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I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy looking leaf.

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JWBananas , to Star Trek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"
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Spock has to have a moment of crisis that brings him to the state of character he's in in TOS.

This. It's literally what we saw happen in DIS to get him from what we see in The Cage to what we see in SNW. There is no reason it can't happen again.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"
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He is certainly spending a lot less time expressing emotions than he did in season 2 of Discovery.

There seem to be two major camps of thought about his portrayal in SNW:

  1. He is way too different in SNW than he is in TOS, thus breaking canon. These must be people who really enjoyed the nobody-ever-experiences-personal-growth-except-for-Seven-of-Nine aspect of VOY.
  2. Personal growth is okay, but his current trajectory is veering off too far from where he needs to land in TOS. This is the nobody-ever-makes-the-same-mistakes-twice camp.

Here's what we know for sure, chronologically:

  • Spock smiles at plants in The Cage and seems stable.
  • Spock is a mental and emotional wreck in DIS season 2, but he pulls it together in the end.
  • Spock is back in control in early SNW season 1, but he has overcorrected after the events of DIS to a place where he is much more stoic than he was in The Cage.
  • Spock opens back up the emotional can of worms in SNW season 1 to fight an adversary, and he is having a difficult time closing it back up. But he seems to be trying to make the best of it.
  • Spock is about to lose all his Vulcan DNA in this week's upcoming episode. Hijinks will ensue with T'Pring's family.

That last one may lead to more overcorrection in the future. Or maybe it won't. Who knows?

Maybe he'll undergo Kolinahr at some point before TOS. Maybe it doesn't work twice, and that's why he fails in TMP.

But you can't tell me you've never met anyone in real life whose emotional state of being sways back and forth like a pendulum swing over time.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"
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grin at a plant

To be fair, The Cage is set before SNW and even before DIS. And if you recall season 2 of DIS, he sort of lost his mind at some point in-between.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x04 - Among the Lotus Eaters
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The Enterprise computer illuminates wall panels to guide Ortegas to her quarters. In “Encounter at Farpoint” Riker was guided to the holodeck and Data by a similar system.

And IIRC it was introduced as being a relatively modern innovation in UX. So that's a continuity break.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Can any music experts explain to me why the TNG theme is so good?
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And yes, that includes Enterprise

[skip Intro]

JWBananas , to Star Trek in What is everyone's favorite era of starship design?
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The fat one

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
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Hold up.

The Klingons Romulans go back in time to save JFK kill Khan? And Spock La'an has to kill save him?

Wasn't this the original plot of Star Trek II?

JWBananas , to Star Trek in The Ready Room: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (Paul Wesley interview)
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Paul Wesley was not the person I expected to hear from on this week's Ready Room after that incredible performance by Christina Chong.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in SNW's callback to VOY's 29-century timeship LCARS is a great touch.
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TCARS

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
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Maybe once Mariner gets there, La'an can finally talk about what she went through.

JWBananas , to Star Trek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
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Me at the beginning: Oh, great. More time travel. I'm so sick of time travel and temporal mechanics. The Science Vulcan Directorate has determined that time travel has been done to death.

Me at the end: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

JWBananas , to Star Trek in I am loving the new season of Strange New Worlds.
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Thanks, I hate it

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