Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 - An Unhinged Critique
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds has reached the end of its first season... so let's talk about the adventures of Captain Pike and crew... and I may have lost my mind while writing this.
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0:00 - Intro
3:35 - Curiosity Streamin'
6:33 - Series History
9:51 - Production
14:03 - Story Structure
16:44 - Characters
37:49 - Negatives
39:22 - Ep 1: Strange New Worlds
41:48 - Ep 2: Children of the Comet
42:28 - Ep 3: Ghosts of Ilyria
47:24 - Ep 4: Momento Mori
47:54 - Ep 5: Spock Amok
48:58 - Ep 6: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
50:34 - Ep 7: The Serene Squall
55:46 - A Rant About Toxicity
1:17:56 - Ep 8: The Elysian Kingdom
1:18:20 - Ep 9: All Those Who Wander
1:19:16 - Ep 10: A Quality of Mercy
1:21:05 - Conclusions
1:23:01 - Face Reveal Announcement 
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Ah yes, Jessie still refusing to take the break she said she would because there is star trek to discuss
Tempted to get the waggy finger out, and do some telling off for her own good
I was deeply concerned about her well being and sought to express me concern in a post, but lo, she did not relent, she persisted.
I've realized two or three things: (1) Jessie is _deeply_ into needing to talk about Star Trek, science fiction, and LGBTQIA+ issues; she can't not discuss them. (2) It beats being bored, restless, and having to focus on the discomfort of recovery. (3) Gotta work hard for her money, so hard for it honey. (Pain' that rent, baby.) -- But yeah, I don't think she's resting much! What break / vacation? LOL.
@@gingergrant1057 Surgery doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a health problem or cause for concern. She may’ve had elective procedures like facial feminization surgery, or repaired a deviated septum or had wisdom teeth removed etc. She sounds like she’s in her normal good spirits so I’m betting she’s ok
Exactly. We all knew this is how it would go. 🤣 I'm just so glad she's feeling up to it. 💜
In regards to the pirate episode. I honestly had no idea the actor was queer. Nor did I pick up on her character being non binary. I was empathizing hard with Spock. I’m a child of two cultures my own self. I know what it’s like to have battles of identity. I was too white for the Asians and too Asian for the whites. Not in general, but there was always that sense of otherness I felt.
So I was looking at all of Angel’s advice from Spock’s perspective. I was one of the people moved by the queer person’s advice.
When I learned after there were clear trans allegory, I was blown away. It felt like great writing.
It is not my business if a person is queer. I don’t care to know their sexuality because they have the right to privacy. If I’m corrected on gender pronouns, will happily address them as they ask. I want people to be more themselves with me.
Yes - and fair.
I was starting to think I was the only one that didn't catch their queerness on first viewing! I don't think their acting was the very best, but it was a really fun episode.
I didn't realize they were non binary until I watched the "ups and downs".
SAME I did not even notice the they/them pronouns or anything. The actor I believe is nonbinary but uses she/her pronouns.
Speaking of tropes, can we talk about the “secret villain that’s played in a very understated way up to the point when they’re revealed as a villain and then the actor starts chewing on the scenery like it’s made of chocolate?”. Don’t get me wrong, they chew it in the best way possible but still…
I was unaware that Bruce Horak was blind, and I feel that’s as it should be. Representation seems a journey, not a destination and it’s a step-up from the fix-me La Forge and Data approaches.
Shit, I just learned from your comment (and a quick google to verify- we are on the interwebz); dang, now I'm even more upset about Episode 9...
T'Pring wasn't on Vulcan, she was on the penal colony planet and we know it was close enough for simultaneous video communications because of the video call she has with Spock at the beginning of the episode. The astral cartography actually checks out on that one!
Nothing can convince me that Anson Mount's pandemic beard wasn't grown in preparation to film the first episode of season 2. That beard in that episode is 100% his natural beard.
Mount plays the fear of loosing any member of his crew so perfectly.
