Mr. Banooka
Abominable Snowman
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I got goosebumps when the Borg musical motif started playing at the end of the episode.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews...w-worlds-tv-review-paramount-plus-1235255901/‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Succeeds by Going Back to Basics: TV Review
For the first 40 years of “Star Trek” history, the character of Christopher Pike was little more than a footnote in the franchise’s lore. Captain of the Enterprise in the failed original NBC series pilot “The Cage,” Pike, as played by Jeffrey Hunter, wound up as the dry run for William Shatner’s James T. Kirk, a square-jawed hero doing square-jawed hero stuff who fell a few inches short of being right for the job. Gene Roddenberry, ever the environmentalist, recycled scenes from that unaired pilot for a two-part episode of the original series called “The Menagerie,” which allowed for, until 2009, Pike’s greatest contribution to popular culture: his transformation into a hideously scarred burn victim who lived in a large black box that beeped whenever someone asked him a question.
It’s not much build off of, but Pike has become increasingly important to “Trek” as the franchise looks to its past to build a future. Bruce Greenwood played the role J.J. Abrams’ big screen reboot “Star Trek” in 2009, as a mentor figure quickly sidelined for the people who actually mattered, but it wasn’t until Pike became a regular on the second season of “Star Trek: Discovery” that the character came fully into view. Stepping into the vaguely dad-shaped space left by Greenwood in Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” Anson Mount offers up something surprisingly rare on TV these days: a charming, straightforward good guy. His affable presence is maybe not the best reason to produce yet another “Star Trek” prequel series — but it’s not the worst, either.
Absolutely pitch-perfect, wasn't it?Thoroughly enjoyed the finale of Picard.
Shedloads of poignancy, a couple of surprise old faces turning up, and a genuinely epic ending with significant ramifications for future Star Trek stories.
They've already said S3 will be the last and conclude the arc.But s2 was a lot better than s1, so maybe s3 will be the gem.
This is why aliens are, basically humans in funny rubber masks**. This is right from ToS.
Seems likely. I knew I should've invested in that VPN.Maybe it is region coded somehow...
It’s a breath of fresh air, isn’t it.I've been watching Strange New Worlds. After Discovery, it feels good have people do things rather than talk about their feelings.
i had to head for the high seas in order to watch it.Where can I watch ST:SNW anyway?
Paramount+ launches over here next month (£6.99 PCM or £69 per annum). It'll have the entire Star Trek canon on demand. We're thinking of ditching Netflix and replacing with this*.Where can I watch ST:SNW anyway?
I think it's going to be more along the Disney+ model, so loads of content.Way to go - limit your viewers to only those that pay for a single subscription to one channel!
Yeah kinda gave up on that for this reason. The whole "load of emotionally iimmature people somehow in charge of 1,000,000 tonnes of planet vapourising death" thing didn't quite work for me.After Discovery, it feels good have people do things rather than talk about their feelings.
Correct: It's a genre trope--since heavily parodied.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LegCling
See, for instance, Boris Vallejo:
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Personally, if I were in the process of trying to calm my inner fears and steel myself for some coming heroics, I'd find it really distracting to have a quivering chick clinging to my thigh.