Watch This Before You See Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is taking the "Star Trek" franchise into both new, and familiar territory in its first season on Paramount+.
Following the adventures of "boy scout" Captain Christopher Pike on his USS Enterprise, the series will introduce a new crew with Number One (aka Una Chin-Riley), Spock, a young Nyota Uhura and more. The series will be set in the years before Captain James Kirk took over command of the Enterprise.
Whether you've been watching the adventures of Pike and crew since "Discovery," or if you're a fan of the original series coming to see what's new, you're going to want to watch this before you see "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
#StarTrek #SciFi #StrangeNewWorlds
Exploring "Strange New Worlds" | 0:00
The teaser trailer | 1:19
The official trailer | 2:28
A strange new cast | 3:32
Stories we can expect | 4:52
Strange New Worlds... and old ones too | 5:52
Keep an eye out for Easter eggs | 6:51
Already renewed | 7:45
Character vignettes | 9:00
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[@Looper]

What direction do you hope they go with "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds"?

[@darinbauer8122]

I've been interested in interstellar trade, commerce, bureaucracy, and diplomacy on the level of Federation colonial holdings. I want to see how that operates in the 22nd CE.

[@adysc74]

they go in wrong direction like Discovery did, no doubt about that. what can i say? is woke. its a parallel universe.

[@jhoughjr1]

beep

[@SoopaShocka]

I hope it's not chock full of woke b.s.

[@That80sGuy1972]

I hope they stick with the canon and fix the breaks Star Trek always did pre-Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek has an almost infinite canon that never made it to TV and movie media without the ST: D middle-finger to just about all of it. I hope they either go there or rightly say that their canon deviation is an alternative universe similar to the Mirror Universe but making the Federation very similar and not Nazi-kin... and not Discovery level canon-breaking middle-finger-to-all-OG-fans type thing in saying that it's the primary canon and all of its reality no matter how much it breaks it.

[@mitch4527]

All this proves one thing - Roddenberry’s original material was so incredibly rich and compelling that almost 60 years later, it’s still being expanded and analyzed.

[@JustJay1281]

it's still relevant cause people still want hope for the future. It's unfortunate that even some that knew Gene (Patrick Stewart) don't believe his vision is relevant anymore.

[@chrismayer3919]

Thanks for all the Trek, Gene! 🙂

[@roberttange805]

roddenberrys never did wrote anything good. it was the ghostwriters and directors who did wrote the scene books. rodenberry is known as idiot with money

[@willnico8787]

After watching the first new season , I love it. It’s great to have self contained stories that you aren’t force to watch weekly to know the story line . Surprisingly this make me want to look forward to each new adventure every week. The cast is great and remains as the original the reason to check in with them every week.

[@sarahgirlisit]

Real Star Trek fans will never forget about Pike.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

"The Higher, the Fewer!" ... I know that wasn't 'his' line, but it's the line that comes to mind when I hear 'True Star Trek fans' ;-)

[@JohnFreedman0]

@@SmartVideosJarkaWatched That was from a holographic program that Ambassador Lwaxana Troi took Worf's son Alexander to, so he could have fun playing, and being a kid away from his strict father. It was from Next Gen, which fights DS-9 for the best Trek of all time, so every fan has seen it.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

@@JohnFreedman0 I remember Alexander quoting it, I think to prove that he was 'worthy' or something.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

... Although I DO wonder if they'll bring back (or maybe 'pre-retcon') his "one beep for yes, two beeps for no"

[@AppleUser]

or April

[@hiredgun0551]

Finally...... A new Star Trek series I actually WANT to see!!!

[@riogrande5761]

Hoping this is true. The Discovery series was disappointing me as a fan of the original series.

[@carlosoliveira-rc2xt]

@@riogrande5761 Discovery is just dreadful. Someone is crying every other minute and I won't even get into the scripts full of feels. My son is an award winning casting director and worked/works on this series.

[@FrancisSawyer]

@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt Which series does your son work on? Strange New World's?

[@slim420MM]

Uhura looks like a dude.