I have no idea how people can claim Jesse James Keitel’s acting was bad. I didn’t see the Angel twist coming but in hindsight the clues were all there. 100/10 Angel was a great villain I would ditch starfleet to join their crew
I'm aware that I'm setting my standards high when I say they were... Unharmonius? Fun performance in a vacuum, but the episode's comedic timing was firing a little too fast overall, and Angel felt like they were composited in from a different show with way campier delivery. The script and editing hurt Pike in that episode worse and in similar ways, so I don't come away thinking JJK is bad, so much as was directed poorly and will probably be better next time.
@Tejesh Patel 2259 currently. The tenth episode flashed forward to (an alternate) 2266, during the TOS episode "Balance of Terror"
Personally, I want Captain Angel to be a recurring villain.
Angel really seemed to be hamming up the mustache-twirling villain vibe, but that seemed to me more of an artistic choice from TPTB than anything bad about Keitel's acting. When Angel was Aspen, they were quite understated. I certainly didn't see the twist coming.
Agreed. I'd like to see more captain Angel in the future.
So with regards to the discussion about the acting of a transgender actresses performance in Strange New Worlds, I never noticed that she was transgender or even thought anything bad about her acting. Honestly I think that those people with a problem with the episode because the actress is trans have a reaction that says more about them than it says about anything about the character or the acting or writing or whatever. The character and the acting was good. I liked the episode and was entertained and didn't think about it.
Also the stuff that bothers me about the "controversy" regarding transgender people and nonbinary people and gay or bisexual people is that the far right just are obsessed with the issue. Seriously it's them who are the ones being preachy and weird about it. They are so obsessed with the issue that they feel compelled to obsess about the gender identity of the actress playing a character on a show about people flying around in space meeting aliens and even having babies with them including Spock who is half human and half Vulcan. Vulcans being a made up species of unemotional green blooded aliens from a planet covered in volcanoes. So yeah the sexuality of the actress playing the villain really is the biggest issue here?
My advice to right wingers is that they should actually live up to their ideology and just get out of other people's business. Seriously the Republicans used to be the "rugged individual" party who just wanted to be left alone. If you want people to leave you alone to be you then return the favor and stop trying to reach down everybody's pants.
It's extremely ironic that the same people who are all about personal liberty and staying out of their business and seem obsessed with pedophiles are also the ones who want to subject little girls to being sexually molested by school officials to inspect their genitals because of their hatred of those who have been "othered" by their dear leaders in conservative circles. Seriously it's very disturbing that they obsess about this stuff so much. I think it says more about them than it says anything about the people they hate.
Look I know that it's odd to say this as a cis heterosexual male but I am getting tired of all the obsessing about LGBTQIA+ people from the rightwing creeps that are obsessed with them. I just want to enjoy my scifi and not be beat over the head with their outrage of the week. It's really stretching and honestly they have to go out of their way to be offended. It just seems like the kind of weak minded simpleton snowflake behavior of people who have deeply seated problems that they haven't faced and I don't care about their feelings and I am not their therapist. They need to just suck it up and grow a pair and act like adults. I mean what really offends me is just how weak and needy it all feels. I mean they need to stop being babies and just grow up and get over it.
Look if you're right wing and you're not enjoying yourself because you are too scared and too weak and or stupid to just move on then stop watching everything. Go off into the woods and find your safe space in the woods away from the rest of society and live off by yourselves and stop trying to ruin things for the rest of us. To sum up it's not us it's you and since it's your problem you deal with it and stop trying to make the rest of us conform to your agenda. The world doesn't care about your feelings so stop being such special snowflakes and either deal with it or go away.
I just want to enjoy my scifi without these rageporn idiots making a big deal out of nothing. If you don't like the world then go off by yourselves and cry in the corner and leave the rest of us alone. Sorry Jessie but I am getting sick of the right trying to ruin everything for the rest of us. If I seem mean I am sorry but they're just so feckless that it makes me want to scream. "They're here, they're queer, get over it." I hate being preached at by the right.
Conservatives have always been chock full of the "freaking out about change to the point of oppression" type people. There are some conservatives who mind their own biscuits and the rest of the glom onto that as their image because they understand that that's a noble and mature way of being. The bigots in their group want to project that but they only really apply it to things they approve of. The same sort of rage and comments were out there for every stride for every non normalized minority. Original series got it for race and women. Now that that has been somewhat normalized you get less people complaining about how "unconvincing" the female lead acting is or how "preachy" it is to have a woman in the role of X. Or how the presence of black people is shoving diversity down their throats and an interracial kiss being too sexually deviant.
