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Continuumguy ,

Assorted thoughts and observations as I watched (reposted from the other place):

  • Oh, shit, we’ve got a space-ring!
  • Don’t you hate it when the god-computer starts lagging?
  • Ransom: Hidden art critic.
  • Boimler leading an away mission. What could go wrong?
  • “Everything that has ever occurred is science stuff.”
  • "And or dismemberment"
  • Was that fucking NOMAD?
  • Lancelot the Ferret.
  • The update is going to screw it all up, isn’t it?
  • Yep.
  • I love how the artists just go and start painting the fallen freeze-cloud.
  • Is this the first time that the Kzinti ensign has talked?
  • Blindfolded saber fight!
  • “A mountain, or possibly a volcano has appeared.” (boom) "Ah, it is a volcano.“
  • T’Lyn is great.
  • Move Along Home
  • "He overdosed on Ketracel white”
  • "BRADWARD, NO!"
  • OH GOD, IT’S A KOALA!“
  • Very 2001
  • "You never forget your first death.”
Continuumguy ,

Observations and thoughts as I watched (initially posted at the other place):

  • We begin with “Twovix”.
  • Holodeck waste material, AKA jizz, poop, and god knows what else.
  • Oh, hey, T’Lyn!
  • DAT VOYAGER THEME!
  • Oh, hey, the probe from the one with the whales!
  • Neelix cheese!
  • Shit did get freaky.
  • Oh shit, they’re going to Tuvix Billups and T’ana!
  • “Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix.”
  • MACROVIRUS.
  • The Pike Thing, of course.
  • “Back in the 70s”
  • “Captain, I caution against socializing with the organism.”
  • So many VOY deep cuts.
  • “Holy shit. Janeway didn’t mess around.”
  • Macrovirus of Borg. And robotic warp salamander of Borg.
  • “Water, room temperature.”
  • This is definitely T’Ana’s side of T’Llups.
  • Oh god, they tuvixed the Matt the whale! Wait, what about Kimolu? Is he alright? Is he okay?
  • A Tuvixy meatball!
  • Heh, the real solution to the Tuvix conundrum was just to keep merging until it’s a nonsentient blob of meat so there is no murder, so to speak.
  • Oh god I just realized that we’re going to get so much Tuvixy fanart.
  • Bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles.
  • SHE GOT A PIP
  • Beckett Mariner receives the fate worse than death for her: promotion.
  • Nothing ever good happens “somewhere in Klingon space”
  • RIP Klingon lower-deckers.

And now, episode 2:

  • Heh, Romulan lower decks.
  • Goodbye, Romulan lower deckers!
  • Heh, those 80s workout stuff.
  • Oh, cool, Boimler still has his Tom Paris tplate!
  • Please tell me Denty has a Memory Alpha page.
  • The Nacelle is right there!
  • Non-botanicals
  • I have just met Moopsy but I would die for it.
  • Oddly enough, this is the SECOND time this year that a Jack Quaid character looked at a VERY bright light. Shoutout to my boy Richard Feynman, the one man crazy enough to watch a nuclear test without goggles.
  • Okay, I would no longer die for the moopsy.
  • Tucker Tubes! Good old Trip got stuff named for him!
  • The Ad Astra Per Aspera poster!
  • I do feel like Starfleet would have better soundproofing, but then again this is the Cerritos.
  • RIP corn guy.
  • LIVIK!
  • Aww, D’Vana Tendi giving orders.
  • Teeth as bread crumbs.
  • Heh, the humans really are the worst.
  • Hah, he could have just used the viewports.
  • Overall, I think I liked this second episode more, even though I loved the VOY fan service.
Continuumguy ,

• Like an authentic midwest American town, the Parnassus Beta colony is having trouble making sure everyone is vaccinated.

So authentic!

Continuumguy ,

Given Archer’s test pilot background, I’d like to think he was from Hammondsport, the hometown of Glenn Curtiss.