[@carlosoliveira-rc2xt]

@@FrancisSawyer Yes

[@stephenparkes]

I see they are still doing the star wars type Blaster fx for the phasers however, would have been nice to see the traditional phaser beams brought back.

[@tomasrikona1309]

I anticipate this series with a mixture of fear and hope, all or which stem from the "Discovery" debacle. Please dont let me and millions of other fans down again. I dont think my heart can take it. The progeny of Kahn joining the crew is an interesting plot direction and I hòpe you'll give the implied association the justice it deserves- good or bad. There aŕe a million and one directions you can go in. Literally. The future of the Star Trek universe is in your hands. If this one flops- its pretty much over.

[@odojang]

@@tomasrikona1309 Unfortunately, it's already looking pretty bad. Assertive, all-business Pike as Shy- Easy-Going Pike; Stoic, all-serious Number One as Cheerleader ''Una;' Spock as clownish straight man; Chapel as Badass Nurse; Uhura as Hoshi Sato; MBenga as textbook tokenization... And beyond this massive, cheap, lazy TOS character recycling (we were told even Kirk will be there as Bi-Kirk), the few new characters are not promising; ace pilot girl is The Fearless Peerless One (of course), chief engineer is the incarnation of arrogance and a Khan offspring; the most cliche fanfic character of all. Add to this obvious canon violations (i.e. TOS The Tholian Web was very obviously the first encounter of Starfleet with the Tholians, not Pike), the Abrams-signature dark scenery with light flares and the still starwarshy visuals (blaster, not phasers; lightspeed, not warp speed; maneuvering a 300 meters starship like a WWI fokker), this looks already more like Bland Old Worlds to me. Will I be pleasantly surprised? I had high hopes for DIS and PIC; we got Kurtzmantrek Disgracery and Pukehard. So excuse me if i'm not optimistic.

[@tomasrikona1309]

@@odojang Well then. Thanks for the heads up. I'm still going to watch it anyway because I wouldn't be a diehard Trekkie if I didn't. At the very least it'll give me an excuse to complain bitterly about the youth of today and how we could have done it better using soup cans and flashlights and taping a few cats together for aliens. Seriously though this political "bent" the series is on seems to be inspired by advertising and sponsorship and can't even really be disguised as political. Its more of a mental illness inspired by gender confusion and it pisses me off in a way I can't really explain properly. It's like some dark controlling influence has taken over the bridge of the Enterprise and spun it into some multidimensional gender confused galaxy that encompasses the past present and future. I'd blame Covid if it made sense. Maybe that's the point, I dunno. Maybe I'm just getting too old to keep up.

[@odojang]

@@tomasrikona1309 Oh I'm gonna watch it too. At least the first episode. And so far, I have seen nothing encouraging, except some very few wrappings (the costumes, the ship...). I'm not asking for perfection; I'm asking for Star Trek; and not just memberberries; a hopeful, optimistic vision of a wonderful future of admirable characters meeting with rationality and professionalism the wonders and perils of the universe. Something intelligent and entertaining. It CAN be done. Phase II did it. STC did it; Axanar does; even fanfilms do it. In other words, what we never ever had officially since 2005; except in that other show that is supposed to be a parody of it. Not from Kurtzman to be sure; he explicitely said that is NOT what he is interested in. Nothing would please me more than being proven wrong. But then again, I said the same thing with all the other crap shows. So, I'm not hopeful.

[@stevebojo4378]

agreed

[@fernandogarajalde4066]

It won’t be classic Trek until someone yells “Harcourt Fenton MUDD!” 😆

[@richardslack8873]

Don't forget Trouble with troubles

[@RationallySkeptical]

So Discovery is classic Trek, huh?

[@technoclutter4003]

If I had any money I'd be sipping jippers on a beach!

[@odonovan]

It won't be classic Trek until Mudd yells, "Shut UP! over and over, then looks like he wants to die, on the spot.

[@deanlawson6880]

Well, for my part, I can't wait to see it! As a Life-Long Trek fan all the way back to TOS, I eagerly look forward to new Trek - Bring It!

