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

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Sometime during this episode something about the show shifted for me.

I recognize all the gripes other people have brought up, all the irritations, and then there are my own as well. In the end analysis, the cast of this show just charms me with their performances so much that I realized I've just let it all go and I'm enjoying Strange New Worlds for what it is, not necessarily a Trek show as I think of a Trek show. This episode, I was about three quarters of the way through when I realized I wasn't focusing on the things that bother me- I was just enjoying it.

So there it is. SNW is what it is, and I like it. Warts and all. I'm in deep with this whole cast.
 
Jedi Marso said:
Sometime during this episode something about the show shifted for me.

I recognize all the gripes other people have brought up, all the irritations, and then there are my own as well. In the end analysis, the cast of this show just charms me with their performances so much that I realized I've just let it all go and I'm enjoying Strange New Worlds for what it is, not necessarily a Trek show as I think of a Trek show. This episode, I was about three quarters of the way through when I realized I wasn't focusing on the things that bother me- I was just enjoying it.

So there it is. SNW is what it is, and I like it. Warts and all. I'm in deep with this whole cast.
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Mostly how I feel. I'm enjoying it enough I can let continuity questions slide.
 
TRON JA307020 said:
I have to say I'm glad the Spock/Chapel romance is finally done.
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If that's the case... what exactly was the point of it? They kinda pined after each other for a season and a half, Spock left his fiance to be with her, they were together for I think two whole episodes where they both felt weird about it, then Chapel decides to leave. They seemed like they were going to be together after Spock saved her in the finale, only for her to still say she was going to leave, then she returns with a new boyfriend this episode.

I'm really not sure what the writers exactly had planned with these characters, especially when they're (I think) the only two TOS characters whose romantic partners we actually know about. We know Spock will be engaged again to T'Pring (for all the good that does) and that Chapel will marry Korby and he'll become an android. It's just a strange choice and I'm not sure why they pursued it.
 
aquova said:
If that's the case... what exactly was the point of it? They kinda pined after each other for a season and a half, Spock left his fiance to be with her, they were together for I think two whole episodes where they both felt weird about it, then Chapel decides to leave. They seemed like they were going to be together after Spock saved her in the finale, only for her to still say she was going to leave, then she returns with a new boyfriend this episode.

I'm really not sure what the writers exactly had planned with these characters, especially when they're (I think) the only two TOS characters whose romantic partners we actually know about. We know Spock will be engaged again to T'Pring (for all the good that does) and that Chapel will marry Korby and he'll become an android. It's just a strange choice and I'm not sure why they pursued it.
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Yeah. It was a poor choice. When we get go TOS it's like nothing ever happened between them. I truly hope this is the last show that takes place in the 2360s.
 
Gene Roddenberry had his chance to reimagine TOS and he didn't (Klingons aside). Whatever he intended, we got Relics, Trials and Tribble-ations and In a Mirror, Darkly instead.
 
aquova said:
He got a replacement leg, but I always assumed it was a prosthetic, not that they regrew his biological one. The eye detail is fair though, although as we see when Geordi gets one, it's a mechanical device, not repairing his biological eyes
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It was a biosynthitic limb.



Yistaan said:
DS9 showed that Nog getting a biosynthetic leg was kind of a big deal, yet here Ortegas gets a regenerated hand offscreen with no one talking about it. The establishment of biofilters as early as SNW also throws a bunch of transporter episodes into disarray, most prominently now that the Reliant biofilters somehow didn't detect the Ceti eels in Terrell and Chekov in Wrath of Khan.
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TNG had an entire episode dedicated to them growing a replacement spine for Worf.

And Lower Decks showed regrowing limbs was a relatively simple affair.

The obvious answer here is that medical technology is not universally compatible, and that as the first Ferengi in Starfleet it's entirely possible Nog just ended up getting the short end of the stick with their usual limb regrowth technology just not working for him.
 
"Another thing that makes canon a little confusing. Gene R. himself had a habit of de-canonizing things. He didn't like the way the animated series turned out, so he proclaimed that It was non-canon. He also didn't like a lot of the movies so he didn't much consider them canon either. And -- okay I'm really going to scare you with this one -- after he got TNG going, he... well... he sort of decided that some of the original series wasn't canon either. I had a discussion with him once, where I cited a couple of things that were very clearly canon on The Original Series, and he told me that he didn't think that way anymore, and that he now thought of TNG as canon whenever there was conflict between the two. He admitted that it was revisionist thinking, but so be it."

-- Paula Block, 2005
 
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Turtletrekker said:
"Another thing that makes canon a little confusing. Gene R. himself had a habit of de-canonizing things. He didn't like the way the animated series turned out, so he proclaimed that It was non-canon. He also didn't like a lot of the movies so he didn't much consider them canon either. And -- okay I'm really going to scare you with this one -- after he got TNG going, he... well, he sort of decided that some of the original series wasn't canon either. I had a discussion with him once, where I cited a couple of things that were very clearly canon on The Original Series, and he told me that he didn't think that way anymore, and that he now thought of TNG as canon whenever there was conflict between the two. He admitted that it was revisionist thinking, but so be it."

-- Paula Block, 2005
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And he treated both TFF and elements of TUC as persona non grata and apocryphal in the two or so years before he died.
 
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