Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists
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The Bell Riots remark by Mariner also made me laugh out loud.
Well, that was fun. A lot of fun.
Notes:
First, they couldn't have pulled this off if the Lower Decks team hadn't made the choice to model the characters after their voice actors. So good job, Mike McMahan. (Jack Quaid is more buff than Boimler, though.) I'm glad they gave him purple hair.
Redoing the title sequence in LD's animation style was golden.
The Chapel/Spock arc, and specifically how we get from here to TOS, is starting to make more sense. Obviously Spock will at some point decide to return to T'Pring and rededicate himself to logic, and actually SNW is starting to redeem the portrayal of TOS Chapel: without the context of SNW she came across as simpering and mooning over a hopeless crush, but it makes more sense knowing that she and Spock had a romantic relationship that he turned his back on. You could replace Majel Barrett's Chapel with Jess Bush's Chapel in some of those scenes, and while Bush would make far better acting choices, you could keep the actions and dialogue the same and it would work.
Love the quip from Boimler about Pike's "great hair," and also the "Did anyone notice that their references are weirdly specific?" And the Orion delaq making everyone feel big-eyed and weirdly two-dimensional. And the "TOS era" gag. And seeing Mariner go all fangirl.
A quibble: I wish that modern 23rd-century Trek did fewer "call-forwards." It's not quite as bad as Enterprise deciding to bring in the Ferengi, but come on -- Uhura is studying the Cardassian and Bajoran languages? Bajor will be considered way the fuck out in the boonies 100 years later, so in SNW's time it seems like first contact with Bajor and Cardassia should still be years in the future. Same goes for Setlik II, since Setlik III has to be close enough to Cardassian space for the massacre to make sense.
Why are SNW's shuttles so huge? In TOS and TNG they were not much bigger than a 15-passenger van.
Notes:
First, they couldn't have pulled this off if the Lower Decks team hadn't made the choice to model the characters after their voice actors. So good job, Mike McMahan. (Jack Quaid is more buff than Boimler, though.) I'm glad they gave him purple hair.
Redoing the title sequence in LD's animation style was golden.
The Chapel/Spock arc, and specifically how we get from here to TOS, is starting to make more sense. Obviously Spock will at some point decide to return to T'Pring and rededicate himself to logic, and actually SNW is starting to redeem the portrayal of TOS Chapel: without the context of SNW she came across as simpering and mooning over a hopeless crush, but it makes more sense knowing that she and Spock had a romantic relationship that he turned his back on. You could replace Majel Barrett's Chapel with Jess Bush's Chapel in some of those scenes, and while Bush would make far better acting choices, you could keep the actions and dialogue the same and it would work.
Love the quip from Boimler about Pike's "great hair," and also the "Did anyone notice that their references are weirdly specific?" And the Orion delaq making everyone feel big-eyed and weirdly two-dimensional. And the "TOS era" gag. And seeing Mariner go all fangirl.
A quibble: I wish that modern 23rd-century Trek did fewer "call-forwards." It's not quite as bad as Enterprise deciding to bring in the Ferengi, but come on -- Uhura is studying the Cardassian and Bajoran languages? Bajor will be considered way the fuck out in the boonies 100 years later, so in SNW's time it seems like first contact with Bajor and Cardassia should still be years in the future. Same goes for Setlik II, since Setlik III has to be close enough to Cardassian space for the massacre to make sense.
Why are SNW's shuttles so huge? In TOS and TNG they were not much bigger than a 15-passenger van.
Missed that the first two times I watched.
It's "moves" closer to Earth as the show progresses. I don't think we know the Galactic geography as well as we think. The "boonies" might just be places the Federation has little interest in. Perhaps because the Caerdassians were already there and at the time the First Republic was in charge. Presumably a democratic state The Cardassian War made that area more "interesting" as economic and political change gave rise to a more authoritarian rule.
I'm guessing you forgot the Strange New Worlds episode Spock Amok and Enterprise Bingo?
Ensigns like Uhura and Nog seem to be the exception, not the rule.
Was it only found in the Expanse?
It was a difficult to manufacture artificial material who's use was rendered obsolete by technological advancement.
And they likely used it to build the NX because at the time they needed to use it for one reason or another.
And if human starship construction crews in the 2140s and 2150s had access to heronium it must have been abundant enough in nearby star systems or sectors of space. And eventually it got whittled down and mined out of existence by the time the Federation was born.
They could tell Uhura anything they want. In a few years she won’t remember any of it anyway.
That must be what goes offline.
Some sort of high energy magnetic property that hardens hull plating and, oddly enough, triggers time portals.
I decided she was searching obscure languages because the more familiar ones weren't giving clues to the portals language origins.
I decide a lot of things.