Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Omand]

Since @Morrus in the other thread asked for a spoiler thread to be set up for discussion now that the season is out, here we are.

What do people think now that the first two episodes have aired?

Cheers

 

[Stalker0]

I remain a big fan of SNWs, and the first two episodes were still great.

That said... SNW has maintained a pretty fast pace with its plots in many episodes, and that first one finally crossed the line for me of "too fast".

From the captain needing an answer and getting 3 plots at blazing speed, to La'an literally going "hmm, let me try this"...and then just magiking the data they needed from an alien console....to the "ok we are going to try this one in a thousand chance manuever...oh it worked....oh the big Gorn threat is gone for now". It was all just a biiiiiit too fast even as a SNW fan.

Second episode was just a fun romp, good times.

 

[MarkB]

There certainly was a big tonal difference between the two episodes, I was glad I didn't watch them in quick succession.

The second one was pretty fun, my only annoyance was that they did rather damsel-ify Christine.

 

[Morrus]

So are we to read from this that Trelane is OFFICIALLY a Q? I know that's always been the fan theory, but with John DeLancie voicing his dad, I think that settles it?

 

[Kobold Stew]

Yes, I believe this effectively canonizes the fan theory (which had been confirmed I believe in one of the novels (possibly Q in Law by Peter David, the Hulk comic writer).

 

[Kobold Stew]

Here were my (spoiler covered) initial thoughts from the other thread.

spoilers follow.

Spoiler: 3.01

Good continuation of the cliffhanger they had, with a satisfactory hopeful neding. In light of the appearance of characters in ep. 2, I am pretty sure it was filmed with season 2, and held in the can (reasonable -- they would have had the sets and the team in place).

Spoiler: 3.02

Trelane from TOS is explicitly made a child of Q (John de Lancie with a cameo voice appearance, though not named), and appears here doing mischief. I liked that everyone describes the character as being of different species, and no one notices the inconsistency. Chappel's fella is roguishly endearing, but a little too ideal, and he absolutely should not be dating someone who he is supervising in a fellowship. Unethical academic, even with his 241 papers.

 

[Morrus]

Here were my (spoiler covered) initial thoughts from the other thread.

spoilers follow.

Spoiler: 3.01

Good continuation of the cliffhanger they had, with a satisfactory hopeful neding. In light of the appearance of characters in ep. 2, I am pretty sure it was filmed with season 2, and held in the can (reasonable -- they would have had the sets and the team in place).

Spoiler: 3.02

Trelane from TOS is explicitly made a child of Q (John de Lancie with a cameo voice appearance, though not named), and appears here doing mischief. I liked that everyone describes the character as being of different species, and no one notices the inconsistency. Chappel's fella is roguishly endearing, but a little too ideal, and he absolutely should not be dating someone who he is supervising in a fellowship. Unethical academic, even with his 241 papers.

It’s a spoiler thread. You don’t need to add additional spoiler tags. It just makes reading the thread a PITA-that’s why we have separate spoiler threads.

 

[Kobold Stew]

I didn't add the spoiler tags -- I left them as they were in the other thread, as they had been posted.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So are we to read from this that Trelane is OFFICIALLY a Q? I know that's always been the fan theory, but with John DeLancie voicing his dad, I think that settles it?

Well, it's still somewhat uncertain, but of course using John DeLancie is strong. However, the computer voice on Star Trek is done by Majel Barret, who also played Christine Chapel and Number One, that doesn't mean they are the same person or entity, either.

And if you want to put a twist on it - maybe Trelane is Q, and the Q we hear is his father, and it's still a few million years later. The Q from TNG didn't really seem the type to not mess with humans, after all. And clearly, some effects are different - appearing as the kind of energy cloud, and not using the flashing light for his manipulations are still different from the TNG and Picard era Q.

But if it's a Q, it seems they had a home world once and evolved (or technology advanced) into what they are now.

EDIT:
Damn, I forget to mention something that might be more plausible - Trelane could be Q Junior from VOY, the child of Q and Q. Since Q can time travel, so his age doesn't really tell us much.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So are we to read from this that Trelane is OFFICIALLY a Q? I know that's always been the fan theory, but with John DeLancie voicing his dad, I think that settles it?

There's at least one Trek novel from the '90s that confirmed it (as much as a novel can confirm anything).