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Strange New Worlds season 2

I thought this was pretty entertaining. It did feel a lot more like an episode with the weight and ambition of a standard standalone in a 26-episode season than one of the precious 10-episode season slots Strange New Worlds has. When you have so few episodes to work with, I think it's reasonable to expect them to shoot for the spectacular more often, and this certainly wasn't that. It was enjoyable, though, and it was good to see Pike properly in an episode after Anson cameoing in the previous three due to paternity leave.

I thought the tie-in with The Cage was neat, with the plot weaving in Pike's previous visit to Rigel VII, and beyond that, I agree with those who say this one definitely did have a TOS vibe to it. I picked up on it.

Nice standalone premise and a Strange "New-ish" World—that was fun, if again a little underwhelming considering the constraints on how much of this show we actually get.

The crew of the Enterprise being vulnerable to the radiation was a pretty big stretch when you consider that glorified tinfoil hats work on the planet itself, but it's fine. We did get the line about Spock recalibrating the shields to protect against it, at least.

The Ortega B plot stuff was alright, I guess, although I was getting slightly annoyed by "I fly the ship," at the end.

The theme of how important our memories are and how they shape our personalities was, again, fine, although it was all pretty obvious stuff. The former Starfleet officer making himself king was almost interesting, but there wasn't much to it.

This is a perfectly serviceable episode with some interesting parts, but maybe just a little light when you consider the 10-episode season count. I'd say the first episode of Season 2 was decently above average and the three after have just been OK (even though I was very critical of Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I didn't think it was awful or anything).

OK...is,well, OK, but I'm clamoring for them to find another level for the show to ascend to because, out of all nu-Trek, Strange New Worlds really has the potential to not just be good but great, but it's not quite there yet.
 
Great episode, think it might bend canon a bit, but can see why they don't want to be hampered by something wrote nearly sixty years ago.
 
This week's is just... remember when I said that last week's plot hole was pretty obvious, but only after watching the episode?

Not so this week. Okay, so here we have a gaggle of women tutoring Spock in how to be Vulcan. That is fucking retarded. Even with his Vulcan DNA removed, he's still got a fucking lifetime of experience with suppressing his human half and living as a Vulcan. He doesn't need to be taught how to do it, he's been doing it his whole life.
 
Ethan Peck was great playing a human! When he walked in wearing the hat I laughed. Pike had some funny reactions too and T'Pring's dad was fun.

Spock and Chapel banging the SHIT out of each other does make his behaviour towards her in TOS feel really cold. But we'll see how they get to that point (maybe; maybe they'll just go their own way.)

I kind of didn't like the talking distortion alien as it felt a bit too much like something from Futurama? They could have made it a bit weirder. Probably just me!

Mia Kirshner is only 11 years older than Ethan Peck lol. Maybe Amanda is older than the actress and just looks younger because of Vulcan medicine.
 
OMG I loved it! Spock experiencing all the human emotions of a teenager was so fun.

I hope they don't worry too much about Spock and Chapel from TOS. Not that they need to have some big romance, but they can have some fun. Spock will eventually get back with T'Pring.
 
whisky said:
Great episode, think it might bend canon a bit, but can see why they don't want to be hampered by something wrote nearly sixty years ago.
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That's the challenge they took on when they took the job. Can't follow the game rules, don't play the game.
 
If you have to slavishly follow what was wrote previously then we should have been following the adventures of James R Kirk.
 
whisky said:
If you have to slavishly follow what was wrote previously then we should have been following the adventures of James R Kirk.
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Obviously, there's room for flexibility.

But you don't sit down to a game of chess and only follow the rules of chess when and if you happen to feel like it. That's the game. You tell people that's the game you're playing, you'd damned well better play by the rules.

Or... and this is shockingly easy... don't play.

Don't feel like making Star Trek? Call it something else. Don't want to be "burdened" by the writing challenge of staying within canon? Create your own canon, from scratch.

Of course, they don't want to do that. They want the pre-established audience, instead of having to risk that their shit wouldn't build one. Kind of hard not to sympathize, because without the Star Trek title and set dressing, NuTrek would probably have Darwin'd back in 2009.
 
Landing party nearly freezes to death in the enemy within because the transporters are faulty and there are no such things as shuttle craft.

I guess they shouldn't have wrote the gallelo 7 after that.
 
whisky said:
Landing party nearly freezes to death in the enemy within because the transporters are faulty and there are no such things as shuttle craft.

I guess they shouldn't have wrote the gallelo 7 after that.
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Apples to oranges. Things evolve as time moves forward. Not as time moves backward. Besides which, they did all this under their own nameplate -- guess how people would have reacted to that plot in an episode of Gunsmoke.
 
Cassie said:
OMG I loved it! Spock experiencing all the human emotions of a teenager was so fun.

I hope they don't worry too much about Spock and Chapel from TOS. Not that they need to have some big romance, but they can have some fun. Spock will eventually get back with T'Pring.
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Maybe there's a transporter accident which turns Chapel into Majel Barrett and Spock can't look at her any more.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Maybe there's a transporter accident which turns Chapel into Majel Barrett and Spock can't look at her any more.
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Same with Number One.

They become hybridized as a single being, Numbeen Wappel. Then Kate Mulgrey shows up and rampages around the set, yelling, "WE ALREADY DID THIS, GOD DAMMIT!"
 
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