Could you have at least waited for Season 3 to end before you teased the next one?
Also, you only have a dozen-ish episodes left and you’re wasting one of them on a MUPPET SHOW?
At least Stargate used Supermarionation for their puppets. At least THAT was different… and also well done, but it was just a bit. Maybe this is just a bit… I’m hoping it’s a bit…
The next great Star Trek series to take place in the 32nd century, featuring a ragtag crew of Starfleet cadets who will no doubt experience conflict among each other, fight in the shadows to preserve the light, and presumably find a way to defeat Pau Giamatti’s alien villain from unleashing some sort of superweapon thing… that’s the general plot, right?
I like the Klingon hybrid… I like that Robert Picardo still has work… I like that the Jem’Hadar have infiltrated Starfleet… I’m not feeling Holly Hunter’s narration, but that could also be because this wallpaper music is so loud and overpowering that it just… eh.
Honestly not really feeling this one… it doesn’t look bad or anything, but it just feels like generic sci-fi schlock… which, I guess, could be the same argument made for any Star Trek series made that isn’t coasting on nostalgia.
Starfleet Academy airs in 2026. I’ll be holding off for the next season of Strange New Worlds in the meantime unless the next trailer really blows my socks off.
New Star Trek comic from IDW… this one resurrects Captain Kirk, puts him in command of what looks like a hackjob rebuild of the old Enterprise, and gives him a new crew to explore the new post-BURN galaxy of the future. Yes, they’re doing a Star Trek comic set during the Burn – the event that set up the third season of Discovery where all the Federation ships blew up at once and we have no Federation – and they’re bringing back Jim Kirk to command this new series… and his old ship.
I don’t know about you folks, but I find this concept somewhat fascinating and I’m genuinely curious to see how it plays out.
It’s no secret to anyone who has frequented this blog for however long it’s been that I was never the biggest fan of Star Trek: Discovery. I respect the show for getting the ball rolling on this current period of Trek television that has been – in every possible context – hit or miss. It’s also no secret that Discovery lost me during its third season when they made the jump to the future in order to not fuck up any more canon and/or continuity… because we have Strange New Worlds to pick up that flag, after all. Hey, I gave it a shot… but the glacial pacing despite season runs being half of that of an old school Trek show, the constant overemoting, staring into the distances, the modern-day dialogue that feels like the script were written by teenagers… yeah, by the time we’re rehashing the Mirror Universe stuff, that’s when I decided to call it quits. I largely skipped over the fourth season and gave the final season a try… eh… meh… meh.
So I get that there are some folks who are less than thrilled that the current ongoing Star Trek comic available is going to cover this Burn period that had only been alluded to on Discovery… mostly because of their distaste for Discovery, but mostly because – despite their endless cries of moving Trek forwards – they’d rather “GIVE US STAR TREK LEGACY YOU HACK FRAUDS!” or something like that. And listen, I get it. I wasn’t too keen on Discovery in any way, shape, or form… but I wouldn’t mind something that would explore this Burn period of Trek lore more up close and honestly, doing this in comic book form is probably the best way to explore this sort of thing.
Star Trek comics have often been hit or miss, but oftentimes, the misses are usually based on the material they have to work with or maybe the concept they’re going for doesn’t quite work. That said, IDW’s Star Trek has consistently been very good. Their two comic series starring the Kelvin Timeline crew were pretty good, their Year Five series was excellent, and I actually did enjoy their most recent Trek series that lead up to Lore Wars, which… ended up being one of those rare misses, but the stuff before that were fun reads.
Yeah, the idea of a revived James Kirk on board a haphazard rebuild of the old Enterprise with a new crew exploring a galaxy that took a hard left after the Burn and all but obliterated the Federation as a result is a pretty bonkers idea on paper… but that’s why the comic book format is perfect for this sort of thing. And if you think this sort of thing is out of left field for Star Trek as far as comic stories go, you clearly need to go back and read some of the old shit that DC and Marvel used to put out back in the day. Hell, go back and read the old GOLD KEY comics where they really played loose with the source material and then come back and tell me this is too wacko for Trekko.
So yeah, you know what. The Last Starship, with its stupid looking title art, has piqued my interest and I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Considering what has come out of the IDW camp in the past, I’m fairly confident that we’ll get an entertaining piece of business that will make the most of what they have to work with. This has me intrigued and I’ve sadly haven’t felt that way about a Star Trek project in recent memory.
And hopefully, this will sate any need for a Captain Kirk revival without having to back the Brink’s truck up Shatner’s barn or something. You want an ending to Shatner’s Kirk? Go check out that Unification short film that someone made last year. That’s a perfect note to close that character’s book on. We don’t need Shatner back to ruin that moment like several TNG moves and Picard did to ruin All Good Things…
Source: https://trekmovie.com/2025/06/12/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-renewed-for-fifth-and-final-season/
Some guy on Facebook made the above banner. Sadly, I cut off the watermark to fit the screen. My apologies.
Anyway, it was recently announced that Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fifth and final season… and will only be six episodes long. How many of those will be dedicated to silly gimmick episodes and making Spock look like a stooge because we don’t know good comedy or storytelling?
I have mixed feelings about this. Obviously, the fact that they’re ending it on five seasons is not much of a surprise; that seems to be the magic number with these things nowadays. I miss the days when Trek shows lasted seven seasons and each season had about 26 episodes a piece. That gave you more than enough room to do both the serious world and character building stuff to go along with the silly stuff.
Six episodes, though? Those had better be some amazing episodes for a final season… maybe give us an episode where Captain Pike’s hair grows so tall and stiff at an exponential rate it shatters the fabric of space-time. Or, hell, do a remake of Spock’s Brain. All the Spock episodes on this show seem like they were written by the same people shouting “Brain and brain! What is Brain?”
