Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"
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Quiet, frothing but complimentary rage. 
I loved the parody. It's one of the things I'd been waiting for all season.
I just wish there'd been more of it, and that they'd leaned into it more. But it totally served its purpose in the story, as-is.
Despite the superficial resemblance of the holodeck adventure to both "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship In A Bottle," the holodeck story was fun, and it had its own unique elements that kept the episode satisfying.
I just wish there'd been more of it, and that they'd leaned into it more. But it totally served its purpose in the story, as-is.
Despite the superficial resemblance of the holodeck adventure to both "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship In A Bottle," the holodeck story was fun, and it had its own unique elements that kept the episode satisfying.
(two angertrekkies)Quiet, frothing but complimentary rage.
"Are they mocking us?"
"Yes, and it's still more faithful than Star Trek Continues!."
(in unison)
"Off to the Trekblogs!"
I've only just seen this episode so apologies for the rant. This was terrible. I'm surprised at the number of viewers who did enjoy it.
I groaned at the Lan'an / Spock story. For heavens sake two episodes ago he was declaring his love for Christine. He's waited one episode and now he's kissing someone else. The idea of a main character getting involved with different people an episode later was only acceptable in the 60s - 90s. There's no continuity and totally falls short of a the ongoing narrative that we've expected since Enterprise days. They spent 1.5 years building up the Spock Christine friendship and relationship. It came from an organic place. They've spent about 1.5 minutes on the Spock / La'an friendship. It's come from nowhere other than a 30 second dance in episode 2 which he was supposedly doing to 'win' Christine back (ridiculous idea). They only introduced the idea that she had any feelings at all in this episode. The worst thing about Spock and Christine was that it happened 2 minutes after Spock and T'Pring finished. Why would they do that again! The idea that Spock has had an unbroken chain of new relationships continuously for three seasons is nuts. Not to mention that Spock's engaged. I know that they're taking some time apart but very people would expect that time apart means that their finance would sleep with and fall in love with multiple women in a chain. If he isn't going to find the acceptance and relationship difference that he wanted with Christine then he needs to return to T'Pring and find it if it works. If not then I would expect a remotely mature and responsible adult to end their engagement and take some time alone to think about what they want. The idea that an engaged Spock would bed hop multiple times is just so ridiculous it may as well be fanfiction. I fully expected La'an to say 'end program' at the end and we realised that this was what she wanted. I really surprised at the number of posters who were happy for Spock to be taken in this direction or felt that they had better chemistry than the friendship that was carefully built between Spock and Christine for 1.5 seasons. Uhura was making eyes at Spock in the musical episode
The Holodeck malfunction idea has been done to death. There is nothing original or remotely clever about it. It's the same as shared delusion or fantasy episode (looking at you Ep 2). You wait for the glitch to happen so the premise of the episode isn't surprising and then you wait for the glitch to be fixed. Bride of Chaotica was one of the only episodes to really make this work because it was a vehicle for comedy. Watching Robert Beltram break continuously through the briefing scene was hilarious and Kate killed it as the Spider Queen. This episode wasn't funny so they didn't have that going for them. The murder mystery style has been done to death in the Holodeck since TNG. The premise of the murder made no sense. It was full of constant in-jokes at the expense of a remotely good story. Plenty of viewers won't know the references to Lucille Ball or Issac Asimov so it's going to go over most people's heads. The idea of characters acting 'differently' can work really well but this requires that they act like themselves the vast majority of the time. Plus the differences have to be either funny or powerful. Something like the warship Voyager did that very well.
The amazing learning experience of Scotty asking for help was ridiculous. Was this is first day in Starfleet (or a job)? The idea that he won't ask for help because the last time he did that person got killed (in an unrelated incident) was just immature. La'an could have been killed because he didn't want to ask for help.
The powerful storyline of Erica having PTSD appears to be over 5 seconds after it began. Putting her back on duty undermined any impact of the previous episode. Continuity between writers seems to be a real problem here. As above, in this era I expect strong continuity so to make this work we need to see Erica genuinely going through it. Being put back on duty with no impacts of concerns from her crew undermines everything. There was also no mention of Batel. I thought that there was a desperate mission last episode to save her because she had on a few days left to live. That appears to be over without a second thought. Are we supposed to assume that she had the procedure? Or that they dropped the rope on saving her life because the Holodeck sounded like fun to try? Plus where was the real Spock all episode?
