Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season called one giant gimmick

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSpace.com says the fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was one giant gimmick, with episodes built on classic film genres and often adapted straight from the films.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA show about boldly going, and it went exactly where other people had already been.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe episode list reads like a rental queue.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLand of the Lost, Event Horizon, The Hangover, Casablanca, The Muppets, The Poseidon Adventure, The Hunt for Red October.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe Hangover. On a starship. Who's flying it?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPresumably the one who didn't drink.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFair, though the showrunner defended it. Akiva Goldsman told TV Line the original series always jumped around in genre, so ten episodes shouldn't match.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's a good point, and a bad excuse.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSpace.com also ties it to Paramount being bought by Skydance, though that's the writer's interpretation, not a confirmed fact.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVulture critic Leah Marilla Thomas gave the season four out of five stars, saying it keeps balancing the silly and the serious to great effect.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy theory: the writers' room is one man with a streaming password, and he's on the second Muppets.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe puppets were from Jim Henson's Creature Shop, so somebody paid for original work. Season five is the last one.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeason five is the last one. Nobody's left to copy but season four.