Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

i just noticed spock’s sideburns have a slightly arty curve to them & i hate it

That's how he shows emotion. When pon farr hits they turn into majestic whorls.

lmao

I thought the editing was a little slack, but as stated making these characters believable people with real personalities is a welcome change of pace from Disco.

I'm warming up to Peck, I'm pretty sure that his "I apply rigorous logic to defuse tension" was meant as a joke and his little look of disappointment at Uhura not acknowledging it was a small treasure.

yeah i loved that

i think peck is great, but i was a fan from the off when he first showed up in Disco

i understand that avoiding contractions and insisting on 'the = thee' and 'a = long a' is a handy way to make him seem alien, but i don't really recall nimoy (or jolene blalock) doing that?

nimoy definitely did the sense-ors thing that lower decks made fun of tho

in any case, i think peck's pretty good

Yeah Peck's solid; it's a hell of a thing to be the actor to take on an utterly iconic role -- and the second one to do it at that -- but he seems to have it pitched just right.

yeah i think both he & quinto both have acquitted themselves really well, avoiding doing an impression but honoring what’s been established if that makes sense - a difficult balancing act to be sure

peck has a lovely sonorous tone to his voice too which i love

goddamn that was a great episode!
oldschool submarine style = my fave

agreed

points off for ‘we’ve got this’ tho

no! BONUS point for deploying it in a MISSION and not derailing the entire story to talk abt feelings in the process. Also WE vs YOU.

sorry lots of all caps, v animated

Yeah, great episode.

ah I see from up the thread, she isn't Drummer from The Expanse

Is that a conscious thing they did or is it just chance? Seems to be a widespread reaction. Is it a case of this person would have been cast if available. Is there a character type both fit or just a chance physical resemblance.

Very glad this series seems to be... ok and perhaps even good? It hasn't come to the UK channels yet though.

I am HERE for Pike and Spock's leather away mission jackets.

liked ep 4 - ep 3 clunked a bit I thought, but this was good stuff - the gr0n felt proper menacing

hijinks!

That was very enjoyable.

Excellent fun, and a perfect counterbalance to last week.

yeah i really enjoyed that one!

I didn't much care for the previous episode but HIJINKS is so good.

they really have such a good light touch with the humor - it’s not signposted as heavily as the original series but still kinda captures a bit of that feel somehow

and deadpan vulcans discussing the existence of hijinks ~during a bodyswap~ is just too good

clearly we need a spock-t'pau spin-off-off

dammit this show just keeps getting it right

I didn’t know I needed a competently made OG Trek series but I totally did

also enjoying how they’re retrofitting the chapel/spock vibe

Also Una’s rep as Fun Funeral / Where Fun Goes To Die was v good

Speaking of Una, she's got those straight Vulcan eyebrows! I wonder if that's deliberate.

This show knows how to write fun Vulcans.

Chapel & Spock chat was the first time two Star Trek characters have seemed like they actually want to fuck.

Ive only seen Chapel in TOS in Amok Time, and she seemed pretty hot for Spock there too but that also just seened like Majel, like I couldnt unsee Lwaxanna when I watched it.

Wasn't that a well-known TOS subplot? Although I haven't thought about it in ages.

Loved "Sneak a Tribble into the Transporter Buffer" on the bingo card

xp yeah my memory is that Chapel having unrequited Spock vibes was part of TOS lore m, but I can’t remember how much it features onscreen in the series and how much of it is from extended universe stuff that I may or may not admit to having read in my early teens

Will they attempt to explain what happens to Federation leadership between SNW and TOS that results in most women being pulled out of leadership positions and put into mini skirts? Also LOL at Nurse Chapel's alien DNA mods wearing off and revealing Spock's ears - years later in TOS, they finally figured out that the Spock's best disguise is simply wearing a hat.

Roffle.

