People love them for many reasons, but they share a key trait: Each, when collected, is an assemblage of variants of an appealing form. But why does this iteration of the “Trek” universe hit so rightly at this exact moment? As Spock might say, a number of possibilities present themselves.įirst, consider the baseball card and the postage stamp - both fodder for collectors for a century and a half. The show has a preposterously high rating of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and seems to appeal to both traditionalists and newer acolytes. Viewers - not merely longtime fans - are eating it up. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), the show is essentially a workplace drama in deep space - the intergalactic equivalent of looking in on a really interesting office and getting various tastes of what exactly it is that everyone does. The answer, of course, is “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is chronicling the voyages of the USS Enterprise before Kirk became its captain. So what’s a planet-of-the-week fan of the original series and its episodic aesthetic to do? That’s a lot of commitment, even for a binger. A requirement for sequential viewing and a serious attention span.
There’s the more traditionally animated “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” a wacky variation on the theme that unfolds on an also-ran starship and is brimming with fan-service moments.Īnd smack in the center of the mural sits “Star Trek Discovery,” the epic journey of a Federation starship and its crew across an entire millennium as it saves the galaxy not once (rogue AI!), not twice (“The Burn!”), but three times (“The Dark Matter Anomaly!”) in four seasons and counting.
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There’s “Star Trek: Prodigy,” a rich, 3D-animated story aimed at kids and full of wonder. There’s the dark and bingeworthy “Star Trek: Picard,” a deep character study of an aging and beloved captain confronting his demons - and saving life as we know it twice in two seasons. Two generations after its 1966 debut, the universe of “Star Trek” has become a vast and sprawling mural in these heady days of streaming TV.
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