[@tubularfrog]

As a viewer when I was a kid when the original series came out in the 1960's, I'm very happy with this new Trek series. While many disappointing attempts were made in the past, the creators of this series have done an admirable job. I'm really looking forward to Season 2.

[@mckenziepictures]

I am looking forward to this series. However, I am just a little curious about one thing. What would be the possibility of showing stories of other Federation starships within the fleet from the Original series? There were thirteen vessels that were identical to the Enterprise. Surely they might have had more of a narrative than their own untimely demise. I understand that the Enterprise is the best in the fleet. Well, does that mean that the other ships and captains are less-than-adequate? Am I the only one who wants to know about the USS Constellation, USS Constitution, USS Excalibur, USS Exerter, USS Faragut, USS Hood, USS Intrepid (which was an ALL VULCAN starship in Kirk's time, but potentially active during the Pike era), USS Kongo, USS Lexington, USS Potemkin, USS Republic, USS Valiant, and the USS Yorktown. These ships were the original Starfleet and I would like to believe that they all have equally compelling stories within their walls.

[@paulettemeulenberg3268]

I want to know if the writing is better! And NO kids, shrinks on the Bridge, special effects for plot, etc. Not hopeful.

[@larrytownley2231]

I'm sure they'll milk it for all its worth!!!

[@thekingofwaffles8403]

Omg! I hope you don't want *another* crossover with a certain STD infected starship! It'll be like asking for another round of the clap! Not unless you're into that kind of thing....

[@gorymarty56]

Id love that.

[@ScottyKirk1]

Check with the Trekyards guys on this one.

[@ogphill]

I could tell by the communicator just how faithful their going to be...

[@honeysucklecat]

The effect used for the transporter in TOS was the best. And it’s soundtrack was a character.

[@model101t800]

I've watched the first season twice now and I really love this series, the whole utopian approach is the core of Star Trek, and I missed that so much in Discovery and Picard. The best Trek of the last 20 years

[@HUBBABUBBADOOPYDOOP]

Beautiful. I'm very please they kept the crew- they were awesome. It's refreshing to recognize there was way more before our beloved Kirk. I'm wondering if this new series will squash any new movie ventures?

[@anthonyhaylock6655]

I’m so looking forward to this new series as a long time Trekkie

[@stevebarrand2147]

Looking forward to this

[@MatthewBluefox]

First ten seconds ... Aenar! Oh yes! I wanna see Jhamel again!

[@geekbot5000]

I got my hopes up Paramount...don't let me down like you did with Picard.

[@richardthompson6079]

It's another Kurtzman disaster. Don't be fooled

[@douglasgriswold2533]

"PIcard" is vomit.

[@douglasbaker5949]

SJW in the second season turned me off real fast.

[@Scottlp2]

Just watched first episode--very TOS gentle humor, likable characters, we'll done.

[@finalexpenseinsurancetelesales]

@@douglasgriswold2533 I dont know, I was hoping for something different, but im still hanging in hoping they find their voice

[@sharonkaysnowton]

Fascinating!!!!

[@robertenyart9982]

I'll catch up on the various new Treks when Paramount offers a free 1 week trial.

[@davidmacphee8348]

pirate bay i did

[@gorymarty56]

I love those posters, hope they put out a poster magazine, including them.

[@september27able]

I bet Archer will Quantum Leap into this series

[@Big_Joe570]

:facepalm: Oh boy.

[@giantclam1822]

Sam leaps into Archer

[@davidmacphee8348]

Archer has a ship named after him. Season 3 of Enterprise is REALLY Excellent.

[@giantclam1822]

It gets a bad rap....I appreciated it more for the writing...New Trek in my opinion lacks the soul.....it just seems all watered down.

[@Johnrap]

Very happy to hear it is episodic. Picard is basically one episode per season. Which makes me miss Next Generation's episodic content.

[@tonyvandiesal526]

Can’t wait to watch!!

[@bobbyduke777]

I just watched a few video pieces, of this new show. It is perfect.