Continuumguy ,

THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS AS I WATCH:

  • NOOO, I DON’T WANT THIS TO END!
  • Previously: The various stuff happened.
  • Oh, hey, Cayuga captains log.
  • Nice of them to have a colony modeled after an Earth town. Saves on budget.
  • “SIGNAL LOST.” In space, a dropped call can mean only one thing: Invasion.
  • Oh, we’re doing the Independence Day thing?
  • Telling a Starfleet captain to just do reconnaissance is basically telling them to go weapons free.
  • Nice little tinge of one of the TOS scores at the end of the cold open. Someone more geekier than I can probably place it.
  • If you ever feel like you are useless in life, just remember that there is a “skip intro” button during a “Space, the Final Frontier” monologue.
  • Is the “Gorn Protocol” a hand-cannon with with a diamond?
  • She flies the ship!
  • I’d like to imagine there is a deleted scene where they glue every piece of junk they have onto the shuttle.
  • If they’re going to do a “is someone still alive in the wreckage” storyline, they probably should have flip-flopped Batel and Chapel’s spots, given that we obviously know she’s going to live.
  • They keep giving Jenna Mitchell lines! FREE MITCHELL! Give that actreess a cast credit, cowards!
  • Ah, a good old fashioned beam into the sky.
  • Oh, look, a Gornzooky!
  • And… vaporized.
  • More Gornzookies!
  • Oh my god, it’s young Scotty. Hopefully this means Keenser is there. I always loved Keenser and his ability to sit on things he isn’t supposed to.
  • Doesn’t seem like Keenser is there :(
  • Of course Scotty would engineer a way to save people. He truly is a miracle worker.
  • Smashing a piece of space debris is a very… brilliant idea.
  • Pelia continuing to harass Una for her poor academics in engineering.
  • Why do I get the feeling that whatever plan Spock has to put the rockets on the hull will also allow him to check for survivors?
  • Wow, imagine that, Chapel is alive! Imagine that! Whoever would have thought! (Seriously they should have flip-flopped her and Batel if they were going to do this)
  • USE THE MORSE, CHRISTINE!
  • Oh, now she grabs the spacesuit. Although I guess she didn’t need it yet.
  • WARNING: GORNZOOKY
  • COMMAND CODE INVALID’
  • That looks like a bigger Gorn. An adult? Or at least like a teenager.
  • So incredibly Alien.
  • “GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM, YOU BITCH!”
  • Oh shit, she’s been impregnated with gornzookies. A very zombie movie trope.
  • “There’ll be time later.” Before or after you get engaged to Dr. Korby?
  • “We need to abort some Gornzookies.”
  • Yeah, Scotty would be a shitty student despite being brilliant.
  • OH FUCK THE GORN KIDNAPPED THEM
  • TO BE CONTINUED?!?!!?! Okay, who wants to drive to Hollywood and personally beat up some billionaires? I want this strike over NOW and I want a conclusion WITHIN A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF MAX!
Continuumguy ,

James is Sam Kirk’s brother, who was introduced in the episode “Where No Man has Gone Before”.

Deep cut. Love how they continue to flesh out these obscure characters from Trek canon!

We see lieutenant Mitchell in the captain’s chair, I believe for the first time.

Kind of hoping they promote Rong Fu to a regular simply so that she is no longer the only bridge crew person who isn’t.

IKS par’Machstreet Boys

This is canon now.

Continuumguy ,

One thing that I loved is that the fact that that is so WEIRD is actually one of the major parts of the plot. I know other places like Buffy have done similar, but I feel like poking fun at the tropes of musical theater kind of enhances it for some people like me (I don’t HATE musicals, but I don’t love them either.)

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"

LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....

Continuumguy ,

Thoughts/Observation as I watch:

  • Where will this stand in the long history of Star Trek gimmick episodes? After all, this is the franchise that gave us “Trials and Tribble-ations”, “Take Me Out To The Holosuite”, “In a Mirror, Darkly”, the OG “Lower Decks”, and most recently… “Those Old Scientists”. Holy shit, that was just two episodes ago and in between we got the darkest Star Trek thing in years!
  • Uhura having to be the operator sounds like the most stressful thing to do that doesn’t involve imminent danger.
  • “Even if it’s not fully necessary.” That basically sums up every contrivance to get Kirk on board.
  • KORBY ALERT
  • Ah, spatial distortions, the cause and solution to everything.
  • The facial acting as they enter musical-land is priceless.
  • Acapella theme song!
  • “So… that happened.”
  • “Quantum uncertainty field”. That’s some Hitchiker Guide type stuff.
  • Ah, they brought back the Gilbert and Sullivan stuff.
  • I like how they are hanging a lampshade on just how BIZARRE it is that people sing out their biggest secrets and deepest feelings in musicals.
  • Good save, La’An.
  • “Surprisingly beautiful baritone”
  • It could have been worse for the crew. Imagine if Uhura had broadcast opera into it, then they’d ALWAYS be singing.
  • Shaxs would suggest blowing it up by ejecting the warp core.
  • Gratuitous zero-gee is gratuitous.
  • Oh god, singing Klingons.
  • Yeah, the Klingons would also like the “let’s just blow it up” plan.
  • Wait were those extras twins?
  • Apparently the improbability field also affects the lighting of the bar.
  • Isn’t K’tinga the later type of Klingon ship? Ah, screw it, musical rules.
  • “I don’t love rules but I think you’re about to break a big one.”
  • This totally is going into Temporal Investigations Kirk file.
  • CAROL MARCUS REFERENCE
  • Oh shit, David Marcus reference!
  • “I’m the Ex” standing as if X in a math question is a good bit of workplay.
  • Kind of surprised it took this long to give Celia Rose Gooding a full-on solo.
  • Grammy-Award winning singer!
  • A grand finale. How meta!
  • Boy Band Klingons was not on my bingo card.
  • Lol, playing the TOS theme as a curtain-closer
  • “You sang about lying to me.”
  • “Sorry, Earworm.”
  • All-and-all, it was a good enough gimmick episode. But it was no “Take Me Out To The Holosuite.” (“DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!”)
Continuumguy ,

