I had one of those. Technically I stole it because it was given to me to pass on for a sci-fi convention raffle prise but I thought to hell with orders if Kirk can steal the Enterprise then so can I.Pelia should've pulled out this one
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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So Humanity was the Doomsday Machine all along...
Peck's pronunciation of sehlat was unexpected
McCoy pronounced it the same way in Babel
He would be 16 though! Still, how old was Uhura in season one?
21/22 she was 22 by Those Old Scientists.
Is it an alien ship, or is it alive? Both or neither, I dunno. 
Not bad, but for the longest time this felt like a Doomsday Machine/First Contact (film) mashup. I rolled with it and focused on the the juicy bits.
Still not 100% sold on Paul Wesley, but he's growing on me. I will always have an "original actor" bias for these people and 100% admit that nobody will ever come even close to Shatner and/or Nimoy. They owned the characters, everyone else - for me - is just borrowing them.
Putting that aside, I am starting to appreciate this version of the TOS legacy people, even if the ages seem off on a few of them. Scotty is still not sitting right. He's coming off as a less experienced officer than Kirk when he was like over a decade older. I also vastly prefer Doohan's "inaccurate" accent most because I can understand it more easily as I get older.
Having said that, it was a fun episode and I liked the growth of Kirk in this and how he drew the team together under his Spock-inspired resurgence of leadership.
Pelia was, as always, grating. It's been a while since Trek gave me an annoying alien character and her ginormous quarters filled with kick knacks had me rolling my eyes a bit. The whole phone thing was - ehhhhhh - but okay it's SNW. It's how they roll. I feel like, as on Gilligan's Island and the Howells, it's weird for someone to bring sooooo much crap with them on a space ship. M'Benga and Ortegas walk into her quarters and we get to see Dr. Junius at the archives (Buck Rogers).
Still, it was nice to get two serious episodes in a row.
Not bad, but for the longest time this felt like a Doomsday Machine/First Contact (film) mashup. I rolled with it and focused on the the juicy bits.
Still not 100% sold on Paul Wesley, but he's growing on me. I will always have an "original actor" bias for these people and 100% admit that nobody will ever come even close to Shatner and/or Nimoy. They owned the characters, everyone else - for me - is just borrowing them.
Putting that aside, I am starting to appreciate this version of the TOS legacy people, even if the ages seem off on a few of them. Scotty is still not sitting right. He's coming off as a less experienced officer than Kirk when he was like over a decade older. I also vastly prefer Doohan's "inaccurate" accent most because I can understand it more easily as I get older.
Having said that, it was a fun episode and I liked the growth of Kirk in this and how he drew the team together under his Spock-inspired resurgence of leadership.
Pelia was, as always, grating. It's been a while since Trek gave me an annoying alien character and her ginormous quarters filled with kick knacks had me rolling my eyes a bit. The whole phone thing was - ehhhhhh - but okay it's SNW. It's how they roll. I feel like, as on Gilligan's Island and the Howells, it's weird for someone to bring sooooo much crap with them on a space ship. M'Benga and Ortegas walk into her quarters and we get to see Dr. Junius at the archives (Buck Rogers).
Still, it was nice to get two serious episodes in a row.
Very good episode, an easy 9.!
Scotty and Pelia could have whipped up what they needed in an hour or so.
Despite Chapel being a civilian, the [acting] chief medical officer could relieve an officer of duty for medical reasons.
It wouldn't normally hold much water, but being in a crisis situation she would have done it (and probably put her career on the line) in order to give command to Spock.
Personally, I'd rather they left out the whole "enterprise crew not confident in Kirk" business.
I know it's now inconsistent whether or not the TOS era has replicators (season 1 of DIS made it seem like they did), but presuming the ship can manufacture whatever you need easily, why bother keeping a lot of junk around?
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