Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"

[Yaroze86]

The T one their suit reminds me of the Tesla logo.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I don't the Pelia would work if it wasn't Carol Kane.

I think you could say that about every single character she has ever played. Which I mean as the highest compliment.

 

[Artoo Atari]

Give TOS a chance. TOS was before us Gen X'ers time as well but we watched and loved it. It has a very 60's feel to it but that is also part of it's charm because it gives it a unique feel, not seen in any other of the Trek shows.

Oh, I'm GenX too. I was referring to growing up with the crew in the "monster maroons" in the 80's movies. However, I've gone back and watched most of the episodes in syndication and now on Paramount+.

 

[Paul755]

It was a pretty good episode for what was basically a back door pilot for “Year One”. But I still think last weeks episode was better. Would put this one second or third either just above or just below the season premiere.

There is nothing wrong with the actor but I still think it was a mistake to cast Scotty younger. He should be a solid veteran that is almost as much a steady hand as Spock. Not somebody the same age as Kirk or younger. Maybe they felt the need to contrast him with Pelia or something.

The best two scenes were the conversations between Kirk and Spock and Kirk and Pike. You can see Wesley and Peck have pretty good chemistry even in such a small bit.

That said…I’m still not sold on Wesley as Kirk. There is just something off that I can’t quite put my finger on. Like if he’s forcing things, trying to hit certain “Kirk marks” or something instead of just letting it come naturally. Almost like he’s trying not to fuck it up but also trying too hard to not be Shatner. Even the easy going moments feel stiff.

And I get that he’s not playing James T. Kirk yet, that’s why I’m not expecting him to be Shatner (he’ll never clear that bar), Pine (at least Pine in Beyond) or to have all the answers yet. There is just something off…imo.

I kinda saw the twist coming that they were humans. But I wasn’t expecting them to be pre-First Contact.

More fun stuff from Pelia too. I wonder if they will try and link her somehow to Flint from TOS at some point.

I’ll give it an 8/10

 

[Donald G]

Yes, it was established in the first episode of the series.

M'BENGA: I received your orders, Captain. This is Nurse Chapel. Nurse Chapel is on civilian exchange from the Stanford Morehouse Epigenetic Project.

This is turning out to be an awfully long exchange program.
Maybe she has a provisional rank/position based on her civilian experience, but they only ever call her nurse.

Didn't she also serve with M'Benga at the Starfleet equivalent of a Battalion Aid Station/M*A*S*H unit during the Klingon War of 2256-7, or is my memory playing me false? If my memory is not wrong, presumably she was not a civilian then. If that is the case, she may have returned to civilian life after the Klingon War, gotten a position with the Stanford Morehouse Epigenetic Project, then ended up back on a Starfleet vessel on the exchange program as a civilian, but as former Starfleet, she still holds a reserve status that can be reactivated at Starfleet's discretion. (See: McCoy, Leonard H., ca. 2273)

 

[NCC-73515]

Something similar will happen to Kirk again not much later in Enemy Within:
KIRK: Help me. Somebody make the decision.
SPOCK: Are you relinquishing your command, Captain?
KIRK: No. No, I'm not.
MCCOY: Well then, we can't help you, Jim. The decision is yours.

Spock could have just said: Remember your first command on the Farragut with most of us there already?

The reveal didn't really land for me either--I mean, "we're not that different from the creatures we think of as monsters" is not exactly a shocking twist on a Star Trek episode--but I thought Paul Wesley did a good job of selling the idea that this threw Kirk's view of the universe into doubt at a crucial moment in his development as a man and a captain. It made sense as a character moment for me more than a message moment.

I also got very curious who it might be... someone seen before? The ENT shroomheads? A big reveal? And then it was... just more humans,.meh

Considering how easily communication was disabled and how primitive rotary phones and gaming joysticks were used to save the Enterprise, we may just have seen the in-universe reason why the ship is seemingly refit to more primitive looking technology as of TOS

Pike already had the holo comms ripped out, it would be hilarious if more of these events lead to the TOS designs

Although, how was Chapel the ranking medical officer? She’s still a civilian nurse, that Ensign she ran into in sickbay out ranks her.

She still wears a commander's uniform, IIRC

 

[Lucky]

9/10. I loved this episode. Seeing Kirk interact with so many of the TOS characters and form deeper relationships with them was fantastic. I was surprised at the scale and power of the enemy's ship this episode, and I liked the twist at the end of them being human. The conversation between Pike and Kirk at the end was very poignant.

 

[indranee]

Just rewatched it. I'd give this an easy 10 save for the fact that I am still struggling with Paul Wesley as Kirk. He just doesn't have charisma but I really liked him in the one on one scenes he had with Spock and Pike. I did not like how easy it was for the OG crew to start talking about demoting him. Really liked how fast Spock shut that down. Liked Kirk's talk with Scotty about pushing the engines... there was a bit of Shatner Kirk in that scene/dialogue but handled really well. Also, liked how he gingerly sat down in the command chair and then smiled... anyway, I'm going to give it some time with Wesley, but I'm overall, this was an excellent episode and I'm giving it a 9 for now. May change it once I brood on it a bit. I do wish they'd set the launching of the earth vessel further down the decades. Anyway, well done.