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Because...

Since the embargo came off early Monday, many reviews are out based on the first six episode screeners.

Many are unequivocally positive to hyper enthusiastic. Some have a few quibbles in otherwise positive reviews.

In the absence of a dedicated SNW subgroup (yet…), I thought I’d drop some links to the reviews so far to get the conversation going.

Additional links can be added in comments.

Inverse https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-review

Slash Film https://www.slashfilm.com/1300328/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-review/

Radio Times https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-review/

Paste Magazine https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/paramount-plus/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-review

Original Cin https://www.original-cin.ca/posts/2023/6/13/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-s2-the-underrated-power-of-the-short-story

The Movie Blog https://www.themovieblog.com/2023/06/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-builds-on-its-excellent-approach-to-trek/

CBR https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-review/

Trek Movie https://trekmovie.com/2023/06/12/early-review-strange-new-worlds-delivers-more-classic-star-trek-with-a-modern-twist-in-season-2/

Games Radar https://www.gamesradar.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-two-review/

Some piece of fediverse history as a start for this new account.

It's on Mastodon, hosted at botsin.space, and since it's a Mastodon bot, I think you should be able to follow it from inside Lemmy.

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Continuing my DS9 rewatch. Tonight’s episodes were

• Afterimage
• Take Me Out To The Holosuite

Take Me Out To The Holosuite is such a great episode. I enjoy it every time.

• Odo as the umpire is perfect.
• Nog: what do I do? Worf: find him and kill him!

That is all. Have a good night everyone (or morning depending where you are in the world).

I love having an entire live TV channel dedicated to re-runs of old Star Trek episodes

Ok so, I have a little Kodi setup which includes a live tv system hooked up to Pluto so I can grab a bunch of channels for free. Turns out, this includes not one, but two whole channels of just Star Trek!

The first one is mostly TNG and the original series, and the other one ("creatively" called More Star Trek) has mainly Voyager and Deep Space Nine. I like these because I don't even have to think about what episode to watch, and can just enjoy some Star Trek!

The only downside to this is well, ads lol

@startrek

I get "instance not found"

Do you guys have any recommendations where to get all the pieces of StarTrek ? Netflix nor Amazon has it in their portfolio...

How are folks using the decidedly beta Mlem doing?

It’s not as fully built as the developer’s demo pages would suggest.

However, it can do more than some have criticized.

It’s definitely idiosyncratic at this point.

So, I’m curious, in the spirit of assisting in getting this community going, to share what people have figured out that works.

Hi, tried to post this on /r/startrek but for some reason it was never made visible. Let me know what you guys think! All suggestions/criticisms are welcome.

I tried to be as true to the Star Trek aesthetic as possible with the UI. It is based on Michael Okuda's LCARS designs but updated for modern touch screens which obviously don't require fixed buttons.

I just started watching Strange New Worlds and episode 1x6 "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" really hit me. Without spoiling, have there been any other episodes about the Majalans?

I love this guy's TNG edits

Often the subject of disagreement, Voyager is talked about poorly by some and praised by others. Seeing plenty of posts about it here. Well ya know - I think Voyager is underrated.

That show took risks. They ran some stories that were just risky in terms of writing and production - sometimes it was a hit, sometimes a stinker. That's why it has some amazing episodes and some really really stupid ones, because they were willing to take a chance on something uncertain. And I respect that, too many shows these days feel like the same recycled crap because television has become so risk-averse and they're not willing to take a chance on something that might turn out dumb.

So we got ones like the infamous warp 10 episode, and those are remembered as cases where the show got really dumb. But as an example, Seven of Nine could've completely bombed that show. Yes it looked like they were bringing on a bimbo for sex appeal, and they absolutely could've went that route with her. Fans might've hated the change no matter what. I mean, that's a big deal, losing a main character and adding a new one - shows don't always survive that.

Also there are things I notice from a production standpoint. From reading about the making of TNG, one thing I remember is them talking about never wanting to damage the costumes or get them dirty, or damage the set. That increases their production costs, cheaper to just not do that.

But Voyager does this all the time. Uniforms are always getting burned and torn, Neelix spills things on his shirt, the bridge is shown being blown up or completely transformed. All the times they have smoke inside there, there's something with water, parts are broken off - that's something they had to clean up for the next episode. If they show burn marks on the captain's chair, that means they'll have to be cleaned or the whole prop replaced, at the risk of it not being identical or impossible to fix.

So the point is - respect for taking those risks. Didn't always land, but plenty of them did.

I only watched the first episode so far. I swear to god, if they don't bring Data's daughter back to life, I'm going to commit warcrimes.

As of this moment, the instance has 108 official users, by Lemmy's metrics. In terms of subscribers:

c/startrek: 145

c/daystrominstitute: 75

c/risa: 20

How do those numbers square with the number of users? I have no idea! But either way...

It's been a long road

I will assume we're all familiar with one of the popular gripes/issues with Voyager and no, for once - it's not a Tuvix thread.

Today we're defending the torpedo/shuttle count.

In many of the discussions on this topic (especially regarding the torpedoes) key context is often ignored or otherwise not mentioned.

So let's start with said Torpedoes.

The line about Voyager not being able to replace their 38 (of a total 123 fired over the series) torpedoes once they're gone was in 'The Cloud', the fifth episode of the series.

At this point in the series Janeway was (as established in the conversation about Torres' Starfleet procedure breaching dilithium refinery in the previous episode) reluctant to step outside of Starfleet procedures. Especially I would imagine for the purposes of replicating antimatter based weaponry for obvious explosion related reasons.

Voyager was also hesitant to trade technology at this stage, a policy that clearly was relaxed as the truly dire reality of their situation was realised - evidenced by them giving holo technology to the Hirogen amongst various other trades (successful, or attempted as was the case with the Malon).

From Voyager's perspective at this stage also the major races they had encountered in the Delta Quadrant were either primative, or wanted to steal organs. Neither making for great allies. Janeway was likely also conscious that they could stumble into borg space at any moment and so would want to conserve their munitions as much as possible.

We see a number of 'Voyager trades with people' episodes as the show goes on and the most relevant one here is the (otherwise shameful) episode Retrospect where Voyager is seen actively trading and shopping for weapons.

With this context, it's easy to see how the torpedoes ended up being replenished despite the line in episode 5. They traded for the raw materials or components and built them.

As for shuttles, they literally built the Delta Flyer - a highly experimental Tom Paris napkin scribble of a design within a week. Then blew it up and built it again with even more experimental technology.

They clearly had a lot of practice (re) building shuttles by season 5 to pull that off!

In the fallow time of the mid '70s, these poster magazines gave us great photos and information and brought the work of Doug Drexler, Anthony Frederickson, Geoff Mandel, and others to the masses.