

While we may not know much about most of these people as yet, the show nevertheless quickly establishes the larger group’s chemistry as easy and believable.īut it’s impossible to talk about why Strange New Worlds works so well without talking about Anson Mount, whose central performance as Captain Christopher Pike remains as note-perfect as it was when he was guest-starring on Discovery. New security officer La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) has a familiar name and a dark history of her own, and though feisty helmsman Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) has little in the way of defining characteristics as yet she at least seems pretty fun.

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M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun)-a character who appeared in all of two episodes of The Original Series but still!-is running things in sickbay alongside Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) whose demonstrable smarts and ability to think outside the box indicate she’s likely going to have much more to do on this series than pine after Spock. There’s Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), the show’s new take on a younger version of the iconic Star Trek: The Original Series character, here presented as a young woman fresh out of Starfleet Academy and a linguistic prodigy who is clearly deeply excited about all the adventures that await her. It’s also an easy excuse to introduce us to the rest of the series’ main cast, which includes a mix of new and familiar classic faces (or, well, at least characters whose names we’ve heard before). It is her disappearance on that mission that brings Pike and the Enterprise crew back to space a bit earlier than originally scheduled they’ve got to find her and bring her home. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is in Montana wrestling with the foreknowledge of a future that includes radiation disfigurement, paralysis, and physical agony Spock’s (Ethan Peck) getting engaged to a woman who seems way much cooler than he is on Vulcan and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) is a workaholic on a first contact mission with the U.S.S Archer. The series pilot initially picks up with everyone we originally met on Discovery, and where their stories have gone post-Season 2 finale. Yes, the premiere episode “Strange New Worlds” has an awful lot of set-up lot to do, but the series’ introductory hour never drags or feels bogged down by its expository duties. Enterprise to anyone, who better than some obvious fellow nerds who clearly love it as much as we do? From its off-handed callbacks and Easter Eggs to its thoughtful character dynamics and gorgeous visuals, everything about this show reflects the care that has been put into creating it. It is joyous, impeccably cast, and (something I haven’t regularly said about Star Trek in some time) incredibly fun to watch. CitationĢ019.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds appears to be the franchise’s attempt to answer that question, a big-hearted, rollicking return to the foundational principles of the show that started it all, firmly grounded in the deeply personal story of the captain at its center. Number of citizens receiving access to an uncensored internet. We calibrate a simple model to show that theĬombination of low demand for uncensored information and the moderate social transmission means China's censorship apparatus may remain robust to a large Intended behaviors and (iv) social transmission of information is statistically significant but small in magnitude. In acquisition, indicating that demand is not permanently low (iii) acquisition brings broad, substantial, and persistent changes to knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and
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We findįour main results: (i) free access alone does not induce subjects to acquire politically sensitive information (ii) temporary encouragement leads to a persistent increase We track subjects' media consumption, beliefs regarding the media, economic beliefs, political attitudes, and behaviors over 18 months. We conduct a field experiment in China to measure the effects of providing citizens with access to an Media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
