Started up strange new worlds
at first i really liked it as it goes back to the original and tng concepts
i also didn't even mind the character recycling - making it a prequel to the original
i think spock, the female 1st officer, and pyke are all well cast - can't say the same for the rest of it
the nurse is really hot and i like that - but then to give her more screen time she's now basically a second doctor - i get it, the original had a doctor + a nurse and they wanted to follow that formula but in order to put more t&a on screen they have the doctor take a major backseat to the nurse which really takes you out of it - like she's literally reconfiguring people's dna and performing surgery with scalpels unassisted while the doctor just looks at some data in the background or isn't even on screen - just really dumb
the security officer was great in the expanse and I was initially happy to see her cast in a new show i'd be watching but alas she appears to just be very bad at acting and doesn't really have the range to do anything beyond the in your face tough lady officer who'll execute any crew who disagree - i'm hoping she grows into the role but it just feels like her character is too focused on acting natural and remembering her lines
uhura who was slender and sexy as a middle aged woman
apparently got a lot of work done to achieve that because in her early 20s she is shaped like a potato
now i normally wouldn't care about that so much - but her character is the absolute worst - easily the most annoying and worst star trek character i've ever seen
she's this little "oh dear me I'm not even sure if i want to be in space" and "oh i don't know if i want to be put in danger or am capable of saving people" character personality and instead of them getting rid of this useless girl - they are like "no we believe in you, you can do it" and she's like "really? you think so?" and then they'll literally hold her hand walking her through stuff step by step - to the extent that whether or not she was there doesn't even matter - and yet it's somehow her accomplishment
and the best part is that the two "accomplishments" were completely meaningless
there's a thing where she's sent on an away mission and they are trapped and as the expert in liguistics, it's her job to decipher what all this writing means and perhaps that'll help them get out - she is able to realize it's music and just starts singing - this appears to have elicited a response and they are sent back freely to their ships - at the end of the episode we learn that they were in fact never in any danger whatsoever and that she literally accomplished nothing as whether she did that or they just sat down and took a nap it'd be an identical result - yet knowing all this she's still praised as a hero
the other time she's trapped in a cargo bay with the lead engineer during an attack - the engineer's hand is broken (just one hand mind you not both) so apparently he's unable to hit a keypad anymore. The door is also blocked with debris. they discover that if they don't hit some numbers on the keypad that the ship will explode and since the other guy forgot he has two hands, he just tells her what to type - they inform the captain and he's not concerned at all with this trivial matter because what kind of idiot can't hit some buttons and literally does not bother with worrying about the bomb, discussing how to help them, nor even check in with them about it because it's such a nothing burger as far as he is concerned
then they decide the best way to deceive these aliens who are pursuing them is to open the hatch and let the cargo slide out, this clears out all the debris and the two people trapped there just rope themselves in - and ride it out and apparently that makes uhura a hero again worthy of praise - "yeah girl, you roped yourself in and didn't get sucked out the airlock, 10 stars!"
just really hate uhura
then there's another character who doesn't play a starfleet officer but rather plays a lesbian - even down to the uber lesbian haircut - she's always making stupid comments like the captain will say "take us closer to the black hole" and she'll be like "oh golly this could go splat" or something else that's just stupid and really unprofessional
i don't hate as a person, i just hate the writers - they clearly wanted to be inclusive and bring on a bull dyke on the show and then didn't think through anything beyond that so she just stands around on screen with absolutely no personality nor contributions beyond the occasional unprofessional and stupid commentary - she also noticeably only socializes with other women on board - but that isn't difficult because of the main cast of 8, 5 are women - which in itself is not an issue but they just really didn't need to do this
i like the show but it feels like they are more concerned with being woke and virtue signaling than having a coherent plot and properly fleshed out characters - would have no issues with an inept woman and bull dyke as main characters if their entire character wasn't them just being inept in order to show her journey and strength (without actually showing it so it's not earned just bestowed upon so really dumb so just have her start out being competent) and another character who several episodes in has yet to do anything other than fill out some inclusivity matters
this right here - this is everything wrong with the show and why I paused to go post here
there's the lesbian with her 24/7 cheshire cat smile again just contributing nothing other than "you got a stupid hat"
and the reason for the hat?
fly fishing, if you ignore the constant creepy ventriloquist dummy smile on the lesbian, he's saying he's wearing it for fly fishing
and yet, that's clearly not a fly rod case and those are flies but rather lures on the hat
these hats don't exist - there's no way anyone found that hat in the natural world because those lures for conventional fishing are awkward and heavy and wouldn't be comfortable to wear on a hat like a near weightless fly
they also drove the hooks through the fabric, meaning those are incredibly difficult to remove, so those hats often have a patch of fluffy fabric to stick the flies on
again - this thing as a one off could be forgiveable, a prop director read the script and cobbled this together on her own thinking that's how it worked and/or didn't make it a priority thing
but the entire show is like this - just lots of minor and careless mistakes
plotlines that don't make sense, characters who don't say/act rationally, it's just not a well put together show
i'm going to stick with it and watch a few more episodes because I think it could turn things around but this feels like a picard level clown show is hiding right around the corner