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Seemed like a pretty good show. Even my wife says it was better than Discovery or Picard.
I like the way they gave old fans a big nostalgia berry with a glimpse of Spock's love life on Vulcan without leaving new viewers puzzled. Fans know where that eventually goes, and even new viewers can guess.
But I got a couple of glimpses from the end trailer suggesting they're going touch on that again before the season is over.
A solid start. Pike has good taste with women and so does Spock. Good to see Uhara and Chapel. Breaking the prime directive to save Una... and a civilization from an apocalyptical destruction. Can't go wrong with that.
I wasn't as bowled over by the pilot. Kiley 279 (a terrible name for a planet) wasn't a "strange new world," it was an alternate Earth.
The great majority of planets in Star Trek are only alternate Earths.
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There were also numerous continuity/canon goofs, beginning with why Pike required a shuttle ride to the Enterprise when he could have beamed over from the Earth's surface.
That's a logical error, but it's certainly not a continuity/canon error. It's pretty standard in canon for new captains to get a shuttle fly-by to their ships. It's so canonical that Lower Decks even parodied the event.
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Also, the bio-domes straight out of Silent Running could not have happened in the time frame WWIII was suggested. We didn't (and don't) have the capability. (And where exactly do the Eugenics Wars land in Star Trek continuity, according to Strange New Worlds? Another huge goof.)
That's not a goof, rather a problem that the world has not advanced in space technology as quickly as 1960s visionaries thought it would. After all, we still don't have a permanent moon base, or a permanent torus space station, or Pan-Am business flights in space...despite 2001: A Space Odyssey predicting it to have occurred two decades ago. Hell, we don't even have Pan-Am anymore.
At some point, all the hardcore canon people are going to have to give Star Trek room to retcon some way out of a 1996 Eugenics War, and just live with it.
Those late 20th-century wars postulated in TOS didn't happen. Pike's comment in the first episode appears to conflate the Eugenics War as an element of WWIII.
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