Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - "Charades"

[Nerys Myk]

Chapel's latest hair style seems to homage one Barrett wore in the role

 

[DaveyNY]

Yeah, the Vulcans as depicted in ENT were anal about studying, scanning and patrolling nearby star systems so it's a little odd that this anomaly went completely undetected for an untold number of years. Perhaps the vortex/portal only appears infrequently and thus past Vulcan ships and expeditions didn't detect it or at most picked up odd readings but by the time they arrived for closer scans nothing was there, leaving a mystery?

Even Vulcans can be stumped by scientific discoveries or overlook them ("the Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible").

Perhaps the Light Bright Aliens intentionally made the anomaly appear at this time, somehow knowing that the events surrounding the Spock/T'Pring family gathering needed to play out in this manner.

I would also associate them as being related in some manner to Zefram Cochrane's Companion in his later years.
Possibly even related to The Day of the Dove entity.

 

[Tallguy]

Missed the Korby name drop in my first watch.

Wait. WHAT? Where? I was totally looking for it, too!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Wait. WHAT? Where? I was totally looking for it, too!

When Chapel is studying for the fellowship. The bit with M'Benga.

 

[Amasov]

I laughed pretty hard at Spock trying to mind meld.

"My MIND to YOUR MIND....my THOUGHTS TO YOUR THOUGHTS!"

"Now you seem kind of pushy."

 

[DaveyNY]

I laughed pretty hard at Spock trying to mind meld.

"My MIND to YOUR MIND....my THOUGHTS TO YOUR THOUGHTS!"

"Now you seem kind of pushy."

Una doesn't hold back.

 

[drt]

Yeah, the Vulcans as depicted in ENT were anal about studying, scanning and patrolling nearby star systems so it's a little odd that this anomaly went completely undetected for an untold number of years. Perhaps the vortex/portal only appears infrequently and thus past Vulcan ships and expeditions didn't detect it or at most picked up odd readings but by the time they arrived for closer scans nothing was there, leaving a mystery?

Even Vulcans can be stumped by scientific discoveries or overlook them ("the Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible").

I was under the impression that the anomaly had only appeared recently and Enterprise was assigned to study it as the closest ship, but that may have been a mistaken assumption. I think they did mention that the planetoid was around one of the other stars in Vulcan's system, 40 Eridani B. Wherever the anomaly was, and when exactly it appeared, didn't seem like a major emergency, since they were making their way rather lazily.

 

[Unique]

Sevet must have married for love to have put up with T'Pril for all those years.

He married for money and he’s earned every penny.

Wait. WHAT? Where? I was totally looking for it, too!

M’Benga: “What are Korby's three principles of archeological medicine?” It’s in the first few minutes.

 

[Trekker4747]

I laughed pretty hard at Spock trying to mind meld.

"My MIND to YOUR MIND....my THOUGHTS TO YOUR THOUGHTS!"

"Now you seem kind of pushy."

I'm trying to pretend I see her thoughts and I can't, it's weird!

 

[NCC-73515]

And I loved Chapel basically telling the Vulcan Institute to go shove it. Looks like even a hundred years after Archer's time there is still Vulcans with a prejudicial view towards humans.

Especially after that guy just got curious about the new medical thing!

Its a racist concept to describe humans with more than one ethnic background.

By the few Vulcans we see on screen who represents a whole race? Everyone in the Vulcan system converted to Syrannite in 100 years?

It has nothing to do with 'races' or ethnicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
What those few Vulcans said matters.

As we've seen the comm badges just clip themselves on to the uniform, so we can chalk that one up to Sisko getting out of the wrong side of bed and putting it on wrong for that one instance.

That was a botched costume that they couldn't correct in time

Spock also got to break down and display emotions in "The Devil in the Dark." The Horta mind meld was Spock stripped down to his bare bones.

Bones was fully clothed.

 

[cooleddie74]

Get out.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Kerkhovians gave me a Doctor Who vibe. I can see the Doctor going up against Extra-dimensional Customer Service

 

[Trekker4747]

"Hold on to your butts." - Ortegas, apparently a descendant of Samuel L. Jackson's character from Jurassic Park.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It has nothing to do with 'races' or ethnicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
What those few Vulcans said matters.

Christina Chong and Chloe Bennett aren't fictional aliens .

 

[Captain Jollydark]

That would make sense if it were an embroidered delta, but it was a metal emblem. So weird how something like that can slip through, like the time Sisko's comm badge was up on the grey part of his uniform instead of under it.

It looked embossed to me. so could be inside out

 

[Captain Jollydark]

Is there a canon explanation of why or how Sarek got into marriages with two different human partners? Considering it seems out of character for the species as otherwise depicted.
Even adopting a human child seems completely out of character for any Vulcan except Sarek.

I said, he was rebelling against an oppressive upbringing only to turn around and repress the hell out of his own children.

 

[Trekker4747]

Watching it again, its was in part of the ski-cap that was rolled up. It was a metallic (or just a shiny material) sewn into the fabric of the cap.

 

[Captain Jollydark]

I have an Indian friend whose brother asked his mother to set up a marriage. They are very happy. It works fine when it's adults who can consent. I was thinking of the fact the two of them were 7 when they were betrothed, and children cannot consent.

I think maybe that's why SNW has T'Pring ask Spock to marry her when they are officially adults. Maybe it has to be reinforced by both parties when they're of legal age? It's more palatable to modern audience certainly.

 

[Captain Jollydark]

Phew, read the entire thread except some posts.
Spock was about to tell T’Pring he is Human in the corridor when she reminded him that a mind-meld with her mother is part of the ceremony.
If Spock told her, T’Pril would’ve learned the truth during the meld.

Yeah, I thought that might be a reason too.

 

[Noname Given]

One of my problems with nu-Trek and Enterprise. IDIC would indicate that the Vulcans would at least embrace the differences and keep an open mind. Logic would dictate that they show a little more self-control on the issue individually and as a species, eh?

They sure didn't have open minds in TOS. So, why should that change in SNW?