However, if we fight long and hard enough and keep our heads above water, there will come a day where no one will listen to their winging anymore and no one will dream of voting for someone who wants a new Jim Crow of any sort.
Shout out for the Undiscovered Country clip. Just… god, any time someone quibbles about Spock as a character, that scene. That line. “Logic is the beginning of Wisdom, not the end.” That’s it, that’s his journey, if you can see a version of Spock ending up there, it’s a viable Spock.
I had no idea there was such a poor reception to Capt. Angel’s actor. Nor did I know she’s trans! Frankly the main problem I had with the character was thinking her outfits were tight and unnecessarily revealing.
I just kept thinking “why is the costume dept. making her wear that??” Hahah
Spock: "the ship made an unscheduled emergency landing"
M'benga: "Are emergency landings ever scheduled?"
Leaving a like for the mask which shows Jessie's clear allegiance with us Lizard people who control the government.
Yes brother, don't forget to wear a special tinfoil hat to protect you from the lizards and the reverse vampires! Also I'm selling special foil protection hats for 39.99 a piece.
Until we Serpent People take it from ya ;)
The fake anti-preachy critiques on Rotten Tomatoes were all so preachy, because they all forgot that 1) Brevity is the soul of wit, 2) that Truth doesn't care who says it, and 3) Life is too short not to know where the 'Off' button is. They should use it, and let everyone else enjoy what they will. I'm tired of their Bigotry pretending to be critique. Critique in art has only one value, and that is to evolve our understanding of our common humanity as explored in art. Bigotry doesn't have a place in that.
These rants over “bad acting” are nothing more than a redux of the tired old disqualifier, “affirmative action hire”. They’ve said it 20 different ways about Sonequa, about the first female Dr. Who, or anyone they perceive to be taking a job from a cishet white dude. It’s meant to put us all on the defensive and have us justify that person’s place, dig up how this person went to Juilliard or RADA. I refuse. For the most part, major series and movies have good actors and better actors. There’s too much vetting for bad actors to keep slipping through. Bad acting is on RUclips, TikTok, and Pornhub. Jessie James Keitel was marvelous, and these sudden armchair drama critics are as transparent as the aluminum Scotty made.
Exactly, they tried to critique the new Uhura as a Mary Sue too but seem to forget she's a legacy character
I just want to add a slight disclaimer that it's not the acting in ST:D that pisses me off, it's the writing. I'm absolutely fine with Sonequa Martin Green being a woman of color in command, I am absolutely NOT fine with her mutinying, betraying her commanding officer and surrogate mother in the first episode! There are some things you've got to work a lot harder to come back from, and committing mutiny against Michelle Yeoh is a big one.
@@drdarkeny completely! She’s not a bad actress, she’s got a lot of bad story lines to get through.
my favorite scenes in this season was when the main characters would hang around in the captain's kitchen and make dinner together....they shared so much character building in those scenes
I would love it if Anson Mount would start a RUclips channel called "Cooking with Chris," wherein he and his co-stars prepare a recipe while chatting about the show -- they could do it in-universe and in character, or in the real world as themselves -- I'd watch either way.
@@willmfrank they could do each video talking about what happened in that week's episode....they should that for all trek shows
@@knitcrochettiger361 And the cooking segment could relate to the episode as well, with advice on how to use present-day Earth equivalents to the exotic alien ingredients:
"Greetings. I am Ethan Peck as Mr. Spock. Tonight's episode takes place on Spock's homeworld, Vulcan. So we'll be making Vulcan plomeek soup. Now, there's no such thing as plomeeks, so we'll be substituting lentils..."
An Easter egg easily missed, it was even missed by Sean Ferrick on Trek Culture is that the book 'The Elysium Kingdom' is written by Benny Russel, the writer Sisko inhabited a couple of times. So Benny Russel is a real person in Star Trek now, not just a possible vision from the Prophets.