Reminds me of how Community would change up things all the time.

Continuumguy ,

I kind of thought playing the TOS theme was like meant to be the music played after the final curtain as the actors take their bows and people start leaving the theater.

Continuumguy ,

I feel like Lower Decks might be able to pull it off.

Canon Connections: 2x07 - Those Old Scientists

• In the episode “No Small Parts” Ransom explains to Captain Freeman that he calls the 2260s the ”TOS Era” in honour of ”Those Old Scientists” like Spock and and Scotty. Of course, this episode takes place in 2259, so clearly it’s time for a shake-up among the SNW production team....

Continuumguy ,

Oh, c’mon, why do you have to do Frakes so dirty like that?

”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.

Okay, that part is true.

Continuumguy ,

My personal philosophy is DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION.

Continuumguy ,

I think Christina Chong has released some songs on her own and I know Carol Kane was in Wicked.

Continuumguy ,

2x07: Wacky crossover with the comedy cartoon!

2x08: WAR IS HELL, NOBODY IS INNOCENT, MORALITY IS GREY, FORGIVENESS IS QUESTIONABLE, AND THE FRIENDLY DOCTOR MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DELIBERATELY KILLED A GUY IN COLD BLOOD

2x09: Musical!

Find you a show that can do both.

Continuumguy ,

Edit also how could I forget what seems an inspiration of this episode MAS*H

Yes, definitely had a MASH vibe.

Continuumguy ,

I can only presume that you are currently doing “Those Old Scientists” but may die in the process.

Continuumguy ,

“We must personally attack Burrito Truck and his sanity.” -The people behind SNW

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"

LoglineAn accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where they belong before they can alter the timeline....

Continuumguy ,

They also tied in to Tendi’s story on LD (her constant reminding to people that Orions have a culture far beyond pirating), even though we didn’t see her in Live Action.

Continuumguy ,

Thoughts and observations as I watched over at the “other place”, special Saturday night/early Sunday morning edition:

  • AHHHHH, WE’RE DOING THIS ON A SATURDAY!
  • AHHHHH, WE’RE GETTING THE CROSSOVER!
  • AHHHHH, A CROSSOVER BETWEEN A CARTOON COMEDY AND A LIVE ACTION DRAMA!
  • AHHHHH, IN GENERAL!
  • First off, that they have “Those Old Scientists” as the title is (chef’s kiss).
  • Previously: Nyota had a really bad day, La’An got a bad case of Kirk hotness, and Chapel/Spock had a bad case of hotness for each other
  • OH GOD WE’RE STARTING ANIMATED
  • "Numero Una"
  • Tendi would like to remind you all that the Orions have a rich and varied history.
  • "You guys look… very realistic."
  • AHHHH, ANIMATED OPENING CREDITS!
  • Hahaha, the thing that eats the Ceritos Nacelle!
  • AHHHH, THE KOALA AT THE END OF THE CREDITS! WHY IS IT SMILING, WHAT DOES IT KNOW!?!?
  • “But flipping it open is the best part”
  • “Computer, end program.”
  • “Worf’s honor.” DANGIT!
  • I wonder if Frakes showed Quaid how to properly do a Riker maneuver
  • "You just… laughed."
  • Ah, we’re tying in with what Tendi said.
  • Boimler is a toddler knocking over furniture.
  • "We have jetpacks now"
  • Pike’s birthday is a holiday… CRAP!
  • Boimler freaking out over the fact he made Spock laugh is such a Boimler thing.
  • Hey, a reference to his sehlat!
  • I like how they are using this episode to also move the other plotlines forward.
  • HE MENTIONED PIKE’S REALLY GREAT HAIR
  • Triticale, as opposed to Quadritriticale.
  • I totally saw Mariner coming.
  • Dystopian San Francisco!
  • “Have you noticed their references are weirdly specific?”
  • “Hot Spock agrees with me”
  • "It’s a poster that is pinned up"
  • I feel like Tawny herself probably demanded a scene with Uhura
  • Ah, there’s the Boimler scream!
  • “Holy Q!”
  • “They had a Trelane thing going on.”
  • “He had to contour the hell out of the jawline”
  • “Oh, I already know.” Hahaha, they finally got out-future knowledged.
  • Oh god, are they going to steal a piece of an NX?
  • Oh, just a piece of it in the Enterprise.
  • The “Mistress of the Winter Constellations” strikes again!
  • Of course Ransom calls Una the hottest first officer in starfleet history.
  • Hahaha, 2D animation Enterprise crew because they are drunk!
  • All-time classic.
Continuumguy ,

