I don't think it needs a label. Just have relationships and who cares and move the
on. I don't watch Star Trek (or any fiction) to see who is in relationship with whom.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x05 - "Spock Amok"
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on. I don't watch Star Trek (or any fiction) to see who is in relationship with whom.
I would buy one if it had a button that sprang the Federation flag out and played the TOS theme like in the episode.
This is how I feel, Chapel is on of my favourite character's in snw, but she's not nurse chapel if that makes sense.
She didn't turn her back on him, she just got tired of waiting for him to come around and eventually realized that he was never going to be a 'Homebody'. (which is very apparent is what she desires)
I still believe that she will never really be happy being Stonn's consort.
She will always have Vulcan type "feelings" for Spock.
No, Amok Time was a hard stop, a final end point, for their relationship. After T'Pring had Spock fight Kirk in a fight that usually goes to the death for her own selfish reasons, and Spock thinking he had killed his friend, there was no going back. It was clear early on in Amok Time that he was not particularly glad to see her even before the disastrous ceremony.
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Yeah romance just takes away from my pew pew!!I don't think it needs a label. Just have relationships and who cares and move the
One of the best episodes of TOS Season 3 centers around McCoy falling in love with an alien priestess because he believes himself to be dying from an incurable disease. As long as the balance between romance and other subplots with other characters is maintained I don't mind the love factor.
Yes...that's the reason...Yeah romance just takes away from my pew pew!!
Or Spock falling in love with a Romulan commander.
Use it in limited fashion, seldom and very carefully.
I can never tell who's serious and who's being snarky when it comes to these sorts of things. I figured it'd cover all the points I wanted to make.
I'm only like 15 min into the episode but the dialogue here is weird. Like originally it was written to be later on in the season? Chapel talking about adventures with Ortegas involving dates and phaser fire but she just joined the crew? But the ship being repaired with the Gorn ties it directly to the end of the last episode?
Maybe she and Ortegas knew each other from before but, again, that would be my fav Small Universe Syndrome.
At least we know now that apparently this is either before Korby or she and Korby have an arrangement. So they're probably retconning out that he was her Professor.
Same thing with Una and La'an. While they had a past together it seems weird that everyone in the Enterprise would already know how they always spend their shore leaves when La'an just joined the crew.
Maybe they added in the opening connection to the Gorn and moved this from later in the season to now?
Edit:. To be clear I'm not complaining about the episode, I've barely started it. Just saying the dialogue is weird in these exchanges liek the episode is out of place.
Maybe she and Ortegas knew each other from before but, again, that would be my fav Small Universe Syndrome.
At least we know now that apparently this is either before Korby or she and Korby have an arrangement. So they're probably retconning out that he was her Professor.
Same thing with Una and La'an. While they had a past together it seems weird that everyone in the Enterprise would already know how they always spend their shore leaves when La'an just joined the crew.
Maybe they added in the opening connection to the Gorn and moved this from later in the season to now?
Edit:. To be clear I'm not complaining about the episode, I've barely started it. Just saying the dialogue is weird in these exchanges liek the episode is out of place.
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It’s a majestic 10/10 from me. I thought there was real brilliance about this episode, and although I like all the others a lot I think this is my favourite so far. The humour really landed for me, though I didn’t really watch it as a comedy episode, just a good episode. So many lovey moments, especially the one at the end with the golden sails and the awe expressed by Una and La’an.
This a real goodie. This series is a real hit so far. To see an episode with nearly 50% going 10/10 is heartening.
This a real goodie. This series is a real hit so far. To see an episode with nearly 50% going 10/10 is heartening.
I'll disagree with you on this point. But I'll note that so far, I'm 99% happy with what SNW has done in terms of being consistent with TOS. The remaining 1% is just a mish mash of small things that ultimately amount to nothing.
However, there are several reasons I disagree with your sentiment.
For one thing, I'm loving seeing the set up for events in TOS. I've gone back and rewatched TOS episodes after SNW and it adds another dimension that I'm thoroughly enjoying. That added enjoyment is based on the idea that SNW and TOS share the same continuity. So, I want them to keep that, which means retaining that continuity connection between SNW and TOS.
Additionally, the show was intended as a prequel to TOS (along with a DIS spinoff) from the beginning. If they didn't want to be tied down to continuity, then they should have made a different show. They made their choice and now they need to stick with it.
Fortunately, I think they're doing an admirable job at it. They're up for the challenge and just need to keep doing what they're doing! Stick with continuity to the degree they have been and continue to inject creativity in pushing a bit against expectations.
Just seeing this comment was enough to bring back a flood of memories on the massive crush I had on my graduate electrical engineering professor (who was 10 years older than me) and not being overly concerned about issues I ran into in my studies since I'd just ask her about them during her office hours. Time to go back to suppressing those memories and the wash of disappointment I felt on later finding out she was married so I couldn't date her even after I got my master's degree and a high level engineering job later that year. To this day in my opinion she's still the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen in person and this includes actresses I've seen at various sci-fi/comic book conventions over the years...
Don't forget "Can nothing break that cycle?" Droxine from TOS S3 - "The Cloud Minders"
A lightship is by it's nature a sublight vessel (unless it also has a warp drive attached), so regardless of what Jake and Ben Sisko thought they proved, any ship going from Bajor to Cardassia at sublight would have required a generational ark type arrangement or a crew in suspended animation. Or a crew with a REEEEEEAAALLLLLY long lifespan.
So when some aliens from an area sandwiched between the Klingon and Romulan Empire come to Starbase 1 for 'talks', they didn't come in a vessel using nothing but a light sail. Maybe the ship was like the equivalent of the first steamships, which had masts, sails, AND steam engines. But that was never mentioned.
Which is what I meant when I said it didn't 'jibe' with Trek tech.
I said "my", not "yours", and I put a wink there!
Remember that it's 10 episodes to a year. Plenty of time for stuff between episodes.
I understand your reasons. However I don't want such a fine series to be too married to fixed canon dates and events. It just straightjackets the writers. I generally dislike prequels because of that, and other reasons... so I wouldn't mind a new continuity from here on.
No real on screen evidence that this is indeed the case. Its just fan supposition at this point.
Protocol droid: Lord Sidious, Count Dooku still has not arrived for your arranged meeting.
Palpatine: He didn't actually try to fly from Geonosis to Coruscant just on his solar sail propulsion did he?
Protocol droid: At this moment, we have to assume that he did.
Palpatine: Doesn't he know only the Millennium Falcon can manage interstellar travel at sublight speeds?!
Oh please - the Millenium Falcon can only do .5 past lightspeed (and that's considered 'fast' in the STAR WARS Universe.)Protocol droid: Lord Sidious, Count Dooku still has not arrived for your arranged meeting.
Palpatine: He didn't actually try to fly from Geonosis to Coruscant just on his solar sail propulsion did he?
Protocol droid: At this moment, we have to assume that he did.
Palpatine:
