There’s nothing on TV proper now fairly like “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds.” Serving as a prequel to the unique “Star Trek” TV collection, “Unusual New Worlds” is a throwback to an earlier period of tv within the Sixties — a time the place tech optimism was nonetheless cheap and house held infinite prospects relatively than being crammed with junk satellites and billionaires making an attempt to flee their earthly issues.
“Unusual New Worlds” is certainly constructed round evoking these nostalgic recollections and channeling them into one thing new and thrilling. Its title sequence is paying homage to the unique “Star Trek” collection, the costumes are filled with particulars that eagle-eyed Trekkies will acknowledge, and the present’s state-of-the-art visible results are past something that was doable within the ’60s. The result’s a collection that’s each a smash hit, with a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a a lot anticipated season 3 on the horizon, and a present that stays true to what made the unique “Star Trek” collection so beloved. Trekkies each young and old love the present, and it is one thing “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry himself can be pleased with.
However as a lot because the present is a throwback to the unique collection, there’s one space through which “Unusual New Worlds” is frustratingly trendy — not less than in accordance with showrunner Akiva Goldsman — and that’s the variety of episodes it will get for every season.
Akiva Goldsman needs Unusual New Worlds had extra than simply 10 episodes per season
Again within the day, TV reveals like “Star Trek” would make 24 episodes every season like clockwork and have been always churning out new tales and adventures. In fact, this mannequin has each its execs and cons. In spite of everything, it wasn’t at all times straightforward to create that many tales each season, which meant that the unique “Star Trek” collection had quite a lot of stinkers to associate with its strongest outings (the highest-rated “Star Trek” episode on IMDb amongst them).
Now, within the streaming age, we’re fortunate if we get 10 episodes of a present yearly. Talking with SFX Journal (through ScreenRant), “Unusual New Worlds” showrunner Akiva Goldsman admitted he needs he and his fellow writers might have twice as many episodes to inform the tales they’ve ended up producing for the collection:
“Truthfully, ‘Unusual New Worlds’ is the one present I’ve ever been on the place I’ve yearned for double the episodes. While you’re within the writers’ room breaking the season, we have now 10 extra good ones. We discard 10 which can be nearly as good as the ten we maintain as a result of we simply do not have the house for it. You form of want it was again to the previous 24-episodes-a-season with this present, as a result of there’s a lot you are able to do.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Goldsman defined that the ten episodes that comprise season 3 are concepts the present’s writers had initially needed to discover in season 2 however could not because of the brief episode order. Let’s pray that Paramount+ decides to go all the best way with this throwback collection and provides us a Sixties-sized episode order for “Unusual New Worlds” at some point.
All episodes of “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” are streaming on Paramount+.