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

[Tuskin38]

Anyone else think Ortegas remark about the phone looking like a personal massager meant to be sexual? Sean at TrekCulture did.

 

[Dar70]

Okay. At least it wasn't a holodeck episode.

Once again, we're doing TOS under the 'guise' of a Pike-era Trek show.
Once again, Pike and the SNW originals are sidelined by Kirk and the TOS reboots.
Once again, we have a recycled TOS plot. The Doomsday Machine, in this case.
Once again, we have max frivolity and stupidity with Pelia and the phone thing.
Once again, I'm reminded that Paul Wesley is grossly miscast as Kirk. I know opinions vary widely on that one, and again, no hate for the actor himself.

Is it just me, or does Anson Mount just seem like he's phoning in his three minutes of screen time per episode this season? At least we haven't seen him cooking, but we do have the continuous open flame in his quarters aboard a ship in space.

The idea that 'our best' take off into space and become the reavers from Firefly? Ughh.
The gaping maw supership with tentacles? Blasting colony worlds for decades, everyone knows about them but nobody has done anything about it? Because Spock blew the whole dang thing up with a whopping spread of three photon torpedoes. Seems like the Klingons might have done that a while back. GTFOOH.

Wasn't Spock supposed to be one of the only Vulcans in Starfleet? With the remainder serving aboard the Intrepid, an all-Vulcan ship? Why would Farragut have a Vulcan captain? Just as a plot foil for Kirk to be bored? At least this Vulcan wasn't a big bag of emotion.

Plus sides: Spock actually acted like f'n SPOCK, for once!
Jeffries tubes.
Not another ship in a bottle episode.

Not impressed. The writing on this show is WASTING the talents of the cast and the show's premise.

You make some good points. agree with much of this but I still enjoyed the episode. It's probably the best they will be able to offer us at this point. Yes it was much like the doomsday machine..

I don't think the show will get much better than this episode though. If they had been doing stuff like this from the start and not included ANY Tos characters except Spock of course. The show would have been an easier Pill to swallow.

Paul Wesley is ok as Kirk. Chris Pine was better. I don't think they could ever get someone to truly replace Shatner though. He originated the Character and i feel bad for any actor that has to fill those shoes.

Anyhow it is what it is.

 

[Dar70]

Anyone else think Ortegas remark about the phone looking like a personal massager meant to be sexual? Sean at TrekCulture did.

Of course not. Now would it even work? ...

 

[Nerys Myk]

If I remember correctly in TOS most medical staff wore medical working uniforms that didn't show their rank.

Chapel in TOS wore a “special” uniform that didn’t have the black collar or rank stripes. It also seemed to be a different shade of blue. Later nurses wore it too, but others were shown in the standard Starfleet design.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Of course not. Now would it even work? ...

Ask your wife.

 

[V'Lias]

Anyone else think Ortegas remark about the phone looking like a personal massager meant to be sexual? Sean at TrekCulture did.

I didn't, but then my mind doesn't immediately go that direction with everything. Old style phones do look somewhat similar to the over the shoulder back massagers I see around, so it made sense to me.

 

[cooleddie74]

In the Kir'shara arc of ENT I believe T'Pol pronounced it "say-lot." She and Archer encountered one in Vulcan's Forge.

 

[Kraig]

In the Kir'shara arc of ENT I believe T'Pol pronounced it "say-lot." She and Archer encountered one in Vulcan's Forge.

I guess it depends on your dialect, or whether you are from the Vulcan equivalent of Boston or not.

 

[Tuskin38]

I didn't, but then my mind doesn't immediately go that direction with everything. Old style phones do look somewhat similar to the over the shoulder back massagers I see around, so it made sense to me.

Ortegas does give a suggestive look but idk

 

[Gepard]

Anyone else think Ortegas remark about the phone looking like a personal massager meant to be sexual? Sean at TrekCulture did.