Still kind of hoping that one year they do a “Trials and Tribble-Ations” tribute episode where they go back to the Enterprise during TAS and splice in the LD guys in in the TAS style.

They could call it “Those Animated Scientists”

Continuumguy ,

Yep, they confirm it in Ready Room. Apparently Frakes’ wife was dying from laughter watching the episode when that happened.

Continuumguy ,

Let’s face it: this isn’t even in the top five strangest things to happen to a Starfleet vessel. Arguable if it’s even in the top 10.

Continuumguy ,

I would not be opposed if episode five of every season of SNW involves Vulcan Hijinks.

Continuumguy ,

Thoughts as I watch:

  • So, I’m wondering: is Cayuga a reference to Rod Serling? He named his production company that in reference to the lake in New York.
  • Relationships suck when you are a Starfleet captain who knows your destiny to one day be in a beepie chair.
  • Rigel 7, a deep cut!
  • We have gone (ZERO) days without some sort of Starfleet prime directive problem.
  • Finally, some Ortegas action!
  • “THE HAT IS SUPREME.” I’m going to have to use that in conversation.
  • Oh man, at least she keeps the hat.
  • “Subdermal universal translators” are the new translation microbes
  • Oh boy, they have starfleet tech.
  • Ah, we’ve got a good old-fashioned “Federation citizen takes over a world” episode!
  • “This is a cage.” Heh.
  • Forgetting is a scary side effect for a planet.
  • I get that they were only on there for like four hours, but shouldn’t they have noticed stuff like this their last visit? Or maybe… THEY LOST
  • “Welcome to Memento/50 First Dates Planet”
  • Can still remember how to fight!
  • So I’m guessing Spock is probably one of the more resistant to all of this due to his Vulcan-ness.
  • Man, La’An is having a REALLY bad pair of weeks.
  • Captain Pike even without his memories is still Captain Pike. Makes sense.
  • Okay, I guess Spock isn’t immune.
  • Glad to see the Connie class had GPS.
  • I gotta admit, I feel like Pelia would be good in this episode given just how many memories she has to lose and how many skills she has.
  • SHE FLIES THE SHIP
  • The ship’s computer is great this week.
  • Damn, that is some tough silverware, standing up to phaser blasts.
  • Is it just me or is that a fresco or whatever of Alexander the Great… Zac-ized?
  • Okay, that logic doesn’t quite seem sound, but whatever.
  • So, uhm, be careful about telling her about the Beepy-chair, Chris.
Continuumguy ,

Yes, I noticed that in your annotations over at… the other place. Interestingly enough, Roddenberry spoke at a memorial for Serling in 1975

Continuumguy ,

Great as always. Especially love the escalation of things you show with “stuff that Kirk is good enough at chess to win money for”

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

::: spoiler Logline La’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy. :::...

Continuumguy ,

Random thoughts as I watch (cross-posted from the old place):