So hot take: I really don’t like what they did with the gorn, it’s my only serious problem with a show I was otherwise really liking. I think Arena was a great episode of Trek that went to impressive lengths to draw parallels between the Federation and the gorn and between the gorn captain and Kirk specifically. TOS wanted us to see the gorn as people and maybe look at things from their perspective, no matter how alien and monstrous they might outwardly appear. In my opinion one if the most important parts of the episode is when Kirk needs to remind himself of his own biases, that his opponent is a starship captain much like himself and that letting himself assume that the gorn is just a monster could get him killed. SNW throws all of that interesting, nuanced, confronting, thought-provoking, star-treky stuff away in exchange for one-note monsters, xenomorphs with spaceships, and in doing so shows that they fundamentally and completely missed the point. They make the exact mistake that Arena is warning against.
Yeah, I'm with you on the "WTF did they make the Gorn into Xenomorphs" take- literally said the same thing a few weeks ago (well, virtually said the same thing, as I double check the rant =p )
I feel like there should be a running gag in the series where occasionally someone mistakes Chapel and Number One, referencing them both originally being played by the same actor.
This has positioned itself to become my favoorite Star Trek. This season was so good.
While I enjoyed Fringe, I can't belive the Alex Kurtzman of 'Into Darkness', Transformers 2 & The Mummy gave us one of the best first seasons of any Trek show... what a turn around.
I actually think Akiva Goldsman has more to do with it than A. Kurtzman.
@@nel1962 You're probably right, there!
@@Faction.Paradox Which is equally mind boggling considering Picard Season 2.....
Honestly when I saw "The Serene Squall" my first thought was "Fuck yeah, they made Contrapoints a Star Trek Villain ohheyhowareyou!"
the thing about episode 6 that's still bugging me is that they never addressed why they can't just move to a new planet. yes it would be hard, but they've already shown that at least a portion of their population has done just that, and they also have incredibly advanced technology even further beyond the tech of star trek that would make it a lot easier than just continuing to sacrifice children so their crust can keep floating above their mantle. and like, I'd be ok if they were just so wrapped up in themselves that they just dismissed that possibility outright just because they didn't want to, but someone in the show (ex: pike at the end was a very good time to do that) should've pointed out that the suffering was completely unnecessary because they could literally just f-ing leave.
I assumed it was because some aspect of their tech was also dependent on the sacrifice, Like it was how they got their power. So while they could leave it would mean abandoning their technological security blanket.
@@kvoltti and I'd be ok if they gave that excuse, or any excuse no matter how flimsy (hell, a flimsy excuse might have been even better at driving home the point of the episode), but they didn't give anything, and that's still gnawing at me. I know that was part of the point they wanted to go for since our real world problems really can be solved super easily but we (as a species) just don't, but I just...I wish they'd gone more with letting Pike give hope by telling them off instead of letting the obvious question hang there like a wet blanket in 100% humidity
Although I have enjoyed all the Modern Star Trek shows, this series is something that I can’t wait to see more of.
captain angel is an amazing character, jesse james keitel is an amazing actor, and someone's failure to understand what camp is doesn't make an actor's performance bad. i will die on this hill.
So will I. Watching an actor, _any_ actor, chew the scenery like a rabbit on cocaine is incredibly fun.
I’m of the opinion Hemmer is coming back in season 2. The world the not Constitution but really still is crashed on because if the Gorn is an ice world. Gorn hate the cold. It was made a point to comment on how seasonal Hemmer found the place.
I think he survived the fall. The cold was too much for the Gorn parasitical infection and he was able to recover.
I hope you're right! I loved his character and thought it would be around a long time.
I've seen something saying that we will get Hemmer in flashbacks, at least, in season 2. -- But definitely, there's news that Bruce Horak will be back in some other role in season 2. (See the Ready Room; see also the Strange New Pod podcast, which is also great fun, by the way.)
@@benw9949 interesting, I wonder if this role may comment on or improve upon “Is There in Truth No Beauty?”
It could very well serve as a call-back to Culber's alleged death in Discovery. When everybody lost their - uh - minds about "yet another example of the Bury Your Gays trope" I reminded them of Billy Crystal's line in "The Princess Bride:"
"He's only MOSTLY dead; there's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."
Maybe Hemmer, too, is only MOSTLY dead.
