🚨 STAR TREK HOT TAKE INCOMING. 🚨
I’m making a prediction that may get my Star Trek card permanently revoked:
Twenty years from now, Star Trek: Discovery may be remembered MORE fondly than Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Yes. I said it.
Discovery had plenty of problems. It could be melodramatic, overly serialized, obsessed with galaxy-ending stakes, and occasionally made creative choices that still make my eye twitch. But there’s one thing Discovery did that I increasingly wish Strange New Worlds would do:
When something wasn’t working, Discovery actually course-corrected.
Strange New Worlds, meanwhile, has spent its later seasons increasingly relying on gimmicks. Musicals. Documentaries. Vulcan comedy. Puppets. Soap operas. At some point, experimentation stops being experimentation when the gimmick becomes the formula.
And that’s frustrating because Strange New Worlds has one of the best casts Star Trek has ever assembled. Give me Pike wrestling with his future. Give me Spock struggling with his identity. Give me Uhura becoming the legendary officer we know she’ll become. Give me exploration, moral dilemmas, aliens, impossible decisions and science fiction.
Give me STAR TREK.
In this video, I explain why I think Discovery’s willingness to swing for the fences, fail spectacularly, learn from those failures and reinvent itself may ultimately work in its favor when fans reevaluate these shows decades from now.
Meanwhile, if Strange New Worlds keeps spinning the “WHAT GIMMICK ARE WE DOING THIS WEEK?” wheel, I worry future fans are going to wonder how a show that started out understanding Star Trek so well somehow forgot what made it special.
🔥 So what do YOU think?
Was Discovery unfairly hated?
Has Strange New Worlds become too dependent on gimmicks?
And twenty years from now… which series do you think will have aged better?
👇 Let me know in the comments!
👍 Like the video
🔁 Share it with your fellow Star Trek fans
🔔 Subscribe for more Star Trek commentary, reviews, news and completely reasonable opinions that definitely will not start arguments
💙 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL
⭐ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jasonroygaston
⭐ YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCH5-1lKzwxVqlkLdGLtM5w/join
🌐 Website: http://www.jasonroygaston.com
🎁 Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1DHY80RHZDKWP?ref_=wl_share
📚 Classroom Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/24XEZBHP9XIJO?ref_=wl_share
Live long and prosper. 🖖
#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekFans #StarTrekReview #ScienceFiction #StarTrekUniverse #SaveAnsonMount #StopThePuppets
Leave a Reply