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

[WarpFactorZ]

It would only be a mistake if there was actually a TOS episode that explicitly established that the character of Chekov didn't join the crew until the second season. ("Welcome aboard, ensign."). Since there is no such episode we can safely assume that Chekov was among the roughly 430 random crew members aboard the ship during "Space Seed."

Chekov was a lower decker who got promoted to navigation after his first year ('cause he's a whiz kid). His best friend was Boimler's grandfather. During Space Seed, Chekov was assigned to bring Khan his dinner. There. Done.

Edit to add: this also explains why Boilmer is so intimately familiar with obscure trivia about Kirk and Spock's escapades. He listened intently at family story time.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The most we see in any one episode might be the rows of crewmen preparing to beam down in "This Side of Paradise," and Mr. Leslie is about the only one who gets dialogue outside the main cast, Lt. DeSalle and the bridge officers.

 

[Cyrus]

I love Walter Koenigs version where Chekov is taking too long in the bathroom and Khan really has to go after 200 years. "You I will never forget!!"

This should be a Short Treks episode.

 

[Ovation]

Mr. Leslie is about the only one who gets dialogue outside the main cast

Mr. Leslie was actually a set of identical quadruplets assigned to the Enterprise under Kirk. Sadly, they didn’t all survive the posting.

 

[cooleddie74]

Dammit, Pellia. Your plan backfired!

 

[jackoverfull]

Sorry but the fact that we didn't see the character until the second season is explicit enough for me that he wasn't around/ on the ship during the first season. YMMV.

so M’Benga was on board only for a couple of days?

 

[fireproof78]

so M’Benga was on board only for a couple of days?

TDA.

 

[Pauln6]

Doesn't the stardate of Chekov's first appearance set it before Space Seed?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Not on screen, not canon, as many are found to say.

For it to be canon that Chekov did not serve on the Enterprise while Khan was aboard her, some fact making that impossible would have to be stated on-screen. That has never happened, as already observed it was never stated when Chekov starting serving aboard Enterprise, therefore it is not canon that Chekov was not aboard at that time. By your own standards, QED.

On the other hand, it is canon that Khan remembered him. So....

 

[Captain Jollydark]

I'm not a terribly romantic person. My favorite Valentine's gift of all time was when I came home from work and my boyfriend had gotten cable installed so I could watch TNG. That being said, this is the only episode I've watched 4 times.Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow I watched 3 times. And what do they have in common? Kissy-face romance crap. (I mean, one was tragic and the other will undoubtedly end in pain, but still...)

 

[Tallguy]

So, Peck got to play Spock being human to an even greater degree than Nimoy did in "This Side of Paradise."

I'd say Peck played the more likeable version.

I hesitate to say, but I think Nimoy was playing closer to Nimoy. I can't speak for Peck.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm watching Frasier.

Niles has "Charade" twice in the last three days.

Once while I was posting in this thread.

 

[Search4]

I can disagree with the bacon assertion as I know people who can't stand the smell of any cooking meat. (That is not me)

The captain has the privilege of being able to keep and store fresh ingredients. Most everyone else on the ship mostly eats food from the food synthesizers (La'an mentioned in S1E5 she liked when everyone was on shore leave because there were no lines for the food synthesizers).

Considering where they are, vacuum packed seems pretty easy.

 

[The Wormhole]

Mr. Leslie was actually a set of identical quadruplets assigned to the Enterprise under Kirk. Sadly, they didn’t all survive the posting.

It's true, there really were multiple Leslies on the Enterprise. I remember one episode, Leslie can be seen on the bridge when Kirk activates the intercom to make a shipwide announcement, we then see people in one of the corridors listening to what he says, and Leslie's among them.

 

[cooleddie74]

Doesn't the stardate of Chekov's first appearance set it before Space Seed?

TOS stardates were never consistent.

 

[fireproof78]

For it to be canon that Chekov did not serve on the Enterprise while Khan was aboard her, some fact making that impossible would have to be stated on-screen. That has never happened, as already observed it was never stated when Chekov starting serving aboard Enterprise, therefore it is not canon that Chekov was not aboard at that time. By your own standards, QED.

On the other hand, it is canon that Khan remembered him. So....

Fair point.

As I noted in later posts I don't have a problem with the idea, as much as I lack the certainty that it must have happened.

 

[Mudd]

I hesitate to say, but I think Nimoy was playing closer to Nimoy. I can't speak for Peck.

Yeah, he's also playing a character who somehow adjusts pretty smoothly - beyond a few moments of yelping angst - to having his entire personality turned inside out. Suddenly human, he's Mister Suave. Peck's Spock struggles a lot more with the abrupt loss of everything that gives his personality equilibrium.

In the AI Edit of TOS, spore-stung Spock will writhe a little, stand up and shake it off with a "Well, I'm sure glad I'd done that once before."

 

[Tallguy]

Yeah, he's also playing a character who somehow adjusts pretty smoothly - beyond a few moments of yelping angst - to having his entire personality turned inside out. Suddenly human, he's Mister Suave. Peck's Spock struggles a lot more with the abrupt loss of everything that gives his personality equilibrium.

In the AI Edit of TOS, spore-stung Spock will writhe a little, stand up and shake it off with a "Well, I'm sure glad I'd done that once before."

Well, SNW Spock doesn't have spore things telling him "Hey, man. Everything just like totally groovy, you know? Zeeyow!"

 

[Mudd]

Well, SNW Spock doesn't have spore things telling him "Hey, man. Everything just like totally groovy, you know? Zeeyow!"

Hmm. M'Benga should have just prescribed Librium for Spock.

 

[UssGlenn]

Doesn't the stardate of Chekov's first appearance set it before Space Seed?

indeed
Catspaw: 3018.2
Space Seed: 3141.9