Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"
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TAS was in the 2260s
This is my opinion too. I suspect we'll get another one next week as well, as both prior seasons have done goofy Vulcan episodes as their 5th episode, and we know there's one coming where members of the crew become Vulcans.
I think you missed the part where La'an says that it worked perfectly based on what she asked it to do.
The problem here was that the ship's computer had access to the entire ship and was simply doing what it was programmed to do using all available sources, which disrupted the ships functions.
In TNG, it was that something actually went wrong with the program itself.
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Thats episode 8 this year
Except that wasn't actually Spock, it was the simulation making things up on the fly.
That La'an didn't pick up on that then, was a mistake on her part.
There was no "arch" when she first entered the room.
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It was in the user's manual.
And?
IIRC, the next episode is an archeological sci-fi mystery. And Korby is coming back.
The forerunner of the Holodeck had to begin somewhere, I see no problem with it first being put to the test during SNW.
Afterall, Captain Archer and his crew first came across the technology about 100 years earlier.
That it took that long for Star Fleet engineers to try their hand at recreating the tech isn't such a stretch.
It just takes almost another hundred years for it to be perfected to the point we see it in TNG.
Afterall, Captain Archer and his crew first came across the technology about 100 years earlier.
That it took that long for Star Fleet engineers to try their hand at recreating the tech isn't such a stretch.
It just takes almost another hundred years for it to be perfected to the point we see it in TNG.
Right, but "this fun video game system can potentially kill you" would be common knowledge if it'd been first discovered a century earlier, surely.
Like if someone in 1993 had turned on a hidden option in the settings menu in Doom and got actually shot through the screen in real life, it'd probably be the one thing people remembered about the game above all else.
Sigh, at this point I'm willing to give continuity issues more... "flexibility. "
But if this is the Prime Universe... Holodecks shouldn't be like this. How is these holodecks here are virtually the same as they are 100 years later when everyone is amazed and impressed by them?
It'd make "more sense" if these were just visual experience, no sounds, you can't interact with all objects.. Like we see Spock hold a wine glass, it should be fixed to the table. Think of it as like the difference between an object in a FPS/TPS shooter game from 30 years ago with restricted maps, not every object in the game can be interacted with, then as technology advanced, more open-world maps, more objects and be interact eith, etc.
But here it seems 23rd century holodecks are exactly the same as the ones Picard, Riker, Georgia, Pulaski and all are amazed by.
Sigh. Whatever.
The episode itself?
I liked the Kirkian over-acting and TOS-like actually of the opening teaser, enjoyed and rationalize it with the Captain Proton series Tom Paris played in, just people enjoying 20th century entertainment.
La'an I'm enjoying more now... So, her and Spock now?
There's a couple hundred people on the ship but one of the patterns Scotty chooses for the simulation is... Jim Kirk? Someone not part of the ship? Er.... Okay, then.
Of course the holodeck succumbs to it's usual failures (at the very least suggest that holodecks at this point don't have safeties? Again, 100 years before TNG. How are they exactly the same and everyone in 24c is amazed by them?
Good moments between Scotty and Uhurah.
Loved the speech from Holo-Uhurah on the inspiration of a Trek-like series.
Liking this version of Scotty.
I liked the ending of the holodeck bit of the story and the episode overall... But, it also feels out of place. Kind of expecting more from a series with so few episodes.
I dunno, I grade it a 6. I liked it just feels out of place.
But if this is the Prime Universe... Holodecks shouldn't be like this. How is these holodecks here are virtually the same as they are 100 years later when everyone is amazed and impressed by them?
It'd make "more sense" if these were just visual experience, no sounds, you can't interact with all objects.. Like we see Spock hold a wine glass, it should be fixed to the table. Think of it as like the difference between an object in a FPS/TPS shooter game from 30 years ago with restricted maps, not every object in the game can be interacted with, then as technology advanced, more open-world maps, more objects and be interact eith, etc.
But here it seems 23rd century holodecks are exactly the same as the ones Picard, Riker, Georgia, Pulaski and all are amazed by.
Sigh. Whatever.
The episode itself?
I liked the Kirkian over-acting and TOS-like actually of the opening teaser, enjoyed and rationalize it with the Captain Proton series Tom Paris played in, just people enjoying 20th century entertainment.
La'an I'm enjoying more now... So, her and Spock now?
There's a couple hundred people on the ship but one of the patterns Scotty chooses for the simulation is... Jim Kirk? Someone not part of the ship? Er.... Okay, then.
Of course the holodeck succumbs to it's usual failures (at the very least suggest that holodecks at this point don't have safeties? Again, 100 years before TNG. How are they exactly the same and everyone in 24c is amazed by them?
Good moments between Scotty and Uhurah.
Loved the speech from Holo-Uhurah on the inspiration of a Trek-like series.
Liking this version of Scotty.
I liked the ending of the holodeck bit of the story and the episode overall... But, it also feels out of place. Kind of expecting more from a series with so few episodes.
I dunno, I grade it a 6. I liked it just feels out of place.
We're not, it's Episode 8 this season.
I just gotta mention my favorite moment during the end bloopers.
“Kirk” trying to Riker Maneuvre his chair, breaking it and Jonathan Frakes shouting Cut! from off-camera was hilarious.
“Kirk” trying to Riker Maneuvre his chair, breaking it and Jonathan Frakes shouting Cut! from off-camera was hilarious.
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Self driving Teslas were rushed out and bugs covered up, and at least 1 person has died as a result. I have no problem believing buggy hardware is rushed out and covered up in Trek just like in real life.
That being said, I do think security/safety software improves in Trek, unless we see a malfunctioning holodeck in Starfleet Academy (hopefully not). For example, Lore's Borg easily deactivate Data's ethical chip in TNG to cause him to torture Geordi. Later Trek imply Data's ethical chip is nearly impossible to deactivate--it's literally the only part of him still working at the start of Insurrection, and the Borg Queen apparently doesn't even try to deactivate it in First Contact.
She's the one who turned it back on IIRC.
Pike can't say "recreation?" It's a new word for him? "Reee-creation?"
Otherwise, it was just...boring.
I also don't mind Star Trek satire, I just don't generally enjoy it when it satirizes itself. I'm not a big fan of Meta humor. And the Shatner imitation is as old as TOS. It stopped being funny quite a while back. There was nothing fresh about this episode in the portion I was able to complete.
I was hoping it would be funny, but after about 25 minutes I gave up. I was too busy looking at my phone to waste any more time.
At least Rebecca Romijn looked nice finally. They can't seem to decide what to do with her eyebrows on a weekly basis, but they looked less upswept even before the holodeck antics started.
Otherwise, it was just...boring.
I also don't mind Star Trek satire, I just don't generally enjoy it when it satirizes itself. I'm not a big fan of Meta humor. And the Shatner imitation is as old as TOS. It stopped being funny quite a while back. There was nothing fresh about this episode in the portion I was able to complete.
I was hoping it would be funny, but after about 25 minutes I gave up. I was too busy looking at my phone to waste any more time.
At least Rebecca Romijn looked nice finally. They can't seem to decide what to do with her eyebrows on a weekly basis, but they looked less upswept even before the holodeck antics started.
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