That's not what happened. They asked them to make it clearer that the Defiant wasn't destroyed.
Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists
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I put off marathoning it and Discovery until I was done with school and now I'm working a lot. They're both on my list though!
Well you have good things to look forward to.
According to Jonathan Frakes, Hot Spock was also an improv. 
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jo...-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/
Frakes was especially thrilled when executive producers Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, and the episode’s writers Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, allowed Quaid and Newsome to improvise during several of their scenes. “Which doesn’t happen a lot on ‘Star Trek,’ as you probably have heard,” Frakes says. “I mean, especially in our fucking show” — i.e. “Next Gen” — “they were so strict. It was like we were doing Shakespeare or Chekhov.”
Frakes says one of the funniest moments of the episode — when Mariner tells Boimler that she didn’t expect young Spock would be so hot — was improvised by Newsome, and eventually, that energy “had an infectious effect” on the “Strange New Worlds” cast as well.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jo...-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/
Frakes was especially thrilled when executive producers Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, and the episode’s writers Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, allowed Quaid and Newsome to improvise during several of their scenes. “Which doesn’t happen a lot on ‘Star Trek,’ as you probably have heard,” Frakes says. “I mean, especially in our fucking show” — i.e. “Next Gen” — “they were so strict. It was like we were doing Shakespeare or Chekhov.”
Frakes says one of the funniest moments of the episode — when Mariner tells Boimler that she didn’t expect young Spock would be so hot — was improvised by Newsome, and eventually, that energy “had an infectious effect” on the “Strange New Worlds” cast as well.
I assumed that was a call back to Dax saying the exact same thing about Spock.According to Jonathan Frakes, Hot Spock was also an improv.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jo...-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/
Frakes was especially thrilled when executive producers Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, and the episode’s writers Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, allowed Quaid and Newsome to improvise during several of their scenes. “Which doesn’t happen a lot on ‘Star Trek,’ as you probably have heard,” Frakes says. “I mean, especially in our fucking show” — i.e. “Next Gen” — “they were so strict. It was like we were doing Shakespeare or Chekhov.”
Frakes says one of the funniest moments of the episode — when Mariner tells Boimler that she didn’t expect young Spock would be so hot — was improvised by Newsome, and eventually, that energy “had an infectious effect” on the “Strange New Worlds” cast as well.
Both.
Even less in the animated LDS, I'm sure. It was obvious the actors loved the opportunity.
Actually I gather the reverse is true.
Given Tawny's fangirl status, I'm not surprised.
The discussion with Pike about the importance of his birthday celebration to his colleagues was excellent. A nice commentary on mortality and the precious nature of relationships in our lives.
Unfortunately, that was the only thing in the entire episode that worked for me.
4/10
Unfortunately, that was the only thing in the entire episode that worked for me.
4/10
Like when you climb the rope in gym class?
I was also skeptical about the genre clash but I enjoyed it. I think the pathos was crucial to the episode. In addition to the Pike stuff, Boimler's conversation with Chapel was heart wrenching. The seeds of doom to their relationship sown by a slip of the tongue.
Worse, for those of us who thought Spock might have rekindled his relationship with Chapel after TOS, this now looks unlikely, unless they kept it secret, of course.
Maybe their conversation in the Naked Time will turn out to be prescient. The others believe he is in control of his emotions and that's how history records it, but not her...
This episode surprisingly worked well with some really touching moments with Pike and Number One.
It wasn't their ship to blow up.
The Earth was being attacked in pitched battle with the Borg. The Defiant was quite understandably sent. In that battle it wouldn't have been unreasonable if THE ENTIRE CAST OF DEEP SPACE NICE was blown up. War is hell.
Considering that DS9 was still in first run, yes, it would've been unreasonable for them to kill off all of the characters in a movie that had nothing to do with the series.
I'll add the sarcasm tag next time.
Also, #genesvision.