I like that he had a beard.Wow. I also had no idea. It looked CGI. That takes the alien emissary from the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the next level, and this sort of animatronic technology was already pretty impressive by 1977.
Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x02 - "Children of The Comet"
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Not much facial hair on really exotic aliens in Trek. Klingons don't count in any makeup iteration. 
They did enough to make both of those aspects work story wise, which is what counts!
Sure sounded like it to me! And strangely, it appears using whatever phonetic compiler to assemble her dialogue made it sound a bit choppy, just like the ship's computer in TOS.
Alex Kapp was the voice of the computer. It wasn't Majel.
I was going off Pike's comments in the TOS pilot. Can't remember if it was 230, or 203, though.
More of a reference to the size of the crew than the size of the ship, IMO.
Didn't notice Babs in the credits.
Credits list Alex Kapp as the USS Enterprise Computer. (It sounded a little bit like Majel at the beginning of her line of speech, but then not at all when she ends with "originating in Kenya.")
Edit: Oops - got beat to the same response by Mr. Laser Beam!
Rewatch the relevant DSC ep again. Ash's child says the crystal he grasps will show him his future, but only if he takes, breaking it off from the main body it will that future be, for want of a better phrase, set in stone. he saw his future, reeled back in horror... and then grasped it anyway. That is the action of a brave, brave man.
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Finally a sensible interpretation of the prime directive.
I'm about half-way through the episode. Pausing during the commercial break.
I'm liking Spock better in this episode than last. La'an is still my favorite character in SNW. Number One would be second. At first I didn't think I'd like Hemmer because he seemed like an asshole, but he seems okay.
I'm glad they have the one-way Chapel flirtation with Spock going on.
The story seems pretty standard so far and I could take it or leave it. Uhura's backstory felt too info-dump-y to me. That said, we found out more about Uhura in one scene than in all of TOS.
Something about Ortegas reminds me of Vasquez from Aliens. She's the outgoing tomboy with no inhibitions.
I don't agree with Pike about Lt. Kirk's mustache. I don't like it. Every time I see that 'stache I keep wanting to tell him, "Hey! 1982 called!"
My father used to have a mustache like that in the '70s and '80s.
The visuals look great and I'm sold on the look for this series. Last week and during DSC Season 2, I was still on the fence about them going partially back to a more TOS Look, since I'm one of the people who thinks DSC made the right move by looking more like the movies. But SNW is making it work in about the only way I think it can work. So credit where credit's due.
I'm liking Spock better in this episode than last. La'an is still my favorite character in SNW. Number One would be second. At first I didn't think I'd like Hemmer because he seemed like an asshole, but he seems okay.
I'm glad they have the one-way Chapel flirtation with Spock going on.
The story seems pretty standard so far and I could take it or leave it. Uhura's backstory felt too info-dump-y to me. That said, we found out more about Uhura in one scene than in all of TOS.
Something about Ortegas reminds me of Vasquez from Aliens. She's the outgoing tomboy with no inhibitions.
I don't agree with Pike about Lt. Kirk's mustache. I don't like it. Every time I see that 'stache I keep wanting to tell him, "Hey! 1982 called!"
My father used to have a mustache like that in the '70s and '80s.The visuals look great and I'm sold on the look for this series. Last week and during DSC Season 2, I was still on the fence about them going partially back to a more TOS Look, since I'm one of the people who thinks DSC made the right move by looking more like the movies. But SNW is making it work in about the only way I think it can work. So credit where credit's due.
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More likely the way we interpret harmonies and how pleasing they sound to us has something to do with the way our cochlea and auditory processing centers are hardwired to interpret them. A better criticism is that there's no reason to think aliens with nothing resembling the structure of our ears would experience them the same way.
The Vulcans have been in Space for half a million years. They may not explore much, but they've been around.
Human and Vulcan databases were merged at some point after the founding of the Federation.
The actual alien alien that Uhura hummed to was good. Spock chiming in, humming too, was also good and something that seems logical. La'an is -- like I expected -- not going to do any of that.
The hard-headed alien that Pike's dealing with is a pain in the ass, but he's supposed to be, so it's okay. It's like he walked straight off of Voyager, the way he's acting. But I like how the Enterprise crew is taking his nonsense in stride.
The hard-headed alien that Pike's dealing with is a pain in the ass, but he's supposed to be, so it's okay. It's like he walked straight off of Voyager, the way he's acting. But I like how the Enterprise crew is taking his nonsense in stride.
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Regardless, the size and grandeur of his cabin seems incongruous. But, like I said, it's not a big problem and I've certainly enjoyed the series!
That's too bad. I'm tired of the a
Star wars pew pew lasers. Phasers were pretty unique to trek. Oh well. Just another reason to believe this is a alernate uni.
I did the research for the numbers and put it in a list for simple compare & contrast.
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