[@kerriirvin5206]

Looking forward to it ❤

[@tonyanderson6235]

Wow a great new series

[@enterprise-re7gd]

This is wonderful. So happy this is coming back. I already found 1 mistake. Spock has PONFARR (TO MATE) every SEVEN YEARS, THERE'S.NO INTREST INBETWEEN..

[@Meg_Mucklebones87]

So excited 😃

[@Carstuff111]

Oh this show so far is absolutely GLORIOUS!

[@joshuaforbus5853]

Fricking show makes me cry like TNG.....It was more then a breath of fresh air. I don't have a show other then Issac Arthur....Now I have two 1997-2006 US Marine infantryman Sgt.100P.T....So I'm allowed to cry happily like a little baby honorably admirably. Even at Wal-Mart. Semper Fi

[@Johnrap]

Looks so good. Star Trek since Next Generation was the last Trek series that I really got into. This one though, I have very high hopes for.

[@douglasgriswold2533]

Too bad you did't get into "Deep Space Nine". DS9 stands are probably THE best in the Trek Universe, and it stands as the best written Sci-Fi show to me, and just a well written show period. ]

[@RTS907]

I can’t wait for Strange New Worlds!

[@ajbryan59]

It looks like they are going to depict Spock going through Pon Farr, but in TOS it was established that he experienced it for the first time. They had the potential to make something really good, but are going to gimmick it up so much it'll just be crap.

[@marcychan168]

@Alan Bryant yes - I remember - I think that was one of my Favorite Episodes. - that and " Man Trap".. also the plant spore episode with Lelila and Spock - I think the Actress 's name was Jill Ireland. - although he had to be "drugged" to interact with her on the "Kissy Face" level. So you are double right my friend - some one didn't pay attention to Canon. Also where are Sulu Dr.Piper and Scotty?

[@marcychan168]

P.S. because they - Scotty, Dr. Pike and Sulu are shown in the Original pilot on the bridge with Captain Pike (Sulu was a biologist at first - remember in the" Man Trap" - his pet plant - Beauregard ( Yeoman Rand's name for it) - didn't like Crewman Greene.?) P.P.S. thanks for bringing back some memories of a tv show that was worth watching in a more Logical time Live long and Prosper Sir🖖

[@reyhernandez6184]

3:30 and a mention of "as well as a series full of emotional drama". at 3:30 is the shot of Spock and T'Pring about to kiss... Spock...a vulcan. T'Pring...a vulcan... emotional drama...

[@mancalleddave5]

hey man! Excellent video and hi!

[@01123heavenlybe]

So many new planets to explore! Hooray hooray hosanna huzzah! 🍾🎊🎉🥂🎁🎈👏🏼🥳🎻

[@jd31068]

I'm trying to quell my excitement so I don't have unreal expectations for this series. Just. Three. More. Weeks.

[@pse2020]

I always give star trek 1 chans. But its the same people behind dystopian trek and i am sure its going to be shit. Great concepts executed poorley. With amazingly bad dialog. But its ok beacuse this year we will get the orville season 3 cant freaken wait

[@ACLTony]

I'm just hoping that the male characters will not be "emasculated" like what was prevalent on STD.

[@davidmacphee8348]

@@pse2020 I watched SNW today and it looks really good. I am a huge Orville Fan.

[@pse2020]

@@davidmacphee8348 promesing. I would love for star trek to come back :)

[@VitaKet]

It's out now what do you think?

[@odojang]

Low budget original series? At the time, Star Trek was THE most expensive TV show of all (because sets, props, costumes, make up, effects, models), alongside Mission Impossible (because location travel expenses). It even started featuring original musical scores for EACH episode, a vast array of completely original sets and props, a good number of prominent actors of the time and topnotch sci-fi writers for screenplays. And the effects were peerless, except for the rare, exceptional theater movie like 2001 A Space Odyssey no less. So expensive in fact , it was to be cancelled after S2 because of this. Both shows where from Desilu which could not afford both. They settled for Mission Impossible... until Lucille Ball herself (the ''Lu''of Desilu) insisted to keep Star Trek on. That's how we got a 3rd (unfortunately) final, and yes cheaper, season. Too many don't realise this was also a full decade before Star Wars revolutionized FX. When full-length theater films like Planet of The Apes just barely started to revolutionise movie make-up. Meanwhile, with tens of millions per episode and topnotch computer technology, we get cliche, infantile stories from amateur writers, ripping off from better creations, about crappy characters played by unknowns, doing stupid, infantile things with actually cheap stuff (remember the free Internet stock images in Picard? The current backlot-filming, Wal-Mart costumed S2?). This ''low budget'' myth is perpetuated by people looking at it only half a century later and not doing proper research.

