Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [SPOILERS]

I always thought Ebeneezer was one of our few female members?

Granted Wordforge is hardly the place I'd visit when I need enlightened gender studies, but this is literally a thing that exists that she attached her name to

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...ing-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop

It isn't anti feminist to say that's weird.

rewatching and just got through "Lift us where suffering cannot reach us".

Couldn't recognize/place Lindy Booth at first... she practically hasn't aged since Relic Hunter.

Poor woman spends half her local career at Casa Loma, it seems.

Okay, weird; looks like La'an and possible-future-Kirk go back and pick up Pelia (Carol Kane) in the past.

https://trekmovie.com/2023/06/13/ne...on-2-images-offer-first-look-at-episodes-2-3/

good out of the gate.
doing the math, and Spock has time for an Amok Time...

Pellia is Carol Kane Carol Kaning and I'm here for it.
New transporter chief is ennbee, it looks like.
Assertive Uhura? Hell yeah
Chapel/M'Benga story was intense and well played
Klingons are still nuTrekkish, but the hair and other tweaks are more familiar ground.

Did they redo the opening VO? sounded... different?

The archeological expedition has to be led by Roger Korby. Season One of Strange New Worlds takes place in 2259, the second season takes place on 2260. The TOS episode What Are Little Girls Made Of takes place in 2266.

Season One established that Chapter is a civilian nurse aboard the Enterprise. In the TOS episode WALGMO Chapel is said to leave her career and join Starfleet to find Korby. Korby was lost in 2261 on an archeological expedition.

So Korby may show up, the way Chapel is currently played by Jess Bush may change later in season two or season three to the Chapel we say played my Majel Barret.

Nice.

I really needed that.

I'm not going to lie: I teared up with the dedication at the end.

Spock calls the transporter room without using a button on the chair.

A couple of reviews said something to the effect of "As great as the first episode is, it's probably the weakest of the six we saw" to which I say...

giggity.

By the time we get to 2266 it'll be 2026. Likely segueing into the Enterprise under JTK and a reboot of the TOS five year mission with better, well, everything. Most of the same stories, sure... but slightly off so as to fit the continuity that's developed over the past 35-40 years rather than be enslaved to the haphazardness of the 60 year old source material.

Endearing as TOS might be in individual episodes, it doesn't work within the larger mythology that's evolved-often contradicting itself or having been surpassed by the contemporary world.

That said, the hint Chapel is about to take a leave of absence could allow for the Corby relationship to happen on or off screen. Pretty sure she'll take it as it sets up a great potential dynamic with T'Pring.

It was derivative of Star Tek 6. The two people who have taken oaths to do no harm are the ones kicking Klingon ass cia magic juice because the writers couldn’t figure out how to get these characters to think their way out of a bad situation. The only redeeming quality of this episode was Spock learning to deal with his emotions and that was brief.

Because of the villains plan? I thought you'd find it topical and insightful given your take on some current events here on Earth.

I thought the symmetry with TSFS was nice. It turns the crews decision to steal the Enterprise into a "What would Spock do" moment.

Two normally chill characters getting jacked up on space meth to ass kick their way out of a crisis is a more original solution than making the bad guys suddenly become incredibly stupid so the protagonists can "outsmart" them. (Yes, this is a direct shot at PIC S3)

And we know he'll do it again in "The Menagerie."

the space meth actually kinda makes sense as far as drug development goes.



there's a story about, I think a Finn, who choked back enough for a platoon which-I think-is what that Sisu movie is based on. Dude went all cocaine bear for a week on the Russians.

Well I was thinking of the time Harry, Seven and The Doctor were captured by the alien race that were prejudiced towards holograms so the Doctor had to hide inside of Seven’s implant. Then he takes over her personality and is able flirt with the dude then contacts Voyager. It’s kind of ridiculous to have 120 lb Chapel beating up Klingons. I’m also sick of them doing this thing where a regular human is exposed to the vacuum of space and survives. The Expanse did it, then Discovery and now Strange New Worlds.

That's the magic of space meth! You can see later when it starts wearing off, she hurts her hand punching a Klingon. They make it clear she couldn't do it normally.

What's more ridiculous was on DS9 when ordinary humans and Bajorans were facing trained Klingon warriors in hand to hand combat and not getting slaughtered.

I give leeway to Dax, in that maybe she could summon the strength of all her other selves.

Oh yeah, I figure joined trills get a stats boost, and Jadzia and Curzon were huge Klingon weebs, so Dax probably knows her way around a bat'leth as well as any Dahar Master.

And O'Brien and Kira almost certainly killed enough Cardies with their bare hands to be able to hold their own against Klingons.

Sisko thinks he's just that good at fighting, but really the Prophets are putting the whammy on anyone that takes a swing at the Emissary.

Dax also pointed out that the majority of Klingons are pumped up on the "warrior" bit but aren't actually all that qualified.

They're dudebros/"alpha males" who've swallowed their own Kool-Aid. Only one in a dozen is actually halfway decent as a fighter, and only one in a hundred a fighter on par with Worf, if that. The rest are cruising on their redundant organs and slightly superior strength - plus the fact that the average person freaks out when a hairy, huge mofo comes at them with a bladed weapon - but anyone who takes Starfleet martial arts training seriously can apply a two-handed chop that'll stop the fuckers.

This. People talk about it not being realistic, but I've watched professional fights where a little twig of a person absolutely clobbers the shit out of much larger opponents based on their fighting style and skillset.

The crew of the Enterprise fought Klingons and Kirk fought Spock, and Seven kicked all kinds of alien ass. Dax knew how to fight Klingons, Seven ifs former Borg so she probably knows all kinds of combat skills. I’d imagine most Starfleet officers are combat trained, except for doctors and nurses.
Hollywood seems obsessed these days with having skinny women fighting big burly men.

Speaking of Chapel: last night's episode reminded me that one of our newscast directors looks a whole lot like her. Not as thin, but curvier, which makes her that much hotter.

We don't work the same shift so I rarely see her, so I didn't note the resemblance until this new SNW episode.

That's your real complaint here, right?



*Slightly off topic, but it occured to me that Michael Burnham must be extremely fit for a human, considering she grew up on Vulcan and even learned their martial arts and we never saw her taking tri-ox to help manage the atmosphere there.

Humans can survive the vacuum of space, though. Granted, they have a vert limited window of time do so, however -- 30 seconds and we blackout. 90 and you're done.
So if you're doing a coldshirt crossing between ships, you have 90 seconds to make it from the first airlock into the other and have it pressurize, and I'd wager anything above the 75 second range is redlining your chances.
Also, do not hold your breath. That coldshirt has to be done with as little air in your lungs as possible.

Yep, Cosmonauts have come back from being de-compressed.
It fucks you up, but nowhere near as over-the-top as "Total Recall" depicts.

I get that. There’s just certain things that Picard, Discovery and SNW does that just screams Bad Robot/Secret Hideout, JJ Abrams, this is one of them. Another one is spinning the ship. They love this for some reason.

It falls on how it's depicted then. As for the spinning ships, on a surface level, I'd imagine that's a reasonable way to depict artificial gravity on board; I suspect that's not the reason it's being used on screen though.

Oh my fucking god I love this show.