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Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists

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It was a cute episode and Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome both did a good job. However, I thought the script oversold the idea that every single member of the "main" crew was famous in the future.
 
the G-man said:
It was a cute episode and Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome both did a good job. However, I thought the script oversold the idea that every single member of the "main" crew was famous in the future.
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Hasn’t that been a thing since TNG? Though not in season 1 for some reason.
 
the G-man said:
It was a cute episode and Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome both did a good job. However, I thought the script oversold the idea that every single member of the "main" crew was famous in the future.
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Except Nurse Chapel, apparently.

And even if the rest aren't generally famous, they're definitely famous to hardcore Trekkies like Boims and Mariner.
 
Nerys Myk said:
Hasn’t that been a thing since TNG? Though not in season 1 for some reason.
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I see Kirk and Spock as akin to Patton and MacArthur in terms of how well known they'd be to the general public of the Lower Decks era, let alone high ranking officers. I'm honestly not so sure that would translate to everyone else on the crew having that level of fame, which is almost how it came off here. I realize it's something of a comment on us, the Trekkies, but it just seemed to go a little crazy here. Maybe someone here with military service can comment more intelligently than I on just how "fanboyish" members of the military are to past officers.
 
the G-man said:
I see Kirk and Spock as akin to Patton and MacArthur in terms of how well known they'd be to the general public of the Lower Decks era, let alone high ranking officers. I'm honestly not so sure that would translate to everyone else on the crew having that level of fame, which is almost how it came off here. I realize it's something of a comment on us, the Trekkies, but it just seemed to go a little crazy here. Maybe someone here with military service can comment more intelligently than I on just how "fanboyish" members of the military are to past officers.
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As mentioned, the Lower Deckers are Starfleet fanboys, even Mariner. They are us. Other Starfleet members probably don't care all that much about Uhura or Sulu or that time the Enterprise went to a gangster planet.
 
Tallguy said:
Are you kidding? Riker saw a clothed person in a shower and thought "That's just like what happened to Kirk!"
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I thought they had to dig through records or something because it seemed familiar.
Chakoteya to the rescue
RIKER: Data, I need help in locating some library computer information.
DATA: Specifics, sir?
RIKER: All I have is a vague memory of reading somewhere about someone taking a shower in his or her clothing.
DATA: Ah. The body Geordi discovered.
RIKER: I believe it may have happened before.
DATA: To someone, somewhere.
RIKER: This ought to be easy for someone written up in bio-mechanical texts.
DATA: About that, sir. Did the Doctor believe I was boasting?
RIKER: Probably. This may take some time.
DATA: At least several hours. But what I said was a statement of fact. Perhaps she will look it up.
RIKER: You can depend on it.
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(Data is going through library records with Riker hanging over his shoulder)
DATA: Can you provide more information, sir? Seeking an instance of someone showering in his or her clothing is
RIKER: I know. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
DATA: Why should anyone wish to expend his time in such a search?
RIKER: Correction, Data, I should have said proverbial needle in a haystack.
DATA: Ah, a human proverb! As in folklore, or an historical allusion, or tribal memories
RIKER: Historical. That's it. I remember I was reading a history of all the past starships named Enterprise.
DATA: Enterprise history. Aberrant behavior. Medical cross reference,
(Picard enters)
RIKER: Captain, I believe we've have the answer to what happened over there.
PICARD: (reading the screen) The Constitution class Enterprise, Captain James T. Kirk commanding.
RIKER: Similar conditions. They were monitoring a planet that was breaking up, not a collapsing star as in this case. But there were the same huge shifts in gravity,
PICARD: Which somehow resulted in complex strings of water molecules which acquired carbon from the body and acted on the brain like alcohol. Data, download this information to Medical immediately.
DATA: Aye, sir. Downloading.
PICARD: Fascinating! The entire crew going out of control,
RIKER: Like intoxication, but worse. Judgment almost completely impaired,
PICARD: Until they found this formula, barely in time. Picard to Doctor Crusher, come in.
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