That's fine. Just understand that if you choose to reply to my posts, I will reply to yours in the exact way I have been. Have a nice day.
Just Started SNW RE: Uhura
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That's fine. Just understand that if you choose to reply to my posts, I will reply to yours in the exact way I have been. Have a nice day.
When did I ever ask you to reply, or not to reply to my posts?
Posting is a function of membership is this BBS and you're free to post/reply as you please.
When did I ever ask you to reply, or not to reply to my posts?
Posting is a function of membership is this BBS and you're free to post/reply as you please.
Then I’m sorry that I make your head explode every time I mention that SNW takes place in a different continuity.
And I'm sorry it makes you cry whenever someone mentions: Star Trek is just a TV show...Then I’m sorry that I make your head explode every time I mention that SNW takes place in a different continuity.
And I'm sorry it makes you cry whenever someone mentions: Star Trek is just a TV show...
Luckily, I can take it.
And I think we're done here.
That would be the dumbest thing they could possibly do. That's like, ENT "We need a two-part episode to explain the Klingon forehead ridge problem" level of dumb.
I said I don't have a problem with it. At all, in anyway. I have the miraculous ability to suspend disbelief on multiple levels for the purpose of my entertainment pleasure.
Fair enough. We kind of mind meld here. But in a different way.
I can absolutely suspend my disbelief that the characters as portrayed in TOS can still just... be the characters. I don't need a "modern update" to them, I can just... believe that's how they are.
Indeed.
SNW has this nice quality of filling in details that make it both entertaining in its own right snd filling in some nice background for TOS characters.
If I were to pick, Celia is closer to Nichelles version then Zoe. I may not like where they go with a lot of the backstory of characters on this show, or that they decided to have almost the entire TOS character roster show up. But Celia does an excellent job as Uhura and has definitely been one of the brightest spots of the show. She is a good singer as well.
I think she’s physically a better fit as a character from an African country than Nichols, though I like all three actresses who played the character. She’s a good actress and obviously a wonderful singer.
Despite what the network claims, this is very clearly an alternate universe/timeline from the original series. Maybe Scotty is too young because he was born later due to the timeline alterations. Kirk now knows and is attracted to a descendant of Khan Noonien-Singh. Don’t try and tell me they are the same people who didn’t know who Khan was. This Spock has not had the same experiences as the Spock whom T’Pring treats so coldly in Amok Time. Etc., etc.
Despite what the network claims, this is very clearly an alternate universe/timeline from the original series. Maybe Scotty is too young because he was born later due to the timeline alterations. Kirk now knows and is attracted to a descendant of Khan Noonien-Singh. Don’t try and tell me they are the same people who didn’t know who Khan was. This Spock has not had the same experiences as the Spock whom T’Pring treats so coldly in Amok Time. Etc., etc.
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Nope.
Yeah, that’s not how it works.The "network" is the deciding authority. So when James Kirk shows up with a different middle initial, when Vulcan is no longer a conquered world, when Klingons grow bumpy foreheads (or Orc faces) or a character acts slightly different it is the "network" who decides if these events take place in an alternate reality or the same one. I know this makes some fans "uncomfortable", but it is what it is.
Agreed.
They did know who Khan was in Space Seed, they just didn't recognize him until his name was mentioned.
Watch the briefing scene again.
How do you know? T'Pring has already brought up in SNW that him being away from her and focused on starfleet is an issue. Something that's also brought up in Amok Time as to why she wants to call off the marriage.
Indeed. They are putting clues together almost from the start. The make of the ship. The years it was in service. The events of those times and even Khan's name send Spock on a research mission. A mission that leads to the briefing room scene where Kirk IDs their passenger as Khan Noonien Singh.
SNW as you say, has planted seeds of doubt in T'Pring concerning her future with Spock. Seeds that come to fruit in Amok Time.
SNW depicts Scotty as the same age and rank as various novels set during this time period. Including one which was written by DC Fontana.
Yeah, probably not enough of an issue to wish him dead through combat. My favorite fun theory right now is that Sybok "takes her pain."
