There’s no evidence of that.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-And-A-Half Vulcans"
Yeah, that episode made me laugh several times but the hair thing....
sigh.
sigh.
I actually enjoyed “Four and a half Vulcans.”
Okay, okay, they should not have been immediately more logical than Spock.
It would have made more sense for them to be much more emotional than Spock at first.
Perhaps he could have calmed them down with a mind-meld.
Doug is just very curious about Humans.
The whole thing is done very tongue-in-cheek, and a bit absurd. I liked Doug anyway.
As for La’an, perhaps the Vulcan DNA switched on some dormant gene that re-activated her father’s DNA.
Okay, okay, they should not have been immediately more logical than Spock.
It would have made more sense for them to be much more emotional than Spock at first.
Perhaps he could have calmed them down with a mind-meld.
Doug is just very curious about Humans.
The whole thing is done very tongue-in-cheek, and a bit absurd. I liked Doug anyway.
As for La’an, perhaps the Vulcan DNA switched on some dormant gene that re-activated her father’s DNA.
The process was derived from the Kervorkian tech than made Spock human in "Charades." You'll note Spock was stripped of his Vulcan training and control, becoming a "hyper-human" in that episode.
La'An's several times great grandfather.
Yeah, this episode…
The Doug/Una/Spock stuff was fine…even good. Oswalt was really well cast (I’m glad he’s coming back in S4/5). Pelia was fun as always. Pretty much everything else was bad. Why was Pike yelling everything? Another “why are you always on my ship” appearance from Kirk. Uhura basically assaulting Beto is waived away as an oopsie. La’an was totally an Romulan. Oof.
The Doug/Una/Spock stuff was fine…even good. Oswalt was really well cast (I’m glad he’s coming back in S4/5). Pelia was fun as always. Pretty much everything else was bad. Why was Pike yelling everything? Another “why are you always on my ship” appearance from Kirk. Uhura basically assaulting Beto is waived away as an oopsie. La’an was totally an Romulan. Oof.
Kerkhovian. But I hate this episode, so I wish the process actually was Kevorkian.
We still need more giant Vulcan clones or the Keniculans.
Kerkhovian. But I hate this episode, so I wish the process actually was Kevorkian.
Stream of consciousness
During the mission briefing, Pelia is funny but also annoying. Did they put a 10-year-old on the script team?
Using Vulcans for humor: spot on. Amusing walking down the hallway montage, awesome. Lirpas?! Squeeee.
Sketchy tech that they can't undo, leaving them in an amusing state? Also spot-on for Star Trek.
[long and confusing]
Cetacean ops! (In her mind palace). Oh, an apache dance. I don't get to use that expression very often. Her mind is weird.
I didn't understand the La'an problems with Spock. Or Una's problems with Patton Oswalt. Maybe it's funny to people? I don't mind it, but I didn't get it.
I enjoyed the Vulcan-ness of everybody, except La'an. That didn't seem to fit, but maybe they explained it in the show? It was confusing.
Unfortunately, I found Anson Mount's portrayal of a Vulcan as pretty weak. I thought he did the worst job of sounding like a Vulcan. Why was he yell-y? La'an's problem was the way her character was written, not the way she delivered lines. Uhura was decent. Chapel was spot-on.
Overall, 5/10. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. Was pretty confusing.
During the mission briefing, Pelia is funny but also annoying. Did they put a 10-year-old on the script team?
Using Vulcans for humor: spot on. Amusing walking down the hallway montage, awesome. Lirpas?! Squeeee.
Sketchy tech that they can't undo, leaving them in an amusing state? Also spot-on for Star Trek.
[long and confusing]
Cetacean ops! (In her mind palace). Oh, an apache dance. I don't get to use that expression very often. Her mind is weird.
I didn't understand the La'an problems with Spock. Or Una's problems with Patton Oswalt. Maybe it's funny to people? I don't mind it, but I didn't get it.
I enjoyed the Vulcan-ness of everybody, except La'an. That didn't seem to fit, but maybe they explained it in the show? It was confusing.
Unfortunately, I found Anson Mount's portrayal of a Vulcan as pretty weak. I thought he did the worst job of sounding like a Vulcan. Why was he yell-y? La'an's problem was the way her character was written, not the way she delivered lines. Uhura was decent. Chapel was spot-on.
Overall, 5/10. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. Was pretty confusing.
This episode had Anson Mount’s worst performance of the series. He sounded like a Conehead and not a Vulcan. The director should have told him to tone it down. Otherwise I liked this episode.
Yeah, I think suppressing DNA you already have feels more plausible than changing into a species with completely different blood chemistry. Does the serum instantaneously change all your blood from iron based to copper based? It makes no scientific sense. They pushed a step too far because their own writers wrote themselves into that silly corner. Give the aliens superior medical scans and use a combination of tech to fool them and the serum as the icing on the cake for surface physiological appearance.
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