Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)

Written by DoctorTrek on June 14, 2023

Some folks should not write reviews. Their negativity so obviously reveals their desperate need to sound cultured and knowledgeable; straining to sound relevant as if they have an opinion that matters because of their vast experience as a filmmaker. All the while taking a break from playing video games in their mom's basement to try to find problems with a program they streamed.

Each of the Star Trek series had their own personalities, their own charms and attractions, and their own foibles. The common thread separating them from other sci fi being a fable daring the viewer to think about their preconceptions and the things that they believed are true. This isn't "woke", it isn't preachy. Its putting a story in front of a shallow, narrow minded audience (like those who use labels like "woke" and "preachy") and challenging them to first even recognize what's happening and then to think about it and their own world view.

I remember watching the original Star Trek series on my parents black and white tv. Each week seemed like another message that challenged my young views and beliefs. And it seemed that, like now, so many think more about critiquing the medium and never consider the message.

I've watched and enjoyed to varying degrees all of the trek series (even the animated one!). This Trek is different. Its not Next Gen, its not Enterprise, its not DS9 or voyager. Its not even Discovery even though it seems to have grown from that branch. No, this Trek is the first one that feels like the original series. It took nearly 60 years, but i think they finally re-captured the lightening in the bottle that made Gene Roddenberry's "wagon train to the stars" so special.

Sadly, like the original Trek, the average shallow viewer focuses on minutia and just doesn't get it. I fear that, like the original Trek, this one will go the way of the pearl before the swine. I hope its not the case, because this one, perhaps more than the others that were commercially successful, deserves to go the distance.