Ups & Downs From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.1 - Strange New Worlds
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You missed a great classic sci fi reference, when Pike is talking with La'an onboard Starbase One he talks about the habitat domes on board Starbase One that scientists had launched during WWIII to preserve Earth's plant life.
This was an obvious nod to the 1972 film "Silent Running" with Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
One of my fave movies!
Anson Mount's warm delivery as Captain Pike aboard Discovery sold me on the potential for SNW being a great show. The episode 1 scene where La'an apologizes to Pike for not earlier telling of her connection to Una recaptured that magic. "Tell me about it now," he replies. Pike is so disarming. Anson Mount "had me at hello". I look forward to the rest of the series.
After this first episode I’m not surprised that they already cleared a season 2 before the show even aired.
This is the Star Trek I was hoping we could get for enterprise
I just watched picard's final. After that, ı watched that. I yelled at home THİS İS THE STAR TREK.
@@ertuncozvural yes it is
@@Peaceforall20111 Season 2 Picard was so bad, we should move on and forget that happened
@@ertuncozvural i mean season 1 was terrible.
@@skipper4126 Season 1 was okey. At least, Borgs werent more friendly than vulcans.
I do find it incredibly ironic that a Noonien Singh saved the Enterprise by ordering the shields to be raised.
It wasnt Kirk caught with his pants down this time!
Great catch there :)
You got it! 😉
"They're calling it the Prime Directive."
"Oh, that'll never stick."
You know you're an absolute Trek nerd when you get goose bumps about the prime directive. I got the same feeling when Archer gave his prime directive speech in enterprise.
I audibly laughed and said “wrooong” at this moment. I love it. So good
The biggest UP for me-Spock’s retinal scan failing in the same place where my wedding photos were taken! Filmed on the campus where I met my husband with our photos taken there…I had to rewind to check. I’ve recognized many Toronto landmarks but that was just super cool!
Oh thats so cool! And belated congratulations!
So cool.
I grew up in Mississauga and know the GTA quite well. It's absolutely awesome knowing there filming 2 Trek series in our home town!!🤘😊🖖🇨🇦
This was one of the best, if not the best, episode of modern Trek we've gotten so far. Incredible episode.
Amen brother👍👍👍 100% agreed
That bar is soo low I cant but in good conscience agree, it was entirely not terrible
@@JackBurton.Trucking - You can set the bar as high as you like. This was a great pilot episode. They knew before making the episode that this is what the audience wants.
Totally agree.
I didn't like it, but I guess I'm in the minority here. I'll stay tuned.
I was in tears by the end of the episode. We finally have a proper star trek show again.
Even if quality tanks after this, SNW gave me that glimmer of hope for the first time since Enterprise was canned, and for that alone I will always love that episode.
It feels like a return to 1968 and TOS gets renewed for another full season with Roddenberry still at the helm.
More exploring and less space battles.
Well maybe just a couple.
Yet everyone used to say Enterprise was do bad back in the day....
@@docknightphilco4550 They never watched it...
It's funny to see the community agree on this one so much. I feel the same. It was a great pilot, the characters felt great. The episode (and second too) feel like Star Trek again.
They dialed down the effects a bit and the tech feels more grounded but with upgraded effects and budget. I like this Enterprise a lot. The Engine room seems to look very different (more like after the refit) but great.
But boy, the first two episodes were just plain fun. I hope it will continue like this. I like all the characters and I agree that one can feel the chemistry between them.
I've been waiting decades for this show....it was everything I had hoped for. Just perfect.
I assumed the "Number One" gag with both responding was a callback to the TNG episode "Disaster" where Picard is trapped in a turbolift with three children and gives them ranks to help ease their minds and work together. After declaring Marissa his First Officer, he calls her Number One throughout the episode, leading up to the amusing ending where he gives Riker an order, calling him Number One as always and both Riker and Marissa respond "Aye, Sir."
I haven’t watched that episode since first run but remember it fondly. Good spot.
