Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Pike serving "and i—OOP" in all his scenes 😂 #StrangeNewWorlds pic.twitter.com/WyzpZwMwwQ

— T’hy’Lara ✨ Spoimler Truther (@RainTuahine) July 13, 2023

Really too bad this doesn't get 26+ episode seasons like old Trek

i know right

Absolutely loved this episode. It meshed nicely with all the Hindi romances I've been watching lately, full of disapproving prospective in-laws, and also with episodes of TNG where nobody was ever good enough for Lwaxana, even though she badly wanted to see Deanna married. Everyone was on top form, and it all looked gorgeous and Sixties-inspired without being shonky. The tone of this show is so what I want these days. I only hope it survives all the strikes.

It's total bullshit that this show is shut out of the casting categories in the Emmys - even the guests of the week are perfect.

Yea this whole ep had that "disapproving Desi parents" thing going on. Loved the Dad's little hopeful interjections. Loved teenage-petulant Spock. Still feel weird about Pike's apparently giant kitchen and endless fresh food on a spaceship when eeryone else ever always ate from a replicator but... eh.

the way T’Pring’s mom tore apart Pike’s appetizer

You’d think they’d have spray-on invisible gloves for Spock’s hands during the tea ceremony.

yeah that was rough

Still feel weird about Pike's apparently giant kitchen and endless fresh food on a spaceship when eeryone else ever always ate from a replicator but.

So I was thinking about that too, also considering all the burgers the other crew were wolfing down, but then I remembered replicator technology only arrives in the TNG era. However, googling reveals that while I am right about this, food synthesizers, which are apparently s distinct thing, did already exist in the TOS era - thus Pike's "you need fresh ingredients, not synthesized", so your argument stands.

Still feel weird about Pike's apparently giant kitchen and endless fresh food on a spaceship when eeryone else ever always ate from a replicator but... eh.

Very in keeping with that 19th century navy outlook Star Trek has always cultivated in the background. The implication being that captains are expected to entertain visiting dignitaries and important passengers, so would always have had access to better food and their own cook. Pike also seems to feel that his presence in the kitchen is disarming, so it could be as much a useful diplomatic skill as a hobby.

I need a running metric of how big Pike’s hair is in each episode

Such a good episode. Hijinks.

I propose that the Spock/Chapel ship name be called Spackle.

Seeing an interview with Jess Bush and hearing her real accent is weird. Would not have guessed she wasn't Amurrican - but it's Trek, why not just let her be an Australian character?

over-intense people would have freaked out because majel barrett didn't have an aussie accent

I ship Spackle but also Spring

Last two episodes have been great. Much like season one, I thought the first few episodes were shaky, but I’m really into it now. Phew!

The cut to commercial when human Spock starts saying WTF is proof that Trek should not let itself swear.

Brilliant ep, but I am a sucker for actors having permission to ham.

I don't know if there's some bizarre meta-joke intended but Spock freaking out at Kirk being sloppy is... super sloppy!
There isn't a very good telegraphing of escalation, no slow-mo shots with crumbs flying out of Kirk's mouth with lip-smacking sounds and such.
They also show Spock (in Vulcan mode) cleaning the crumbs with his bare hands and onto the floor like a savage!
Also, shouldn't the joke be that hu-Spock is super chill and snacking on bacon at the conference table now that his burning Vulcan rage and vegetarianism is kaput? Pike is also pretty blase about not warning Spock that those sizzling strips are meat, but does seem vigilant about policing Spock's caloric intake.

re: Bush, have there ever been any Aussies shown in Starfleet? Did Khan destroy Australia?

I liked the interdimensional beings basically having government service protocol parameters. Sorry, you’re past the appeal period. Please explain your exception

This was just pure Douglas Adams for me, to where I thought I’d they had used Brit accents it would have given too much away

i liked that the two aliens were named Yellow and Blue but they were both blue.

Also this episode made me happy even with the mother-in-law sitcom-y bits that the show hasn’t don’t since the Luxana years, and Anson Mount being supporting helpful captain/buddy/comedy character

“But I have more Vulcan foods you should try!”

Also, fun match cuts with Chapel & Mbenga doing a fist dap that cuts to her punching the heavy bag that Mbenga is holding

over-intense people would have freaked out because majel barrett didn't have an aussie accent
As it is, Trekkies on Reddit are grumbling because Peck's hair is "wrong". :/

if his hair is wrong i dont want it to be right

Ethan Peck was amazing this ep but Jess Bush made me cry. Her appeal to Yellow, I just made tears and more tears, it was so silly and fun and brilliant. Amazing that such a corny premise could be pulled off so spectacularly.

if his hair is wrong i dont want it to be right

Amen.

