universe in every single episode, from scratch. It's disturbing to see first real greatness and then watch that potential wasted so unnecessarily. I'll watch the next season to see where it goes, but, man, did this leave me disappointed.… Expand
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RMckayAug 3, 2023
I love Rodennberry/Berman era Trek so much and just felt like Picard and Discovery and that awful cartoon were not living in the same reality that felt so comfortable. Then I found this show which first season actually felt like it could beI love Rodennberry/Berman era Trek so much and just felt like Picard and Discovery and that awful cartoon were not living in the same reality that felt so comfortable. Then I found this show which first season actually felt like it could be the exact same reality as TOS, TNG, DS9,VOY & ENT. I would give Season 1 an 8 solidly. It really felt right. Then season 2 came and it just all came crashing down. Spoiler free-see for yourself. So I gotta bring it down to a 4 and call it another failed Trek. Sadface. Episode 9 of S2 is just huh??? And I love musicals! LOL.… Expand
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ColinDaAug 13, 2023
I will admit the series looked promising but I found I was just bored watching the series. Both Discovery and Picard had an overarching storyline but this is not present in Strange New World. I found they spent too much time on characterI will admit the series looked promising but I found I was just bored watching the series. Both Discovery and Picard had an overarching storyline but this is not present in Strange New World. I found they spent too much time on character development and next to no time on the plot. New World looks great, it just lacks any real substance. I found the first season to be dull and second season was a struggle to get through. To be the prime Star Trek series is the Next Generation and the original series has become a prequel to the Next Generation. After watching two seasons I am done with New World. Still Discover season 5 looks promising.… Expand
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Tim777Apr 9, 2023
Of course i welcome all new stories. So please continue. The camera and animation arrangements are top. That alone makes it wortwhile watching. However what old actors appear to have and new actors dont are lessons to speak loud and clearlyOf course i welcome all new stories. So please continue. The camera and animation arrangements are top. That alone makes it wortwhile watching. However what old actors appear to have and new actors dont are lessons to speak loud and clearly before a camera. The series need a new studio audio recording to become understandable. Furthermore every startrek series comes obviously with tesocial parameters fromthe time they were recorded in. This series are no exemption from this fact. But due to the fact it claims to overdo the original series it sends a message of we know it better then our ancestors. We are the new wisdom in social behaviour and we are the god to know it all. Tha robs the series at least another 3 Stars.… Expand
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5
HomerJonesAug 8, 2023
Has been pretty good until Season2 Episode9. A musical was ridiculous for a star trek show!
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JamesvognerAug 26, 2023
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you watch this show non-critically, sitting on the couch after a long day, it's okay. But if you spend some time actually thinking about the composition and production of the show, it leaves a lot to be desired.

1. The writing often feels unpolished. There are a lot of scenes that have clunky dialogue or could have easily been rewritten to make more sense or to better fit the theme of the episode. There are also a lot of derived scenes that feel like the writers are forcing the plot points at the expense of the characters. The writing feels rushed and more like a first draft.

2. There isn't a lot of polish when it comes to things like folly work. In one episode they are in future Toronto in the center of the city and there is no folly work, no people walking on the sidewalk, no crunch of footsteps, no car noises from the street. Infact, there is no noise at all. The city feels completely empty.

3. There isn't a lot of polish with extras. If you watch, you can clearly see times where the extras miss their timing or their mark and essentially run off screen to get out of the scene in time. I've seen extras who were clearly told to press a button, but couldn't get to the button in time so they just sort of... Don't. It's like they only had time to film each scene once.

4. There are jarring tone changes from scene to scene in some episodes. It's almost like each scene was written (or perhaps directed?) in a vacuum without the context of the scene that will come before or after it. The writing often feels clunky, almost like the writer was given a checklist of things they needed to include in the scene and just wrote it to the rubric. It often feels mechanical and generic or like a campy CW show. We go from serious episode, to lower decks crossover, to a musical that has Spock singing the line, "I thought I was solving for Y, but I'm actually the X" as in "ex" boyfriend. A song lyric I'm pretty sure I wrote in elementary school. In theory, I'm not against a musical episode, but since this series struggles with keeping an even tone it's hard for me as a viewer to know how serious I'm supposed to take everything. Is this episode a campy CW show? Is it a serious sci-fi? Each scene tells me something different.

5. (This is more fan based nit-pick) I find their writing of Spock to be confusing and decidedly not Spock like. It also seems like they have had 2 or 3 episodes where Spock learns to embrace his human side and it feels like they pretty much completely finish his character arc, only for him to be "normal" Spock again in the next episode. In the lower decks crossover episode they even make a big deal of Spock smiling and how strange it is, but then it just ends with Spock basically saying not to worry about it. I don't trust that the writers have an end game with Spock and it feels like they are just throwing stuff at the wall. His relationship with Chapel also seems to only consist of poorly written, cringy fanfic. The scene where chapel has to admit she has feeling for Spock to some incaporial being because the being doesn't know what love is, could have been ripped right out of a teenage girl's notebook.

I want to like this show, and I don't think it's terrible, there are even a few episodes that I think are well done. But it just feels unpolished. I'm unsure who to blame about this. The directors? The show runners? Paramount? The studios' insistence on turning show making into a commodity? All I know is that this show has some good pieces, but just can't seem to put the puzzle together.… Expand
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