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

[Morrus]

Apparently there's been some complaining online that Paul Wesley wasn't quite doing Kirk's delivery "properly."

I loved that bit!

 

[Ryujin]

A holodeck episode before the holodeck was a thing! And of course it goes haywire, because that's what the holodeck does!

The not-Star Trek parody was both hilarious and cringe-inducing. Nothing like holding up a mirror to the worst of ToS. I did not see the twist coming- even though there were several clues, though, if Spock wasn't in the holodeck, what was he doing while the Enterprise was at the mercy of an AI gone haywire?

Also, first Christine and now La'an (or is it La'An)? I always forget how much the ladies dig Spock.

Anson Mount posted pics from set on his Instagram

 

[MarkB]

Overall I liked the episode. The premise was a bit flimsy, but ultimately it was just an excuse to get everyone into costumes to play very different characters than they usually do. Also, congrats to them on checking off pretty much every box on the holodeck-malfunctions bingo card.

I didn't much appreciate the romance aspect though. It seems like the wrong time for La'an (or anyone, really) to be throwing themselves at Spock.

 

[Umbran]

The Q are trickster gods who can do literally anything. Yet somehow the notion of them lying and the idea that they can do something wildly powerful are both rejected.

Sure, they can do pretty much anything.
But that doesn't mean that anything that happens is them.

 

[Umbran]

I did not see the twist coming- even though there were several clues, though, if Spock wasn't in the holodeck, what was he doing while the Enterprise was at the mercy of an AI gone haywire?

Off being chief science officer, looking at readings from the neutron star, most likely.

I mean, that's part of the point - Mr. Scott gets mildly reprimanded for not asking for help. Nobody knew to send Spock to lend a hand.

 

[Umbran]

I loved that bit!

It was a really good bit.
I wonder how long he studied his Shatnerisms.

 

[James Gasik]

Off being chief science officer, looking at readings from the neutron star, most likely.

I mean, that's part of the point - Mr. Scott gets mildly reprimanded for not asking for help. Nobody knew to send Spock to lend a hand.

It's just unusual for him not to be on the bridge. Sure, even Spock has to sleep sometime, but I guess I just assumed that, due to his near omnipresence, his rotation coincides with most of the rest of the main cast we see on the bridge. I'm not sure how things like that work on real ships, let alone in starfleet (I do recall in TNG that there was a "night shift" shown in at least one episode, though my memory is fuzzy about that)- I don't know how often your entire cadre of top officers would be on duty at the same time.

Probably one of those times I should just recite the MST3K mantra.

Ivanova is always right.
I will listen to Ivanova.
I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations.
Ivanova is God...wait, sorry, wrong one!

 

[Vael]

Ivanova: Oh, this is demeaning! I mean, we're not some - some deep space franchise, this station is about something!

What fun. Lampshade it to heck, add a lot of meta references and still include some solid character work (I really liked that last conversation between Una and Scotty), and I'll completely forgive a Holodeck episode after thinking that well was drained dry by previous series.

 

[Goodsport]

Definitely a fun episode.

And in fact, the idea of a holodeck on the original Enterprise (even for just a very brief time) may not even be that far-fetched: I read somewhere that Gene Roddenberry had originally suggested it for at least one of the TOS episodes but it ended up never materializing for both technical and budgetary reasons. However, a version of it did appear in the TAS episode "The Practical Joker" (though it was called the "Recreation Room" there).

Also, this episode's holodeck character Sunny Lupino was no doubt an expy for Lucille Ball, whose Desilu Productions actually produced Star Trek from its beginning before being sold to Gulf+Western (who had purchased Paramount Studios just a few short years earlier) partway through the show's run with Desilu then being renamed to Paramount Television. However, her name was likely an homage to Ida Lupino, who was the only woman to have directed an episode of the original The Twilight Zone ("The Masks") and the only person on that show to have both directed an episode and starred on another ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").


-G

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There is a prototype holodeck in the 1973 Animated Series.