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

[UssGlenn]

Wouldn't it become a replica if you took it through a transporter anyway?

The atoms keep their associations with their neighbors after they are converted into energy. That's why they snap back into position after beaming even when not using a landing transporter pad. So the object is made of the same atoms in the same places.

 

[Fateor]

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.

Who said Chapel's interpretation was right?

For all we know, they could have gone through with it, gotten to a Starbase, and then had the higherups slap them down for not following proper regulations.

 

[Noname Given]

Does anyone know what the "T" on their uniforms meant?

Possibly - Terran ?

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Did anyone, or even the writers, realize that Kirk's psychological BSOD at the ending was due to his trauma from the Tarsus IV massacre? And Kodos *only* killed 4,000 people. Jim Kirk just killed 7,000, thousands more than Kodos ever did.

The two situations (Comparing Kirk's situation to Kodos) aren't even comparable.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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?

Because it's your junk.

 

[Jedi Marso]

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.

 

[Yistaan]

Who said Chapel's interpretation was right?

For all we know, they could have gone through with it, gotten to a Starbase, and then had the higherups slap them down for not following proper regulations.

Chapel: Don't worry, the commander of the nearest starbase and I are... good friends.

Spock:

Uhura: You know Christine, there's more than a few words I want to say to you right now but you've actually left me speechless... in ANY of the languages I know.

Kirk: This is your ex, Spock? No wonder you cut off having emotions.

Scotty: Christine, do you think you and I can meet up for a snack before you marry Roger?

Chapel: No.

Scotty goes off to find an alcoholic beverage, and subsequently becomes a drunkard.

 

[Tosk]

Does anyone know what the "T" on their uniforms meant?

I didn't see it as a T myself, I thought it was supposed to be a stylized person. I could be way off of course.

 

[El Maestro]

Because it's your junk.

How come other people's stuff is junk, and your junk is stuff?

 

[UssGlenn]

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.

That was always fannon, nothing onscreen to indicate that.

 

[Noname Given]

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.

I would hardly call 1 of 430 'the only Vulcan' in Star Fleet. Also Spock was a Lt. The Vulcan Captain of the U.S.S. Intrepid as well as the 1st Officer who would either be an Lt. Cmdr. or Cmdr. would have entered and gone through the Academy before Spock and were longer serving overall than Spock.

There was never any dialogue in TOS in any episode to indicate Spock was either the first, or only Vulcan in Star Fleet; and since you bring up the USS Intrepid (from TOS S2 The Immunity Syndrome); there's more to indicate there were plenty of other Vulcans in Star Fleet of the 23rd century era.

 

[Quantum21]

This episode is Kirk getting an audition for his ship and show, and the question of if a Kirk continuation would work is answered with a resounding: YES! It's the show's first 9 rating of the season from me.

I like just about everything here, so I'll focus on the one puzzling thing: The adversary is somewhat sketchy in detail?

Earth people from before 2061? Even if they skillfully acquired technology in a desperate race for survival at some point, how did they outpace the Gorn and Klingon level of technology??

If they're a legend on the outskirts of space, why were they only encountered now, and if it's one ship, why didn't the Klingon Empire send the entire fleet after them!?

Still, a good episode

 

[Ovation]

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

This was never indicated anywhere nor does it make any sense.

 

[Yistaan]

This was never indicated anywhere nor does it make any sense.

The official site database said Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet back in the day. That being said Terral on Discovery bulldozed that and that database on the official site isn't up anymore

 

[UssGlenn]

The official site database

If it's not on screen it doesn't count. The people who put that together were operating under the same mistaken assumptions as the rank and file fans.

 

[Mudd]

I can't imagine why that group would start out with any confidence in Kirk.

 

[Yistaan]

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.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The design of the scavenger ship reminds me of the Hydra logo from Marvel comics and movies. The whole skull-and-tentacles motif, you know, loosely reinterpreted?

It brought to mind the alien monster thing from Early Voyages #1

NGnGc2A

 

[cooleddie74]

How come other people's stuff is junk, and your junk is stuff?

The seven directives you can't break in Starfleet.

 

[Kraig]

I don't think she can be a Lt-commander. It's unusual for nurses to outrank their CMO. M'Benga was a lieutenant in TOS although I think he wore short sleeves so that might have been an assumption. Chapel had no rank braid so she was either a non-com or an Ensign.

I have not been paying attention to her rank on her uniform!

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

 

[Donald G]

McCoy pronounced it the same way in Babel

McCoy pronounced it "SELL-it."
Amanda pronounced it "SAY-lot" in "Journey to Babel," and Nimoy-Spock did likewise in "Yesteryear."
In DISCOVERY, I think I heard Michael Burnham pronounce it as "se-LOT," like Peck-Spock did this episode.

So, do we also want to tackle the proper pronunciation of Sarek - SAH-rek or SAIR-ik? Both have been used on screen over the decades.