Overall there has been appalling continuity all season so far. It feels like every episode has been written by a new writer who is only interested in selling something sexy and fun for their particular episode. If Spock turns into a more logical being because of heart break then they need to stick with that story and develop those feelings and the impact on him. Not switch the idea because it would be more fun to do something different for a few episodes. I feel like they've changed the writing team this season. The quality has fallen off a cliff. I feel like I'm watching fanfiction.
I groaned at the Lan'an / Spock story. For heavens sake two episodes ago he was declaring his love for Christine. He's waited one episode and now he's kissing someone else. The idea of a main character getting involved with different people an episode later was only acceptable in the 60s - 90s. There's no continuity and totally falls short of a the ongoing narrative that we've expected since Enterprise days. They spent 1.5 years building up the Spock Christine friendship and relationship. It came from an organic place. They've spent about 1.5 minutes on the Spock / La'an friendship. It's come from nowhere other than a 30 second dance in episode 2 which he was supposedly doing to 'win' Christine back (ridiculous idea). They only introduced the idea that she had any feelings at all in this episode. The worst thing about Spock and Christine was that it happened 2 minutes after Spock and T'Pring finished. Why would they do that again! The idea that Spock has had an unbroken chain of new relationships continuously for three seasons is nuts. Not to mention that Spock's engaged. I know that they're taking some time apart but very people would expect that time apart means that their finance would sleep with and fall in love with multiple women in a chain. If he isn't going to find the acceptance and relationship difference that he wanted with Christine then he needs to return to T'Pring and find it if it works. If not then I would expect a remotely mature and responsible adult to end their engagement and take some time alone to think about what they want. The idea that an engaged Spock would bed hop multiple times is just so ridiculous it may as well be fanfiction. I fully expected La'an to say 'end program' at the end and we realised that this was what she wanted. I really surprised at the number of posters who were happy for Spock to be taken in this direction or felt that they had better chemistry than the friendship that was carefully built between Spock and Christine for 1.5 seasons. Uhura was making eyes at Spock in the musical episode
The Holodeck malfunction idea has been done to death. There is nothing original or remotely clever about it. It's the same as shared delusion or fantasy episode (looking at you Ep 2). You wait for the glitch to happen so the premise of the episode isn't surprising and then you wait for the glitch to be fixed. Bride of Chaotica was one of the only episodes to really make this work because it was a vehicle for comedy. Watching Robert Beltram break continuously through the briefing scene was hilarious and Kate killed it as the Spider Queen. This episode wasn't funny so they didn't have that going for them. The murder mystery style has been done to death in the Holodeck since TNG. The premise of the murder made no sense. It was full of constant in-jokes at the expense of a remotely good story. Plenty of viewers won't know the references to Lucille Ball or Issac Asimov so it's going to go over most people's heads. The idea of characters acting 'differently' can work really well but this requires that they act like themselves the vast majority of the time. Plus the differences have to be either funny or powerful. Something like the warship Voyager did that very well.
The amazing learning experience of Scotty asking for help was ridiculous. Was this is first day in Starfleet (or a job)? The idea that he won't ask for help because the last time he did that person got killed (in an unrelated incident) was just immature. La'an could have been killed because he didn't want to ask for help.
The powerful storyline of Erica having PTSD appears to be over 5 seconds after it began. Putting her back on duty undermined any impact of the previous episode. Continuity between writers seems to be a real problem here. As above, in this era I expect strong continuity so to make this work we need to see Erica genuinely going through it. Being put back on duty with no impacts of concerns from her crew undermines everything. There was also no mention of Batel. I thought that there was a desperate mission last episode to save her because she had on a few days left to live. That appears to be over without a second thought. Are we supposed to assume that she had the procedure? Or that they dropped the rope on saving her life because the Holodeck sounded like fun to try? Plus where was the real Spock all episode?
Overall there has been appalling continuity all season so far. It feels like every episode has been written by a new writer who is only interested in selling something sexy and fun for their particular episode. If Spock turns into a more logical being because of heart break then they need to stick with that story and develop those feelings and the impact on him. Not switch the idea because it would be more fun to do something different for a few episodes. I feel like they've changed the writing team this season. The quality has fallen off a cliff. I feel like I'm watching fanfiction.
Half the shit you're whining about is addressed in subsequent episodes of this season. You've gotten yourself all fired up over the biggest nothing burger ever. "It's not addressed right away and therefore it's been forgotten/ignored" is the basic gist of this post. Maybe take a breath and watch the remainder of the season before you launch into another rant.
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