Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - "Charades"

[Unique]

I watched this episode twice..and then a third time, with the whole family. That’s a first for me.
There’s so many fun little details going on; you can’t catch them all in one viewing. Like when Spock’s mom arrives and Spock is clearly about to break, Pike tries to get him out of there, “maybe we should go to sickbay”, and the doors shut in his face. The man conveyed confusion with the back of his head and his shoulder blades, for goodness sake.
And then he turns around, because the doors trapped him in there with them ), and you get to see him react when he knows Spock is about to take off the hat.
Perfection from start to finish. Everything in the foreground and the background is worth watching.

 

[fireproof78]

I’m really curious. Why only in Star Trek?

Surely love, or even lust, are all part of the human adventure?

You are correct and it is a walking contradiction on my part. Trek never seems to give it weight. It feels very temporary which I find annoying.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

You are correct and it is a walking contradiction on my part. Trek never seems to give it weight. It feels very temporary which I find annoying.

Where do you stand on Spapel right now?

 

[Unique]

You are correct and it is a walking contradiction on my part. Trek never seems to give it weight. It feels very temporary which I find annoying.

I suppose it could be in keeping with the old, “a girl in every port” sailor’s culture as well as being a reflection of the fact that Roddenberry was an absolute dog.

 

[cooleddie74]

It's not great but better than Lutefisk. Salted Scandinavian fish products are always touchy.

 

[fireproof78]

Where do you stand on Spapel right now?

*motions hand back and forth* eh...

 

[Richard S. Ta]

*motions hand back and forth* eh...

Then there’s hope for you yet!

I’m a glass half-full person. At least you don’t hate it.

 

[JoseNoodles]

You are correct and it is a walking contradiction on my part. Trek never seems to give it weight. It feels very temporary which I find annoying.

True, Star Trek really hated captains having long-term relationships. That's why Picard and Beverly went nowhere. I'm surprised Sisko got to marry Kasidy Yates, I'm sure some among TPTB would have preferred it to have been a one episode fling.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It's not great but better than Lutefisk. Salted Scandinavian fish products are always touchy.

Ha Ha. Your joke didn’t make sense because you posted mere seconds too late! Seconds!

I bet you feel really embarrassed now in the wake of your unfortunate, failed fish farce! A-Ha Ha!

 

[TRON JA307020]

True, Star Trek really hated captains having long-term relationships. That's why Picard and Beverly went nowhere. I'm surprised Sisko got to marry Kasidy Yates, I'm sure some among TPTB would have preferred it to have been a one episode fling.

Picard got Beverly pregnant and became a father. That went somewhere.

 

[Unique]

Ha Ha. Your joke didn’t make sense because you posted mere seconds too late! Seconds!

I bet you feel really embarrassed now in the wake of your unfortunate, failed fish farce! A-Ha Ha!

<slinks away>

 

[cooleddie74]

Ha Ha. Your joke didn’t make sense because you posted mere seconds too late! Seconds!

I bet you feel really embarrassed now in the wake of your unfortunate, failed fish farce! A-Ha Ha!

You can look at my posting career here and ask that with a serious face?

 

[Richard S. Ta]

You can look at my posting career here and ask that with a serious face?

And yet somehow I know for certain that you typed all of that with trembling hands and a tiny, tiny tear in one eye.

 

[cooleddie74]

I do most things with a tear in one eye.

 

[DaveyNY]

Pon farr discussions start to wear on my nerves.

Perhaps there's an entire culture on Vulcan that is set up to help single folks through their Pon Farr periods.
Kinda like a Green Light District.

 

[DaveyNY]

Even inside the giant space amoeba in TOS Spock was ready to penetrate its most sensitive area.

... and people blame me for always coming up from the sewer to the gutter.

 

[1001001]

I had to really think about this one.

I’m not 100% on Spock and Chapel. They might be going one toke over the line. I guess we will see.

I liked the aliens (Yellow and Blue), but the scene where Chapel is trying to convince them went on too long, and had a sort of overly talkly Discovery feel to it.

+1 for “WHAT THE F…?”

7

 

[El Maestro]

+1 for “WHAT THE F…?”

given all of the weird things they encounter in all of the shows, it’s surprising they don’t say this more

 

[DaveyNY]

I do most things with a tear in one eye.

Stop squeezing so hard then.

 

[Paul755]

True, Star Trek really hated captains having long-term relationships. That's why Picard and Beverly went nowhere. I'm surprised Sisko got to marry Kasidy Yates, I'm sure some among TPTB would have preferred it to have been a one episode fling.

You forgot about Janeway and the hunky Irish Bartender from the holodeck.

Berman probably allowed the Ben/Kassidy stuff because they knew it was doomed given how Sisko ends up in the finale. Then again Behr, Moore and the rest probably still would have done it no matter what he said.