Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [SPOILERS]

SNW S02E06, "Lost In Translation"

What a terrific episode. I love it when Uhura gets the spotlight, and Celia Gooding does such a wonderful job with growing her character. I already liked Paul Wesley's Kirk, but he keeps growing on me. I enjoyed the interactions between Jim and Sam, you've got to love sibling rivalry.

The story was well done, very Trekkian, and I loved the visuals inside the deuterium gas cloud, the collector, and the ships themselves, the interactions between Una and Pelia were terrific, and I'm so glad Carol Kane is on this show now.

All in all, another very well done episode. My one regret is that there are only 10 episodes in a season.

They knocked it out of the park with this one, again. Celia is soooo good as Uhura, and all the rest of it too. Nu-Kirk is warming up to me a bit, wasn't sure to begin with but I like him now.

"matter synthesizer"??

The word is REPLICATOR.

First thing - everything else aside, I struggle with Paul Wesley as Kirk...I'm just not seeing it. Nothing about his talent it's just...not the same guy.

That said, the scene with Sam was well written and played. Interesting that "Dad" is still alive.

So warm-fuzzy to see Hemmer again.

I really appreciate how they integrate the character's backstory into the current narrative. And Gooding played this one very well.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Kane's character yet.

Starships have a live band?

The metaphorical cat bit was a nice touch.

I'm not going to be the one to gush over every episode, this was good, solid, very...sturdy...Trek in terms of the tradition of Trek Storytelling, with all the above mentioned flourishes. The story itself was fine but it's the character building that elevates it.

The Enterprise-D used to have live bands playing, usually off-duty officers (which is how I learned about New Orleans style funeral marches from that one episode where Geordi and Ro were dead but not-dead)

Exactly this. In particular, Celia has been killing every script they've gotten so far and I'm looking forward to their career post-Trek as well.

The 24th century tech based on transporter tech is replicators, imagine the 23rd century version is more like a super advanced 3d printer.

The resolution was easy to call from the start, real shades of coffee in that nebula. Not a fault though, overall an amazing episode of Trek.

I do like how 2023 is expanding Uhura’s character in the exact same role Nichelle Nichols played. I mean, she does the same thing, but … much more, much …deeper. Like it’s a real job not just some role they could include a woman on the bridge. I’m not sure about the actress though. Think I like the Abrams’ Uhura better.

La’an suddenly realized Kirk has the reputation he has for a reason. Automatically coming to the aid of any woman and eventually smooth-talking her out of her pants. It is interesting the writers kept that part of Kirk and .. attempted to make it less creepy.

As for the Schroedinger’s cat metaphors, Big Bang Theory did it much better in Season 1, episode 8.

yeah... they've made her an actual communications specialist rather than just a receptionist. There's also knowing that they can be laying the foundations of a character who in 25ish years will be head of SF security. Loved the bonding with Hemmer though... I really related to him in the idea of just teaching someone how to fix it themself.

I took La'an's reaction to Kirk as being more based on the T&T&T experiences. Like she's still reconciling the Kirk she knew with this one and would rather not risk being that vulnerable again... I suspect Sam is preemptively cockblocking Jim more than anything when he spins tales of Kirk's conquesting.

Also, replicators can make elements; but we see in Discovery, when they have to make Burnham's time suit, they have to cannibalize a certain element from the ship, and run it through the synthesizer as toner.

Prime Kirk's reputation as a himbo trying to fuck everything that moves is a pop culture creation that's not really supported by TOS. The "Kirk's true love is the Enterprise" interpretation from Futurama is more accurate.

Since SNW loves doing call forwards, it occurs to me that an easy way to explain the changes to the Gorn would be if Section 31 tries to wipe them out with some manufactured disease that kills most of them and mutates some survivors into the TOS Gorn. Jump cut to some Badmirals high-fiving Clem Fandango and declaring that biological warfare is an awesome tactic Section 31 has permission to use all the time forever because it'll never, ever backfire.

It also occurs to me that I also wanna see the prime version of Evil Admiral Marcus and Evil Idris Elba one day. Bringing in Marcus as a Section 31 ally trying to start another war in a slightly lamer version of the U.S.S. Vengeance is exactly the sort of thing that could lead to 31 losing their official sanction and going back underground.

Himbo, not so much.

But I do think it's fair to say that many episodes featured a woman he wanted to hook up with, a woman/girl who wanted to hook up with him. a woman he flirts with for strategic reasons.

If you’re looking for someone who gives a shit about your opinion, look somewhere else. You’re reminding me of Kirk1Adm when he was trying to get my attention.
Fuck off.

It hardly matters. It’s firm in the collective imagination of everyone who has ever heard of Star Trek. That is what is being written now.

Eh, come on. This was the Sixties, when married couples rarely shared a bed on TV and belly buttons were basically verboten on TV (though the censors missed Nichelle's on Mirror, Mirror). The best that they could do and get past the censors was simply to imply Kirk was getting his freak on. You notice that the one episode where you can say with near 100% certainty that Kirk did get his freak on, it was the one where he loses his memory, and we don't even see them committing the deed, just McCoy telling Kirk that she's pregnant and will die if McCoy doesn't get her to the Enterprise, but that would violate the Prime Directive, so she's worm food, Jim.

Kirk was putting his boots back on with Deela from "Wink Of an Eye".
I'd give that one a 99%.

How many for space daddy Pike, so far?

If you don't want certain people responding to your posts, either don't post in the first place, or put them on ignore.

One thing I appreciated about the first Wonder Woman movie is how WW was the muscle and Steve Trevor was the honeypot spy. Chris Pine finally got to play that element of Kirk they don't let him show off in the movies.

Episode 7 is being made available early! Saturday night at 7p EST!!

To quote Spock, "What the fuck?".

Buffy's "Once more With Feeling" has been held as the gold standard of musical episodes for a long ass time.
From what little I've seen here, I think Trek can finally dethrone it.

That's sorta like saying a Trabant is the most reliable car built by a Communist country.

The fanboy in me wishes they could work in the lyrics version of the TOS theme, "be wary" "bitter dregs" and "goin' back to Eden, yay brother".
Buuuut, they probably think those violate the timeline or something.

Ah, dammit, we need a reaction smiley.
For when is too much, but doesn't quite cut it.

*Happy gasp*

They are doing a lyrics version of the theme, but with NEW lyrics, not the crappy Roddenberry ones!

https://www.darkhorizons.com/star-trek-snw-crossover-airs-early/

Fuck yeah that crossover episode was fun.

God, that episode had everything and then some!

I was a little worried about this one, but I have to say that I think it turned out well. Pretty fun!

Ok, I have a new favorite episode of Star Trek.

And TOS is for Those Old Scientists.