Show Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Audience Rating: teen and up Warnings: None that come to mind but I guess there's some gore/violence in some episodes when they're battling aliens. Length of Episodes: Officially 1 hour, but there are ad breaks, so more like 45-47 minutes Length of Series: 2 complete seasons (10 episodes each) have aired, it has been renewed for seasons 3 and 4 and it's expected that season 3 will start some time in 2025. Why you recommend it: Because Star Trek Strange New Worlds (SNW) is simply THE BEST of all the Trek franchises, and an excellent show even outside of the Trek universe.
If you're at all familiar with the Trek universe, SNW is about the USS Enterprise when she was captained by Christopher Pike, before command was transferred to James T. Kirk. So it's sort of a prequel to TOS. Many critics have lauded it for its return to Star Trek's original episodic format, but it does still have on-going background stories. The episodic format does allow for more focus on character development. The show has everything -- great writing, great casting, great production, etc. They've had super serious episodes, fun episodes, scary episodes, a musical episode (which was actually great and I usually find musical episodes total cringe), and even a cross-over episode with an animated series (Star Trek Lower Decks). It gets bonus points for having an episode largely set in Toronto with Toronto being Toronto and not a stand-in for some random US city (the series is filmed here in Toronto). There is nothing negative to be said about this series, IMO. Even if you're not generally into Trek, you'd probably still enjoy it. It probably does help a bit to have at least some passing familiarity with the "big names" from the original series (e.g. Spock, Uhura), but I think it can be fully enjoyed without that -- I'm not a big fan of TOS and have never watched it in its entirety (because so much of it is so bad), but that hasn't affected my ability to totally get into SNW. As I said, it's simply the best Trek yet, and just a damn fine show in general.
In Canada it's on Crave and the Sci Fi network (new seasons only). Elsewhere, I guess Paramount+???
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Audience Rating: teen and up
Warnings: None that come to mind but I guess there's some gore/violence in some episodes when they're battling aliens.
Length of Episodes: Officially 1 hour, but there are ad breaks, so more like 45-47 minutes
Length of Series: 2 complete seasons (10 episodes each) have aired, it has been renewed for seasons 3 and 4 and it's expected that season 3 will start some time in 2025.
Why you recommend it: Because Star Trek Strange New Worlds (SNW) is simply THE BEST of all the Trek franchises, and an excellent show even outside of the Trek universe.
If you're at all familiar with the Trek universe, SNW is about the USS Enterprise when she was captained by Christopher Pike, before command was transferred to James T. Kirk. So it's sort of a prequel to TOS. Many critics have lauded it for its return to Star Trek's original episodic format, but it does still have on-going background stories. The episodic format does allow for more focus on character development. The show has everything -- great writing, great casting, great production, etc. They've had super serious episodes, fun episodes, scary episodes, a musical episode (which was actually great and I usually find musical episodes total cringe), and even a cross-over episode with an animated series (Star Trek Lower Decks). It gets bonus points for having an episode largely set in Toronto with Toronto being Toronto and not a stand-in for some random US city (the series is filmed here in Toronto). There is nothing negative to be said about this series, IMO. Even if you're not generally into Trek, you'd probably still enjoy it. It probably does help a bit to have at least some passing familiarity with the "big names" from the original series (e.g. Spock, Uhura), but I think it can be fully enjoyed without that -- I'm not a big fan of TOS and have never watched it in its entirety (because so much of it is so bad), but that hasn't affected my ability to totally get into SNW. As I said, it's simply the best Trek yet, and just a damn fine show in general.
In Canada it's on Crave and the Sci Fi network (new seasons only). Elsewhere, I guess Paramount+???