The show picks up the original Captain and first officer of the U.S.S. The Show (Light Spoilers Only)Īt first glance, it’s easy to assume Strange New Worlds is simply a fan-service throwback to Star Trek’s original series of the 1960s ( TOS). Combining the adventurous spirit of Those Old Scientists, emotionally nuanced storytelling and up-to-date perspectives on race, gender and sexuality, the result is a truly delightful experience. But like Discovery, it does a fantastic job reinventing Star Trek’s modern myth for today’s audience. It returns live-action Trek to an adventure-of-the week format after the more serialized Star Trek: Discoveryand Star Trek: Picard. Thanks to Connor Lawrence for contributing this item.Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis a joyous, effervescent series, starring a mix of new and old crew members (though even the old are new) on one of television’s oldest starships. Wells' The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904), Richard Matheson's novelization of the film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)and Richard Matheson's novelization of The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) 'Miniaturization' has been used in these novels: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), H.G. The glow of the miniaturizer faded to a dull red and miniaturization stopped. The Proteus was still falling, still shrinking, and Carter, with an effort, raised his hand. The ship was a white beetle now, resting upon the central hexagon immediately under the miniaturizer resting upon the one red hexagon in the world of white ones-the Zero Module. It was as though the ship was hurling down a long, infinitely long hole falling in absolute silence and growing smaller and smaller as the distance increased to miles, to tens of miles, to hundreds. Carter had watched miniaturization a hundred times, but never with quite the effect upon himself that he was experiencing now. All around the Proteus, the hexagonals emerged, and the rate of miniaturization accelerated until the ship was shrinking like a patch of ice on a warm surface. Those that were partially revealed beyond the edge of the ship's structure crept outward, and eventually tiles that had earlier been completely hidden began to show.

It did so slowly at first, so that one could only tell it was happening by the change in the way it overlapped the hexagonal structures that made up the floor.

The phrase came clearly over the communication system, as Carter watched the Proteus shrink. This text excerpt is from the novelization of the Film by Richard Fleischer, story by Jerome Bixby and Otto Klement, screenplay by Harry Kleiner.

Fantastic voyage asimov