Hadn't thought of that, but general lore says Andorians are tough SOBs. :)
OMG you gave me a Gorn singing "Hello my baby" - best review ever! RE: Ortegas - if you've ever worked with say a Chief Warrant Officer in the real world this is the function of Ortgeas on SNW (IMO based on working with a bunch of retired NCOs). Erica is a crazy good flyer, can joke openly with the captain on the bridge, and in the future scene snaps at Pike but when Pike snaps back Erica focuses on the job. There's quite a bit of nuance in Melissa Navia's performance this season that might get overlooked.
Or just someone crazy good at their job; might've been enlisted back in the day, and didn't really... follow the proper protocols when it came to dealing with the higher NCOs or Brass- but, I was damned good at what I did, so I was given all the passes.
Right out of the gate every episode hit me squarely in the feels. Every episode (full stop). Each in its own way, each in surprising ways.
P.S. I didn't realize people hated Captain Angel! I loved the character, even though I thought it a weak ep overall! Like you said, campy villains are an ST tradition! I did not realize the actor was trans, until looking them up - because I enjoyed their performance and wanted to know who they were and am hoping Captain Angel becomes a recurring villain!
I actually think Discovery broke the first season live action Trek curse first because despite it being seen as “divisive”, Disco S1 is actually very solid in terms of clear story and character progression and offering a compelling narrative. SNW is also very good and solid but I often feel like the praise gets a bit hyperbolic mostly because it’s very good at hitting a lot of nostalgia buttons very well and that familiarity is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting for the show that I think folks may not really even be aware of.
And as for its confidence, personally I would have assume this show has to be confident, after all, they’ve basically had a back door season run on Disco, and the pandemic has certainly allowed them more time than most shows to hammer out the first season scripts, and by this point the production side has become a well oiled machine after making so many shows before this. All elements are here in SNW’s corner to make it as good as it is.
The show is very fun and delightful, I enjoy its embrace of shenanigans and Pike being such a dad. Now I just hope the show will be braver to go for the big swings. SNW has so much potential but I always feel it’s sometimes being held back by it’s reliance on safe well trod familiar ideas. It needs to break out of the box more. The episodic format allows them to do all sorts of things so go out and be wild, try weird new quirky random ideas.
This season was so good. It was just like, genuinely nice to have great episodic Star Trek air again. I cannot _wait_ for the next season.
I actually wanted to have Uhura and Sam Kirk have a short fling after the cafeteria scene but he kind of loses me at the Alien episode.
Oh come on everything is problematic in some manner and Captain Angel is an absolute gem of a character and played by the most charismatic person on that screen. My NB ass loves it. I'd rather have 15 'deceitful' Angels for television representation that make us absolutely kickass than another representation-via-pitiable-alien-you're-meant-to-empathise-with-but-which-is-very-patronising.
I love Nurse Chapel in Strange New Worlds. She's smart and charismatic and amazIng. I didn't think I could love her more until that one off line about being bisexual and I'm really hoping they do well with that representation in season 2.
ah yes identity politics, a thing tos never did, i mean sure there was the russian character while the show was airing in the cold war, and the black actress in the middle of the whole civil rights era, and the interracial...i mean interspecies spock in the era where interracial marriages just was made legal, but clearly TOS never did anything with identity politics, and there tots wasnt an episode dealing with how stupid racism is shown with two actors who was painted half black and half white /s
Captian Angel is one of the most interesting characters in star trek we have had in a long time. I definitely want to see more of their character and what plans the show has for sybok.
"In a different reality I could have called you friend"
he lived his whole life not realizing all he needed to be truly happy was a human to play chess with...
...Or Battleship.
Okay, this is the 90s kid in me speaking, but the glasses over the Michael Myers mask give it the look of a homicidal Garth Algar. Which is hilarious!
There are times when Peck's Spock is almost frighteningly on the money. He comes off as our TOS Spock sans 10 years of living. I absolutely love that. It was something that Kelvin Spock could not crack in a mere @six hours of film.
Peck has had the better part of @20 episodes, with the promise of so much more.
Based on what i know about Roddenbery and his vision for ST, i think he would love of this show.
