Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02 - "Wedding Bell Blues"

[Rahul]

It was... fine. Not great. Maybe not evenv really good.
I looked the acting, the guest characters, and the show looks absolutely fantastic.
However, the dramatic moments didn't really land for me, and for a wedding comedy, it just wasn't actually funny (a problem several of SNW's "comedies" have).
Overall - I enjoyed the watch. But I also think S3 started comparatively weak, if measured against S1 & 2.

 

[Tuskin38]

TrekCore pointed out one of Picard's glass cups he usually drank out of can be spotted on the Enterprise's bar.

 

[cooleddie74]

I enjoyed seeing older Trelane and the Federation Centenary bits, but this was the weakest episode in a long time.

 

[Tuskin38]

I personally enjoyed this more than episode 1

 

[Rahul]

There's one other thing: It might be only tangentially related to this specific episode, but this episode really made it clear:

SNW is maybe the BEST star trek has ever looked! And that includes the friggin' movies.

The costumes, makeup (both alien & human), the sets, the vfx, the colours - Star Trek has never looked better. It's not just the money. DIS & PIC had that too. This show has developed an aesthetic, while very much "modern TOS", is so unique & du much it's own thing. It's kind of a Marvel to witness.
Just wish we'd get more episodes.

 

[nightwind1]

A 3 from me.

Overall I found it extremely dissapointing and a real waste of an episode.

I really don't need more small universe syndrome or confirmation that 'Telane' from TOS S1 The Squire Of Gothos was indeed a Q. Everything was just ham-fisted here and not worth wasting an SNW episode on. Geting John Delancie to voice 'Daddy Q' sorry but

(And yeah, I don't see TNG's Q as every being a 'responsible father' to the point he'd show up to stop his 'son'.)

I will give them props for doing te very TOS thing of NOT showing 'Son of Q' in Vulcan or Andorian make up - even though from the episode dialogue it's clear that Spock sees him as a Vulcan Bartender at one point and then later Spock, Pike and the others see him as a Andorian wedding planner.

I gave it a 3 only because I enjoyed teh 3 new characters it introduced:

- The new male Nurse Assitant.

- Erica Ortegas' kid brother.

- The four-armed Bartender (And if they had made he a Guinan clone, which thankfully she definitely isn't; I would have really gone off here; but I like her so far.)

I REALLY hope they NEVER revist this 'Son of Q' again. Once was TOO MUCH for me.

THREE armed. She's an Edoan, one of Lt. Arex's race.

 

[Airmandan]

THREE armed. She's an Edoan, one of Lt. Arex's race.

Is she though? Her third arm seemed to be on her back, Arex had his on the front of his torso just like all the other Edosians we've seen depicted on screen.

 

[Tuskin38]

Is she though? Her third arm seemed to be on her back, Arex had his on the front of his torso just like all the other Edosians we've seen depicted on screen.

Maybe the women have the arm on the back.

IRL it's probably easier to film someone behind moving an arm than in front of her.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

An Edosian, a dilf and

Spoiler: Spoiler

Trelane is Q Junior (as confirmed behind the scenes)

what a fun ride that episode was.

 

[Tuskin38]

An Edosian, a dilf and

Spoiler: Spoiler

Trelane is Q Junior (as confirmed behind the scenes)

what a fun ride that episode was.

Where was this BTS stuff?

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Where was this BTS stuff?

Spoiler: Link

'Strange New Worlds' Team on Bringing in Rhys Darby as [Spoiler]

Yes, the 'Star Trek' series just confirmed something from a novel about Q.

www.tvinsider.com

 

[FredH]

Quite fun… but would it have killed them to dedicate the episode to Peter David?

 

[Orac]

This episode was silly. I liked it.

 

[FredH]

.I really don't need more small universe syndrome or confirmation that 'Telane' from TOS S1 The Squire Of Gothos was indeed a Q. Everything was just ham-fisted here and not worth wasting an SNW episode on. Geting John Delancie to voice 'Daddy Q' sorry but

Uh, yes, having a guest cameo is definitely worth puking over. I guess.

 

[Trekker4747]

Well,the silly Spock episode is out of the way.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

That was fun but not amazing. Spock/Chapel episodes I always enjoy but are kind of torture as Spock can be too personally relatable and their whole romance hurts to watch sometimes. Personally, I think its super fun that SNW decided to complete the Trelane/Q circle and heavily implying (if not outright saying) that Trelane has been Q Junior all along. I like it when my Star Trek includes Star Trek stuff in it, honestly. I also love it when Spock is mean to Sam, such a silly and funny running gag.

But my favorite thing so far is the HUGE uptick in background ships. Starfleet really feeling like a star fleet these days.

Looking forward to this season seeming to have two silly Spock episodes.

 

[FredH]

Incidentally, this might be coincidental, but the station seemed distinctly influenced by Fleet Headquarters from the old Franz Joseph Star Fleet Tech Manual, complete with multiple internal forests.

(And maybe it’s just me and I’ve never noticed before, but I could swear the Enterprise bridge and turbolift sets are looking a lot closer to the TOS versions than they used to, in layout and color scheme. Have they changed it from previous seasons?)

EDIT: Also, there seemed to be a very 80s vibe to the whole thing, in both the feel of the party and the music choices. Was this episode maybe a partial homage to some 1980s romcom film?

EDIT: Is this season the first time they’ve referred to the ship being on a five-year mission in this series?

 

[David cgc]

I was particularly delighted that at the beginning of the wedding scene the score was, if not the actual recording of the Wedding March from "Balance of Terror," a perfect reproduction of that arrangement. I also liked Pike completely failing at improvising a centenary speech on the fly.

 

[Yistaan]

While we accept that in recasts, characters in-universe still recognize the different actors as the same face, I think for Trelane we have to conclude that he actually did look like Rhys Darby in SNW and William Campbell in TOS, and that he changed his facial appearance so that no one in TOS would recognize him.

I'm assuming Trelane is supposed to be Q Jr, but I'm wondering how this appearance, TOS, and Voyager should be ordered now

 

[FredH]

I was particularly delighted that at the beginning of the wedding scene the score was, if not the actual recording of the Wedding March from "Balance of Terror," a perfect reproduction of that arrangement. I also liked Pike completely failing at improvising a centenary speech on the fly.

I’ve noticed a lot of the incidental music these two episodes seems to be trying to sound more TOS-y (George Michael and 80s party music notwithstanding), though more in “Hegemony Part II” (which was VERY Original Series in the brassy oh-no-things-look-bad-it’s-the-commercial-break-what-can-we-do? sense).