Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists

[ichab]

The DS9 baseball one is funnier.

Take Me Out To The Holosuite. I agree.

These were also funny episodes

Trouble with Tribbles
Mudd's Women
The Magnificent Ferengi
Bada Bing Bada Bang

Those are just off the top of my head. All funny without the need of starfleet personnel acting like idiots.

 

[Nerys Myk]

La'an saying she loved grapplers just seemed so hilarious and perfect.

Great line. Perfectly played by Chong.

 

[Voltron64]

"Have you noticed that their references are weirdly specific?"

"Do you notice how slow everyone talks?"

I liked all that because it works on multiple levels. On one hand, it’s because they’re from a cartoon, but it’s also not an incredible leap for social cues to shift over 120 years so that it would sound odd.

It’s the kind of weird subtle shift that time travel would produce, except it’s almost impossible to just up and create, because anything we’d just make up would feel artificial to the audience. The crossover between animated and live-action let them create one of the most real feeling culture shock representations I’ve seen… by accident.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That would be 50 years later though.

And?

 

[thribs]

And?

I just mean it would be more likely to know of them later on.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why do they say se-laht instead of say-lat?

Language drift.
Though I think it's been pronounced two ways in the past.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I just mean it would be more likely to know of them later on.

Why? Because TNG introduced them?

 

[Mudd]

Trouble with Tribbles
Mudd's Women
The Magnificent Ferengi
Bada Bing Bada Bang.

None of those are even close seconds.

Among other things, Auberjenois and Shimmerman had a gift for comedy but the rest of the stiffs pulled the shows down.

In a sense, this episode is Trek's own Galaxy Quest.

 

[thribs]

TNG is 60 years after that. Before that there was a war with Cardassians. I assume that would be shortly after first contact.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I agree, they were missed in the live action bits.

I hoping Wells would cameo as Tendi's grandmother.

 

[El Maestro]

Also, the 1701 looked INCREDIBLE animated.

 

[Finn]

TNG is 60 years after that. Before that there was a war with Cardassians. I assume that would be shortly after first contact.

Your phrasing in some of your posts is a bit confusing. Are you trying to say that you don't think the Federation knew of Bajorans until around the time Picard was in primary school, sometimes in the mid 2310s, approximately 55 years after the events of tonight's episode, or what?

 

[Turbo]

That was absolutely fantastic. I'm still trying to gather my thoughts on it.

Definitely understand not liking it if you don't like Lower Decks - it's basically a live action LD episode.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Marnier not knowing what a “pin up girl” is doesn’t seem like her

I think Mariner was pulling Una's leg. Because that's something Mariner would do.

Your phrasing in some of your posts is a bit confusing. Are you trying to say that you don't think the Federation knew of Bajorans until around the time Picard was in primary school, sometimes in the mid 2310s, approximately 55 years after the events of tonight's episode, or what?

The Feds could know about the Cardassians and the Bajorans for a very long time. They just weren't something the Feds needed to worry about in the 23rd Century.

 

[Aeolusdallas]

That whole episode was just joyous. And I'm really, really shocked at how tall Quaid is

 

[NCC-73515]

"They have kind of a Trelane thing going on"

 

[Finn]

I think Mariner was pulling Una's leg. Because that's something Mariner would do.
The Feds could know about the Cardassians and the Bajorans for a very long time. They just weren't something the Feds needed to worry about in the 23rd Century.

Yes. I'm very aware of that. There's something off about Thribs' responses to me and to other posters about this topic, I'm not certain they were trying to say the Feds shouldn't be aware of Bajor/Cardies until just before the TNG era or not...

 

[Mudd]

TNG is 60 years after that. Before that there was a war with Cardassians. I assume that would be shortly after first contact.

Not a justified assumption.

In any event, tonight's SNW establishes as canon that they are known in Kirk's time.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes. I'm very aware of that. There's something off about Thribs' responses to me and to other posters about this topic, I'm not certain they were trying to say the Feds shouldn't be aware of Bajor/Cardies until just before the TNG era or not...

There is a tendency to think that any new alien on a show is also new in universe. I've seem it done with Betazoids.

 

[Finn]

That whole episode was just joyous. And I'm really, really shocked at how tall Quaid is

All kinds of sources says he's between 6 feet and 6'2.