The start of the new Star Trek series is a huge disappointment

Have we all time traveled without realizing it? How else can you explain that one of the biggest sci-fi series of the year from one of the most well-known franchises needs eight months to travel to Germany? That’s what happens with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, although the timeline would suggest it’s Battlestar Galactica or Lost.

That was completely normal 15 years ago, today the strategy seems hostile to customers. Which is a shame because Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming best series of the new Star Trek era is coming our way – Sometime.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is stuck in streaming limbo because of Paramount+

In the new science fiction series from the Star Trek universe Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) embarks with his crew on a five-year mission. Pike and Co. are currently being held captive in a gloomy intermediate world, at least in Germany. While the series in the USA was already jetting off on May 5th, there was a yawning emptiness in German-speaking regions. It will stay that way for a while.

Check out the trailer for Star Trek Strange New Worlds:

Of the Germany launch of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds depends on the new streaming service Paramount+. It won’t come until December, as was announced this week in (that’s just a slight exaggeration) terrible news. There are certainly good reasons why the late Germany launch is the best solution for Paramount+, for example:

But to be honest, that doesn’t really interest me. Firstly, because the waiting time for The Mandalorian was shorter back then (5 vs. 8 months). Second, because dealing with Star Trek: Discovery showed that there could be a solution. Just before the Netflix premiere of season 4, Disco was pulled from the catalog. Fans got upset, so the new episodes were offered as a purchase version, among other things. Otherwise the Trekkies would have had to wait a year, as we now know. Strange New Worlds lacks a season pass option.

Strange New Worlds is one of the sci-fi highlights of the year

Included Strange New Worlds deserves exactly the same concentrated attention of the multilingual internet that the lukewarm Obi-Wan rehash on Disney+ is getting. The new Star Trek series has a similar initial idea: it also works with what is known. She tells the backstory of Starship Enterprise, brings Spock (Ethan Peck) and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) with her, dresses them in vintage uniforms, and follows a traditional format. Each episode tells a story on its own. Strange New Worlds could easily have rested on that nostalgic baggage. Only that doesn’t happen.

Instead, she establishes a fresh one Crew that you immediately grow fond of. That cannot be said of Star Trek: Picard and Discovery in this form. Each character is clearly defined and given room for compelling backstories early in the series without spiraling into tear-jerking arcs.

Clever dialogue elicits laughs, but the scripts switch to profound messages and back again at lightning speed. Strange New Worlds is namely a sci-fi series that not only exploits its vision of the future for visual effects, robotic action, twists or the like. Rather, it follows the original series of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy with its mixture of cheerful spirit of discovery and moral dilemmas.

So the audience here is being denied a series that could restore faith in Star Trek. If that’s not an argument for shortening the waiting time, then I have only one argument left: Christopher Pike’s hair quiff, which grows from episode to episode, increases the quality of life of the audience guaranteed by 107%. What more do you want?