[@odojang]

@@gilbertgodfrey1818 Even the mugato costume was excellent for television of the day. Recall this is while Planet of The Apes is just starting to revolutionize make-up; on a theatrical film budget. And Star Trek had the highest TV budget of the time; so much that it was scheduled for cancellation because of that.

[@odojang]

@@gilbertgodfrey1818 Yep, one of the best and most influential movie of all time was made at a cost of 10 millions; Planet of The Apes for 5.8 millions. With an average of 200,000 per episode, a season of Star Trek back then (29 episodes S1) cost around 5.8 millions as well (some episodes like City on The Edge of Forever went for 250,000).

[@odojang]

@@gilbertgodfrey1818 Indeed; In the case of Kubrick, as well as actual Star Trek, meaning came first, looks second but as best as possible to serve the meaning. Today it's only looks and effects without meaning and for it's sole sake. Or the intended meaning is pure BS; turd in candy wrapping. It takes talent AND effort to bring forth quality. They try to hide formula and laziness behind lense flares and explosions, shouts and crying.

[@odojang]

@@gilbertgodfrey1818 Indeed. Even those cheap, simplistic, unrefined , old bloated 16mmm kung fu movies of the seventies, or those inaccurate, unrealistic, limited, old B&W sci-fi movies of the fifties, have more basic storytelling quality than a lot of the multimillion dollar crapfest we get nowadays. Rarely anything substantial, only candy; if we're lucky. If not, we get turd wrapped in candy like Kurtzmantrek.

[@odojang]

@@gilbertgodfrey1818 Yeah we get anything but originality and quality. No wonder Hollywood is going crazy with comic book movies; 90 years of stories yet to be told. Most of them can't read beyond that level anyway. Meanwhile, a plethora of good stories are left to be made; if only they could respect the original material and not corrupt it to their own talentless narrow view and BS politics (looking at you Amazon's Lord of the Wrongs; the Wrongs of Power).

[@dominic.h.3363]

"Packed full of easter eggs and references." Oh boy, that's exactly what I'm here for, to play a ~45 minute buzzfeed trivia while I'm watching sci-fi. God forbid they make a new addition to the franchise that's actually building on that content, instead of hinting at it. If they are hoping to be able to exploit some pavlovian reflex born out of nostalgia, they hope wrong. If the elements they are using from old Trek are just the sprinkle on top of the glazing instead of baked into the product, I don't care for any of it.

[@michaelknight2897]

And we will get to hear grown adults emote about their feelings of inadequacies and quirks despite going through what must be almost a decade of training and education. Apparently, Hollywood is catering to immature millennials and younger who are afraid of becoming grown professional adults. I will give it a try, but I have low expectations. Hollywood is broken.

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@michaelknight2897 The world has less and less "grown adults". It is full of manchildren refusing to grow up, and that endangers our real children because they will justly think that if grown-ups do their stuff, they are entitled to do grown-up stuff in turn. Just look at all the forty-something year-olds running gaming channels on youtube with more toys in their room than I've ever had growing up. That being said, I have zero problems with anyone emoting their feelings, as that has absolutely nothing to do with age. Repressing your insecurities won't make you less insecure, it will just make you more unstable and therefore significantly more unreliable with the added uncertainty when you reach your tipping point. And displaying the full spectrum of what makes a human being is not something to dislike. When they screw up the timing, and do the whining in inappropriate situations is when it's pissing me off to no end. And last but not least, the messiest people emotionally speaking on Discovery were the ones with the least amount of training. The higher up the chain of command you went, the more composed the characters were.