I thought that, but only because "personal massager" is so often used as a euphamism. And also because:

I didn't, but then my mind doesn't immediately go that direction with everything. Old style phones do look somewhat similar to the over the shoulder back massagers I see around, so it made sense to me.

Those over the shoulder things are, uh, not actually intended to be used over the shoulder. If you catch my drift.

 

[Artoo Atari]

I didn't, but then my mind doesn't immediately go that direction with everything. Old style phones do look somewhat similar to the over the shoulder back massagers I see around, so it made sense to me.

I didn't think anything more of it either.

In the Kir'shara arc of ENT I believe T'Pol pronounced it "say-lot." She and Archer encountered one in Vulcan's Forge.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I tend to pronounce it "say-lot" as well. Of course, I'm not from Vulcan Boston (see Kraig's post above. )

 

[Noname Given]

Discovery did establish that the Vulcan Science Academy was interchangeable with Starfleet Academy, and Burnham was able to become an officer in Starfleet just on a Vulcan Science Academy degree alone.

We actually don't know if V'Rel or Terral or any of the other Vulcan Starfleet seen might've done the same thing or not.

Maybe Spock is the first Vulcan to go to Starfleet Academy.

Again there's absolutely no dialogue in TOS (any episode), nor any Star Trek series that states Spock was the first Vulcan to attend Starfleet Academy.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Again there's absolutely no dialogue in TOS (any episode), nor any Star Trek series that states Spock was the first Vulcan to attend Starfleet Academy.

I don't follow. How does that relate to the post you quoted?

 

[Noname Given]

I don't follow. How does that relate to the post you quoted?

oops. Looks like I hit reply on the wrong post. I meant to reply to a post from Yistaan.


ETA
[That Post fixed]

 

[Tuskin38]

Again there's absolutely no dialogue in TOS (any episode), nor any Star Trek series that states Spock was the first Vulcan to attend Starfleet Academy.

and considering there are Vulcan admirals while he was still a lower rank, and an entire ship crewed by Vulcans (the Intrepid) seems very unlikely he was.

 

[Tuskin38]

Once again, Pike and the SNW originals are sidelined by Kirk and the TOS reboots.

They had almost equal screen time. The episode was split between the Farragut and Enterprise.

Wasn't Spock supposed to be one of the only Vulcans in Starfleet?

There was never stated in TOS or any other show.

Once again, we have a recycled TOS plot. The Doomsday Machine, in this case.

This episode was nothing like The Doomsday Machine.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I guess it depends on your dialect, or whether you are from the Vulcan equivalent of Boston or not.

That's wicked logical.

 

[Pauln6]

They had almost equal screen time. The episode was split between the Farragut and Enterprise.


There was never stated in TOS or any other show.


This episode was nothing like The Doomsday Machine.

The plot points for Kirk mirrored ST09 more closely IMO. Planets are at risk. Communications jammed. It's stated in dialogue the enemy ship is slow (never establised for the Narada which was fast enough to reach Vulcan from Rura Penthe). Kirk's risk taking doesn't pay off twice (landing party would have died; the ship breaks). The destruction of the enemies is in the heat of battle and not an execution after they ceased to be a threat. Kirk regrets the deaths rather than seeing is as summary justice.

I felt the distinctions were deliberate and welcome. This felt far more like the Kirk we've come to know and love.

One Thing I do take issue with is the notion that you have to travel to a subspace relay. You only have to do that if your ships comms are busted. They are just interstellar phone masts.

At least we didn't have them using hand communicators to dial up interstellar spaceships.

 

[Captain Shaw]

The home office is trying to cause a riot in my area.
As you may know there have been protests around the country about housing asylum seekers in hotels, well the home office has decided to throw a petrol bomb on the flames, by taking over two hotels that were used to house homeless people.
I swear to god it feels like reform has gotten into the home office and is staring shit up.

 

[cooleddie74]

This episode was nothing like The Doomsday Machine.

The only part that reminded me of the Planet Killer was the Enterprise's phaser strafing run on the ship.