I think its weird that two episodes in a row spock is hallucinating.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x03 - "Human Best Friend"
I think its weird that two episodes in a row spock is hallucinating.
Yeah the two situations are so similar.
Kern too was purposely killing Klingon Soldiers and squandering important military resources by sending them into hopeless battles, and placing the entire Alpha quadrant at risk...oh wait...
I noticed this easter egg, and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Ortegas wearing a replica Shran antenna that Archer damaged during combat with an ice knife in the Enterprise Episode United.
I found the episode to be quite fun, gave it a 9.
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I completely forgot about Pelia!
If she had been here I'd have loved it to play her straight and have her version of intoxicated by super straight laced (I guess Spock played it that way a touch with the joke being that he seemed sober to humans)
he was there at the end - thought it was that on planet he wasn’t seeing as Erica and Scotty couldn’t see him on planet but could at the transporter platform
Might be reading it wrong but I thought that was the point of it that Spock thought he was still imagining it as Kirk never indicated he was with Spock on planet
The gag was that Kirk just happened to be on leave on that specific planet at the same time as the crew, but Spock thought he was a hallucination. He just happens to be out of the room [EDIT: correction, I just saw @Tosk's breakdown of the reveal, he's just standing really still in the room] when Ortegas and Scotty visit. It's done in such a way that he seems, from our perspective, to be the hallucination that Spock thinks he is.
(Honestly, it's a bit confusingly executed and doesn't make a lot of sense if you think about it too much. Like why does Kirk never appear to be impaired if he was really there? Maybe being inebriated makes him a hugger, I guess? Standing really still might work on the drunk/high/impaired people as a bozo comedy stealth technique, but why does the sober Ortegas not notice him? Basically, don't worry about it.)
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Last week ripped off Event Horizon. This week ripped off The Hangover.
Can't wait for the Muppets episode....
Can't wait for the Muppets episode....
That's a understatement.
That's more like it.
Also the same damage as Thelev, the disguised Orion spy from "Journey to Babel" (TOS).
Thelev revealed by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I thought "I've just got enough time to watch this before I go out for a day of double theatre."
I needn't have worried. I watched it in about eight minutes with my skip button. The 'vignette' told me all I need to know.
Just fucking awful. I can't even be bothered. I'll go do something else, anything else... was my verdict, rather than once upon a time I'd torture myself an see it through.
Oh brave new world.
I needn't have worried. I watched it in about eight minutes with my skip button. The 'vignette' told me all I need to know.
Just fucking awful. I can't even be bothered. I'll go do something else, anything else... was my verdict, rather than once upon a time I'd torture myself an see it through.
Oh brave new world.
I did think immediately it was "Scratch 'n' Sniff". Although Farscape I loved its weirdness, as the show show was werid at its core.
Also "Scratch 'n' Sniff" was never a favourite of mine even by Farscape's weirdness realm. That I felt leant into trying to be too quirky for quirky's sake "Aren't we quirky?!"
See also: "You punched a dinosaur?!"
I love this sort of analyses of the show, so thank you for this. (I also apparently didn't realize so many people hated Khan)
The general public via IMDB also did not care for the episode, it is currently the lowest rated of the entire show https://seriesgraph.com/show/103516-star-trek-strange-new-worlds
Interestingly, the previous lowest was a tie between The Elysian Kingdom and What is Starfleet, while as you noted, the lowest rated one on here is Four and a Half Vulcans which now isn't even in IMDB's bottom 5.
Thanks! Since "Ephraim and Dot" showed up on the chart, I should also clarify that there were a few episodes that didn't have the usual 1-10 polls, including that one, so I assigned some arbitrary numbers to the options that existed so I could make an approximate comparison.
That one was perhaps the most challenging since there were only three options (all comparing it to "The Girl Who Made the Stars"), so the results I have for that one are extremely arbitrary and basically guaranteed a high standard deviation. I may actually change the mapping I'm using on that one for the future.
New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot
getting a jump on the upcoming (dec 12) animated short trek: ephraim and dot... apparently about an enterprise DOT-7 repair drone and a mycelial tardigrade. directed by michael giacchino (composer for the kelvin trilogy) with a voice performance by kirk thatcher (punk on the bus in star trek IV...
www.trekbbs.com
"Remembrance" and the three Kelvin movies also used different pollls that I had to map to 1-10. "Children of Mars" never had a poll that I could find; neither did Scouts (either as individual episodes or as a series).
They're not only doing The Hangover, they're doing it really really on the nose.
And we know a puppet episode is coming up too. This show is getting way too silly way too often, the silly episodes work best when they're a change of pace from a really dramatic arc.
And we know a puppet episode is coming up too. This show is getting way too silly way too often, the silly episodes work best when they're a change of pace from a really dramatic arc.
I love all that data! And Four and a Half Vulcans is the other one I fast forwarded through. And I didn't like Space Adventure Hour.
For me this is proof of misalignment. Despite me skipping them mostly they are likely not badly written... but they to me show the audience don't want these sorts of episodes. Or at least very much I moderation. I'm all for a comedy episode, but it needs to be less often. It was a palate cleanser in a 26 episode season. It's a a sherbet sorbet starter with popping candy in a three course meal on SNW.
Yes.
Seven as a median score makes sense. 70% used to be held out as an "average" score in school testing.
People who have real problems with an episode are likely to rate it a 5 or 6 at best. It's pretty rare to see a preponderance of 1s or 2s, no matter how vociferously some posters may assert that a given episode is "bottom of the barrel."
And if a story does land primarily in "F" territory, then there's an argument to be made that it's the producers who have failed.
I'm sure that there are some examples of this, somewhere. The one I'm aware of is Section 31:
As @Cap'n Calhoun noted, TrekBBS ratings stay open for at least a year in most cases. So before anyone throws the "o word" around, one has to allow for recency bias as well.
People who have real problems with an episode are likely to rate it a 5 or 6 at best. It's pretty rare to see a preponderance of 1s or 2s, no matter how vociferously some posters may assert that a given episode is "bottom of the barrel."
And if a story does land primarily in "F" territory, then there's an argument to be made that it's the producers who have failed.
I'm sure that there are some examples of this, somewhere. The one I'm aware of is Section 31:
As @Cap'n Calhoun noted, TrekBBS ratings stay open for at least a year in most cases. So before anyone throws the "o word" around, one has to allow for recency bias as well.
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I have seen nobody else get that message from this episode certainly not a deep message. It's also generally accepted in western culture at least that young people are far less likely to have that attitude than the previous few generations.
If you think the comedy or message of this episode was great I understand that. Why you can't understand that plenty didn't is what's odd.
Thing is you’d think Kirk would explicitly state not that he was on leave there but that they were together.
That’s why I think the hotel room was imagined
I want to clarify.
In the first Kirk scene Scotty and Ortegas leave before Kirk is shown.
My breakdown that seems to show Kirk in the room at the same time as them was actually a later scene, the one where Spock..."plant-melds".
Yes. Particularly for SNW's writers.
They learned from TNG.
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