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Star Trek: Strange New World has regained my interest in Star Trek series

As a casual Star Trek fan born in the 90s, the Star Trek I know was pretty much limited to the trilogy in recent years starring Chris Pine. The image of USS Enterprise and the crew is of course aligned with those characters in the movies. That being said, after Picard, Lower decks, and Discovery, I do know that the Star Trek universe is so much bigger than that. Hence, when I learned that there was a new series out, I did not hesitate and clicked on the title.

In this series, we followed the footsteps of captain Pike and his Enterprise crew along with their struggles. Captain Pike had nightmares about his foreseen future. His number one was actually forbidden to join Star Fleet, the linguistic expert wasn't sure if she's gonna stay. Security officers had issues too. Nevertheless, they ventured into space without hesitation. This is where all it started.

Obviously, when you're on a ship, there will be a lot of characters to cover. Star Trek series had an advantage that different race would have very different looks, but this is still no easy tasks. Luckily, the show generally describes the characters very well, with their magic trick of diving into the story with different characters' eyes. From the different point of view, one can understand the personalities of a character and his behavior pattern well, and this really helped as the storyline become much more serious.

Perhaps it's because I'm don't know that much about the series, seeing some familiar characters in the show makes me feel weird. If Spock is already in the Enterprise with Pike, how the hell would he be with Kirk? Or, most importantly, why would he be with Kirk having the exact same struggles? Uhura somehow joined the fleet this early, but clearly she was still a cadet when Kirk first met her. I'm sure there's a good explanation of all this. It's just a thing I kept thinking about while watching the show.

If there's one thing delivered well in the show, that is hope. The hope to become a better being, the hope to change the future, the hope to overcome one's terrible past, the hope of everything really. And the best part of the show is definitely how the characters head straight on with their mission and dealing with their inner struggles at the same time. The best part is when they had an epiphany and just chose to go along with it and actually work out fine. Even in the darkest time and the most difficult moment, The Enterprise always found hope and defeat whatever stood in their way. Although at times it would seem the solution to the problem is oversimplified, it's still very satisfied to see the growth of each character.

In summary, Star Trek: Strange New World is an amazing show, really recommended. It portraits a beautiful universe and shows us that there's hope everywhere, you just have to find it.