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The TOS footage in the episode "If Memory Serves"

Yes, Spock does smile when touching the plants.

Personally I wish they'd edited the Previously On in the same way they normally do, without the goofy transitions. But I still liked it.
I thought the transitions worked in as much as presenting "The Cage" as a stage play version of events, compared to the "real" way things looked in Discovery. Basically, covering the visual reboot.
 
I loved the episode, particularly the new Vina and her scenes with Pike.

I understand that Melissa George's voice was blended with Susan Oliver's for the DSC episode!

It was also fun that Melissa George was a Big Deal in Australia, having previously played the long-running character of Angel in a TV soap opera, "Home & Away".
 
Do you have a link to any articles discussing this?
Found it:

"George’s portrayal of Vina didn’t just require building on the arc the character went through in 'The Cage' — it required going back to the pilot in a more literal sense too, apparently, even recording over lines of Oliver’s original dialogue so 'Discovery' could blend the two voices together for some moments, connecting the same character despite the half-century between performances...

"'They did put some of my voice on top of hers to kind of meld the two together. I couldn’t recreate her acting because so much has changed the way we act today. There’s a different kind of inflection. But I wanted to watch it and pay homage to her and the way the character felt....'"
 
Found it:

"George’s portrayal of Vina didn’t just require building on the arc the character went through in 'The Cage' — it required going back to the pilot in a more literal sense too, apparently, even recording over lines of Oliver’s original dialogue so 'Discovery' could blend the two voices together for some moments, connecting the same character despite the half-century between performances...

"'They did put some of my voice on top of hers to kind of meld the two together. I couldn’t recreate her acting because so much has changed the way we act today. There’s a different kind of inflection. But I wanted to watch it and pay homage to her and the way the character felt....'"
Curious. I had a cursory look at Vina's dialogue in both episodes and didn't notice any lines that were the same. Assuming I didn't miss any (very possible!) I wonder where these melded lines supposedly are.
 
Curious. I had a cursory look at Vina's dialogue in both episodes and didn't notice any lines that were the same. Assuming I didn't miss any (very possible!) I wonder where these melded lines supposedly are.

Don't they mean that they blended Melissa's voice anew into Susan's for the flashback lines?
 
Spock smiled in other episodes besides "The Cage", even when he wasn't under some alien influence, "Mudd's Women", "Charlie X", and "Amok Time", just to name three others. Not all were examples of so-called "early-installment weirdness".

Actually all thise episodes are early installments. First half of the very first season.
 
You aren't salvaging this.

Why not? Spock just got over the fever a few minutes after he just supposedly murdered his captain and best friend. When he gets back to the Enterprise minutes later he finds out he didnt kill kirk. If he smiled because someone threw him a surprise birthday party I would agree. This was something way different. Easily explained.
 
Half-Human
Half-Vulcan w/o Kolinahr

Some people always gloss over the canon that Vulcans don't lack emotions. They suppress them. Spock is much closer to the Tuvok end of the spectrum than the drug addict T'Pol end, but he still lets some smiles out. Kelvin Spock even cries.

It ends up making sense that he could be laughing at singing plants and ten years later he has that a bit more under control.
 
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