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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x03 - "Ghosts of Illyria"

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The secret to Una's "seemingly" super strength: The ability to turn Hemmer into a fluffy plush doll...
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Yeah, I physically cringed when I saw that. It was just a terribly executed shot and so obvious. They could have done without the dummy and the slow mo.
 
I hope DSC and PIC can learn to correct writing mistakes by paying attention to SNW. All three could benefit from a more classic Trek approach to characterization.
There may be hope for DSC, but PIC's last season is already done (with the possible exception of some post production).
 
True. Let's hope getting feedback from SNW being under production at the same time resulted in some good changes happening at the other series.
 
I'm one of the people who thinks that both Discovery and Picard are absolute dumpster fires, so it's not like this show had a high bar to clear.

Same. Those shows just did not resonate with me.

Una lifting Hemmer all slow-motion, and then when she was walking with an obvious dummy slung over her shoulder, was cringe. Absolute cringe. But that was the only time that I could complain about Una.

Yeah that slomo was out of place and total cringe. I actually lowered my score from an 8 to a 7 mostly because of it. The directors/show runners/editors should have seen how cringe the dummy was, and the slomo just called attention to it.

I’m loving No1 though.

I'm not sold on Spock yet. I didn't see him on discovery so I don't know much about the actor's previous performance, but so far this one hasn't sold me yet.

I’m starting to think it’s his speaking cadence. The actor seems to be trying to channel Nimoy, and in some way he gets it, but his cadence seems to arbitrarily speed up during parts of his dialog, and it seems strange.
 
I'm genuinely astonished at people trying to rank SNW against other Trek series after only three episodes. Imagine trying to rank TNG objectively after "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Naked Now", and motherfucking "Code of Honor"... :barf2:
I did back then in 1987 and almost quit watching too. But it was the first live-action Trek on TV in 18 years; and I kept hoping it would get better, but definitely in the first season it didn't.
 
Maybe I missed it, but wouldn't any medical scan, blood sample, DNA scanning mcguffin machine have outed Number One as being Illyrian?
Not if it was known that the genetic engineering they did would allow her to pass as a human; which she probably realized, and that's when she decided to take a chance and enlist in Starfleet to see if she would make the cut.
 
I'm genuinely astonished at people trying to rank SNW against other Trek series after only three episodes. Imagine trying to rank TNG objectively after "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Naked Now", and motherfucking "Code of Honor"... :barf2:

Oh, it can still totally tank on us. It is CBS Trek in the 21st century and that's got a mixed track record at very best. But we work with what we have and so far...so very good.
 
"Children of The Comet" was more science fiction than Trek usually manages in a couple of decades.

Didn't notice the dummy.
 
I'm genuinely astonished at people trying to rank SNW against other Trek series after only three episodes. Imagine trying to rank TNG objectively after "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Naked Now", and motherfucking "Code of Honor"... :barf2:
Well, when those 3 episodes have been the 3 best live action Trek anything we've gotten in the past 20 years, it's pretty easy to do. I enjoy both Picard and Diso a lot, but this so completely blows them away, that I can pretty confidently put this above them in my ranking, even after just three episodes.
Plot wise, it was okay. It kind of felt like TOS, and it continued the tradition of shipwide virus episodes. I guess I would say the one thing that bugs me is that it feels like these writers still aren't used to sci-fi yet. Maybe that will change in future episodes. But it feels like they haven't dialed it in yet. Otherwise, I think this is a comfortable 7 out of 10.
I'm curious what you mean by that.
 
I did back then in 1987 and almost quit watching too. But it was the first live-action Trek on TV in 18 years; and I kept hoping it would get better, but definitely in the first season it didn't.
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. A Trekkie's faithful one hundred percent." ;)
 
Were diagnostics different in the TOS era? I honestly don't remember, but I know that diagnostics in the TNG era were...level 5 was a short one and the long style was a level 1. So it threw me when Hemmer said a level 5 diagnostic would take all night. My brain said "Wait, doesn't he mean level 1?"
Maybe for the TNG era Serveaux was in charge of diagnostic protocols and accidently reversed the scale.

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I guess I would say the one thing that bugs me is that it feels like these writers still aren't used to sci-fi yet.
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