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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2 won a CAFTCAD (Canadian Alliance of Film and Television Costume Arts and Design) Award on March 2...

2025 CAFTCAD Awards Winners
https://www.iatse873.com/2025-caftcad-awards-winners 

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Sue Furlong, Geoff Hughes, Stephen Wong, Carla Mingiardi and the costume team 
Excellence in Crafts - Building category 
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2

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https://www.instagram.com/caftcadawards/p/DGyZ9tJSjGw/?img_index=1

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caftcadawards Congratulations to Sue Furlong, Geoff Hughes, Stephen Wong, and Carla Mingiardi for winning the Excellence in Crafts - Building Award for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2! This award is generously sponsored by IATSE 873. ...

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  On 4/3/2025 at 11:16 AM, marinw said:

The retconning would have to be extreme to make this work within the TOS Canon. It would make Spock's behavior towards Chapel in TOS all the more cruel.

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When she leans over to kiss him there's a very obvious shot of an engagement ring on her finger.  This has to be some sort of dream/alternate reality/etc.

That's especially likely because Rhys Darby is probably playing Trelane, or someone like him - the outfits are too similar to be a coincidence.  Plus he even snaps is fingers.

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By Matt Webb Mitovich   April 2, 2025
https://tvline.com/lists/chicago-fire-biden-return-spoilers-season-13/ 

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Matt, any word on when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and For All of Mankind return. –Foster
As you probably saw earlier today, Strange New Worlds is on track for a summertime return, while For All Mankind … well, Apple TV+ still isn’t offering up even an approximate timetable for Season 5

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  On 8/3/2024 at 1:36 PM, shrewd.buddha said:

The ST:SNW trailer and the ST:Section 31 trailer appear to indicate that Paramount has decided to go full tilt into making Star Trek into a sitcom. 
"This injection will also cut and style you hair.."

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I just watched the Vulcan clip and the latest trailer for Season 3.   I think the experience has absolved me of all responsibility to watch the show anymore.  

Everything previewed felt like gimmicky fan service.   They're running roughshod over canon and not even pretending like it matters anymore. 

The Vulcan demeanor is NOT the result of biology or chemistry.   From the youngest age Vulcans are trained in the suppression of emotion and the philosophy of logic.   Hence, Pike and the others taking on full-fledged Vulcan behavior and exhibiting flawless logic as the result of an injection is complete and utter bullshit.

There was another clip showing Captain James T. Carrey in some kind of parody of a Star Trek-ish TV show -- and it looks just like Jim Carrey in an SNL Star Trek skit. 

Then there's the murder mystery episode where, apparently, the Enterprise is equipped with a holodeck.   What will they do with the holodeck at the end?  Return it to the holodeck rental store and wipe everyone's memories?  

And Roger Korby's coming back?  And possibly Trelane?  And/or Q?

Why can't Strange New World establish its own adventures with thought-provoking episodes?   I know they can't hire Harlan Ellison or D.C. Fontana to write for them, but damn, aren't there ANY good scifi writers for them to tap?  There are precious few higher concepts in the writing for this show.   It's almost all character-driven, with leftover plot elements salvaged from the Federation scrap heap and repackaged for shameless fan service.

Hypothetically, if anyone were to watch the Star Trek shows chronologically without any awareness of the order in which they were created, a lot of the things we loved in TOS would seem like an amalgam of recycled and not very interesting ideas because SNW is beating them to death and mutilating the corpse.

This show is a middle finger to longtime fans.  It's not Star Trek.  It's Star Trek cosplay.

 

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  On 4/9/2025 at 4:51 AM, millennium said:

There are precious few higher concepts in the writing for this show.   It's almost all character-driven, with leftover plot elements salvaged from the Federation scrap heap and repackaged for shameless fan service.

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After the supposed "success"(?) of the musical episode in season 2, the producers have apparently decided to abandon high concept, philosophical, sci-fi attempts. 
.. Or those type of episodes will be the exceptions , while blatant fan service will be the rule.
Personally, I really hate the Spock-sploitation.
   I can imagine a Paramount+ executive justifying the appeal of nostalgia bait and how this style of show easily translates into meme creation and viral video clips. 

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  On 4/2/2025 at 4:28 PM, AnimeMania said:
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Not gonna lie.

Most of that trailer looked to be promoting a comedy sketch show that is a parody of a parody of the Star Trek 'verse.

Seems like they will be multiplying the 'schlockiness' to ultra extreme levels.


Just not a big fan of the episodes that this trailer seems to promote the most of.  And they are becoming much more the norm than the exception.


Also, really hope that Spock/Chapel scene was a dream or alternate reality one, because I am so over that 'ship.

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  On 4/9/2025 at 1:47 PM, shrewd.buddha said:

After the supposed "success"(?) of the musical episode in season 2, the producers have apparently decided to abandon high concept, philosophical, sci-fi attempts. 
.. Or those type of episodes will be the exceptions , while blatant fan service will be the rule.
Personally, I really hate the Spock-sploitation.
   I can imagine a Paramount+ executive justifying the appeal of nostalgia bait and how this style of show easily translates into meme creation and viral video clips. 

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Star Trek used to reflect or address political and social issues of the day, through a sci-fi lens.

The uneasy state of the world today is like a huge gift-basket for writers, overflowing with unlimited potential ideas for episodes.   Instead, they give us "The One Where Everybody Turns Into Vulcans" and a slow-motion "power walk."

 

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  On 4/10/2025 at 1:20 AM, millennium said:

Star Trek used to reflect or address political and social issues of the day, through a sci-fi lens.

The uneasy state of the world today is like a huge gift-basket for writers, overflowing with unlimited potential ideas for episodes.   Instead, they give us "The One Where Everybody Turns Into Vulcans" and a slow-motion "power walk."

 

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Star Trek SNW scripts are written and filmed months in advance of their eventual airings.  IIRC, they finished shooting the season almost a year ago.

You think today's political situation would have been predicted over a year ago?  Even SNL can't keep up with the volatility. 

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