I don't know if there's some bizarre meta-joke intended but Spock freaking out at Kirk being sloppy is... super sloppy!

Pike not warning Spock that he's about to eat meat is a bit poor, but the rest of it doesn't have to be that obvious, I don't think. The point is that hormone surges can make people act irrationally. Kirk was never actually being sloppy. Unless I am mistaking your point.

It was also very funny that non-corporeal entities from a higher dimension are still very locked into time. Sorry, all requests must be made within two days of service.

It's also firmly in the Trek tradition (preceding even Douglas Adams!) that most gods or godlike beings are assholes

I thought the implication was these are ancient Vulcans who settled on the moon and ascended but kept their bureaucratic traditions (hence parallel with Chapel's officious Vulcan dean of admissions.)

re: sloppy spocky, the entire setup for Spock's OCD trigger seems like trolly bait for/commentary on obsessive fans who can't handle a few crumbs -- maybe his hawaiian punch haircut is intentional in that context?

It's also firmly in the Trek tradition (preceding even Douglas Adams!) that most gods or godlike beings are assholes

Assholes, yes, but TOS never portrayed them as pedantic bureaucratic functionaries with a forced attempt at politeness

Good episode! Making me think of not one but two top flight (to me at least) TNG episodes is a sign of a high bar cleared.

Separately but enjoyably:

https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-is-my-nerdy-obsession-1850659104

I didn't expect to see more crumbs and crumb-shaming by two completely different characters.

Me until now: "Well that Lower Decks episode seems like it'll be the highlight of this season's hijinks whenever it drops."

Me just now: "Oh...my god."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3-CgRitwc

And that LD crossover episode is about to hit Paramount+ in a little over ninety minutes!

wait what

No lie!

https://gizmodo.com/sdcc-2023-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-crossover-stream-1850665365

Just announced at ComicCon.

:D

I'm not enthusiastic about the musical episode. I think it might be too cutesy.

Tsk!

Anyway that said: new episode is indeed very Boimleriffic

Didn't really dig the last episode - Kirk seemed superfluous and are they going to blow up an entire refinery with zero evidence these interdimensional beings actually exist? Will the fact that Starfleet was accidentally committing genocide ever come up again? I dunno, come up with some neat plot point where your communications officer manages to break through and communicate with them in a way other people are aware of so Starfleet knows they're real.

this crossover w Lower Decks was hilarious & i loved it soooooooooo freaking much

Yeah I was bugged by the last episode as well.

- they show up to a nebula and we pan across to see a giant space-vacuum theyve built that they blithely say is for mining Deuterium.
- my first thought is "we'd have a problem with this on earth, why's it ok to go to a pristine star birth spot and just suck the life out of it?
- "funny you say that, I bet some alien life protests at them" says my bf
- nek minnit...
- On Uhura's insistence, they immediately evacute a staff of presumably dozens/hundreds, and blow the whole thing up.
- (incidentally, why wasnt that an issue all of its own, re damage to the space babies)
- this is a space mining operation that wouldve cost billions and taken god knows how long to build, and they just rock up, blow it up because Uhura decided space babies said so, and Pike is all *shrug* "well we can always build one somewhere else!"

Even for "solve it in one episode" Trek, this was just too much imo. Where was the proof aside from her speculation? In any other scenario she'd have been committed, not believed.

But! I should say that it was sweet to see Hemmer again even if only for a moment. I miss that guy.

yeah i loved that aspect too Trayce

yeah the plot was absolutely by-the-numbers trek that's been done many times before. but i liked that even as a(n) uhura episode, it kinda got everyone involved -- i mean having two minutes of spock and chappell playing 3d chess is much better than waiting however many episodes until it pops up again in a huge way

james t. just hanging out as if he didn't have duties on the farragut was silly, but you gotta do what you gotta do. and it was cool that his First Ever Meetings (In This Timeline) with all these ppl were pretty low-key

also james t. knew perfectly well that sam was waiting for him to say 'i'm proud of you too' but didn't because he's kind of a dick. which is, i think, otm

Grandmaster Kirk callback was a nice touch.

was always bs tho

the kirk brothers stare off was v funny

BUT YOU GUYS NEED WATCH THE NEE CROSSOVER EPISODE ITS ALREADY UP AAAAAAGHHH IM DYING OVER HERE

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