Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [SPOILERS]

Discussing a perceived continuity error is being a twat now? You have pretty low standards of what constitutes being a twat is.

I pointed out the Gorn continuity error for I think one or two posts at max. Not three or four fucking pages worth of ramblings.

It's just a TV show. Move on.

You're right. This is drawing attention away from the important issues, like making sure to get some character's fucking pronouns right.

I used to care a great deal about keeping this universe consistent, but I realized that after 60 years of Multiple season TV shows and 13 movies, it might be too cumbersome to keep it up. So yeah, sleight inconsistencies don’t bother me as much. Maybe Spock forgot. Maybe it wasn’t at the top of his mind when his current crew is being threatened. Just drop it. They seem to have put together a pretty good writing room. Maybe all of them aren’t as big of fans of the old stuff as we are. Maybe they didn’t watch it at all. Let’s see where they take it.

Elliot Page really broke your brain, huh?

I picture it all like a big spaghetti knot that mostly lays parallel. You could even argue that fluctuating, overlapping timelines are an expected outcome of warp drive.

Those sex scenes can never be erased. I'm good.

There's enough onscreen examples of Starfleet crews fucking around in the past that the idea of determining a "proper timeline" is basically a lost cause, even before you get to the temporal cold war on ENT or DSC season 2 with the Red Angel altering the timeline to fight Control. Every time travel episode/movie creates ripples in continuity.

There's also the Rashomon Effect, where the same scene is interpreted differently by different people.

And don't forget the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

that's really kinda the one thing about this show that's a pebble in my shoe - the only real reason for the Nurse to be *Chapel* is because you want to work some plot points that you KNOW contravene the established history between her and Spock.

Her character could have been, say, Carol Marcus (not saying it should have been) and they could have done all the same stuff they are doing now, with the exception (they might think) that there's no particular reason to be intrigued by her interactions with Spock. But IMO this character could have done literally everything we've seen, said every word, whatever, and never been identified as any previously seen character. I can't see how making her Chapel adds anything at all.

Fucking Time Travelers.

The novelty of both Majels together.

I love Jess Bush, but Chapel really should be played by Rebecca Romijn in a blonde wig.

Honestly I don't know how seriously we're supposed to take TOS at this point. Remember when Nomad formatted Uhura's brain and Chapel had to teach her English from scratch? And the next episode she was back at her station like nothing every happened? Is Chapel some kind of miracle worker, or are we supposed to assume Uhura's job is so basic that someone with the intellect and knowledge base of a child can do it? We're supposed to be slavishly bound to the continuity of a show like that?

Discovery ret-conned full brain hacking with VR glove interface (used on Tyler/Voq), I head-canon that happened offscreen.

BLASPHEMY! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in Hell for that!
-Robin Williams

But he's right.

It's idiotic to expect consistency in the derivatives when the origin has none.

They could have made them twins.That would actually have tome potential, two sisters constantly competing with each other.

That's my point. The writers are the ones insisting this in the same continuity as the original series. So of course people are going to nitpick this and that in every episode because that is the expectation the writers have given us.

This show is effectively a reboot and they should have just said that from day 1. Then go wild and do whatever you want. The writing would probably be better for it.

That was an early TNG episode complete with a holodeck malfunction.

That last one wasn't thrilling either. I liked the premise and it was fun, but they resolved that plot line way too soon and in a pretty bad way. Of course, that's classic Trek too - Alexander, Worf's Brother, and the Wesley/Traveler episodes all kind of sucked, I just wished they didn't take the inspiration from the bad parts of Trek.

It would have been a far, far more interesting choice if the Doctor said no. And, of course, the bullshit about being able to sense feeling in a person who is in a transporter buffer is pretty horrific when you think about it.

Why did the doctor even trust the entity? He made his decision fairly quickly.

One would think this wouldn’t be necessary - considering the vast differences in culture and society between 1966 and 2022.

^This?

Not any more.

I really considered punching out of this week's episode but kept with it just to see where they took it.

The best part was Uhura's cleavage.

What I got from the daughter coming back as an adult is that the nebula entity experiences reality at a much, much faster rate than humans do. We saw in a Barclay episode that people are normally awake and conscious during transport, so even if she experiences a fraction of a millisecond while hanging out in the buffer, the entity would be able to perceive her consciousness in far more detail than she would herself.

Well, he confirmed the entity was able to cure his daughter, and she trusted it. And from the dialogue he seemed especially desperate to find a cure, like maybe she only had days or hours left?

I get that, I’m just reminded of how Picard would be questioning the entity.