People fear what and who they do not understand, but instead of taking the time to learn and explore they take the lazy way and fall to hate. I'm 53 years old a white "CIS" man married to my beautiful wife for the last 13 years and I am so freaking lucky because I don't have to bow down to the God of Fear and hate after watching more than a few of your episodes I do have to deal with bouts of shame because of how you are treated you are not perverts exposing your kinks to the outside you are just wanting to be yourselves to use a restroom without being yelled at or have the shit knocked out of you. I am so sorry for the way so many of you are being treated it's not fair and it's not right and I can only hope that some day soon you will be able to live and be happy ya'll are awesome , hell Jessie this will be news to you but you have been a drinking buddy of mine for the last three months either on the live stream or watching your shows because I wanted to learn it made me more empathetic I'm tired of hating hope you are getting healed up and I can't wait to see your smiling face Thank you everyone for letting me write my book here please say hey when you can and if I screwed something up let me know so I can fix it. I'm here cuz I love Star Trek but Jessie went and started teaching me about the real world.
If that was the new you on Beau I loved it❣️ This video covered all the bases and I loved your summation and thoughts at the end- I’m so glad your fighting spirit shines through for the road ahead and I ALWAYS feel encouraged by your humanity. Shine on Jessie❣️
Great review, a lot of great points and an excellent dose of humour. And you’re right at the end there, SNW really is something special. Looking forward to season 2 and to seeing future reactions from you.
Glad you liked this series enough to make such a long, thought-out video! I’m looking forward to what’s to come with you!
Jessie, I just wanna say I’ve been watching you since you were at 10k subs. And the joy I felt when you did a perfectly executed Nebula / Curiosity Stream ad read was immense! That’s big time RUclipsr stuff! I love that you’ve gotten to where you are and can’t wait to continue watching your journey and growth! You are one of the kindest, most thoughtful, most empathetic people on this platform and I love all that you do.
Excellent overview, Jesse. One minor nit to pick though: "Anson Mount's ineffable Pike..." I must disagree - Pike is MOST definitely 'effable!' LOL
Great video. Funny that your Gorn costume is better than the one in Arena.
I enjoy your video critical essays so much, and you have led me to other channels with similar analysis and quality. Thank you!
I have only recently found your channel, more the fool I. You are brilliant and I absolutely love your analyses and critiques. Thank you.
Fantastic video. Lower Decks, Orville, and SNW really helped renew my love of Trek!
Congrats on your surgery and a great review!!!
Impressive! What favors did you have to call in to get a Gorn to narrate this episode? Must have worked very hard to pull that off!
She did the classic "two hands clasped together face smack" until it submitted.
Scott Bakula jumped in and made a speach so the Gorn couldn't say no
In involved making a cannon out of bamboo, string, and some powder you find in the hills.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs Thus making it a cannon in canon! ;D (Seems like the ingredient were carbon powder, diamond chips, sulphur, and saltpeter.) I need to rewatch to make sure. (Hiissss, growl, cough....)
Or we could say, Gorns have very HISSY fits.... :ducks:
Loving this long form method and segways to larger topics. Loved this season honestly I knew I'd love SNW but I did not imagine it being this excellent
emo wizard spock was actually the exact wording I used to describe him to my friend while watching that episode! once again I found myself starting a video of yours, meaning to stop it at some point and finish it later in chunks... only to devour it without noticing an entire hour and a half had gone by...
Love the Gorn mask! 🤣 Really enjoyed watching the video! I love Strange New Worlds! I can't wait until the next season!
I definitely want Laverne Cox as a Star Trek Captain.
As always...Thank You. I adore your joy in all things nerdy and Trekkie...
Fantastic as usual, thank you for the rant about toxicity section. Can'y wait for the futures of your channel and Trek!
I am a straight, cisgender, white man who _also_ enjoyed the camp acting of Jesse James. I look forward to their character returning to the show.
Jessie is a first to go to for Star Trek reflections nowadays. She keeps on top of this stuff. Thank you, Jessie.
Jessie you got me back into Trek and I can't possibly thank you enough for that.
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Great summary. Great masks. Great everything. Keep rocking, JG.
It's so much fun hearing you gush about a franchise you're clearly passionate about.
SNW S1 knocked it out of the park for me. Absolutely loving the show, the crew and Pike's epic hairdo. I need more. Much more.