I felt like I was finally watching star trek again. Discovery and Picard are ok, but this really scratched that itch and it was so refreshing
Picard is ok... Discovery sucks... I agree with you about SNW
I like Discovery and Picard too, but also this one is more rounded and enjoyable like individual episode-adventures. Something I love in this type of shows, not only Start Trek, but also, for example, Stargate.
The bit when Spock changes back to his normal form, screams from the pain, and then stands back up totally dead-pan had me cracking up. I cannot remember a time that Star Trek made me laugh that hard
It was a Horta-style scream...PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!! :D
"The pain is unbearable."
"Wha--...?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"Oh."
Very Spock in response. He would only let his emotional state through if it was completely beyond him to stop it.
The whole series is an absolute disgrace to the positive, open-minded, diverse, creative and visionary Star Trek from the 1960s.
This was so good I shed a tear because I saw that great Trek is still possible. I hope they keep the awesomeness going
I was right there with you. It felt light and hopeful and I found myself wishing the episode were longer. I really hope they don't screw it up.
HAHAHAHA omg that's hilarious🤣🤣🤣
This was, possibly, the most satisfying, fun episode of Star Trek to date. The numbers in the video don't lie. I don't know what the writing staff is doing for this show, but they need to keep doing it, whatever it is.
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When Pike said, basically "Screw the rules" my reaction was YEEAHA! and finger guns.
I like most Trek, don't mind it if it doesn't get too dark, but this was an awesome out-of-the-gate experience.
No bad acting, it was like the whole cast had been playing these parts for years. I only had a slight issue with Noonian-Singh, trying to decide if she's a Mary-Sue or not, but I loved her otherwise. (She took the pain from the transformation and thought on her feet. She done earned that spot as security chief!) I guess time will tell. Can't wait for the next episode. I know the entire series will be "woke", which isn't my favorite, but most shows are now. Also, bonus points to Uhura's cool, conversational head with the native species. Cuuuuute moment. ^_^ I'll want to see more like that. (I will take it gladly over Disco's severed heads moment. Eww.)
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Meaningless to most people, but that was a beautiful horse in the opening scene!
Kyle is my new woobie/eye candy.
I have fallen in luv with Spock again, beard or no beard. That voice! He could be reading an instruction manual for a nuclear power operation system and I'd be enthralled. (Oddly, his face isn't that hot for me, but it's details. Too bad he'll never have stubble, but maybe we'll get that OG mirror universe Spock with the beard back this time around? Holla!)
Pike needs to stop being such a dang charming smooth operator. Haha, nah, he does. Half the males on the crew can be my new biases, why not? Hemmer, get over here! XD (When Paul Wesley gets on this ship, I am going to lose my mind. Been drooling over him for like a decade, but never watched him in anything because it was nothing I liked.)
I want to see more of Singh and Callaway, and more Singh and Number one interactions. We stan a good mentor story!!
Might come back to this later. Great start, can't half believe some people didn't like it!!
It was an OK episode. Great by new trek standards. The dialogue is.. Better.. But still forced and unnatural. Almost as if the writers have never really engaged in a face to face conversation before.
Time will tell if they can really pull it together and make these people seem like real people.
Captain Pike's beard early in the episode is truly legendary. The pilot to Strange New Worlds is my favorite since DS9's.
Don't forget that Lt. Kyle was often at the Enterprise's transporter controls in TOS, later rising to the rank of Commander and serving as comms officer on the Reliant under Capt. Terrell.
In the finale, there will be a transporter accident that turns him white.
Clearly this isn't the same Kyle.
@@AceOfSevens well that explains April 😅✌️
Different Kyle. Could be related though.
Sean, we need an answer to this. Is this an ethnic recasting like April or a new character with coincidentally the same name? Both were transporter chief. It seems unlikely to be a new person with the same last name and position when Dr. M'Benga, Nurse Chapel, Sam Kirk, Admiral April and Cadet Uhura are all returning characters.
