This episode was like someone said "Let's do our version of The Undiscovered Country" and then gave it to a bunch of DS9 writers to execute. It starts with very Roddenberrian premise - the promise of a former enemy becoming an ally. But then it brings in the gritty realism of what war is really like, ala "The Siege of AR-558", and the moral cost that war extracts - that maybe the monster you see is not just in the face of the enemy, but the face you see in the mirror, ala "Duet", "In the Pale Moonlight" and the other morally grey episodes that often marked the best of DS9's run.
Troy is the first Sinead O'Connor song I ever heard. It's filled with so much love and pain and rage. I was too young to understand it, but I listened to it a lot. It remains one of the most powerful artistic expressions I've encountered. Here is a live performance and the music video.
I have no problem with Kyle being played by an Asian actor in SNW (as I had no problem with April being played by a black actor), but just for fun I'd love it if the show introduced Chief Kyle's replacement at some point before the end, an English white guy who just so happens to also be called Kyle.
I had the same reaction. The real life reason of course would be that the fight scenes wouldn't last very long if she could just Doctor Manhattan her way through them.
The danger with these "very special fun episodes" is that they can be confined to being just that. But what elevated this episode is how it used the time travel/crossover conceit to foreshadow, progress and pay off SNW character arcs, including Chapel and Spock's ultimately doomed relationship (something that I've previously said could be incredibly poignant, if handled right), Number One's legacy, and the way Pike confronts his fate. I hope the musical episode does the same.
For those who don't know, Carol Kane (though not particularly known as a singer) has sung on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and has appeared in the US tour of the musical Wicked as Madame Morrible.
The retro poster has a Once More With Feeling vibe. Hoping Subspace Rhapsody will approach (or even meet) the standard that Buffy set as far as TV show musical episodes go.
I actually preferred the early episodes when it felt... I wouldn't say "less" Star Trek, but where the Star Trek tropes and settings weren't so pronounced. I thought the pilot double-episode might even possibly have been the best pilot of the franchise - focused on character, and with the Federation (via tech like the universal translator) being a symbolic and literal way of different people coming together. I'm always interested in shows that push Star Trek beyond what's familiar, but still true to its core, and Prodigy definitely falls into that group.
I feel like itâs different when weâre talking about a planet.
I suppose I kind of figure that planets in the Star Trek world are more analogous to cities/countries in our world. Also, "Delta Vega" is such a generic-sounding, human-centric designation anyway that in my head canon the full, formal designation of a planet in the Federation catalogue of stellar objects might be a lot longer, with "Delta Vega" in this case just one part of the full name. Think about the billions of stars that Starfleet has catalogued, and thousands of planets containing life. There's surely room for more than one "Delta Vega". Not to mention that planets have different names used by different groups or contexts, just like Earth is also referred to as Terra, Sol III, Die Erde, La Monde etc. So I figure there's different Delta Vegas around, and people know which one is being talked about from context.
That (monoculture) tendency is built into Trek, for good or ill, and I would say it even applies to humans.
Agreed, and put me down "for ill", but I like the idea of explaining apparent canon contradictions by expanding the universe beyond the monocultures we usually see. One of my favourite little moments in Picard was Laris tapping Shaban on the Westmore appliance and calling him a "stubborn northerner". In just those two seconds the Romulan culture got a lot more interesting.
The question is though, is Pike such a foodie that he would throw his weight around be certain that there is a supply of real bacon on the ship for him to use
If we ever see an episode where he hunts down a boar, guts it, dresses it and serves it to his crew with a nice sprig of coriander, we'll know for sure. ;-)
I've always interpreted the "no money in the Federation" thing non-literally. I think there's still a financial and economic system operating in the background (otherwise this would be the most radical bit of world building Star Trek has ever done - and Star Trek's world building has never been particularly innovative), but it's just that "money" doesn't have the same primacy in people's lives as it does in the real world today.
I imagine there would be an electronic system of debits and credits (hence "credits" being the currency) moving around in the aether, with money in its physical form having entirely disappeared. Less "evolved" societies like the Ferengi would still use a form of cash (latinum), as would backward societies like 20th century Earth (hence Kirk saying "They're still using money" in The Voyage Home).
But even more than the term "money" being associated with physical currency (a concept that's increasingly being phased out even in the real world), to Federation citizens "money" would be associated with the archaic mindset of capitalism, greed and exploitation - the accumulation of financial wealth for its own sake. As opposed to 24th century people who (with just about all physical needs like health, food and shelter met by virtue of tech like replicators and advanced medicine), can focus on bettering themselves as a goal in its own right. So you might study medicine or law, not because it pays well, but because you're interested in that field. You might go for a promotion in your job, not because it pays better, but you seek the satisfaction of having more responsibility.
I have no problem with this solution. See for example, the other Paris.
Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in âThe Andorian Incidentâ it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 âmust be intolerable.â
You can reconcile this: To Vulcan males we really smell. To Vulcan females, we really, really smell.
so perhaps thatâs a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS
There's a tendency to treat every alien race as a monoculture, but maybe Spock and T'Pol just came from different parts of Vulcan.
As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon
I actually kind of assumed that it might have been facon. While I can see the Enterprise growing real plants on its five year mission (hence Pike's preference of real herbs), I can't see it breeding real pigs.
TâPring and Spock decide to take time apart, but we know this isnât permanent,
The real question is, when T'Pring finds out about Spock and Chapel getting it on, will his excuse be that they were on a break?
Hmm... I may have jumped the gun a little. Villeneuve has said he wants to make a third movie based on Messiah, but WB hasn't officially confirmed it yet. (I thought I'd seen something issued by the studio which referred to Part 2 as the middle installment of a trilogy but I may have been mistaken.) They're probably waiting for the box office results before formally greenlighting Part 3, just as they waited to confirm Part 2 even though Villeneuve put "Part 1" in the title of the movie. :-D
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