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Anyway, new episode maybe too short given everything they were trying to pack in but still pretty good in a 'holy shit they went there' way.

haha mr veg & i were joking that his hair seemed bigger this wk

i really like that it started out on a lighter note & went full dark with the conclusion - AND they left off summing everything up at the end with crew or whatevee, just despondent Pike thinking baout things & drinking heavily

and both the kid actors were really good too, i thought! no trace of dead-behind-the-eyes you saw in a lot of the kids on TOS or TNG

started thinking about this guy yesterday
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& this though on closer look its just not enough of the hair. needs to be a bit more solid like
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probably my least favorite so far, but not terrible

the arc was pretty well telegraphed and i didn't think the main guest star was great. but yeah the little boy actor was fantastic

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not finding links that work

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hair is a bit ridiculous. is that a conscious trope, like presume original look wasn't much like that
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Christopher_pike.jpg

Kirk's wasn't very vertical either, thought that might be it for a moment
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Anson Mount got a secret history as a psychobilly or something.
or is it more New Romantic?

stevo what on earth are you doing

in a general sense, not even star trek

i mean you read a bunch of cool stuff, but it seems to wash off you. can't even tell if you read the responses to any of your posts.

my suspicion is that you utterly rule but in like a kelpian way that we can't quite understand

anyway your latest messages are too arcane; please try again

Trying to work out why Pike's hair is so raised, vertical in places like. Can't see earlier influences. thought that was clear.

There are people on the board that I would rather ignore because of past comments from them. I'm unlikely to take somebody else's opinion as verbatim fact when i can see flaws in what they are saying. There are a few people who I just do not want to engage with whatsoever. I have wondered if I should spend time pointing out why I am thinking things, where I have heard information being discussed. Or whether i should just be ignoring somebody I am just thinking is trolling because they like chestbeating. I think I have been tending to the latter recently.
& there does seem to be at least one person on the chatlist who thinks that if they say something to me I should just view it as the only way to see things. So I just ignore them and maybe other people see that as me refusing to capitulate to vital correct information that I am just seeing not to be the complete picture, and don't really want to engage with them because they are overbearing and not somebody I want to be spending my time on.

Reading washes off , gosh how judgmental. A bit projected peut etre?

& if the images yesterday needed further explanation green guy is Gumby who i had seen on early morning tv in the States when I was there.
Pike's hair is on the wrong side but I did think the effect was similar. There was a black hairstyle a decade or so ago that really reminded me of him too. Angled natural haircut, may still be around.
https://menhairstylist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/10_Asymmetrical-High-Top-Haircut.jpg
is a more stylised version

Was there a close up of the front of Pike's hair in this week's show cos if so my first visual response was that bit of Something About Mary . Would think that might be a cliche comparison by now so a little surprised that needed explanation . But may be I'm making visual connections that aren't that possibly aren't taht immediate to everyone. Frame of reference etc.

I thought visual reference with hair may be something to do with the original character and can't see any cues that would lead to an exaggeration/charicaturisation like that, I didn't look at his hair when he had been stuck in the mobile chair thing after crashing on the planet. I can't see a hint of verticality in Kirk's hair either which would be another potential reference. kirk's doesn't seem to rise at all. Just look a bit greasy.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/johnnybravo/images/b/bb/Johnnyb001.gif/revision/latest?cb=20190421193227
is another possibly obvious comparison

last image was Johnny Bravo btw.

Not sure what source of hairdo is , seems like it may be one of the stylists used by the show. Apparently Anson Mount is not an aesthete when it comes to personal styling.

lol his hair IS kinda Johnny Bravo tho so i def see that lol

Finally saw the first episode, it was corny and delightful, but I’m glad to hear it gets better. I kind of want them to wear new DNA disguises every week and turn the show into a space procedural.

Hot Spock seems to have gotten even hotter since Discovery, it’s almost distracting. Anyway he’s a huge improvement on Z Quinto’s Angry Spock.

https://i.imgur.com/gnSYUtu.jpg

lol

Yeah, DS9 was really good at the whole horrors of battle thing, with what happened to Nog and Kira's war trauma and Garak's dark past as a possible torturer/assasin (??). I feel like in DISCO and SNW the baddies are often pretty one-dimensional and "bad". Like OK there was mirror Lorca and Georgiou, but they're neither of them a Dukat.

And its prob been said here many times but that is the problem with modern TV! Shows don't get a chance to fucking flesh out characters. We barely had time to grow fond of Hemmer and then he was gone. I can't even REMEMBER that character in Disco that appeared and disappeared within like 2 episodes.

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