Still, Trekkies should be happy that the 23rd century retread is over and we can move on to new ideas and new concepts. Going forward, as they say…
**Paramount dangles upcoming Starfleet Academy show**
NO! WE DON’T WANT THAT TRASH! WHERE’S STAR TREK LEGACY, YOU HACK FRAUDS?!
That sounds about right, yeah?
Strange New World’s third season premieres next month.
It’s the RAW after Money In The Bank, where a couple people won briefcases that they’ll have to carry around for months on end until their eventual scripted cash-in takes place where they will win whatever title they will challenge in cheap fashion… oh and R-Truth was hired back after his contract ran out earlier in the month and fans protested because WWE wouldn’t re-sign him.
Well, they did re-sign him. And the first thing they did was have him cut a promo where he adopted a more serious demeanor and is now going by his real name. Yes, it took a contract expiration and a fan riot for WWE to free Ron Killings from this one-note joke character that he’s been playing for years and give him one last hurrah as the serious competitor that you only really saw ages ago when he was in TNA or even early on in his last WWE stint. Where they go from here is anyone’s guess, but whatever happens from hereon out, I hope it was worth it.
In other news, GUNTHER made Jey Uso pass out to win back his World title and end this YEET experiment that has been going nowhere. I’d imagine they need GUNTHER to hold a title so that they can fast track that rumored Goldberg match, but in any event, Jey Uso as the World Champion was worth a shot, but clearly not something that had anyone excited. Oh well.
Also, Nikki Bella made her return, teased future involvement, and got into a spat with Liv Morgan, who is supposed to be the heel in this program, but actually got more cheers than Nikki. That can’t be a good sign… also, the backstage bit where Nikki and IYO SKY is exchanging pleasantries and IYO claiming that Nikki “paved the way for the rest of us” felt so dirty and so wrong. I’m not going to deny Nikki was a major player back in the day, but let’s be real; the Bellas on top was not exactly a high point in the women’s division and it took the influx of NXT talent to really give the WWE women some actual worth. There is a reason why a lot of those Diva segments back in the day were called “designated piss breaks.”
Also, we have tournament matches for the King and Queen of the Ring titles, whose finals will be held at the next WWE Blood Money show at Saudi Arabia. And speaking of which, CM Punk – who once told some WWE Superstar to go suck on a blood money soaked dick in Saudi Arabia – will be challenging John Cena for the title at said Blood Money event. What a world we live in.
And that’s about it, really. To tell the truth – no pun intended – I didn’t watch the show… I’m only going by bits and pieces I’ve seen online as well as some recaps here and there. Haven’t renewed my Netflix subscription because I’m presently in the middle of a Paramount run, which may or may not continue if this Strange New Worlds thing ends up being worth a follow for the next couple months.
A friend did offer a recording of this Friday’s Smackdown show if I wanted to watch. Apparently, the big John Cena vs. Ron Killings rematch is taking place there. Should be fun to do a musings on… maybe give Impact a bit of a spotlight in a couple weeks.
The newest trailer for the third season of Strange New Worlds hit and… yeah, most of it looks promising… until the thing with Patton Oswald shows up at the end. So close… and yet, so very far away.
More thoughts after the break, but long story short, my optimism is purely cautious at the moment.
It is May 31st of the year 2025 and I am following previously established mandate that requires me to inform the readers of this blog that I have NOT watched the Section 31 movie starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh.
I am aware that it is on some semblance of physical media.
I’ve got better things to do with my money.
I’m helping myself to a Baconator today.
Somewhere in an alternate reality, there’s some dude named DeForest Calloway who plays Bones, as opposed to DeForest Kelley, who plays Bones in the prime reality.
Either that, or AI is really, really stupid.
Maybe Linda McMahon is onto something when she suggests A1 Sauce.
The new teaser for the upcoming third season of Strange New Worlds… doesn’t inspire much confidence, as it continues to dive into weird genre-bending episodes that seem more the cast and crew having fun doing whatever than doing anything worthwhile and resembling good old fashioned classic Star Trek.
Yes, the Original Series had episodes that the crew visit alien worlds modeled after 1930s Chicago, Nazi Germany, and the Roman Empire, but those episodes happened because the costumes were available and thus those episodes cost less money to make. Once we got to the later spin-offs, episodes of these kinds were the rare breed to break away from the norm.
When you only have a ten-episode run and every episode is some wacky gimmick episode, it feels less like a consistent series of standalone episodes and more like an anthology series of sorts that happen to feature the same cast of characters. It’s too bad that they decided to go this route, because I thought the first season of Strange New Worlds was one of the better live-action seasons of Star Trek to come out of this uneven Kurtzman era, but once the second season decided that we’re gonna do gimmicks galore, that’s where it lost me.
It also bring pause to the casting of Paul Wesley as Jim Kirk as he’s sharing a drink with the much younger looking Scotty as played by Martin Quinn (or vice versa – since Scott is actually supposed to be OLDER than Kirk by a few years.)
I’m hoping that I’m wrong and this season turns out to be quality. For what it’s worth, my older brother – who has been into Trek almost all his life – is more excited for this direction than I am, so I’m willing to at least give this thing a shot. I just don’t want what was a promising show degrade into pointless schlock. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I like schlock. But I also like Star Trek. And I can really use more Star Trek right about now.
It is March 31st of the year 2025 and I am here to tell you that I have still not watched the critically-divisive Section 31 movie starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh.
The idea occurred to me to make this a regular tradition. For every month that passes, I make a post on the 31st day of the month (should it apply) that I have not watched this film.
I do this not out of pride.
I do this not out of integrity.
I do this because it amuses me greatly.
Tomorrow, I have something special for you folks.
dtm666 