Loved this ep….lovin’ Anson Mount’s Pike…it’s little things they throw in that tickle me…. “Hope we didn’t catch anyone with ur hair wet or ur pants down” & they show the bridge crew smirking…epic….
I loooooove the spin they put on the title theme for the opening credits too….that drum beat as the music builds…perfect !!
Love the vids Sean & team…& g’day from Down Under
LL&P to all….stay safe
One other connection I thought of: those domed biosphere that were sent into space at the start of WW3.... didn't that remind anyone of Silent Running? Have they incorporated that film into Star Trek lore? :D
That's what I thought! Silent Running! Great film!
I thought the same thing.
This is the first I hear about this movie and just went to watch the trailer. I now 100% place this in my headcanon as a pre-ENT movie.
@@pokealex388 glad I was able to broaden your sci-fi horizons 🙂
I was waiting for Huey, Dewie, and/or Louie to zip by.
All I can say is that this show makes me incredibly happy. I just love Trek.
Good start. Let’s hope it keeps going in this direction
I love love love it!! I'm 60 years old. I've been waiting forever for the Pike story.
Sean missed Starbase 11 on the map, which is a big Easter egg tied to Pike because that is where future disabled Pike was located in The Menagerie
I love how Pike's personal dilemma reflects the one he had way back in "The Cage", when he was also considering resigning from Starfleet. Dr. Boyce tells him in that episode, "A man either lives life as it happens to him - meets it head-on and licks it - or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away" - pretty much exactly the choice Pike has to make here.
"Now you're beginning to talk like a doctor, bartender."
"Well, you take your choice; we both get the same two kinds of customers: the living...and the dying."
1:54 - As someone who currently holds a clearance, I can tell you that the security folks do stress that there is a difference between having a high enough clearance and something called "need to know." Basically, it doesn't matter how high a clearance you hold, if you don't have a need to know, you're basically not authorized to access the information.
Thank you. It annoys me when people go “oh but they have a higher security clearance or a higher rank, they must be told” ummm, no, sometimes a ensign knows more than a admiral and cannot say anything to said admiral.
Need to know beats "I have I high clearance" every time.
That actually makes sense.
Hewy dewy and lewy?
@@TTony-tu6dm - I think you replied to the wrong comment.
For One Reason, this is the episode all Star Trek has waited for: The one one hour thing you can show to anyone to introduce them to "See? This is Star Trek!" Perfektly, on point! Well, done everyone!
Honestly, this episode made me teary eyed a bit. I never thought I'd see the Star Trek that I fell in love with again.
Same.
glad im not the only one
makes it even more obvious how shiity discovery is
@@WiSMs Same directors, producers and writers. No?
Me too!
Seeing Anson Mount on horseback brings me back the Hell on Wheel days when he played Bohannon.
Pilots are always weak when looking back over the season or multiple seasons. This is one of the best pilots I’ve ever seen of any show. I really felt like I was watching an episode from the second or third season. If the pilot is this strong I have very high hopes for the feast of the season and beyond
Ditto
True in most cases, but the TOS pilot “where no man…” was excellent though. 😀
Early Picard episodes were better then the rest of that series too.
And we know where that went.
@@Sonlirain True, but at least these episodes will be more episodic so they basically get a do over every episode instead of being stuck trying to continue the story after a wrong turn.
@@thecaptain6730 Technically, the TOS pilot was Man Trap, not WNMHGB...
This pilot was beautiful.
Pike's speech on the planet (after he smoothly beamed in and stood between the 2 leaders) pulled my heart strings a bit - almost like preempting what could happen in years to come but also as though it was a message to the world today to stop what could be from happening. 🥲
It is, what Star Trek does best. I think that's what has been missing from Discovery and to a certain extent Picard, bringing it back to a reflection of the things happening today and being a hell of alot more grounded :)
seeing Anson Mount on horseback with that beard took me all the way back to Hell on Wheels.
This first episode was incredible. One other point I have to make: the uniforms are so good! It's clear that they are basically just the TOS uniforms, but subtly updated to maintain SNW's modernized look, and I am absolutely here for it!
