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Well I’ll be damned, the first part is real, at least: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Headgear

Hey man, I like your creativity.

Same! The only thing missing was a cigar in his hands!

My partner describes it as like TNG with the weak episodes taken out. They’re great, good, or neutral.

Would Pike have pulled the trigger if it not for the happy coincidence of gaining his memory back? (Doylist explanation being that the writers can’t just have our highly esteemed captain straight up murder a guy). High Lord Zacarias begging for his life like a little pissant sure thought he was capable of it. Was Quark right? Starve humans of their desires long enough and they will be worse than the Klingons and Cardassians. It didn’t take Pike very long to go fucking nuts!

Even Pike seems shaken at what his stance was when he came out of his amnesia.

Alternately, another interpretation of that scene I had is that when Humans do remember that they are supposed to be kind forgiving people, there is indeed a chance for redemption and it was kind of a nice juxtapose that the Zac knew he didn’t have to goad Pike into pulling the trigger. Even when he’s dejected and says that he’s done a lot against his duties and the law, he was ready to face the consequences than cowardly escape them with death. Klingons want to “die with honour” but it seems like humans prefer to live with honour.

I think it’s not just because Una pointed out there was crew down there but specifically told Spock they had to (should) stay close. He took it literally as a command whereas he really should have evaluated it for himself.

The way I read the scene was that he was so high off his power that he thought with the tables turned and Pike having no power that he would have the upper hand. But Pike managed to subdue him and High Lord Zacarias was all of a sudden staring down the barrel of a phaser rifle and all of a sudden wasn’t so confident that the Pike he knew, who would lower the weapon once the combatant was subdued, was still there. I think the sudden switch was just an “OH shit, what have I done?” moment.

One thought just occurred to me… let’s say “Khan Noonien Singh” as a real person was made up because Roddenberry just didn’t want to let the execs win. Why would he then name Dr. Soong what he did in TNG? He couldn’t have liked those strings of syllables that much…?

I don’t think you can go wrong with either one! I love TNG and rewatch it constantly. You’re right that TOS has fewer takers but I’m sure there will be some who will want to re-watch to refresh their memories on the details of the episodes. My partner and I rewatched Balance of Terror, the Cage, Arena, and Space Seed because of SNW. I’m sure others wouldn’t be here if we weren’t down to discuss any Trek in some way.

I feel like with this instance being this small right now, it would probably not be best use of resources to create a community just for a handful of people that would do it. It might work if you can guarantee like 30 people will engage during the 40-ish minutes of an episode. For now, wouldn’t it be better to test interest by creating your own viewing party posts in the main !startrek community and go from there?

My initial reaction is that that story was told very well and Christina Chong was phenomenal at acting it out too. But I think I need more time to actually digest the ramifications of what just happened to her too… yikes.