How did you feel about the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series premiere? What do you hope to see this season? Grade the episode below, and then share your thoughts in the comments. It was a very nice, hopeful place to be during a challenging time.” Seemingly unable to help themselves from continuing to inject modern political topics into the once-proud sci-fi franchise, the premiere of Alex Kurtzman’s new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds features protagonist Captain Pike declaring that the Capitol Hill riots of January 6th, 2021, were the first steps in humanity’s march to nuclear war. Yes, there’s conflict, but they find a way to work through by coming together. “That’s one of the central tenets of the Roddenberry ethos - this amazing future where people from all different races and creeds and planets somehow find a way to work together. “There was just this need to have something hopeful to look at, to feel that the future wasn’t necessarily a terrible place, that maybe it’s a great place,” he explains. The show went into production at the start of the pandemic in 2020, which Myers says partially influenced the overall tone. “We really wanted to be in the mode of the old shows where they are exploring… We’re doing a different style of adventure every week.” I think that they just have different modes,” Myers notes. “It’s not that the other shows aren’t hopeful. In 2026, the start of World War III resulted in the Autobots leaving Earth aboard the Titan Fortress Maximus, pursued by the Decepticons. One attack in 1988 destroyed the Western Seaboard of the United States. Setting itself apart from Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard, which take on a serialized approach to story, each episode of Strange New Worlds is a new, standalone adventure. World War III was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Star Trek has never shied from this stuff, and to do that doesn’t feel like the show to us.” “We also don’t want to shy away from social issues because that was what Star Trek has always been about. Ultimately, that’s what this show is about,” Myers says of the show’s tone. “We’re trying to present the message of hope. According to Myers, that optimistic ending represents Strange New Worlds’ central thesis. With the option to either to blow each other up or come together (and join the Federation), the people of Kiley opted for diplomacy over destruction.
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