[@pse2020]

Amen to that! All hope is not lost though. The orville season 3 is coming this year :)

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@pse2020 Orville avoids the kind of criticism Star Trek gets by not even trying to take itself seriously. A comedy flick stands up to orders of magnitudes less scrutiny than something that has a legacy to uphold. That being said, the two aren't even comparable. It's like saying that Family Guy is a better version of Black Mirror, because it delivers better social commentary, while all comparison ends there, because every other aspect is entirely different.

[@pse2020]

@@dominic.h.3363 The first episodes of season 1 maybe. But it convays the essens of star trek more then dystopion trek. Especially season 2 where it slowly becomes less a comedy show.

[@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp]

It has already become my regular THUSDAY Night watch!

[@bobingabout]

Strange new worlds is on the 5th of may on Paramount+ in America? What about countries that don't have Paramount+, like the UK?

[@jackprichard6780]

When I saw this I thought: Well that looks fun. You guys remember fun? I hope this is fun. S.01 should be Planet Of The Week. Let the writers find their feet and build a following. Then if they get a second season it's Khan Time.

[@darinbauer8122]

We're thinking over here that we'd like to see an interstellar etymology of the Cheron.

[@darinbauer8122]

To pre-butte I have to say that I really loved *Lovecraft Country.*

[@jackprichard6780]

@@darinbauer8122 I think I have to have another go at that. I thought it got a bit too silly in about episode 3 or 4.

[@darinbauer8122]

@@jackprichard6780 It's so damn scary. So very far removed from Will Smith getting lectured from tech dude about the perils of American racism in the 60s. Not all of the hocus pocus in science fiction will fly w everyone.

[@grahamrich3368]

Wonderful stuff!! 🪐 🚀 ⭐️

[@layton3503]

Hopefully a lot more imagination, amazing characters and less tropey Star Wars style action sequences

[@princeeverlove]

At Last...REAL TREK.. EXPLORING...🌕🪐🚀

[@GW2Vids1]

Can't wait to see it after downloaded it somewhere...not going to pay another stupid streaming platform. And Drummer is onboard!!!

[@davidturner7812]

Me either! All for one maybe two shows on each service worth watching.

[@davidmacphee8348]

pirate bay has it.

[@spitflamez]

Looks like this is going to be good 😊

[@alanmaxwell5932]

The scene with Pike on the horse is probably just a homage to Hell on Wheels

[@andremwheeley]

Noonian-Singh is also the last name of Data's creator in ST:TNG.

[@darinbauer8122]

Righteous!

[@alikoc3960]

Yes💪

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

About time Paramount, about time.

[@youreprettygood2603]

We are reaching a point where we will have Trek content in one form or another (series, cartoon, etc...) all year round, I think it's their goal.

[@douglasgriswold2533]

It's pretty stupid as well, as they've already destroyed ANY interest I have had it in it for years.

[@matthewbogart4183]

I just want to see Star Trek , this I hope will be it !

[@auscam6666]

The Orvil is more Trek than any Trek currently has been since Enterprise, the 3 movies were good but still lacking

[@davidmacphee8348]

@@auscam6666 This might do it. I just watched. I am a big Fan of Orville.

[@Nu2thetube]

It's about time!

[@FoodTrek]

I'll wait to the season is finished and then binge it on a free trial :)

[@davidmacphee8348]

interesting. I hate waiting days or weeks between.

[@grahamturner1290]

🖖

[@erikramaekers63]

Gregory Peck would be so proud of Ethan Peck's portrayal of Spock

[@michaellomax2]

I look forward to it released on dvd as I don't have the facility to watch it at present.

[@louiswhite805]

The first captian, Jeffrey Hunter, of the Enterprise was named James T Kirk. I was watching "the Menagerie" when they showed excerpts of the next episode. William Shatner was Captian of The Enterprise 1701. They changed the narrative.

[@Jockeylotforfun]

Agreed! But it's more likely that they never knew the narrative, nor bothered to find out!

