I recently finished Enterprise season 3, and oh gods that was a slog at the end. Like 5 plot-heavy episodes in a row! No fun, no whimsy, no exploration. It’s the least star-trekky I have ever seen Star Trek. So I finished it, and thought “can we see some strange new worlds now?” And then Archer was taken prisoner by nazis and I was all “oh no, is this going to be season 4?” But that got resolved in two episodes and I was glad. But now there’s an augment arc? Please tell me it ends soon so we can get back to the strange new worlds.

I have the same problem with SNW, to a lesser extent. Too much klingon war stuff, not enough strange new worlds. Lower Decks has the perfect amount of strange new worlds, though, they visited a Halo this season! It was perfect.

Imma give up on Enterprise if there’s a whole season of augment drama.

  • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have the same problem with SNW, to a lesser extent. Too much klingon war stuff, not enough strange new worlds.

    Considering that Strange New Worlds has almost nothing to do with the Klingon war, I’m assuming you’re talking about Discovery Season 1?

    they visited a Halo this season!

    Wait, what? I don’t remember that

    • HardlightCereal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      M’benga and Chapel met in the Klingon war and there are some flashback scenes to that. Also plenty of mention of it when Pike wants their combat skills. Ortegas is a war hero from back then.

      It’s the episode where Boimler has his first command assignment and Freeman tries to prove she can fix computers.

      • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Totally forgot about Vexillons world being a halo world. Huh.

        Your complaint about SNW is really odd though. I mean… there’s like one episode about the Klingon war and a handful of references. It doesn’t focus on the Klingon War at all outside of that one episode. You have maybe 65 minutes of Klingon War content (the episode + references) out of 1200 minutes of Strange New Worlds. That’s like 5%. To ask for less is to outright ignore the impact that the war had on the characters and their experience from it because to ask for less is to erase either that episode or off hand references.

        • HardlightCereal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          It’s not just the Klingon stuff, it’s all the tragedy and drama. Mostly on La’an and Una’s side. Spock is a culprit too, but at least his personal drama leads to shenanigans, which makes him tolerable. La’an and Una are no fun. Uhurua, Ortegas, Hemmer, and the engineer who got no arcs in season 2 are all more fun. Pike is boring but that’s okay because he knows how to let everyone else shine.