Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-And-A-Half Vulcans"

[Commander Richard]

You asked for it!

You got it!

Pike, Uhura, La'an and Chapel...

...as Vulcans!

Chuck Lorre would be proud.

Hair is 50% taller too.

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[The Wormhole]

Oh my god! It's a comedy episode! This isn't what Star Trek is supposed to be! This isn't what Star Trek is supposed to be at all!



But seriously, I'm looking forward to this one exactly because it looks fun. The episode itself should be a hoot, plus seeing the over the top reactions from That Crowd online will be its own form of entertainment.

 

[Finn]

Should be fun

 

[Tuskin38]

Oh my god! It's a comedy episode! This isn't what Star Trek is supposed to be!

Not the issue I (might) have with this episode.

Comedy is fine, biological essentialism is not.

Being medically turned into Vulcans shouldn't make Pike and Co suddenly emotionless (and pick on Spock for some reason?), that's something Vulcans train to do, they don't just do it naturally.

Unless the procedure also includes some sort of emotional suppressant, I don't like it.

 

[kruegger100]

Feels like another TOS revision based episode, like the second episode of Season 3 was a revised version of the Squire of Gothos. This episode feels like the Enterprise Incident (Human posing as a Romulan) except with more humans and just replace Romulans with Vulcans.

 

[Tuskin38]

Like the second episode of Season 3 was a revised version of the Squire of Gothos.

Eh no it wasn't.

This episode feels like the Enterprise Incident (Human posing as a Romulan) except with more humans and just replace Romulans with Vulcans.

Enterprise Incident isn't the only undercover episode Trek has done.

 

[kruegger100]

Eh no it wasn't.

The ending when Trelane was confronted and taken away by his (Q) parents was almost exactly like the ending of Squire of Gothos.

 

[tomalak301]

This was the episode that initially gave me a bad first impression on Season 3. I really hope with added context it will be more than what that initial clip showed. If not, it might get a lower score than the Holodeck episode. I hope for the best.

 

[Tosk]

Way back when the wacky Vulcan hijinks clip was released to promote season three I was one of the ones kind of dismayed by it.

This season has been very hit and miss for me (mostly miss) so I am even more apprehensive for this week's episode than I was before. But always striving for an open mind and a hopeful heart!

...Although I had forgotten it also has Patton Oswalt in it. Ugh. They task me!

 

[Captain Jollydark]

Not the issue I (might) have with this episode.

Comedy is fine, biological essentialism is not.

Being medically turned into Vulcans shouldn't make Pike and Co suddenly emotionless (and pick on Spock for some reason?), that's something Vulcans train to do, they don't just do it naturally.

Unless the procedure also includes some sort of emotional suppressant, I don't like it.

I hope it's addressed. Because I think Chapel uses Spock's DNA to do her epigenetic magic in temporarily transforming them (or whatever she got from the Kirkovian Charades episode). Maybe they're all just Spock's insecurities made manifest.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Let's not forget the treatment increases everyone's hair magnificence tremendously, too.

 

[DaveyNY]

Pike needs to starting moaning about his hair like Scotty does about his "bairns".

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Hooray, more hijinks!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Feels like another TOS revision based episode, like the second episode of Season 3 was a revised version of the Squire of Gothos. This episode feels like the Enterprise Incident (Human posing as a Romulan) except with more humans and just replace Romulans with Vulcans.

So, not all that much like The Enterprise Incident after all.

The ending when Trelane was confronted and taken away by his (Q) parents was almost exactly like the ending of Squire of Gothos.

Which makes the ending similar not the entire episode .

 

[The Wormhole]

Not the issue I (might) have with this episode.

Comedy is fine, biological essentialism is not.

Being medically turned into Vulcans shouldn't make Pike and Co suddenly emotionless (and pick on Spock for some reason?), that's something Vulcans train to do, they don't just do it naturally.

Unless the procedure also includes some sort of emotional suppressant, I don't like it.

Well, if you look at it like that than back in S2 when Spock became human he shouldn't have suddenly become emotional, his lifetime experience spent suppressing his emotions should have still been present. This episode's just being consistent with what was established in that episode last season.

But ultimately, the priority is to entertain. Seeing Spock act like a human, or seeing Pike, Chapel, La'an and Uhura act Vulcan is entertaining and therefore it is done that way.

This episode feels like the Enterprise Incident (Human posing as a Romulan) except with more humans and just replace Romulans with Vulcans.

Except these humans aren't posing as Vulcans. They are actually becoming Vulcans.

 

[Tuskin38]

Well, if you look at it like that than back in S2 when Spock became human he shouldn't have suddenly become emotional, his lifetime experience spent suppressing his emotions should have still been present.

100%, that's why I've soured on Charades since it aired.

 

[The Wormhole]

I liked Charades.

 

[Tuskin38]

So did I until I had time to think about it.

 

[Noname Given]

I've been looking forward to this one for nearly a year now, ever since I saw the sneak peak last year. I hope I'm not dissapointed, but I'vce enjoyed all the other Vulcan comedy episodes.