Ryujin
Legend
I don't know that he was privy to the information that either Pike or La'an had. La'an's knowledge was specifically from a time travel incident, that she didn't relate to him.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)
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Donald
Explorer
Not sure how it ended up in the show BUT there is a massive local in joke in this episode if you're from Pittsburgh.
The recreation planet is called Permantti 3 or something similar and Ortegas mentions someone brought back some sandwiches with the fries inside the sandwich.
Pittsburgh restaurant Primanti Brothers is famous for putting the fries on the sandwich. Our Story
Weird but true.
The recreation planet is called Permantti 3 or something similar and Ortegas mentions someone brought back some sandwiches with the fries inside the sandwich.
Pittsburgh restaurant Primanti Brothers is famous for putting the fries on the sandwich. Our Story
Weird but true.
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I got it and I’m in Philly!
I think few if any Vulcans know the details of their Romulan kin. IIRC, the Romulans split during a chaotic and violent time in Vulcan history, and many historical records of the time are lost or incomplete.
In this episode, Spock attributed La'An's violent tendencies to her augment DNA, so he has no reason to question further. Pike and La'An are the only ones (so far) who know the truth about the Romulans, both due to time travel, so they cannot even share that intel with Starfleet, much less with Spock.
pukunui
Legend
I'm originally from Philly, but I did not get the joke.
I've never been to Pittsburgh, so maybe that's why.
Yeah. While I think that La'an's ancestry is why the serum turned her into a Romulan instead of a Vulcan, I don't think Spock made that connection. His thinking would have stopped at "Her ancestry has made her more aggressive than a typical Vulcan."
Paul Farquhar
Legend
The proper way is to put the chips in a barm cake.
Or, hey, a perfectly common chip butty. Maybe the went to England not Pittsburgh.
They do explain this one, that the infusion from Spock bled over some of his logical characteristics.
Now does it actually make sense....no it does not, but its the kind of hand wave Technobabble that is perfectly established on Star Trek, so I am fine with it. Its exactly what I needed, just a quick explanation that fits the narrative of the universe established, and then we move on.
The episode was funny and interesting, though I agree with several here this season definately feels the weakest of the three seasons overall. Lower budget, goofiness and gimmicks over substance....extremely quick pacing to blow through plots without getting a chance to breath in the drama and consequences. But I did still enjoy this one.
My one beef with it is....they suggested the notion that the 4 crewmembers could actually choose to remain Vulcan, and there was the possibility they had to let them do that. That....would be illegal by Federation law, you cannot do genetic engineering, and if turning someone into another race is not genetic engineering I don't know what is. Could you imagine if they just let Federation citizens "choose to switch races"?
I can respect the idea of genetic alteration as a temporary measure, we have seen its use in TNG for example (though again this episode goes to that WAY WAY WAY too quick. Ok we have this mission, these people only know vulcans....I know lets shoot up 4 of our crewmembers with an experimental serum that will literally rewrite their dna....should be fine. That's the pacing problem I've had all season). But at the end of the day there should be no world in which the doctor is authorized to leave genetic alterations intact if they can be reversed.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
This is on the writers. One thing that should be expected from Star Trek fans is noticing discrepancies in detail and lore.
James Gasik
We don't talk about Pun-Pun
Yeah, just think about Kirk's experience with this episode while watching "The Enterprise Incident".
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