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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x03 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

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Better than Star Trek? Hard to believe but possible.
he was mostly window dressing.

In any case I’m all in favour of showing a wide range of recurring and not recurring officers, like they used to do on TOS and TNG and less and less since then. If I see a first officer taking the helm instead of a random helm officer again I’m gonna scream.
 
Better than Star Trek? Hard to believe but possible.
I know right? He should have been thankful for his one scene every second episode hanging out in the transporter room. It's what Colm Meaney did back in the day, and look where his career is now!

Sarcasm aside, it's very clear he got a larger role on another show, and therefore it was a logical career move for him to make. SNW can easily find someone else to hang out in the transporter room, as indeed they have.
 
Just give me a bed, toilet, shower, TV, WiFi and access to food and something to drink. It's a hotel. If it's not my honeymoon and my new wife isn't really picky I don't care if it's not a five-star palace with a cool painting on the wall.
 
Of course, canon on this is a mess. Even the "spared the dubious benefits of alcohol" line goes out the window with Quark offering to split a vintage bottle of Vulcan port with Sakonna in the Maquis eps.

Not necessarily, if we make the safe assumption that "dubious benefits" is getting drunk, there are still other reasons to invent alcoholic beverages, mostly preservation but also new flavors.
 
I don't know if anyone else has yet mentioned this but the writers of this episode did something very cool to preserve continuity. La'an sees a Romulan and returns to her normal timeline with memories of the Romulan agent. But because the agent disguised herself to look like an Earth human La'an has no clue what a real Romulan looks like so even if she did tell her shipmates about what happened she couldn't reveal anything about how Romulans look that would screw up the ENT-through-TOS continuity.

A brown-haired twentysomething human woman holding a 21st century handgun hardly reveals something sensitive to a pre-"Balance of Terror(TOS)" Starfleet crew. :)
Ears. All about the ears.
 
It's implied in TOS: "The Conscience of the King":

Spock: "My father's race was spared the dubious benefits of alcohol."
McCoy: "Now I know why they were conquered."

The writer's intent was that Vulcan was indeed a vassal world of Earth. Roddenberry, of course, did not care for this at all.

However, later in TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome":

Spock: "Vulcan has not been conquered within its collective memory. The memory goes back so far that no Vulcan can conceive of a conqueror."
I've always believed that the good doctor was pulling Spock's leg as hard as he could in that scene and Spock just chose to ignore his quip.
 
I mean, honestly, the Eugenics Wars being moved out of the 90s makes the Berman shows fit more neatly in the timeline, too. Tom Paris was making out with Sarah Silverman while Ricardo Montalbán ruled over a chunk of the earth? It's always strained credulity. Now we have a reason why TOS is constantly contradicted by its sequels and even itself; Romulans did it.

I propose from here on, when you notice an inconsistency or a plot hole in Star Trek, you refer to it as a "time traveling Romulan". :rommie:
Have you watched a movie based in North America, set during the period of WW2 or the Vietnam war? Did the USA look like a nation at war in all of them?

Nitpick: I wish Alternate Timeline Kirk's ship didn't so closely resemble the Prime Timeline Enterprise, that the United Earth Fleet uniform didn't so closely resemble the Federation Starfleet uniform, and that the ship Alternate Timeline Kirk was born on hadn't been called "USS," because it all contributes to the impression that the Federation is just controlled by Earth instead of being a union of equals.

Er The Klingons did not it call a homo sapiens only club for nothing. The Federation is a humancentric paradise.

Well nobody ever tries to erase the Federation by wiping out Tellar Prime.
They do on Tuesdays
 
and that the ship Alternate Timeline Kirk was born on hadn't been called "USS,"
The ship's plaque on the Alt-Enterprise bridge called the ship 'UES Enterprise', so the 'USS' in that line may have just been an error.
Or another case of miscommunication between the writers and the set decorators.
 
Janklom Pog has been our best shot thus far and he doesn't even really know much about his people. The first Tellarite lead character in Trek and he was oblivious to his own species for most of his life.
 
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