  • Wow, first that outburst, and then Spock jams too much. Truly in his wild child phase.
  • BTW, was that a Denobulan?
  • Pelia totally worried that this whole utopia thing just a passing trend. And hilariously having to prove (?) she isn't a thief.
  • They really are taking advantage of Babs O's Jiu-Jitsu training this year, aren't they?
  • Captain James T. Kirk, the greatest menace of Temporal Investigations!
  • Oh boy, alternate timeline where the Federation doesn't exist time!
  • "Maple leaves, politeness, poutine."
  • Clever distraction.
  • I wonder if 3D chess is a thing in the United Earth Fleet timeline, because Kirk is good at the 2D in it.
  • Okay, I guess they do have 3D Chess.
  • I generally try not to be like this... but goddamn I'd like to thank them for having Christina Chong in various states of tight clothing and undress.
  • Good thing the time travel guy went to the ship Sam Kirk was on.
  • Oh man, I was looking forward to driving across Lake Ontario to Toronto (presumably from Rochester or Buffalo or something, right?), which totally would be a logical economic and engineering choice, I'm sure!
  • Mildly annoyed that Kirk doesn't drive to Beastie Boys.
  • James Discreet Kirk
  • Soongs gonna break in even to the timelines and series they aren't in.
  • Jim Discretion Kirk
  • OH FUCK ROMULANS
  • We have gone (zero) days without Romulans trying to screw up the timeline.
  • Probably the first time that DuckDuckGo has been mentioned in Star Trek.
  • Yeah, Pythagoras is the worst, Pelia.
  • Oh, so this is a predestination paradox where they make her become an engineer and as a result she is there to inspire La'An to go look for her later.
  • KHAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! KHAAAAANNNNNNNNN! (Or at least the institute for him)
  • To be fair, this is like the third face that Captain Kirk has had.
  • We have gone (ZERO) days without a time-travelling Romulan that had to ditch the ears.
  • We have gone (ZERO) days without (a) Captain Kirk dying. We're three-for-three on Kirk actor deaths, folks!
  • KHAAAAAAAAAANNNN! KHAAAAAAANNNN! KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!
  • THEY CAME UP WITH AN EXPLANATION WHY THE EUGENICS WARS DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE 90'S! THE MAD LADS DID IT!
  • Face to face with great-great-great-great grandpa Baby Genetics-Hitler.
  • Oh, great, temporal investigations. No wonder they hate Kirk so much, even his alternate versions screw stuff around.
  • Good ep. Way better than it sounded when I first heard about it.
Continuumguy ,

”It would seem that the rules of Starfleet only apply when a captain deems that they do.” Please see “All of Star Trek”.

Ain’t that the truth.

Continuumguy ,

Thoughts and observations written as I watch- I’ll be putting this on both Reddit and Lemmy, since infinity diversity/infinity combinations:

  • Wheeee, NCC-1701 in the Star Trek tag!
  • Previously: Last season happened.
  • Little ships flying!
  • Wonder who the lawyer that Una and Pike have tried to reach is.
  • Oh, hey, the Vulcan musical instrument whose name I can’t remember!
  • “Fascinating.” “Isn’t that usually his line?”
  • The fellowship on archeological medicine? Is that a reference to Dr. Korby?
  • “We must steal the Enterprise.” Buddy, if I had a nickel every time someone had to steal the Enterprise, I’d have several nickels.
  • Lt. Mitchell gunning for series regular next year with how much screen time she’s had early on this episode.
  • Okay, having Carol Kane is already paying dividends.
  • And, yeah, Carol Kane doesn’t need alien makeup to be an alien. She’s already an alien.
  • I’m still not sure if the emphasis one the warp catch phrase is amazing or annoying, but this scene was funny.
  • KLINGON UPDATE: RIDGES!
  • So clearly La’An’s augmented ancestors were genetically engineered to drink a lot. Which, y’know what? Fair.
  • Ah, the borderlands, where utopian rules go away and everyone becomes a Ferengi.
  • Congratulations to Uhura on graduating from the Academy.
  • Ah, the old “I have technology that I’m totally not making up that will blow you up” bluff!
  • New transporter chief?
  • Okay, so the angry borderlands people are trying to do some sort of false flag thing.
  • Redundant Klingon organs, the old standby.
  • Roided-up doctors can tell you what bones they broke as they break them.
  • These are obviously Discovery sets.
  • This action scene, while well-done, is way too long.
  • A D7!
  • “We’ve gotten out of worse.” “No, not really!”
  • “This I’ve got to see!”
  • I wonder if “Lanthanite” is a synonym for “El-Aurian”
  • Pelia knowing that being on the Enterprise means adventure is further proof that those ships are goddamn weirdness magnets.
  • Gorn. Yes, it stretches canon but fuck it the Gorn are awesome we’ll come up with an explanation later.
  • “For Nichelle”
  • Overall, while not one of the better episodes, it still was a good start to the season. It wrapped up one of the hanging threads of last year (La’An), we continued to see some of Young Spock’s struggles with his emotions before he became the more-Vulcan Spock that Nimoy was in the main TOS series, and we got our first look at Carol Kane as the nutty new engineer. Overall, I’ll call that a win!
Continuumguy ,

Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?

Continuumguy ,

I don’t like this. It is strange, and new, and…

wait a second…

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