Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, I’m enjoying so far after watching season 1, but I personally think Paramount appeals for nostalgia more than a new public, specially with lots and lots of reference who only fans will catch.
And I start to remembering those people who complaing about Star Wars or Fallout, with the idea of franchises which need a 360 grades turn to bring something new, for example, Fallout fans complain about the overuse of Broterhood of Steel, something I think is a silly thing to complaing since is almost the face of Fallout franchise is a whole.
But my question is; do Star Trek fans has the same opinions and thoughts? Of letting go the franchise?
Image as example, also, I’m waiting for respectful discussion and not flamewar.
You’re absolutely right and we’ve been asking for this since the end of Voyager and I think one of the biggest reasons why Enterprise had such rough time.
90s Trek was fantastic and did a great job handing off to each other. Even Voyager being stranded was still moving the world forward. Then we reset back to the first Enterprise, absolutely killing all the momentum.
The best thing Discovery ever did (apart from soft launching Strange New Worlds which got lucky) was launch us into the far future and give us a place to build.
I never would have asked for that. Picard seemed like that path forward, but struggled (season 1), told a what if story (season 2), and then just did a fun reunion (season 3). But ultimately set up a Seven show that just never happened.
But we’re in the far future now. Discovery put us there. Starfleet Academy is building and moving us forward again. It’s not perfect, but it’s building and I’m in.