Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[doctorbadwolf]

Red as hell, actually.

As I know the story, Spock was originally going to have red skin (and be from Mars, the Vulcan concept came later). However, in the late 1960s, black and white TV sets were still common, and the makeup would have looked like dark-grey or black - as if Nimoy were wearing blackface - which nobody wanted.

So, they decided to mix up was a yellowish-greenish hue (which is still sold by RCMA as L-N #1, as in 'Leonard Nimoy #1'). This is a bit of a subtle color, so that for the first few episodes, the network's color technicians, who weren't told he was supposed to be different from the rest of the crew, corrected him back to normal human skin tone.

Shoot you’re right, I’d miser called and thought it was an Easter egg of sorts to have an Andorian on the crew, since they’re blue skinned, but yeah I remember the “it looks like blackface” issue. (I’m no lore guy, I learned that first on an episode of Um, Actually on Dropout)

 

[Morrus]

Sorry about that. Morrus mentioned a lot of stuff is unavailable outside of US. ☹ I don't know if I can find an alternate source.

I can see it fine.

 

[Nikosandros]

I can see it fine.

I can't. Maybe it's not available in the EU?

 

[ART!]

I was not expecting Chapel, M'Benga, and Uhura, so I am now even more excited for this, if that's possible.

 

[Aeson]

I wonder if Brent Spiner will make an appearance. One of the new characters has the name Noonien Singh. Maybe Kahn will return?

 

[billd91]

There have been a lot of really good things about the Discovery series for Star Trek and I'm really excited about the new spinoff, but one aspect of this announcement does hit on its big problem - continuity issues with the original series.

I'm not thrilled by the idea of a Noonien Singh on the crew so openly. It flies in the face of the records about Khan being so fragmentary due to war chaos and destruction in TOS. Yeah, I get it, the new generation of writers want to hit on the high points of the original series. But it's better to dance a bit farther around them so you don't flat out invalidate previous stories. The trick about StarFleet vowing to "not talk about the Discovery" or any of its crew or missions is a fairly lame cop-out to dodge one of the few black marks against the Discovery series.

 

[Morrus]

One of the new characters has the name Noonien Singh. Maybe Kahn will return?

I hope not. It's not Star Wars. Everybody doesn't have to be related.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I wonder if Brent Spiner will make an appearance. One of the new characters has the name Noonien Singh. Maybe Kahn will return?

I kinda hope no Khan. Singh is a very very common name, after all.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

There have been a lot of really good things about the Discovery series for Star Trek and I'm really excited about the new spinoff, but one aspect of this announcement does hit on its big problem - continuity issues with the original series.

I'm not thrilled by the idea of a Noonien Singh on the crew so openly. It flies in the face of the records about Khan being so fragmentary due to war chaos and destruction in TOS. Yeah, I get it, the new generation of writers want to hit on the high points of the original series. But it's better to dance a bit farther around them so you don't flat out invalidate previous stories. The trick about StarFleet vowing to "not talk about the Discovery" or any of its crew or missions is a fairly lame cop-out to dodge one of the few black marks against the Discovery series.

In my new DS9 headcannon, there is at least one angry speech from Sisko about Discovery, now…

But other than that I just don’t think they should worry even as much as they do about canon.

 

[ART!]

I wonder if Brent Spiner will make an appearance. One of the new characters has the name Noonien Singh. Maybe Kahn will return?

There have been a lot of really good things about the Discovery series for Star Trek and I'm really excited about the new spinoff, but one aspect of this announcement does hit on its big problem - continuity issues with the original series.

I'm not thrilled by the idea of a Noonien Singh on the crew so openly. It flies in the face of the records about Khan being so fragmentary due to war chaos and destruction in TOS. Yeah, I get it, the new generation of writers want to hit on the high points of the original series. But it's better to dance a bit farther around them so you don't flat out invalidate previous stories. The trick about StarFleet vowing to "not talk about the Discovery" or any of its crew or missions is a fairly lame cop-out to dodge one of the few black marks against the Discovery series.

"Singh" is a common name in various South Asian languages. I think among Sikhs, all or many men use the Singh name. The Noonien part is also a name, but not very common, AFAICT.

That said, in ST, Noonien Singh means one thing and one thing only, so it's an...interesting choice? I'll wait to see what they do with it.