Delightfully fun. More campy space pirates, please.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
I'd watch a spin-off series about any of the main characters, such a wild change of pace vs. Discovery where I'd rather have my nails ripped out with pliers than watch a Suru series.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7z8a/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-is-the-best-of-what-television-used-to-be
Thought this was pretty good and accurate.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
mr veg was mad (“of all the things to revist! UGH”) Star Trek V is def lame, i dont disagree but i am kind of excite?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
oh and I loved when Pike was being beaten up & negotiates to cook for them - the way he looks up & just cheerfullt says “Kitchen?” - felt a bit Shatner-esque, love his calm cockiness
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
*cheerfully
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
I’m expecting this will get me put in the village stockade, but my explanation for the casting of Number One (“Una”? really?) is that she was the only actor they could find who was as irritating as Jonathan Frakes.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 June 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
SUGGEST BAN hdu
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
The show is goofy cool though, and I am a fan of the Pike Soufflé
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 June 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
also Ethan Peck gives me strong Kevin Spacey vibes but I expect that will earn a volley of FPs as well
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 June 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
that’s it i’m calling the cops
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Yep, me too. I hate it, because before I noticed it I was really, really enjoying him, and now I'm not. I think I can push through, though, with a few more hijinks.
― trishyb, Saturday, 18 June 2022 08:37 (one year ago) link
I think he transcends Spacey - I’m back to enjoying him now!
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 June 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
Yeah this week was a hoot. At first Dr. Aspen showing up in that catsuit was obviously wtf but then I persuaded myself that maybe this was an SNW retcon where all Starfleet counsellors wear catsuits as a way to explain Troi's outfits.
I am glad that she got her heel turn because she got to chew some scenery.
I'm hardly a stan of TOS or its movies but I still squealed at the Sybok reveal anyway, because why not?
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Her scenery chewing once she turned was a leeeetle bit too Batman villain for my taste! But I was also bothered by her weird outfit. tooo skeeeennyyy.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 20 June 2022 06:01 (one year ago) link
okay
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
If the entire cast chews the scenery how do you have any left?
This looks like it should be a holiday special or something.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
It was FUCKING BRILLIANT and I will not have a word said against it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
given the choice between scenery chewing and trauma bonding I will choose the former 110% of the time
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
if one had one word, would it be ham?
quite fun though I guess just a tad ham-y or sumfin. Did have me wondering if the US had a special occasion at this time of year I wasn't aware of. An extra Xian festival like.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
i absolutely need pike, without anyone commenting, to sport that middle part in the next episode
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
I mean when Christina Chong appeared in the dress that was one thing, when I realized there was the dog that was another.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
I have just reached the moment with this dress and dog, and wow, that’s a lotlove Chapel’s delivery of “What are her… dopamine.. levels?”
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
set hair stylist did some work on Spock’s wig, I see
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
so two episodes left (which is absurd, but so it goes)
one absolutely must be number one-centered, right?
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
I’m grateful that these are self-contained and unambiguous at the end because oh boy could this one have been bad without an ending
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
It's been noticed that the book per its jacket is written by Benny Russell. As in...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 June 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
Hemmer quickly became my new favorite character on the show.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 June 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
lookroleplaying episodes are my least favorite trope in TOS & TNG & DS9 because everyone is always “ACTING!” and it cringes me no end and this was no exceptionthe ending helped but lord i’ll be honest early on i struggled not to just straightup nap through this to get out of watching it costumes were **~dope as hell~** tho
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 June 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
Would have been better focused on 2 or 3 characters role-playing but I guess without holodecks it's harder to separate them out on a ship.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 June 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
I haven't seen this yet, but I feel strangely reassured that SNW is committing to cringey bad comedy episodes, which are, after all, a fundamental of Star Trek
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 June 2022 08:51 (one year ago) link
I love the cheese! This ep reminds me of Firefly actually.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 24 June 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
One of the things I like about Trek is its fans' (generally) relaxed attitude towards quality control, and finding reasons to love the crap as well as the good stuff.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 June 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
definitely spent about a third of this ep drifting off to check instagram - but for a type of episode i can absolutely live without, this was less dire than it might’ve been - takes balls to spend 10% of the season doing this - perhaps would’ve been wiser to wait til the third or fourth year? anyway def hit that corny old Trek Squire of Gothos vibe at the top - managed to find it almost moving at the end, kind of glad that plot thread has been switched off (albeit via very TNG benevolent magic sparkly light) - anyway I like these characters but i think i just wanna see them staying in character for now thanks
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Friday, 24 June 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
I actually though the ham could've been dialed up WAY more. Pike chewed an adequate amount of scenery and I LOL'ed when Hemmer when full wizard, and but IMO everyone else was just nibbling.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Saturday, 25 June 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
Kind of surprised at the dislike of this episode in here! Reddit Trek LOVED it. I loved it. It had that campy humour and sense of fun TOS did, Buffy/Firefly often did. When Lower Decks or Orville does this kind of humour everyone plotzes.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 26 June 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
i don't think anyone *disliked* it apart from VG? i mean ned is willing to fite people
i thought it was okay! but learning that buffy/firefly/orville/reddit trek fans LOVED it isn't really a positive imo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 June 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
the fantasy eps of TOS/TNG are my least favorite…broken holodecks & mischievous child aliums can get in the sea imo i yam what i am
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 June 2022 05:07 (one year ago) link
big difference from me is 1/26 goofy throwaway vs. 1/10 + hindsight - bad/less good TNG episodes blur because when I see one now it's part of a four episode block in the afternoon on BBC America
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 June 2022 05:27 (one year ago) link
yeah no actual dislike from me - i could never stay mad at this show!
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Sunday, 26 June 2022 05:42 (one year ago) link
learning that buffy/firefly/orville/reddit trek fans LOVED it isn't really a positive imo
>:/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 26 June 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link
oh yeah i love the show & dont like hate the episode in a visceral way it just makes me twitchy to sit through it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
I just wondered what the occasion for what seemed like a holiday episode was. Seems like the kind of thing one does for an Xmas or similar special.Obviously gets an actual explanation as to why the crew are getting OTT. But one does have to witness coifficide for the 2nd episode in a row instead of it getting a spin off show. Tonsoricide like.
Looks like they had fun making it.& if they can get the bite marks out of the scenery they may be able to reuse it.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 June 2022 09:34 (one year ago) link
But theyve done stuf like this on Trek plenty of times! Think about Bride of Chaotica for example.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Loved this. Lots of fun and imagine the cast had a blast filming it.
Also great that we haven't had 5 minutes of melting face Pike flash forwards every week, which is surely what Discovery would have done.
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 June 2022 07:13 (one year ago) link
No sighing, crying or "you got this" either for which I am greatful. I dont even need to put on the subtitles from all the mumbling.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
got a little touchy-feely there for a minute, but i’ll allow it. my only complaints are that a) as soon as the other cadet and the new lieutenant were introduced, they were obviously going to die, and b) there was no cute orange cat named jonesy
nurse chappell is really good
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 June 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Definitely knew all the reference points (and packed them into forty minutes or so, not bad).
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura) turned 22 on 2/22/22
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
Just watched the Gorn story, fucking hell what a great episode. And also beautiful - l love having all those popping pastels and primary colours back onscreen for the first time since TOS (though I think TNG was beautiful too, in its special muted way.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link