The main difference of course being - being a prequel the show has to awkwardly dance around familiar elements like Romulans, Ferengi, Borg, cloaking technology, the Mirror Universe and everything else that got introduced in the last 50+ years of the Star Trek franchise. ENT had all kinds of problems with that, and that show had way more experienced and accomplished writers.
"Way more experienced and accomplished writers?" Excuse me?
SNW co-creator Akiva Goldsman is the recipient of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and 2001 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for
A Beautiful Mind. He is also a nominee for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts's 2001 Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for
A Beautiful Mind and 2005 Award for Best Original Screenplay for
Million Dollar Baby
Co-creator Jenny Lumet is the recipient of the 2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, the 2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, the 2008 Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, the 2008 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture, all for
Rachel Getting Married.
Goldsman's career has spanned almost thirty years, encompassing 20 motion pictures as writer, director, or producer; 23 films as producer; and six television series, including the critically-acclaimed cult hit
Fringe. Lumet's career as a writer and producer has encompassed five television series and two feature films.
Kurtzman, meanwhile, has had a career encompassing 15 television series and 12 feature films as a writer or director, and five feature films and seven television series as producer, across 25 years.
The creators of
Star Trek: Enterprise, by contrast, were Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Braga had worked on exactly two television series before ENT -- TNG and VOY -- and had written or co-written three films -- GEN, FC, and a story credit on
Mission Impossible 2. His career at the time ENT premiered was only 11 years old. Berman had co-created DS9 and VOY and had worked as a producer on TNG; before TNG, he had been a producer on
The Big Blue Marble in 1981, a production assistant on
Re-Animator in 1985, and a camera assistant on a 1975 documentary entitled
How to Say 'No' to a Rapist... And Survive.
By any reasonable standard, the creators of
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are more accomplished and more experienced than the creators of
Star Trek: Enterprise.
Thanks! I guess the same issue crops up with 5 years' absence. Why is she on the Enterprise if Korby isn't missing yet?
... because she wants a career of her own? Duh?
When I say 'just a nurse' I mean from a story perspective. Nurses in Trek have traditionally been used primarily as either background support to the doctor character or used primarily as a love interest for another character
The fact that old ST shows propped up implicitly misogynistic professional disrespect for a female-dominated nursing field, is not a good reason for SNW to do the same.
In Battlestar Galactica, Cassiopeia was used as landing party med tech only once, I think, when she was also a love interest for a guest character. She would have been more interesting if she'd remained a prostitute.
What?
I can't believe this is supposed to be the same character that we see in TOS.
Why, because she gets to have a personality for more than four cumulative minutes of screentime?