There will always be 20% changes for licencing,
@@corribyrne1481why? I thought that changed when paramount bought cbs. Genuinely asking.
The TOS uniforms did not come into service till after the second pilot episode Where no man has gone before so during pikes time as captain of the enterprise they did not wear the TOS uniform. In the second pilot where kirk is now captain the crew are still wearing the older uniforms that were first seen in the cage, The uniforms had 3 colours, Gold, Blue and Beige, The beige colour was replaced with Red when the uniform was finally changed to the TOS uniform that we all know and love.
@@russelldeck4168 I genuinely didn't remember that they were the same in the second pilot, but either way I was actually referring to the overall aesthetic and how I appreciated the fact that it managed to walk a line between looking modern and fitting into the TOS era. I was not trying to suggest that they were actually the same uniform.
@@corribyrne1481 does the 20% difference apply to Spock's back story and Vulcan culture as well? Just curious.
The thing that I disagreed with about nurse chapel being on Pikes Enterprise was the character was not introduced until Kirk took over the Enterprise, and the actress that played nurse Chapel was in the Cage/Menagerie, Majel Barrett, whose character did serve with Captain Pike but she was his number one. Never the less, this was a wonderful kickoff to what looks like to be a very good series.
Dont you think that's why Rebecca Romain (a blond) is dark haired, worn in the same style as Number One in "the Cage"?
Perfect score on TrekCulture, 100% Fresh score on the Tomatoes that AREN’T Rotten… I think this is off to a good start. 😜🖖🏼
This has captured my feeling watching SNW Ep1, it’s like coming home to the Star Trek I watched beginning in 1966. Loved it so much!
I can name everyone on the bridge after one episode. I can't do that on Disco after several seasons.
There's an interesting parallel between La'an Noonien-Singh and Burnham. They both survived attacks from aggressive alien races. They both also identify the threat immediately in the first episode.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Strange New Worlds!
Everything about this episode felt right, and felt like ST again. I have to say I welled up during the opening credits. I'm so pleased they listened to us. Long may this continue.
S1E1 was brilliant. Felt like a conversation with an old friend. Everything about this episode just felt proper.
Yes !!! That’s what it was like , well said !
lol remember when they said the Jan 6 protest led to WW3?
@@tubeguy4066 except for the fact it TOTALY could. Also , let’s be clear , they weren’t “protests.” They broke into the building , almost got to the senate chamber, destroyed , defected in the halls , looted things ….
@@tubeguy4066 they just showed a picture of the protest. if there's ww3 there's bound to be protests. I think you may be looking into it too much, or you're seeing what you want to see because you want to be mad.
The episode... Was flawless in my mind.
I haven't seen Trek that good, that honest to itself in almost 20 years or more...not since some very deep and memorable DS9 episodes.
uhora's pinky bend was spot on. clearly someone has been watching old episodes in preparation for the role.
"Ethan Peck has clearly been to the gym - that was pleasant" I AM LAUGHING MY BUTT OFF I swear I've been waiting to watch strange new worlds for half a year now since P+ only came to my (European) country last month but I was sooo looking forward to watching your ups and downs after finishing each episode at a time, and I already love it!! Glad to know I'm not the only dude staring (dis)respectfully at Ethan Peck's aesthetically pleasing unclothed upper body lmao
This episode reminded me of a sci fi tv show about space explorers I used to watch. It was fun, exciting, and thought provoking. It had the beginnings of development for several characters. It left me wanting (not wondering) more. I loved it. It’s been many years since I’ve seen a show like this.
It took me back to the days when I used to write SF stories for the pulp magazines. Or was that a dream?
Or am I the dream?
@@eshafto The dream is the dreamer; the dreamer is the dream.
Thanks to all the powers that be for bringing back STAR TREK! It makes me feel like a kid again!
I was surprised and disappointed when Spock and T'pring kissed in the human traditional way rather than in the Vulcan method (finger touching)
Perv.
