Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 'A Case of Chiaroscuro' airs

imcured.bsky.social5

Yes a lot of tv is empty calories now

Shayne Laughter4

Beginning in S3, yes. I blamed the writers' strike for forcing half-finished scripts to production. S4, it's gimmicks and aesthetics. Please, SNW, give us an *idea.*

Sara The Fat Culture Critic 🇨🇦4

The thing is SNW often does have things to say; it’s frequently fatalistic, deeply conservative, pro military industrial complex, bio essentialist, and even genocide apologist. I don’t think it’s all intentional, this can happen when you don’t think about the meanings of your work.

JPWKeeper4

I disagree, but let me make a comparison that is more stark. Scooby Doo. Hear me out. Scooby Doo had zero episodes that involved morality. Instead the morality was baked directly into the concept itself. Friends are everything, and can be anyone. The monster is never real. Always look for answers.

kahunascott.bsky.social2

In addition, it is owned by CBS Studios ("See B.S."), which is part of the fascist propaganda-pushing Paramount Skydance Corporation. Paramount has been a toxic corporate entity ever since 1967 when it acquired the original series from Desilu, but now it is far worse. I cannot support them.

Ulrich Mehlis1

And next will be puppets?

Buster Treatin1

OMG they made an episode of Star Trek about Expedition 33???

Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻16

Also, La'an is obviously the wicked witch because everyone descended from Augments has the Evil Gene. And Pelia is the Wizard.

PghNerfHerder9

“What if we did science fiction?” “You’re fired.”

trekdad6

I mean I would watch the shit out of that… 🖖 😶‍🌫️ 🌪️

FormerGregSamsa3

I haven't watched this season, admittedly, but it does seem like they're just speedrunning all the holodeck eps from ST:TNG at once.

Valis_KR33

I kinda like this idea, but it makes the ending of your concept and the movie with Judy Garland that much more of a letdown. "you could go home at any time." "Really!?" "that's right all you had to do is push the button on your communicator." 

boringviewer.bsky.social1

Okay, this is whiny, but I can't get over how the La Marseillaise homage ends? The whole point of the scene is that united the people outnumbered their oppressors and could drown them out, even if there would be consequences for that...but instead, Kor just yells and everyone is cowed. What?

Rob Sabatino1

Ok here's my theory on Spock. He assumed the chip was dislodged and never was used. She thinks it's wiped, he just thinks it's blank.

SteamDeckMatthe2

I really liked this episode. Looking forward to the Muppet episode also

Sarah Walker2

I want so much to see a shitload of behind-the-scenes/production info on this ep because I want to see the costumes and sets in living color, learn how lighting setups changed for the end result, inspo for all of the aforementioned, all the technical work poured into this ep

Gordie Discovery Fan🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦1

I personally enjoyed it but I didn't connect with it as much as the first 3 episodes of season 4. I knew the references & they were well performed. Still an improvement on parts of season 3. I am however really interested in La'ans story going forward.

Eco Trekkie (he/him)1

I enjoyed this one. Probably my favorite of the season so far.

King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼1

A good comment I read elsewhere said the only thing that would have improved the episode would have been some instance where they used a light that revealed color on the planet showing everyone had blue skin or something to better explain the resemblance.

🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖3

I was afraid after the weird generation AI sequence in the previous episode, the show was begin just to be reference of things. This one is nice and not a "noir" in a holodeck program.

Christiana Ellis1

Agreed completely. Having just finished a re-watch of TOS, I am struck once again by how the cliches about the character are really pretty often off-base. They miss the compassion, and also that he's frankly a bit of a nerd. (Not that he can't turn on the charm at will.)

Pratab Ali1

(Not seen it, but seen Ups and Downs) They missed a trick. Since this is another planet. Convergent tech evolution and all that, they should have had a protagonist with...a rocket pack! But called Captain Neutrino.

AdmiralW1

I'm always here for a Una centric episode, but I feel the lens could have been more finely focused on her than it was. It was just ok for me, certainly not at the level of Ghosts of Illyria or Ad Astra Per Aspera.