Yes, I noticed that in your annotations over at… the other place. Interestingly enough, Roddenberry spoke at a memorial for Serling in 1975
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.
Great as always. Especially love the escalation of things you show with “stuff that Kirk is good enough at chess to win money for”
”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.
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.
The content will be shopped around to other platforms. You can probably expect some of it to end up on freemium/advertisement-based streaming services. The rest will just go into the proverbial vault.
What’s weird is that Paramount HAS perhaps the best Freemium service: Pluto TV. One has to wonder if perhaps that is where Prodigy will end up (it may seem strange for a company to totally remove it from one streaming platform and move it to another that they also own, but the legalities of streaming rights are WEIRD. For example, some of the Looney Tunes shorts were removed from Max but can still be found on other WB/Discovery platforms, like their YouTube channel and the Boomerang streaming service- ultimately it was just an accounting trick)
Disney did pull a few things Marvel, but they weren’t prime MCU. They were all documentaries, time-sensitive hype pieces, or shows of dubious canonicity to the MCU.
Thoughts as I watch the episode:
Previously on Star Trek: Una is an augment, and Starfleet greatly dislikes that.
Oh, Kid Una!
“How can he council me when he works for you?” Good point!
This was the ready room scene last week.
Illyrians hiding on a poisonous planet is a nice touch.
So, this is an allegory for Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell and similar anti-gay and discriminatory policies, isn’t it? Hiding who she is, for example. Timely.
Damn, Batel’s boss is an asshole.
Damn, that took awhile to get to credits.
Oh, more case law for Starfleet!
“I know you hate giving inspiring speeches.” Heh.
Ortegas imagining a Vulcan conversation is hilarious.
“I regret that you had to witness that outburst.”
Seriously, that outburst, it was so horrifying. Not sure if I can ever emotionally recover from it.
Oh, those dress unis! Look so much like the TOS ones while still being all modern.
Hahaha, she’s using all the times they ignore the Prime Directive to show the hypocrisy of rules.
The stuff about her being tried for stuff her parents did calls to mind the stuff with the DREAM act.
Hang on, wouldn’t the fact that La’an has Khan blood flowing through her veins kind of give a possible method of pointing out how much hypocrisy there is to the law?
“An affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan Musicals”
Good point about how family isn’t destiny and also how the discriminated against can be led to self-loathing.
I just noticed that the mural/engraving behind witness stand seems to show a bunch of humans, tellarites, andorians, and so on… wonder if it’s meant to show the founding of the Federation or great legal scholars of the Fed species.
Oh shit, she turned herself in.
“Starfleet is not a perfect organization, but it strives to be.” We all should try to live up to that.
My Badmiral Sense is tingling.
Ah, so an asylum loophole! Clever way of allowing her to stay in while still keeping the anti-genetics stuff still in place come Bashir and Dal’s time.
Pike Hugs must be the best hugs.
Fun as always, although a bummer that Lemmy can’t let you have the full post all in the top post.
Also, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who caught the reference Korby’s specialty.
From what I understand based on what they said in BTS stuff, the fight was partly inspired by the fact that Babs Olusanmokun is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Why they had to have him be juiced-up fighting Klingons, I don’t know. Lord knows he could have been fighting humans without steroids.
RESET THE CLOCK!
Kind of like how in the first season of Picard they say that the Nero-like Romulans are from the northern parts of Romulus.
Fuck it, I wouldn’t even be mad at such an epic act of trolling.
Data is still heading down in case they need to win $12.5m playing craps.
A most important function.
Am I the only one who thought Lt Mitchell got a LOT of screen time this episode? Depending on what happens with her later in the series I’m wondering if they are planning to move Rong Fu (the name of her actress) to series regular next season.
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!
Of course. It just means you have more time to watch the upcoming season of SNW!
Mike McMahon, the guy who wrote that, is LITERALLY the creator of Lower Decks.
If memory serves, they were shutting down for everything except discussion threads. IDK if that plan changed or not.
I would not be opposed if episode five of every season of SNW involves Vulcan Hijinks.