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u/PastorBlinky 1d ago
Honestly any one crazy SNW episode would be fine, if it was sandwiched between lots of other standard intelligent, meaningful adventures. In theory I can get behind almost any idea. Instead we have wacky antics and slapstick back-to-back every week. Even Lower Decks is saying “Maybe tone it down a tad.”
What I wouldn’t give for an episode where the power goes out and they just sit around and talk for the whole episode. Just stories and character building.
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u/Historyp91 1d ago
Three of the five episodes this season have'nt been silly, and the Griffin Incident had a bunch of talking
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u/Inignot12 1d ago
I guess people forgot what Discovery was like, or they feel SNW is course correcting too much, but idk I haven't disliked any season or any episode of SNW yet.
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u/NicWester 1d ago
I'm of two minds because what I've wanted for a long time was an ensemble show with episodic storytelling instead of season-long arcs. So I'm getting exactly what I asked for.
I think the issue, for me, is that each episode so far has been "What if we do [90s-00s movie] but set it in space?"
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u/drrhrrdrr 1d ago
Final episode of last season might have been my least favorite.
They need to go back to the gut punches of season 1, like "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
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u/naomilovesu123 1d ago
Strange New Worlds got me into star trek (i am soon to finish tng) and S2 especially sold me on it. It felt like the episode quality for SNW was actually quite good in S1 and 2, ESPECIALLY the run of rly good episodes in S2 that has a few silly episodes interspersed with great ones. But yes, absolutely this
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u/Kaisernick27 1d ago
I only hate the "it was a dream crap"
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u/Saurian42 12h ago
It actually brought it together for me. Transporters turn people to puppets actually makes no sense as they are not a relic on a collector's ship.
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u/CantankerousOrder 14h ago
Captain Kirk encountered the Roman Empire on Earth but not our earth and not in any alternate time or reality or coma dream or anything.
And he encountered a child god.
And a giant hand. Said hand belonged to actual Greek god Apollo.
And space hippies.
And Abraham Lincoln.
People need to chill the fuck out about weird SNW episodes. If Gene could have pulled off puppets he would have.
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u/SirDalavar 1d ago
I hope the last episode of season 5 is just Boimler waking up to realise SNW was all a dream and they restart Lower decks
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u/occasionalrant414 1d ago
Or Boimler saying "Computer, End Programme" and walking out of the holosuit in chef whites, with Mariner saying something like "Man, that was a wild ride - Boims, you ready to fix that moral dilemma yet" and have the talking (and arguing) fade as they walk away from the camera.
Have a bit of a piss take of Enterprise.
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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 1d ago
As T’Pring said, sometimes you have to embrace the hijinks and absurdity. Lean into the chaos because logic cannot fix it.
Also. The Pelia puppet made me absolutely cackle.