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

[firehawk12]

Glad the preview last year prepared us for this. Eraserhead Pike was a stupid idea, why would his hair change at all? Crawling on the floor and Pelia's high 5 were beyond awkward.
The "down low" part reminded me of that nice scene in T2 where John teaches the Terminator such tricks.
How does just showing them their katras make then human again? Or did it convince them to do the reversion procedure?
Why would "it's" be so difficult to say when they can say "it seems", same for "I've" when they can say "hive" and "five", etc.
Good things were Doug's genuine curiosity about humans (though the names were another eye-roller) and the appearance of belugas, and the dance/fight combo was creative and well performed.
But I'm more and more expecting the realization of an ENT April's fools joke where they said the next episode will feature Archer and Porthos swapping heads

Thank god they put this in:

And this should've been explored more:

If their katras weren't altered, only their bodies, wouldn't the personalities be unchanged?


They mentioned in an interview that this is cetatean ops a few weeks ago and that we will see some whales, but that they're belugas is a nice surprise. Why didn't they have uniforms though?


Ah that's why the next one gets thrown on the wall, Spock thought "not again!"



Which scenes? I wanna rewatch what people found the funniest moments.





Exactly, same here. I could tell when something was supposed to be funny, but it just wasn't funny for me. Light and disposable worked though

This makes me wonder if Khans are genetically evil and it's in their DNA to want to become dictators, based on what happened.

 

[Paul755]

yeah…that was not good. Worst of the season by a country mile. It was too much like “Charades” basically all “cliche sitcom wacky situations”.

The lone bright spots were the Una/Doug stuff and Pelia.

6/10

 

[Yoda]

It's rare that you know an episode will be terrible just by the "previously on," but here we are.

Sitcom shenanigans? Bad.

France, we come from France? Terrible as usual, Anson.

Speaking of previously on, I had memory-holed the Kirk La'an stuff thanks to the 3 years between seasons. Kirk and Spock sniffing around the same woman? Barf.

tHeY aRe pRe WaRp bUt hAvE SuPeR sCanNeRs I guess we'll just become Vulcans? Idiotic.

Speaking of Vulcans... once you get past the stupidity of a Vulcan conversion serum, that they just pop out of the womb in 'full logic' mode as if it's encoded in Vulcan DNA? Embarrassing.

But for the most part they're just played like Sheldon. There was a time when being Vulcan didn't mean "Human on Spectrum w/ OCD." Insulting.

This episode made me angry that there isn't a zero option. One of ten and may God have mercy on their souls.

 

[GothicPudding]

The forward lounge uses the wall iirc

While there were a couple of scenes in the officer’s lounge set (which used the AR wall in season 1), I still don’t think they used the AR wall in this episode. There wasn’t any shots that would require anything more than some stars on a background or a regular green screen. I’d guess they set up the portions of the set needed on another soundstage.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

I feel like 50% of SNWs entire runtime has just been the same joke about Vulcans over and over.

 

[Starflight]

The real shame is that Vulcans are really interesting and there's a lot to engage with and explore, even if (especially if?) approached from a comedy angle.

Anyway, it seems the once-per-season Vulcan """comedy""" episode is a convention now. Spock Amok was pretty good, Charades was crap, this was abominable, so on our current trajectory, season four's offering should be one for the ages.

How can the same writers who spend all day scouring Memory Alpha for the most miniscule shit to include and make flashy references to throwaway lines from sixty years ago be so crap at writing one of the main races in the whole setting.

 

[nightwind1]

Naw.

That dishonor belongs either to Laurence Luckinbill as Sybok or Tim Russ as Tuvok.

Tim Russ's portrayal was second only to Nimoy's.

 

[nightwind1]

Profit and Lace

Code of Honor

Shades of Gray

Threshold

This wasn't good, but there's been far worse.

Spock's Brain

And the Children Shall Lead

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Code of Honor is actually a much better episode than this. It at least has a plot and story. This is just the same joke again and again and again.

Episodes with causality loops had less repetition.

 

[SolarisOne]

Strange New Worlds' Scotty reminds me of early Leo Fitz from Agents of SHIELD.

Also, I feel sorry for Spock. If there's anything I don't like about the episode, it's that they treat him like crap. Racist as hell.

Also, Patton Oswalt!

This isn't the best episode of Star Trek ever, but it's far from bad. Felt more like a mid episode of Lower Decks.