Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x03 - "Shuttle to Kenfori"

[Nyotarules]

I am not a horror fan but it was not scary, I gave it a 9 for the character development, especially Ortegas.

As for Uhura's hairstyle, the character might be wearing a wig but that style is not strange to black woman using their natural hair.

Thankfully black women are past the need to seek approval for how nonblack persons and non black society, feel about how we style our hair.
(Society hates our melanin content and hates our hair texture...sucks to be us).

 

[trekfan_1]

I will echo what a couple others already said in response to Rahul's comment of SNW using science fiction as a backdrop.

That's exactly why ( especially early in My life) I gravitated to Trek more that other Sci fi. Because it didn't feel like other Sci fi.

Gene Roddenberry himself said straight out he only used Sci fiction as the backdrop to tell the type of stories he wanted . Even if aliens looked unrealistic and had " pook a dot spots " on them as he put it..

Also, I think some people are a little swayed on the marketing and seem to dislike based on superficial reasons.

Their minds work like " oh they are saying this episode is a zombie story. I dislike zombie stories = will not like this episode to keep my internal profile consistent " ...Then watches the episode, subconsciously says " hey I kinda like this" but then the " well im not supposed to like horror" partof them kicks in and they will still try to dismiss it.

I'm not saying we all do this. Not at all. but I would say something along those lines in a certain degree can and does happen.

I originally watched TNG's " Genesis" without any promotion that it would be horror-ish and took it as is. Star Trek has always played with genre to tell stories. Whether you think SNW goes to that well too often is fair point. . Me personally, after seing how early seasons of Discovery and Picard went so dark, I'm liking this style ( genre hopping but more to the lighter side) and do no think they have crossed that line. But that's me.

 

[Roald]

Did not expect this one to be so character driven, excellent..!
I'm really starting to fall in love with the series, and it has now most definately become my number 1 show of the Kurtzman-era (which is saying something considering I have loved each show to come from that). I love the character-arcs interwoven with stand-alone style of TOS. I know not everything is going to align perfectly with TOS, but I'm not even sure I would fully want it anymore at this point. There's obviously a great amount of love for Trek and the history of Trek from the showrunners, despite claims made by many that they 'don't care about Trek or its fans'. I have a feeling that with the Skydance takeover, we might me looking at another long drought of new Trek, with SNW seasons 4 and 5, and Starfleet Academy seasons 1 and 2 being the last Trek-output for quite some time... I hope I'm wrong, but in case I'm right, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of these new upcoming seasons..!

 

[bookworm8571]

I don’t like the Klingon makeup on either the Klingon normals or the zombies, but I’ve never enjoyed zombie movies either.

I’m not sure what they’re planning to do with Batel, though I suppose Gorn-human hybridization is one way to write her off before Pike’s injury and add to Pike’s tragic back story. Pike had some tough breaks here: his girlfriend lied and didn’t trust him and he’s going to be taking a Gorn-human hybrid to bed; his good buddy M’Benga is a murderous assassin and lied to him about it. The world is topsy turvy. Who can he trust?

 

[HotRod]

I am not a horror fan but it was not scary, I gave it a 9 for the character development, especially Ortegas.

As for Uhura's hairstyle, the character might be wearing a wig but that style is not strange to black woman using their natural hair.

Thankfully black women are past the need to seek approval for how nonblack persons and non black society, feel about how we style our hair.
(Society hates our melanin content and hates our hair texture...sucks to be us).

Just for the record, Uhura's hair was great. It's Number One's hair in this episode that I found comical.

 

[Tosk]

Good ep, thumbs up. I was irrationally worried about getting two dud eps in a row (based on nothing) and was glad to be wrong.

That's at least two Trek zombie episodes now that I have liked.

 

[Mr. Patient]

Hey, I'm not trying to be sexist or anything like that. It was just a damn ugly hairstyle and almost surely a wig. A very bad wig.

I saw a comment on Reddit that suggested that her hair (and Uhura's) was like this to make it easier for production to depict the zero-G scene.

 

[Tuskin38]

Kind of a shame, they go to the effort to have Marc Okrand translate the Klingon dialogue, but the text on the screens still appears to just be English in a Klingon font

The Klingon shuttle in atmosphere wings looked similar in operation, to what the Dune flyers used, in the latest movie, by House Atreides.

That shuttle design dates back to DSC season 1, so before the new dune movie.

But yeah the wings are based off the same concept

 

[Tosk]

I saw a comment on Reddit that suggested that her hair (and Uhura's) was like this to make it easier for production to depict the zero-G scene.

I assume said suggestion was actually just a supposition?

Whatever the reason, they made her look like she's bald and wearing a hat.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I assume said suggestion was actually just a supposition?

Probably, but it's one that makes sense from a real world context.

 

[theonering]

I quite enjoyed this episode. Even though I don’t get much excitement out of the “zombie” genre of stories.

I do want to get y’all’s opinions on something though… does the CGI this season seem a bit “off” to you? I can’t place my finger on it. But it’s almost too colorful or too perfect looking.
Maybe I’m just getting old and turning into one those “things were better back in my day” people. But I also recently watched all the transformers movies over the last couple of weeks and felt the CGI was more eye appealing in the first few movies even though they’re over a decade old at this point.

 

[The Wormhole]

Has this thread really made four pages without anyone pointing out the amusing parallel with A Private Little War, specifically Chapel slapping Spock? Really?

Y'all disappoint me.

 

[Trekker4747]

Yeah, I dunno. A 7? Didn't need the "zombie" stuff, not sure what that gave us. But everything else was pretty good.

"My apologies, Ensign."

Okay, I chuckled.

 

[Tosk]

Probably, but it's one that makes sense from a real world context.

One would think they wouldn't have made the supposition otherwise.

 

[Tuskin38]

The music played during some of the Klingon scenes reminded me of ST6

 

[bookworm8571]

M'Benga's not even 40 and had 4 wives? That line actually did more damage to his character than any of the Klingon angst stuff. Maybe I'll just pretend he was on Denobulus for a while or something

How so? He joins other ship doctors who had a lot of failed marriages: McCoy, Pulaski, etc. I assumed Rukiya’s mom Debra died from his reaction to seeing an adult Rukiya, so he was probably widowed at least once.

 

[bookworm8571]

Just for the record, Uhura's hair was great. It's Number One's hair in this episode that I found comical.

They’ve done some other weird things with her hair in imitation of the original series and 60s hairstyles. It doesn’t measure up to the hideous lime green V-neck tunic that Pike wears in a couple of the episodes.

 

[Tosk]

The music played during some of the Klingon scenes reminded me of ST6

Yeah, they seem to like doing that. I remember them doing it during A Quality of Mercy as well.

 

[Firebird]

I saw a comment on Reddit that suggested that her hair (and Uhura's) was like this to make it easier for production to depict the zero-G scene.

That’s a genius production solution. Just a shame the hairdresser couldn’t think of something for Una that didn’t look like a hat… Uhura’s hair was gorgeous, as usual, thankfully.

 

[aquova]

What exactly caused the Klingon zombies? I apparently missed the explanation for that completely.

I thought this episode was... fine. I actually liked all of the individual pieces well enough, but when they all came together I just thought the episode was average. Nothing really bad here, but also nothing that really wowed me. I will say I'm getting whiplash from all the romantic relationships though. Between Spock-Chapel and Pike-Batel, they're happy and lovey-dovey one episode, then on the verge of collapse the next.