The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets. Obviously they have run
out of sensible ideas (if they even had any to begin with!), so is past
time to end the show.


'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Teases Puppet Episode for Season 4
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"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is boldly going where no "Star Trek"
show has gone before: to the world of puppets.

At the "Star Trek Universe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the cast
and executive producers of "Strange New Worlds" debuted a teaser for
the fourth season of the series, which just finished production. It
revealed Capt. Christopher Pike sitting on the captain's chair of
the Enterpriseÿ-ÿbut as a puppet.

"There might have been an unexpected and terrible transporter
accident," said executive producer Akiva Goldsman on the stage at
Hall H. "Which might have had some unexpected felt-like effects."

Teaser video: (48secs)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az-cm8gmKSM>

The puppets were created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop for the
episode, which is directed by Jordan Canning ("Fragile Rock: Back
to the Rock"). It's in keeping with the "Strange New Worlds"
approach of treating each episode as its own unique genre,
including horror, screwball comedy, costume fantasy, and even a
musical episode and a crossover episode with the animated series
"Star Trek: Lower Decks."

In a 2024 Variety cover story on the future of "Star Trek,"
Goldsman even teased the puppet episode. "As long as we're in
storytelling that is cogent and sure handed, I'm not sure there is,"
Goldsman said when asked if there was a genre the show couldn't
handle. "Could it do Muppets? Sure. Could it do black and white,
silent, slapstick? Maybe!"

Stars Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, Jess Bush, Paul Wesley,
Christina Chong, were joined by executive producers Alex Kurtzman,
Henry Alonso Myers and Goldsman on the stage at Hall H. (Mount
wasn't able to attend because his wife had just had a baby.)
Goldsman addressed the announcement that "Strange New Worlds" will
be concluding with its fifth season, noting that their plan is to
take the series up to the first day Capt. James Kirk (Wesley) takes
command of the Enterprise. Then he asked fans to write to Paramount
(and its new parent company) Skydance so they can make "Star Trek:
Year One"ÿ- set during the classic original series time-period of
the franchise.

To further underline the show's genre-hopping, the next episode of
"Strange New Worlds," a period murder mystery entitled "A Space
Adventure Hour," played in its entirety to the audience at
Comic-Con.ÿ



<https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-puppets-season-4-1236471250/>






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On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:11:13 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets. Obviously they have run
out of sensible ideas (if they even had any to begin with!), so is past
time to end the show.

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Teases Puppet Episode for Season 4
------------------------------------------------------------------
"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is boldly going where no "Star Trek"
show has gone before: to the world of puppets.

At the "Star Trek Universe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the cast
and executive producers of "Strange New Worlds" debuted a teaser for
the fourth season of the series, which just finished production. It
revealed Capt. Christopher Pike sitting on the captain's chair of
the Enterpriseÿ-ÿbut as a puppet.

These idiots have turned Star Trek into a woke joke.

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Verily, in article <ot7c8khuo50buttmbl638t6nr5f8sj2odl@4ax.com>, did NoBody@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:11:13 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets.

Heh, did Stargate do that? So did Angel and Community. I haven't seen Stargate, but based on Angel's and Community's offerings, my hopes for
puppet episodes do not tend to run high.

At the "Star Trek Universe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the

cast

and executive producers of "Strange New Worlds" debuted a teaser for
the fourth season of the series, which just finished production. It
revealed Capt. Christopher Pike sitting on the captain's chair of
the Enterpriseÿ-ÿbut as a puppet.

These idiots have turned Star Trek into a woke joke.

I'm not sure I'd call puppets woke, but it's definitely ludicrous.

Why do we even have this dumb "person turns into a puppet" trope? What
on Earth is this for?

I'm trying to think of some legitimate narrative purpose it might serve.
I can't think of a single thing which couldn't be better done with a
less ridiculous condition.

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On 7/27/2025 7:57 AM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

Verily, in article <ot7c8khuo50buttmbl638t6nr5f8sj2odl@4ax.com>, did NoBody@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:11:13 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets.

Heh, did Stargate do that?

Yes, they did. As a "remake" of the pilot. And the puppet heroes
immediately dropped dead when they went thru the 'Gate because their
strings had been cut to the laughter of puppet Teal'c.

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In article <1063jq1$2jd7e$1@dont-email.me>, YourName@YourISP.com wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets. Obviously they have run
out of sensible ideas (if they even had any to begin with!), so is past
time to end the show.

I hate this trope, but it's been around longer than that.

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On 2025-07-27 14:57:47 +0000, Melissa Hollingsworth said:

Verily, in article <ot7c8khuo50buttmbl638t6nr5f8sj2odl@4ax.com>, did NoBody@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:11:13 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets.

Heh, did Stargate do that? So did Angel and Community. I haven't seen Stargate, but based on Angel's and Community's offerings, my hopes for
puppet episodes do not tend to run high.

In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

At the "Star Trek Universe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the
cast and executive producers of "Strange New Worlds" debuted a teaser
for the fourth season of the series, which just finished production.
It revealed Capt. Christopher Pike sitting on the captain's chair of
the Enterpriseÿ-ÿbut as a puppet.

These idiots have turned Star Trek into a woke joke.

I'm not sure I'd call puppets woke, but it's definitely ludicrous.

Why do we even have this dumb "person turns into a puppet" trope? What
on Earth is this for?

I'm trying to think of some legitimate narrative purpose it might serve.
I can't think of a single thing which couldn't be better done with a
less ridiculous condition.

There isn't one. It's basically like the holodeck episodes, simply an
excuse for the show's makers and actor to do something different,
especially when they can't come up with a proper fitting story idea.


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Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <ot7c8khuo50buttmbl638t6nr5f8sj2odl@4ax.com>, did NoBody@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:11:13 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets.

Heh, did Stargate do that? So did Angel and Community. I haven't seen Stargate, but based on Angel's and Community's offerings, my hopes for puppet episodes do not tend to run high.

Stargate did an anniversary episode with them trying to create an idea for
a movie and telling the producer different bizarre versions including
puppets. The puppets were great. They went through the Stargate and the wormhole cut their strings and they collapsed on the other side. :-)

At the "Star Trek Universe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the

cast

and executive producers of "Strange New Worlds" debuted a teaser for
the fourth season of the series, which just finished production. It
revealed Capt. Christopher Pike sitting on the captain's chair of
the Enterpriseÿ-ÿbut as a puppet.

These idiots have turned Star Trek into a woke joke.

I'm not sure I'd call puppets woke, but it's definitely ludicrous.

Why do we even have this dumb "person turns into a puppet" trope? What
on Earth is this for?

I'm trying to think of some legitimate narrative purpose it might serve.
I can't think of a single thing which couldn't be better done with a
less ridiculous condition.

https://youtu.be/g9XrrEaZ7Y4?si=0Ex_ho5haE7e70FE

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