Feels like the smarter play there would have been to create new characters.
Who did Spock mind meld with before "Dagger of the Mind"?
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Feels like the smarter play there would have been to create new characters.
They did with Ortega and La'an (with unneeded Khan tie-in) . . . but yeah. You and the others summarized the IP landscape pretty well, although studios can and do find or exploit loopholes when it's their IP. Nevertheless, this change of certain likenesses is another delightful element—whatever its root cause—in support of my preferred, mind-relaxing "alternate reality" approach to SNW.
Be careful saying that out loud. The CBS Stormtroopers will be gunning for you!
I'll probably miss though
And, it is an alternate timeline based on the text of the show. Same with TNG.
I ran into them once at Mos Eisley.
Vulcans have 100 different words for mind meld, I imagine, reflecting the nuances of the interaction (who initiated it, was it consensual, how deep into the mind, what was it looking for, how far apart were the participants, etc.)
... and zero words for snow.
Hexagonally symmetrical dendritic crystalline Dihydrogen monoxide
As someone who's drawn Shatner a few times, can confirm.
It may not be as easy as drawing a happy Bones McCoy, but I fail to see why not. Double the few and it likely gets easier. Start with the squint* and the curly cowlick and you're on the way.
(*such as when Kirk admires T'Pau from a distance.)
DHMO? That crap's deadly!
I took it out of my diet last year; though, things are a little more bland, now.
Didn't Spock do mind melds in Discovery?
A Red Angel (who may not count as human with the suit), with La'an (an augment). There was always wiggle room until he melded with James T Kirk in SNW, who's 100% human.
He did? See, it's stuff like this that makes Kurtzman-Trek a completely different universe to me. I wish Memory Alpha hadn't standardized on treating it all as a single continuity, because so many pages there now read like it's been invaded by Memory Beta. Imagine if the history of Mirror Spock or JJverse Pike was all commingled with the standard character histories; the Kurtzman stuff feels like that. So much discontinuity, even to the point where some characters have awkward ethnicity rewrites. (Before anyone yells racism, I want to say that it's jarring no matter what the before-and-after ethnicities are and I would be equally or more unhappy if someone like Stone, Tamura, Thule*, Lewis, or Singh suddenly became a white person in some prequel retcon.) These history rewrites are a whole different order of magnitude than just the minor anachronisms that popped up over the first 40 or 50 years.
* Thule, pronounced TOO-lee, is the Inuit character played by frequent background performer Ron Veto. (Memory Alpha has for years incorrectly called him Harrison, in essence depriving the Enterprise of its visual representation of this perpetually under-represented ethnicity.)
Funny since SNW is supposed to turn into TOS when its run ends, but you can't please everyone I guess
I don't see this as a "can't please everyone" situation. The power of the moment of Spock's meld with Van Gelder is that he's never done one with a human before. There's no point in him warning McCoy about it if he's done it so casually with other humans before. Are we supposed to believe he was lying about this? Or did he forget? Or is this set in an alternative timeline with an alternative Spock?
I don't believe fans want to be pleased. It's the desire to continue the outsider culture.
But it isn’t. They casually break continuity as they please. They reintroduce TOS characters as much younger than they would have been in TOS, like Scotty. In TOS Scotty was the oldest one or contemporary to McCoy, but in SNW he’s about the same age or younger than Kirk.. In SNW MBenga looks older than he does years later in TOS. And how is it he is CMO under Pike, but subordinate to McCoy in TOS? They keep bringing in Kirk when it was established that Kirk met Pike only once before when he took over command of the Enterprise, and then not again till he sees him again in “The Menagerie.”
They move pieces around as they see fit, totally ignoring what had already been established. They’re not interested in doing a prequel. They want familiar names just to use it as a veneer to do their genre homages. It’s just a reboot and a very shallow one at that.
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