Good point
Comfortably familiar, exhilaratingly new. That’s how I feel about this series. They crew has that same bond that TOS and TNG had. Love it! So excited for this season and this show!
Fingers crossed that the rest of the season stacks up to this wonderful start to a new star-trek! No downs, no major canon violations, episodic in nature with cautionary tales presented optimistically and a cast that really jelled right from day one. Great job, great start, hope to see this trend continue!!!
Thanks for the video TrekCulture, you folks rock!
I hope it’s more episodic than serialize compared to the recent Star Trek we have been getting
The bar is now “no major canon violations” 😭
I had a down that seemed to violate cannon. But liked the episode.
@@Michael.Eddington "The bar is now “no major canon violations” 😭" It's been like that since Next Generation.
@@TheInfiniteSheldon TNG spit on canon regularly. I am guessing you mean that.
Finally, a Star Trek show that is totally Star Trek.
Anyone else look at the character La'an Noonien-Singh and say, "Wow, we're not aping Camina Drummer from the Expanse at all are we?"
yep, immediately thought of her
Thank you. I couldn't figure out why the character seemed familiar.
Yup. I immediately called her Baby Drummer. Got somewhat similar physical appearance, the eyeliner and attitude to match.
She does come across as Drummer-like for sure, which I suspect is intentional. Drummer was an awesome character in The Expanse
Regarding the eugenics wars. They’re basically moving them. The research was done in 1996 (and possibly cancelled) to maintain the year mentioned in TOS, but the Picard finale is hinting that Soong is going to start it back up or finish it after the Season 2 events, thus pushing back the Eugenics War.
That was what I thought as well.
Agreed.
I figured the Eugenics war would be like Riker’s and Troi’s relationship in TNG-whoever the writers needed it to be for that episode.
Soong just lost all the digital data of his genetic research. The old Project Khan file was likely the (space) seed of all his work. Returning to this hard copy document is his desperate way of going back to the drawing board.
Thank you so much from Ukraine! Made me smile even more at the very end!
17:30 - The Archer was actually a Hermes-class scout, which is basically the Saladin-class destroyer but with fewer options.
And there was a DISCO-era Miranda-class in the dock next to the 1701.
Although I cannot state this enough: I -LOVE- the DSC/SNW Enterprise.
It's perfect.
Its very good, love the show, got very high hopes for this show!
So we got homages to "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Silent Running", Was La'an referencing a Genetic Supermen colony ship i.e "Khan"? Admiral Robert April, first referenced in animated series, I like how so much of the production design looks like the original series props also and the return of T'Pring, originally played by the great Arlene Martel!
I told my wife, are we clear to accept that the events of SILENT RUNNING are ST canon?
@@hubbsllc Seems so.
No Lance, April was in the 1963-64 draft script, and the two re-writes that then progressed to the shooting script with Pike. Source: "The Making of Star Trek" 1970-71 by Whitfield and Roddenberry. Used copies may be obtained via Amazon, in various degrees of wear and tear.
@@LoneBrowncoat OK, I needed to reference my copy bought new when it was released and signed by Gene Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols at Equicon '73 for me, and you are correct, but I am old, since I have been watching Star Trek since it originally premiered in 1966 and I forgot this detail, did I mention I am old, now get off my lawn!
Absolutely loved this. Such a great pilot. StarTrek has been a part of my life since I was born into this strange world. I have loved every version of the shows and movies. Hands down this is the best pilot and certainly most like the original show. This is going to be such a great adventure
Looks like I will be having a debate with myself over whether Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds is my favorite “new trek”. This episode is the best start any Star Trek series has ever gotten IMO.
This show is what Star Trek is all about. Man that first episode had me in tears of joy. It was soooooo good.
The actor playing April did a good job, but by that argument, I'm sure there are plenty of white actresses who could have played Uhura. All they would have had to do is name the Admiral something else. They created the controversy, not the fans.
He could have been Black all along. April was older in TAS - it’s possible his melanin production just went down and he looked pale.