[@chrissonofpear1384]

What do you mean? The Menagerie RECYCLES the plot of The Cage, with kirk in the FRAMING narrative, @Louis White . He still agrees that he took over the Enterprise from Pike (as played by Jeffrey Hunter) Or did I misread what you meant to say? And yes, Shatner played Kirk. Different guy.

[@louiswhite805]

This is understood. The saga's beginning narative was re-scripted to insert Jeffrey Hunter as the physical character of Captain Pike in place of Captain James T Kirk. That role was then played by, the White Comanche Star, William Shatner.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@louiswhite805 Yes, more or less. But the Menagerie aired more than halfway through season 1 (1966) long after the Cage was produced (1964) - which did not get aired at the time. They in many ways started out as the same character, inheriting similar relationships (Boyce/McCoy) but you would not easily mix them up. And Pike wasn't even known about by most fans, until then.

[@williewhite1901]

True, and the first captain of the enterprise was, in production absentia, was a woman. William Shatner took over the existing role of Captain James T Kirk.

[@intricatic]

One of the few Star Trek series I think might actually be good.

[@mimsnshine]

Love to see the USS Defiant again...

[@StuartRaweakaStuOz]

Great video. Thanks. We need a good Star trek instead of the recent crap.

[@myownsongs100]

Spock cannot fight for Tpring on Vulcan cause that happened during Kirks Time.

[@speedracer1945]

Nurse Chapel wasn't on the Enterprise then either or Uhura . Instead of bring these characters in mid way they force them into the show too early.

[@duantorruellas716]

I'm a big Rebecca Romaine fan , I also like star trek alot.

[@10cjed]

Where's all the mini skirts? Or was that only on Kirk's Enterprise?

[@temparalflux914]

And on some men in TNG :D

[@taniakyriakou1823]

It’s not serialised. Thank goodness. That means the whole world or future of the world won’t be at stake for every single episode.

[@paullakowski2509]

ITS DOING VERY WELL SO FAR.

[@lancechristian3648]

Hopefully less "feelings" more action!

[@carlosoliveira-rc2xt]

Exactly!

[@rp338]

no crying in the federation please!

[@niojataj]

They better not disappoint me.

[@living2ndchildhood347]

But will we learn that red shirts were at extreme risk before ST:TOS or just while under J. T. Kirk’s command. One error: the phasers are from ST:TOS. The phasers during Pikes tenure were not as sleek or smooth lines. See the “Menagerie” 2 part episode of ST: TOS.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

So 'The Kelvin Universe' never happened (and/or hasn't happened yet)

[@amylaneio]

It happened in a different timeline.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

@@amylaneio But what CREATED the different timeline (the way the Kelvin incident created the Kelvin timeline)?

[@rebeccanolan9623]

I am hoping that there will be a Dr. McCoy and a Scotty somewhere in here.

[@SNAKE_PLISSKEN1979]

I want to believe 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@codeadict]

Kurtzman is still writing? I will keep my fingers crossed.

[@DavidOlver]

if it goes onto Netflix ill watch it

[@davidmacphee8348]

pirate bay has it

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

4:20 ... I always thought the Enterprise had a better dress code than this "just got outta the shower and towel-dried my hair, cool, huh?!"

[@cyngyn1675]

What date and time will it start?

[@speedracer1945]

This guy who plays Spock sounds like Nimoy but when you look at him it's like whose this guy ?

[@RationallySkeptical]

2:25 We corrected this already. Why are you going back to the wrong way? "Boldly go" is grammatically incorrect. It's "go boldly." The adverb follows the verb!

[@richardrussell7082]

Are they going to keep the original outcome for Pike or retcon that?

[@mike.t.angelo]

They'll keep the original outcome. They even refer to what will happen both in Discovery and in some scenes in the trailers for Strange New Worlds.

[@ujean56]

Identity politics meets Star Trek. Can't wait (sort of).

[@BEder-it4lf]

Captain Dekker looked like a good character. He should be brought back.

[@v.sandrone4268]

I cannot imagine Shatner saying "cerebral" in any context.

