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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02 - "Wedding Bell Blues"
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Or that the thermal damage that Bashir worried might cause a biosynth leg to not function properly also ruled out a 'regrowth' approach.
It's also worth noting that Worf's spine was the first time Russell had ever used this tech on a humanoid. It can take time even for "stunning breakthroughs" to become commonly used.
Richard Arnold said the same thing in his 1991 interview with Tim Lynch, that parts of TOS and the films were considered canon with respect to TNG, but there were things that weren't.
Yep, finally got to the end of the thread. It was disconcerting to see an arm seemingly at the back, but some of the still shots I made look great! Need to watch and enjoy again.
I should think “in TOS” would be the obvious answer. This show is not that one.
Every bit of this.
Well now that the Chapel relationship is caput I think the TOS Spock will slowly creep in. We have only 5 years until tos now. Maybe less since 2266 was unlikely their 1st mission.
i really hope we get to see gary mitchell at some point. bonus points for lee kelso.
We will. Kirk has to pick gary as 1st officer.
Maybe but Edosians have their third arm on the front. She had it on the back. Plus her face didn't quite look like one.
She's a Naisode. They're the same, except backwards.
At lieutenant commander?
She's an Edosian. She doesn't have to look exactly like Lieutenant Arex to be from the exact same alien species.
It was a very flat episode. Neither Spock nor Chapel wanted this, so it didn't challenge their characters, and I have no idea what "the Trickster" hoped to get out of all it. It felt like half a story that only ended because Daddy Q showed up. They literally did the ending to "Squire of Gothos" again, which means if this really was Trelaine he learned nothing between his two appearances (regardless of which one is first from his perspective.)
It's all so tiresome.
Agreed 100% on the "tiresome." I'd add silly and stupid. Hence my 3. I've always hated Trelane. He's full on tiresome. And not watchable. Then AND now.
That said, I've always loved Sam Kirk on this show, and he did not disappoint. His "not really... don't worry about it... seriously DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!" faces when Spock was being confronted with Chapel/Korby in full PDA/In Romance Mode made me laugh hard. The actor who plays Sam Kirk is great at the nonverbal. He also had another "ZOMG he's gonna lose his shit!!" moment later in the episode at some point when Spock was "under pressure" -- tbh I don't actually remember WHEN that was in the episode but it WAS there bc I was giggling just watching Sam's face there. Now THAT is a REALLY good comic actor. I'm really hoping they go easy on Jim and show more Sam on this show. We need Sam. And I get a wierd feeling that Spock and Sam are somewhat moving toward a curious little friendship... one that's based on the fact that Sam is intimidated by Spock losing his shit but badly wants to see him explode (again). LMAO.
So that was the 3. Because otherwise this stupid episode garnered a 1 from me. Even John DeLancie couldn't rescue it. Oh and did I say I hate Trelane?
Well, there you go. It's been 22 years on this godforsaken site and I hate coming back here and giving a new Trek episode a 5 or below. But this one was just begging for it.
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Not a great episode but yeah, at least they finally put the terrible Spock/Chapel romance out to pasture.
I’m still not a fan of using Trelane but it at least it made canon the connection to Q. I’m sure Aunt Kathy wouldn’t be happy that he was still messing around where he shouldn’t be. Unless this takes place before his adventures with Icheb.
Pike was a little too excited to dance to Wham.
The PTSD stuff with Ortegas has potential to be a really good storyline ala Nog. But I’d expect them to stretch it out over a few episodes.
I did like the Spock/La’an stuff. Reminded me a bit of the brief conversations between Data and Worf on TNG where they would discuss the way humans act and generally do stuff. Like Data seeking him out for wedding advice in “Data’s Day”. Or discussing funeral rituals in “Next Phase”
Make it a easy 6.
Didn’t he try to sink both WoK and Search for Spock by leaking out Spock dying and the destruction of the Enterprise because he despised both films. Creator and “Great Bird of the Galaxy” or not I dunno that he should be the arbiter of “canon”. OMG would he have hated DS9.
I’m still not a fan of using Trelane but it at least it made canon the connection to Q. I’m sure Aunt Kathy wouldn’t be happy that he was still messing around where he shouldn’t be. Unless this takes place before his adventures with Icheb.
Pike was a little too excited to dance to Wham.
The PTSD stuff with Ortegas has potential to be a really good storyline ala Nog. But I’d expect them to stretch it out over a few episodes.
I did like the Spock/La’an stuff. Reminded me a bit of the brief conversations between Data and Worf on TNG where they would discuss the way humans act and generally do stuff. Like Data seeking him out for wedding advice in “Data’s Day”. Or discussing funeral rituals in “Next Phase”
Make it a easy 6.
Didn’t he try to sink both WoK and Search for Spock by leaking out Spock dying and the destruction of the Enterprise because he despised both films. Creator and “Great Bird of the Galaxy” or not I dunno that he should be the arbiter of “canon”. OMG would he have hated DS9.
I don't think the episode necessarily makes it canon that Trelane is related to Q, especially as it didn't even confirm that it was Trelane, never mind Q. Okay fine, it's pretty obviously meant to be Trelane, but I didn't think John de Lancie was playing his role very Q-like.
And if we're going to assume he's Q just because of the actor, then we can also assume that Admiral Hanson from Best of Both Worlds is actually the Final Frontier god entity who escaped Sha Ka Ree. I mean he is evil, so what better disguise than a Starfleet admiral?
And if we're going to assume he's Q just because of the actor, then we can also assume that Admiral Hanson from Best of Both Worlds is actually the Final Frontier god entity who escaped Sha Ka Ree. I mean he is evil, so what better disguise than a Starfleet admiral?
We're certainly meant to wonder if it's Q, but other than the voice and the godlike powers they didn't seem very Q to me. If the dialogue had a bit more of Q's edge in it, or he did a Q flash effect, or he mentioned that Picard never broke out of an illusion by punching someone, then I'd say yeah it's pretty clearly meant to be Q. But what we got was ambiguous enough I reckon.
