Chris Snellgrove | publishing
Fans are preparing to watch Starfleet Academythis Star Trek: Discovery Split will bring back the doctor Traveler Help train the next generation of the best and smartest people in the federal industry. But Paramount is already preparing for the next big show: Star Trek: The First Year, This could illustrate more adventures about Kirk’s first year as corporate captain.
A strange new world Co-creator Akiva Goldman Star Trek: The First Year At the risk of destroying the Trekkie fanatics completely.
Star Trek: The First Year Can End Trekkies
The basic idea behind it Star Trek: The First Year It’s simple: Use the actors to play Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the rest of the younger versions to revisit Captain Kirk’s earliest days and direct the most famous ship in Starfleet. Most actors are already in place (minus some TOS characters that need to be recast, such as McCoy, Sulu and Chekov), and use existing existing ones A strange new world Settings and designs bring this new show to life.
If not handled well, the life of this show would mean the death of Star Trek. It’s possible to be more Discover.
Paramount’s pursuit of hypothetical alternative fans
There has been tension among fans since the beginning of the Nutrek era as Paramount tries to attract two very different groups. The first group is older trek fans The next generation Even earlier. The second group is a young fan or hypothetical potential fan, which the network sees as the future of the series.
This led to constant debates about the status of Jam writers’ treatment of Canon, including the argument that Spock has a secret sister to Starfleet cool, destroying the entire planet to end the war. There is also debate about tone, because the new show (especially Discover and Picard) tilt violence and gore in a way that earlier treks will never show. And, when Nutrek isn’t too bloody (very bloody), it’s too stupid, which proves A strange new world In its 10-episode run, it is almost entirely focused on humor, with no less than three stupid plots.
Deleting Star Trek’s safety net could lead to core vulnerabilities
So, Trekkie Fandom is a small powder bucket Star Trek: The First Year Take the risk of ignition. After all, we’ve seen Kirk’s first year go back to the corporate captain Star Trek: Original Series. New shows with exactly the same role in the exact same environment and time period inevitably lead to a debate about how good First yearThe writers are respecting the basic example of the entire franchise.
This also extends to the performance: While audiences generally like to portray actors from the original corporate team (Paul Wesley’s Kirk and Ethan Peck’s Spock are particularly good), there has always been a narrative safety net for a narrative. A strange new world It happened a few years ago Original series. So whenever someone seems out of place (like most people’s ruthless Spock keeps acting and dating the boat halfway), it can be explained by saying the character is still growing into the identity in the TOS. However, if these types of feature table plot beats will continue to be integrated Star Trek: The First Yearwhich will make Paramount treat Canon worse than ever.
All the ways there is another Star Trek prequel that might go wrong
If new shows start to encroach on, those fans’ arguments will be worse Original series Plot node. For example, A strange new world It’s very different from what I’ve seen about Gorn to us. How could this new show possibly meet the iconic encounter of one of these deadly lizards, especially after SNW showed us a sweet and kind Ghosn? The bad thing is that the new show can effectively eliminate Trek’s most famous episodes, which puts fans on what the new writer might delete next.
There are other possible problems: For example, a new show may be difficult to deal with Original seriesespecially if the sense of humor that TOS is used in such a small amount is too great. And, writers may not be able to resist giving Kirk’s own long-term girlfriend, like they did for Pike Different The woman is better than Captain Ball, and seems to have loved him for his life).
Also, even if they put everything else right Star Trek: The First Year May fall into hasty writing. That’s A strange new world When their Season 3 finale knocks the team’s diplomatic spirit out of the airlock, the writers make a weird black and white story about the powers that are good at fighting the greatest and inevitable evil forces.
As usual, I was wrong: I really like most A strange new worldI think these writers and actors will surely create another kind of respect in it Original series. However, Paramount uses Phase Shift Fire here (Baby Level 10), and the show has the ability to completely break avid fans. Hopefully, like Captain Kirk, the creative ability to beat this winless scene and release a show that Star Trek fans have been waiting for.
