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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"

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Although I hate to be one of the canon warriors but this does contradict TOS in that “The Galileo Seven” was meant to be Spock’s first time in command.

That didn't even make sense at the time, its way too late in Spock's career for that.
 
Are her bones somehow more fragile than a middle aged Kirk's
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Even if they are, to complain about a Strength Serum in a fictional universe where medicine can cure cancer, grow new organs with one pill and instantly heal bone fractures & stab wounds is more than a bit silly.
 
Also still can’t believe the bizarre M’Benga/Chapel fight scene. I was gawking at the screen not quite believing what I was seeing. How come this drug isn’t used in future Trek?

I don't know, why isn't meth?

I mean, if what you got out of the scene was that this was a handy tool to have around the house, well...videogame thinking.

Although I hate to be one of the canon warriors but this does contradict TOS in that “The Galileo Seven” was meant to be Spock’s first time in command.
Yes it did! And about goddamn time! Common sense contradicts "The Galileo Seven."

Also not enthused at the prospect of some Spock/Chapel relationship. The more I think about it, the weaker it seems

Chapel/Spock is the best thing about the series at this point, and the series is very good.
 
That didn't even make sense at the time, its way too late in Spock's career for that.
Especially considering he was in command of the ship in the opening for TOS S1 The Corbomite Maneuver.

(And Hell in the original pilot version of Tthe Cage, Spock is in command of the ship while both Pike and Number One are being held captive in a cage; and he attempts to order the ship to leave (abandoning the hostages), and the only reason it doesn't is because the Talosians prevent it.)
 
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Yep. While Kirk is undergoing his quarterly medical examination in Sickbay he's not officially in command of the ship and Spock has full authority as the senior bridge officer, so as early as the first few episodes ever made Spock is making command decisions - and in the case of "The Corbomite Maneuver"- is in command over the fates of 430 people, not just seven in a shuttlecraft.
 
Chapel doing some Aikido or something is fine with me. However, on several occasions in the fights she is punched in the face by Klingon males. Her facial bones would be shattered and her skull fracture by this. This is just a "tough girl" trope that I hate.
I understand what you're saying but the green juice obviously has an effect on the strength of the bones - and not just the ones in the hand.

Good "tough girl" tropes usually involve some kind of radical augmentation. River Tam comes to mind.
 
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Another way around this is that maybe because Starfleet doesn’t want it known that one of their officers stole a starship and the crew blatantly disobeyed orders, they covered up the entire incident, told people not to discuss it and left it off official records.

In that case, maybe McCoy truly believes it’s Spock’s first command because no one knows about this incident.
 
Another way around this is that maybe because Starfleet doesn’t want it known that one of their officers stole a starship and the crew blatantly disobeyed orders, they covered up the entire incident, told people not to discuss it and left it off official records.

In that case, maybe McCoy truly believes it’s Spock’s first command because no one knows about this incident.
And the other times???
 
Huh? Dr. Leonard McCoy knew enough about Vulcan physiology to perform open heart surgery on Sarek and save his life in TOS S2 Journey To Babel.
I just checked. You are right. I must have been misremembering it.
 
Huh? Dr. Leonard McCoy knew enough about Vulcan physiology to perform open heart surgery on Sarek and save his life in TOS S2 Journey To Babel.
Book learnin' ;)
MCCOY: Plus the fact I've never operated on a Vulcan before. Oh, I've studied the anatomical types. I know where all the organs are. But that's a lot different from actual surgical experience. So if I don't kill him with the operation, the drug probably will.
 
And then you have McCoy knowing nothing of Gorkon's anatomy when 142 years earlier Phlox and his fellow doctors logged extensive medical data on Klaang after he survived being shot. So either McCoy is really selectively attentive or Starfleet Medical classifies or conveniently ignores a lot of stuff as the decades pass. ;)
 
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