Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"

[Therin of Andor]

Doing a rewatch. Nothing in La'An's description of Amelia Moon mentions it being a Young Adult series. The plot she's involved in seems a bit more adult than 1960s YA fare. Infidelity. Casual sex. A rather graphic murder.

I thought there were several Jessica Fletcher gags in there, such as accusing Amelia Moon as always being near the scene of a crime, so an obvious suspect.

 

[Mudd]

Sure it is, she didn't even know really what Star Trek was. That "USO series" she was reportedly quoted as saying. Again, she trusted Herb Solow, that was her sound choice. She said "yes" and that's pretty much it. Solow's name needs to be mentioned a LOT more than Lucy's,

Imagine you're at work slaving over getting projects approved. You created elaborate presentations, worked weeks on it, and presented them to the board for approval. The board isn't thrilled to spend the money on both, but the president believes in you and says go for it. You're still the genius who made it worth the risk, not the president of the company. It's not like she mortgaged her house to bankroll the series. She believed in Solow not necessarily Star Trek.

Charlie Bluhdorn gave Harve Bennett the authority to do what he wanted to for Star Trek II, which in the end revived the franchise. Yet you never hear his name. Why? Because he is the guy who said yes. He didn't do the legwork.

Exactly so.

 

[Greg Cox]

What about the Swimming pool?

Used the swimming pool years ago, in No Time Like the Past.

 

[DaveyNY]

I had no problems with the episode at all. I thought it was great.

However, I will contribute a logical nitpick:

The holodeck was programmed with the biometric data of those crewmembers who have been through the transporter a lot.

One of them is a guy who doesn't even serve on the ship. He's been aboard all of three or four times over the course of a year.

He's probably the Technician who just happen to look like Kirk and helped install the 'Re-creation' Room and his data was used to calibrate it during initial startup testing.


"TRUE" fans find a way....
/s

 

[Greg Cox]

I had no problems with the episode at all. I thought it was great.

However, I will contribute a logical nitpick:

The holodeck was programmed with the biometric data of those crewmembers who have been through the transporter a lot.

One of them is a guy who doesn't even serve on the ship. He's been aboard all of three or four times over the course of a year.

Clearly, Scotty thought Kirk looked like a movie star -- and a heroic Starfleet captain!

 

[Nerys Myk]

I had no problems with the episode at all. I thought it was great.

However, I will contribute a logical nitpick:

The holodeck was programmed with the biometric data of those crewmembers who have been through the transporter a lot.

One of them is a guy who doesn't even serve on the ship. He's been aboard all of three or four times over the course of a year.

Scotty's been following the "Too Much Kirk" threads on the BBS.

 

[indranee]

I agree.

However, for me, I was invested in La'an and Kirk. Kirk and Carol Marcus are doomed after all.

I just feel that La'an is a doomed character. She will either be forgotten by EVERYONE by some wierd twist or she'll be one of those "starfleet secrets" that is classified and no one ever talks about. So I guess they can have at it right now where she's concerned. She's played by a very charismatic actor, so I don't blame them.

 

[StarTrek1701]

I just feel that La'an is a doomed character. She will either be forgotten by EVERYONE by some wierd twist or she'll be one of those "starfleet secrets" that is classified and no one ever talks about. So I guess they can have at it right now where she's concerned. She's played by a very charismatic actor, so I don't blame them.

Just like the Spore Drive that could have helped Voyager so much a century later LOL.

 

[1001001]

That was very entertaining.



9

 

[Fateor]

They also stated outright that the timeline wasnt impacted at all by the shuffling of the Eugenics War, as a fixed point in time no matter what it always happens and no matter when it happens nothing changes, World War 3 and first contact will always follow when they are set to.

Give the episode a rewatch.

Star Trek doesn't have fixed points, it has big dominoes that are a lot harder to change then the little dominoes that get changed all the time.

This I can agree with and Holo-Spock surprised me as the solution. The whole stuff with a this level of holodeck existing is a thorn. That they have a handful of episodes to work with and they're already reaching for a holodeck? Ehhh. I dunno it's irking but I ended up enjoying the episode.

It was very obviously a bottle episode to save money, something that shows are going back to doing because production budgets have bloated into insanity.

I just feel that La'an is a doomed character. She will either be forgotten by EVERYONE by some wierd twist or she'll be one of those "starfleet secrets" that is classified and no one ever talks about. So I guess they can have at it right now where she's concerned. She's played by a very charismatic actor, so I don't blame them.

I'd say it is more likely she just didn't exist in the 1992 Eugenic Wars version of the timeline.

In the current timeline she probably just replaces Giotto or Pitcairn.

 

[fireproof78]

Charlie Bluhdorn gave Harve Bennett the authority to do what he wanted to for Star Trek II, which in the end revived the franchise. Yet you never hear his name. Why? Because he is the guy who said yes. He didn't do the legwork.

Same with Al Lad Jr. for Star Wars.

Just like the Spore Drive that could have helped Voyager so much a century later LOL.

Declassified and breaking the law to do it lol

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Clearly, Scotty thought Kirk looked like a movie star -- and a heroic Starfleet captain!

I thought Paul Wesley as Maxwell Saint as the captain on the show looked a lot like Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk in the 2009 movie.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Declassified and breaking the law to do it lol

Not to mention the necessity of having to locate an extremely rare species of space tardigrade which may actually already be extinct by the 24th century just to make it work.

 

[Fateor]

Not to mention the necessity of having to locate an extremely rare species of space tardigrade which may actually already be extinct by the 24th century just to make it work.

Everybody forgets that the reason they needed that tardigrade was because their computers weren't powerful enough to calculate a jump any longer then a short distance.

 

[TheFlutteringHorde]

If Voyager tried to use a Spore Drive it'd probably have a fatal interaction with Neelix cheese and Event Horizon the whole crew.

 

[cooleddie74]

On the other hand, no leola root stew.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Everybody forgets that the reason they needed that tardigrade was because their computers weren't powerful enough to calculate a jump any longer then a short distance.

Which must still be the case in the 32nd century then.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I feel bad that I think Paul Wesley did more acting in the Shatner impression than he's been allowed to on a lot of his roles.

 

[XCV330]

I loved it. 10. And I love how it appear to drive TOS fandamentalists to self-immolation almost as much, now.

 

[1001001]

I loved it. 10. And I love how it appear to drive TOS fandamentalists to self-immolation almost as much, now.

That’s so funny you say that.

The whole time I was thinking “TOS fans are going to hate this!”



I don’t know if that’s actually true or not, but it was definitely in my mind watching the episode…