@@katherinegilks3880 it's the perfect fan-theory to totally take away from the accomplishment of Nichel Nichols now that she's dead. Just retcon it so she wasn't the first black officer, and Avery Brooks wasn't the first black captain. So, if that's what you're going for, good job.
I was about to point out that Janeway absolutely did take Voyager into a low orbit over Earth that time they were thrown into the 1990s, but in reflection I believe it was actually Harry Kim in the chair at the time, so, fair enough.
The fact that it was not an orbit--that nobody involved in the production seemed to know or care what an orbit is--made me feel comfortable and happy. Like coming home from school and realizing that the apartment you grew up in has always smelled like cabbage, but that cabbage smells like home.
This is the good old Star Trek that I have been wanting so bad! Almost flawlessly executed!
They missed a serious opportunity by not saying Pike's horse was named "Tango."
I recall this from the "The Cage" and I was waiting for Pike to say the name Tango. It just never happened. That would have been nice.
@Gail Everett I know Tango wasn't black in "The Cage ", but after all these years does that really matter?
They missed a better opportunity not to beam both Pike and the horse back to the ranch once he'd agreed to return to space 😂
@Gail Everett Pike says to Boyce "Remember I told you I had two horses?"
Maybe this is the other one.
Uhura saying cool after Capt says boldly go! Up
Watched it 4 times already.
I laughed at Spock’s burning ears! “The pain is quite remarkable”… they eventually hurt so bad he loses his composure and screams. Lol!
Also, did anyone get Guy Fleegman (Galaxy Quest) vibes from Sam Kirk when he walked in? LOLOL I love it!
YES!
Oh yeah!
Anyone who gives a damn about what skin color Capt. April was, isn't a true stat trek fan.
First thing Star Trek ever pushed, WE ARE ALL EQUAL
No true Scotsman
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is THIS the first Star Trek Ups & Downs with a perfect score? All ups and no downs? Has history been made today? 🤔
It was good, but he was being pretty easy on it to be fair. There were several things he could have given downs for but ignored, or alternately gave ups for instead.
One of the things that actually disappoints me? The Captain's cabin. Gene Roddenberry created a world where the Captain of the Enterprise has a cabin that was just 12 square meters and didn't even have a window. His reasoning was that humanity had removed Ego from their hierarchy structure. Kirk chose that cabin because he knew he was the person on board who would spend the least time in his cabin. Enterprise has a massive crew for its size and having a comparable population density as a WW2 battleship. Now consider Pike having quarters the size of the 1960s Enterprise's bridge and monopolizing that many windows in a ship with so few. For that to be possible most of the non-command crew must be packed in like canned sardines with most having one or no window.
That discussion about security clearances makes a lot of sense - just because you have a given level of clearance does not mean you can just access anything classified at or below that level - you still need to have the "need to know". So she might have a higher clearance than Pike but she's not been read into everything around Discovery.
When I saw the episode, I thought “Now, THAT is Star Trek”.
Have watched it twice already, will be watching it again and again and again until episode 2! It will be burned into my screens! Just awesome new classic feel good lift your spirits TREK!! YES TO STRANGE NEW WORLDS! Just feels so familiar!
This is the best trek I’ve seen in a long time.
I loved the Vulcan "flirting" and "teasing" that is shown. My only problem was their kiss. It should have been the two-finger touch like in TOS with the same reaction from the waiter.
Sarek and Amanda do the two finger touch all the time even at diplomatic functions, so no it should not have been done here to represent Spock and T'Pring's youthful exuberance of being engaged. If they just did the touch, the waiter wouldnt have gotten cranky.
i really enjoyed the SNW pilot. i hope they continue on the path to deliver this quality.
2 things I noticed: 1. M’Benga is wearing the shiny McCoy style shirt that velcros close at the right shoulder & 2. every time they beam, they use The Cage transporter sound effect. In addition, Mitchell could be a nod to Gary Mitchell from TOS’s Where No Man Has Gone Before…
Great new show and great video Trek Culture! Thanks for another banger...
