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

[tomalak301]

I'm not really a fan of the Spock/Christine relationship so this episode kind of fell a little flat for me. They didn't mention him by name, but I guess that was supposed to be Trelene. The most interesting thing about this episode for me was they got John DeLancie to play the father, and Erica can see (or is a) Gorn. I guess for that reason I can give this episode a 6. It almost got a 4, but the endings saved it.

I guess I can add "wake me up before you go-go" to my Star Trek music playlist. What a random song.

 

[HotRod]

 

[Firebird]

That was a fun hijinks episode. Really love to see SNW is still playing around with themes and genres.

Also loved not only that vocal cameo, but the slight allusion to the ending of The Squire of Gothos, too. Even better, they didn’t try to spell things out or explain it.

 

[The_Baroness]

That was a fun hijinks episode. Really love to see SNW is still playing around with themes and genres.

Also loved not only that vocal cameo, but the slight allusion to the ending of The Squire of Gothos, too. Even better, they didn’t try to spell things out or explain it.

I liked that too.

My headcanon is that the wedding planner, (who I assume is Trelane) is actually Q Jr from voyager - mucking about in time - but at a point from his perspective before Q dropped him off with Janeway.

 

[Tuskin38]

I spotted some Discovery ship designs but with round nacelles. Nimitz, Shepard and Malachowski classes

Also some new kitbashes, there’s also a a couple real Crossfields along with some of the fake ones from season 2

There was one design that appeared to be inspired by the FASA Larson class

 

[Airmandan]

Brought back classic Andorians. Episode was..... meh. Tone didn't sit well with me

 

[Tuskin38]

So that was clearly meant to be Q and Trelane, but neither character is named in the episode or end credits. The only hint of Trelane is some of the stuff on his final costume that matches TOS.

in one of the novels Trelane was implied to be the son of Q, but that was before Voyager aired

brought back classic Andorians

They were in the previous two seasons as well along side some with more detailed makeup

 

[thribs]

For an episode celebrating the centennial they could have at least got Bakula for it. Maybe he left a speech for it.
Interesting they didn’t actually show John de Lancie. They could have said this is Q after Picard and so his age wouldn’t be an issue. The voice was a bit of a letdown.

 

[thribs]

So that was clearly meant to be Q and Trelane, but neither character is named in the episode or end credits. The only hint of Trelane is some of the stuff on his final costume that matches TOS.

in one the novels Trelane was the son of Q, but that was before Voyager aired



They were in the previous two seasons as well along side some with more detailed makeup

I just assumed it was q2.

 

[thribs]

If we're getting Korby I wonder if we might see Ruk in the future, or is that too early in the timeline. I wonder who could play Ruk today, since Cassidy played him so well (I've been watching Addams Family on Plato TV and he is so funny as Lurch). I could maybe see a wrestler play him and maybe 20 years ago I would have said Undertaker.

What about Omos?

 

[Seven of Five]

6.

A lot of the humour fell flat in that one, as good as it was seeing Rhys Darby as Trelane, and John de Lancie as his father.

 

[Campe]

Fun episode. Looks like we’re adding a few more recurring characters in the other nurse and the bartender. (Not to forget Korby and Beto.) Would be lovely to have some names but there we are.

I like the La’an/Spock pairing. I hope they do more with that friendship.

And definitely feels like Erica has some PTSD.

 

[ToddCam]

Why would q act more childish? Or is Trelane supposed to be him before his appearance on Voyager?

 

[Moopsy]

I loved the Twilight Zone reference ("wish him into the cornfield").

 

[Lakenheath 72]

The sentence about sending them all to the cornfield was an allusion to an old Twilight Zone episode. Personally, I would have liked for myself to be whisked to that cornfield after watching this episode.

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The episode was "It's A Good Life". This story was remade for the 1982 Twilight Zone film.

The closed captions identify the bartender as Kelzing. The name is confirmed in the end credits.

As for the non-corporeal lifeforms, I think they are from Vadia IX, as the child said that he spotted Dr. Roger Korby sifting through the dust on the old homeworld.

A portion of this song was heard in the episode.

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This is the full poem by Pablo Neruda, of which the opening lines were heard in the episode.

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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

 

[The Rock]

Welp, it's now confirmed in canon that Trelane is a Q since Trelane's father was voiced by John de Lancie. Glad they finally ended this long-standing fan debate.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Very enjoyable! Lots of alien spotting, and I definitely needed a second run-through because I blinked and missed the bartender's first reflection (seen by Spock), and then I almost-missed the reflection in the PADD.

A welcome light-hearted episode about the heaviness of the Gorn storyline. That was a looooong wait after the Season Two cliffhangers.

 

[The Rock]

Very enjoyable! Lots of alien spotting, and I definitely needed a second run-through because I blinked and missed the bartender's first reflection (seen by Spock), and then I almost-missed the reflection in the PADD.

A welcome light-hearted episode about the heaviness of the Gorn storyline. That was a looooong wait after the Season Two cliffhangers.

Wait, what was seen in the both reflections? I missed them.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Wait, what was seen in the both reflections? I missed them.

Spoiler: First reflection

Spock sees a Vulcan bartender, whom we see reflected upside down in the shiny counter.

Spoiler: Second reflection

Korby sees an Andorian, whom we see reflected in the wedding planner's PADD.

 

[Tosk]

I thoroughly disliked the majority of this episode.
A bummer, I was riding high on the season premiere and jazzed for another good ep.

Unrelated to that, the tune when Christine steps up to Spock at the wedding reminded me of Ahsoka's theme from The Clone Wars.