Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Creator Responds To Season 1 Criticism
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds creator Akiva Goldsman recently responded to criticism about some of the "big swings" season 1 took. The series is the latest in the ever-expanding Star Trek empire that CBS has been developing with Alex Kurtzman since 2017, beginning with Star Trek: Discovery. Strange New Worlds is both a spinoff of Discovery and a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. As such, it's taken some old-school stylistic inspiration in terms of the show's technology, its throwback opening credit sequence, and its return to the original show's episodic nature.
This «back to basics» approach has been a big hit for some fans who have been less enthused about the serialized nature of the other recent Star Trek live-action entries, Discovery and Picard. Strange New World follows Captain Pike and several other recognizable members of the USS Enterprise — including Spock, Nyota Uhura, and Una Chin-Riley — ten years before James T. Kirk's appointment as the ship's Captain. The season 1 finale made the connection to TOS even stronger by tying directly to the classic «Balance of Terror» episode, wherein Future Pike visits the Captain and shows him his dark future isn't inevitable, but if he chooses to escape it, Spock will die instead and a decades-long war with the Romulans will be incited.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Goldsman waves away some criticisms about big swings in the first season. One of these criticisms comes from FOX News, which decries the show for trying to be too «woke,» citing a moment in the pilot in particular. The moment credits January 6, 2021 capitol riot as starting the Second American Civil War and leading
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