[@jeffyoung60]

I've always wanted to see an Andorian aboard a Starfleet spaceship. But why does this Andorian look like Frankenstein?

[@johnhaxby306]

love that in the original pilot Pike is being handed paper-work. Guess at that point they still traveled with a copy machine and a typewriter LOL. LOVE the FX with this new show, the lasers hitting the shields looks SO GOOD! not to mention everything else they have done, GOD I wish I could be on this show just once, like a red shirt, I just want to be on that set!

[@johncorvo5520]

Spock needs a better haircut. And all the shirts need collars.

[@danwills9981]

I agree! The shirts look like Starfleet hospital scrubs the way the undershirt peeks out. Spock also needs to have his sideburns trimmed. When we last saw him on Disco after he shaved off the beard the sideburns were long and square. Now they are thin, long, and have a curly-q at the end!

[@danapeck5382]

Big hopes for showrunner, cast, and storyline. I enjoy watching canon get expanded, but after suffering through multiple Paramount+ series letting writers' rooms (arrogantly) run amok, I'll be canceling if this one follows the pattern. Unless Michelle Yeoh gets her Section 31 series

[@kevindondrea144]

I hope so. I hate the new Soap Opera format. I don't hate the shows, I have enjoyed them but I really don't want to wait every week to see how it ends. Plus hope its more than just 10-13 episodes.

[@jlomesou]

I know there will be continuity issues, I saw many in the clips. Some fans will be put off by it. At this point, there’s nothing any of us can do about that because the writers aren’t that familiar with TOS era. ‘The Cage’ is probably the only Star Trek they watched because it’s about Pike. But to get the complete understanding of the TOS era, you have to watch the series. All this being said, I hope that SNW will give us Star Trek style stories, not SPAM as someone else wrote here. It doesn’t need to be action packed in every episode because Star Trek never did that. Some episodes should be just about a character. The writers need to bring dimension to the new characters early on.

[@NickPCage]

good luck the writers for discovery and picard are just lazy and horrible writers, they let updated visuals carry the show and hope u dont notice.

[@jhallam2011]

Don’t forget Capt Robert April. Enterprises first Captain.

[@LoneBrowncoat]

He is in the original draft script, excerpts of in the very first "The Making of Star Trek" book by Whitfield and Roddenberry, used copies can still be had via Amazon, last time I checked.

[@jefftheriault3914]

Pike is fine. Other ships and crews should feature in future.

[@entelin]

I've always felt that 2-3 episode arcs as a standard would work well. Single episode stories often resulted in rushed endings, and the inability to do more detailed content. But maybe you don't always have ideas that are good enouph for 2-3 episodes. So why not do like at least two arcs in a series, and the rest as single episodes.

[@entelin]

@P A You probably know this but the last season of Enterprise was filmed after the show was announced to be canceled. Before the last season the execs significantly interfered with the plot, it's advertising and so on. I actually thought parts of enterprise were pretty good, and the last season was genuinely good with the longer arcs, better stories, and getting rid of the stupid time travel plot that never worked out. Trip, Malcom, and Flox were fantastic actors, which made Archer look quite bad by comparison.

[@al28854]

apparently skinny jeans/slacks will still be in style until Kirk takes command of the Enterprise, when they start cutting the inseam just before the top collars of the uniform boots for the male crewmen.

[@jhmed9]

So, will this show be more episodic like TOS and TNG, or will it be more serialized story arcs?

[@princeeverlove]

Back to what a "Trek" is...a Journey, an Expedition to other planets, cultures, 🌕🚀

[@nefaurora]

It if was really that accessible to viewers.....It would not be on Paramount Plus! 🤣

[@CaveWyatt]

Anyone else notice the amazing similarity in resemblance/personality/accent between La’an and Camina Drummond on The Expanse (other than 15-ish pounds)?

[@victoriastable1]

Anyone else remember "Star Trek: Brave New Worlds"? Mandela Effect!

[@francismcmenamin982]

Looper, are you in the pay of Secret Hideout by any chance a la Ketwolski, Ketrats productions et al.?