I will always indulge your rambling talks about star trek! And I'll enjoy it! ;)
as you go through each episode i'm also binge watching Strange New Worlds for the first time, so i'm like pausing your show and then watching the next episode and going back to hear your commentary. this is a peak introverted way to spend my Sunday but it's genuinely healing.
it's weird to hear all this hate from queer folks about episode 7. i thought it fuckin ruled, especially when they fire the phasers and starts cackling I was like "LET'S GOOOO"
you're absolutely right when you "Rant About Toxicity" btw, they legit just have a problem with trans people existing, and that's why a lot of people read Captain Angel as preachy when they literally don't talk about their gender identity at all, it's so stupid
When I watched the episode, it didn't even occur to me that someone wouldn't like Jesse James Keitel. I also don't spend time around toxic fan communities, so I was today years old when I found out that people didn't like that episode. Anyway, fuck 'em. The character is a pretty classic Star Trek type of villain. We've had comically over the top enemies from the very start. What about Harry Mudd? What about Q? They don't like openly queer people. Full stop.
"We are as normal as you are" Jessie says, while wearing a silver face mask and a blue beard
I've always been a HUGE Nurse Chapel fan even though she's barely in TOS. I've just always adored her. So I was BEYOND excited to see her in Strange New Worlds, it's been so great!
Jessie, "The Shape" of things to come.
While I'm not in that camp that Star Trek should always be episodic and not serialized, SNW really brought everything together to make the format fit perfectly and not stale like later Voyager & Enterprise seasons did. I can't imagine it being in the same format Disco & Picard has been because as you said, this format allows us to sit with the characters on both their dramatic and off days that fleshes them out even more.
Just finished the first season and loved every single episode. Not one stinker, absolutely brilliant IMHO.
I don’t even watch Star Trek but I can never miss one of your videos Jessie!
Thanks Jessie for taking a hard stance on the phobia (various species) that exists in fandoms. You often exhibit a lot of nuance and empathy towards problematic people and stances. Which I get. But these days, with things getting so rough for marginalized communities, sometimes an unequivocating denunciation is what is needed. I think a lot of us needed to hear you say it.
It's also so ironic that these haters existing in previous incarnations during TOS. That same type of hate happened over the Ohura/Kirk kiss and that episode not even being aired across a lot of the South. Haters always seem to think they are radical and new and the first free thinkers. They are not. They merely retread the same old arguments over and over. It's sadly boring.
I realised today that there’s definitely going to be beep chair Spock cosplay & I can’t wait to see it.
I would love to see _Strange New Worlds_ recreate "The Cage" like they did with "Balance of Terror" in episode 10. Although I guess _Discovery_ did that in season 2.
The episode with the Talosians was a sequel to "The Cage". 😀
@@bryanabbott6169 Then I would like a straight up remake. I don't care if it seems pointless.
The events of The Cage are in the past as far as Strange New Worlds is concerned.
You're doing great - I appreciate the rant! :)
Great video (as usual) Jesse.
SNW, despite airing alongside five other shows,being part of a timeline we have an idea of and utilising “familiar” characters, actually felt fresh to me. Kudos to the cast and crew.
Ps your facial surgery might be the best thing to ever happen to your channel because the masks are killing me haha! Hope you’re recuperating well.
I am looking forward to seeing your face results. When I saw Meltzer the first time in 2004 he told me "I'm going to be honest with you, we don't have much to work with here" which is not something you want to hear from your plastic surgeon. But even in MY case it vastly improved my quality of life. That man worked on me for 11 hours, and the recovery was horrific. But the misery was 100% worth it. Empathy is not my strong suit, I freely admit it, but so help me, every time you mumble or your pronunciation is a bit rough I feel for you. I just keep thinking, been there, done that. Sympathy pains like mad. All the mouth stitches! You are ready when you are ready!
I just wanted to say that, being born just 21 days after completion of The Cage and though loving every bit of Star Trek, SNW was/is the series I’ve literally waited for all my life. 😅
I'm so excited for the reveal!!
I am in love with the Gorn mask!
Honestly it's a vibe
The fact that Jessie still appears on camera (in masks) while she's meant to be recovering, rather than taking a break or jus' getting someone to animate her or something is something else.