Am I the only person who thinks it's a shame they didn't have Rebecca Romijn play dual roles as both Number One AND Christine Chapel? As a tribute to the late Majel Barrett.
I think it'd be more amusing if people keep saying they look alike. Especially in situations where they very clearly can't...ie injuries changes in hair etc.
@@rubaiyat300 "Aren't you supposed to be blonde?"
"No, that's the other one."
very strong first episode. please keep this quality
No the picard and SNW fit perfectly. The trick is dealing with the fact that we are now past the TOS dates for the eugenics wars by setting a date clearly in the 2030s and 40s for the eugenics wars. Matches with enterprise as well
It'll be the 2060s in no time and we still won't have warp drive:(
@@J.Wolf90 Then will have to retcon all the dates forward 100 years
“Transporter Twink” ! 😂😂 I love it!
The Day the Earth Stood still and Pikes Speach perfect example of "Set Up and Pay Off" Done Right.
I absolutely LOVED this opening episode. The only bad parts were: 1. THREE (3) people on a Saladin class ship and they all beam down? 2. Witnessing a cosmic event through a telescope allowed them to develop warp tech? A bit of a stretch, but no biggie.
Mount gets is so right, it makes all other new trek look bad. The guy is just awesome and the Enterprise looks fantastic! Also loved the tri-corders
He was great as black bolt too in DS2, but died so pathetically...
Have we not got the ups and downs of season 2 episode 1 yet just watched it I am so freaking happy to have new Trek back 🖖
I am an original series man from way back! I watched it when it was airing for the first time way back in the 60s (yes, I am old.) THIS is Star Trek! I actually shed a few tears watching this... tears of joy!
That episode was amazing.
Giving Chapel credit for the "disguise" treatment (a long-lived Trek trope) was a nice touch.
Still waiting for Spock to raise his right eyebrow, though. 🙂🖖
Some younger viewers may think Spock was ripping off The Rock if he did that.
Fabulous episode. Feel like we're in good hands with this show.
I thought it had a much stronger start than Discovery; and the "The Day the Earth Stood Still" style speech Pike gives is brilliant.
To be fair though, Discovery was the first New Trek show to be created. It was probably the hardest one to land a homerun on. SNW had the whole second season of Disco to use Spock and Pike to get the feel and what the fans liked and disliked.
I loved this episode. I thought it felt Star Trek, it felt perfect. The set, the story, the characters, the scenes, the music - it was spot on. Your point about Pike not raising his voice but getting his way was spot on.
The one thing I will say that had me going "huh?" was the time factor of Spock on Vulcan and then on Earth in what was like day. I thought it would take longer. But I can whatever that scene as things around it were great.
I don't own Paramount+ so its going to be hard to watch this but this was awesome.
ST:SNW delivered basically everything I wanted from a new Star Trek series! I can't wait to see more!
I had a great time watching this episode. It was fun and fresh in a lot of ways, and I really enjoyed the episodic-feeling start.
Pike needs to remove all reflective surfaces from the Enterprise immediately
I'm waiting for a Lower Decks-type episode, following the ship's cleaner going around the ship, grumbling about finger marks on everything. 😆
This show is finally giving the Nurse Chapel character a chance to shine.
True! As much as Majel Roddenberry is Star Trek royalty, she is a very wooden actress, truth be told. This Nurse Chapel is going to be fun!
Some people always get upset when a black person plays a character that was formerly white, but never when a white person plays a character that was formerly black. Strange that!
J’ai vraiment été impressionnée par ce premier épisode…cela a démarré en grande pompe….wow…après avoir visionné la saison deux il me semble que c’est l’épisode le plus percutant sur tout les plans ….scénario , jeu des acteurs ….ils ont mis beaucoup d’efforts et cela se ressent….
I dont generally care for prequels (didn't even watch DIS until they went into the future - love it, btw) but the did GREAT!!! That episode was simply phenomenal!!
BIG FAN! Keep up the great job my man!