Okay, #Trekkie CoSo. 🖖 It's #SNW time!
Today for #OnlySky, we talk about Strange New Worlds' time travel episode, which takes place more or less now in Canuckistan 🍁, and raises the classic Would You Kill Baby Hitler question around La'an's past.
Does it work? Does *any* time travel episode in #StarTrek? What does this #SFF trope actually do - and does the romance help or hinder?
Come for the morality play! Stay for the poutine & Carol Kane!
#CoSoTV #ScienceFiction
https://onlysky.media/mclark/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-how-time-travel-creeps-into-trek-today/
@MLClark usually time travel fails with audiences. Never understood why, exactly. The NBC series Timeless was a good example. Well written for the most part and we'll acted. It just didn't catch on.
Sadly it's often a season arc that does a show in. What stats it as a sub plot becomes the arc and the initial premise takes a back seat. That just open my personal Monster Of The Week can of worms.
I explore part of what makes time travel flop (the artificiality of the crisis) in this piece, but I *love* your example & closing note about season arcs, Graci! 👌
SNW has chosen to make the first 3 episodes strongly A-plot-driven character studies. I think this is an unfortunate choice that reduces opportunities to look at an ethical problem with depth through narrative contrast - but that's the arc so far. We'll have to wait & see if SNW S2 can sustain that structural choice well. 🤞