Silly Jessie! Baby tribbles emerge from pockets of warp space.
That hug! My heart!
I adore your rant about toxicity being stated whilst wearing a beard; a comedy gold donut of truth (or some better praise fuelled analogy/grimage). Fantastic!
ok im not done with the video yet but can i just say that one of the most memorable things out of snw is spock’s sideburns because they’re so long, they genuinely look like worm on a string.
This was great. Can't wait for the live streams to continue. Ocarina must be beaten!
Thanks Jessie! I really appreciate you making those connections between old & new Star Trek. Although I have seen all of TNG (this was years ago) and some of TOS (even further back when my parents watched it!), it’s good to be reminded of what the spirit of Star Trek is & has *always* been - the politics, the weirdness, the fun, the taking chances. Real fans know where the toxicity comes from and I appreciate your help in not letting those bigots interfere too much with our enjoyment of a creative & fun show that yes also sometimes has important messages that the world needs to hear right now.
As of 30 minutes in, I am loving it. Humor, and good balanced critique. will watch the rest tomorrow or later today. Captain Angle IS beautiful and I love the camp factor. :) So much fun.
I can't not start dancing when the music in this video starts. This song is a banger!
Incredible. Stunning. Gorgeous.
Lt. Duke is grabbed from above & dragged screaming into hell... "The circle of life" LOL
Adding this to my Watch Later just because I freaking loved the first SNW episodes so much that I am rationing them along with Jessie's always-awesome commentaries. Plus, for some reason I had started a chrono-watch and was nearing end of Enterprise Season 2 when this dropped and therefore kind of melted my brain. So, SNW kind of already is acting as an 'alternate timeline' in my own little universe as I slowly savor this series along with my current Trek trek.
Literally spit out my coffee at the cut to Jesse in the Jason/Shatner mask 🌬
Yes. I cannot express how many things you and I agreed on in this video.
Sybok is going to have to *really* step up to keep pace with Captain Angel
The biggest negative of SNW is the lack of originality, this season was very safe. They did do the wheel but they did it very good.
For me the acting and characterization is on another level than old Trek making it fresh, even if the stories is the same old things.
I like it because it feels like classic Star Trek.
Sometimes you really gotta go back to basics, ...I do think a lot of the issues with 'Newer Trek' are from trying to do More And Bigger And More Complicated At Once. Yaknow, Picard seemed to start off with some heavy-handed worldbuilidng choices of pretty epic scales just to get Picard's character to a dark place to start out with, ended up pretty muddled and unfocused over the seventh season even if some great things were going on but maybe came out disjointed or incomplete.... Discovery has all these great characters and Everything Blowing Up All The Time, (Also all the restyles were a mistake cause it was kinda disorienting enough without adding visual discontinuity they didn't really have to. I couldn't even figure out the uniforms cause they apparently did some scheme of their own with metallic trim for department colors, not something that showed up well, even, on a fairly ordinary TV from oh, twelve fifteen years ago. )
SNW got back to basics, familiar stuff to orient to (or get acquainted with for new people,) just cooler, more-manageable stakes for character development, a pretty good relief from 'streaming shows fatigue' where every darn episode seems to have to end on some 'keep em hungry' scheme that eventually just seems pretty unsatisfying. (Maybe a lot of shows ought to throw in a complete little meal once in a while. )
If anything I kinda wish they had that whole hour to fill out and a season long enough to make some of the episodes kinda Starfleet life/procedurals where the B-plot kinda takes over, a la DS9, ...just spending some time with the setting can be really good if the setting is good. Star Trek's always been one that appeals to an audience with an attention span. A little room to breathe, maybe dream, is nice. :)
@@lubricustheslippery5028 Watch DS9. I feel Strange New Worlds is on par to DS9 when it hit it's stride in terms of acting and characterization.
As always, all good on the face thing, but OMG, the GORN HEAD IS GENIUS!!! 🤣 Love you, love your review. I was also really impressed with the first season of this show! Also #freeUna!
Ortegas is by FAR my favorite character. Great banter, great energy.
i had no idea they recreated that jefferies tube set so perfectly, and now i love SNW even more just for that one set
I always enjoy hearing your perspective on TREK. We often agree - sometimes not - but its always interesting. :-)