For many fans, Strange is new Worlds The best Star Trek series of the current generation. Some even speak of the best series since the next century. But what exactly makes Strange New Worlds so much more successful than other series from the franchise? Star Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes has a very precise idea of it and shared it in an interview.
Independent episodes and the right staff are part of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
In an interview with Cinema Blend in May 2024, Jonathan Frakes shared his views of the Star Trek series Strange New Worlds. The director and actor, known as Commander Riker, remains true to the franchise to this day already staged a variety of episodes For various Star Trek series.
The interview should be about an episode to Discovery for which he directed, but also His views of Strange New Worlds came up. After all, he also staged an episode for the 3rd season:
The result I just finished is spectacular. You have really worked hard at Strange New Worlds. I think that the fact that it is independent episodes has probably made it the most popular Star Trek series since Next gen.
This makes Frakes an important point. Are in the series of the Nu-Trek generation, the Current trend in series accordinglyto find large story sheets that are told about entire seasons. Strange New Worlds is characterized, among other things, by the fact that most episodes are independent and each tells their own story. Former Star Trek series were also told when they were still in the regular TV program.
However, Frakes has other points that should be mentioned. Next to the Preservation of continuitywho seamlessly collapsed the series into the franchise, frakes particularly praise the people who are responsible for success.
And that’s Alex [Kurtzman]Akiva [Goldsman]Henry Alonso Myers, Chris Fisher and all the people who promoted it. They try to assign a episode to a director that they believe that he can make the respective episode that the film of the week is even better. And I think that’s pretty effective.
In addition, Strange New Worlds also affects risks. Jonathan Frakes cites the result as examples that he shot himself and a musical episode. His first episode was a crossover with characters from the animation series Star Trek: Lower Decks in season 2.
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We still have to wait and see what the new episodes look like. The 3rd season of Strange New Worlds does not yet have a start date. For this purpose, the 4th season has already been confirmed, which shows how much Paramount believes in the series and how popular it is with the fans.