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

[James Gasik]

Kirk in a serious relationship of course being highly amusing to long-time fans.

As for Spock, he really was a sex symbol back during the ToS era, something a lot of modern fans might not know- the ladies found him very fascinating!

And it's not like we haven't seen alternate relationships with him explored in the past, like Spock/Nyota in the Kelvin timeline. Don't get me wrong, I was surprised at first as well, but Spock/La'An does have a logic to it.

I've noticed SNW has a recurring motif regarding how messed up Spock's love life is, likely to help explain why, in later years, he basically says "F it!" and becomes a monk lol. Heck, even in ToS, there's a few episodes (some examples being "Amok Time", "This Side of Paradise", and "All Our Yesterdays") devoted to this sort of thing.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

@Ruin Explorer you had a lot packed into your post.

One note. The colonists were not lost. They were all beamed out of the Gorn ship using the information that La'an managed to pull into that data crystal thing near the end of the episode. There was dialogue about the colonists being treated in the secondary or overflow sickbay while the primary sickbay was under quarantine due to the threat of Gorn hatchlings bursting out.

There are several comments about that part of the plot earlier in this thread due to others being unsure around exact details, plus the general lack of extras on-screen for much of Hegemony Part II, leaving the Enterprise seeming quite empty.

Cheers

Thank you, that makes sense as to why everyone was chill and not bummed three months later (though it still means like 4800 people died - albeit non-Federation citizens who decided to do something inherently risky!).

I guess I was expecting a classic TNG-style "cargo bay full of people" scene, or y'know, at least a scene of all the pods with people being beamed out of them, but I guess at some point the budget does run out, and those budgets had to be going be pretty hard on those episodes. Hell even the "bottle" episode Wedding Bell Blues had some pretty impressive FX scenes of the starbase.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I always felt Mass Effect “borrowed” a lot more from Babylon 5 than from Trek. Aside from the obvious similarity of B5 and the Citidel, we have a properly military organisation, jump gates/mass relays for FTL, cosmic horror antagonists, experiments on humans to give them psionics/biotic powers that aliens have as standard, mysterious alien ruins discovered on Mars, covert human-supremacist organisations…

For sure B5 is in the mix too in a serious way - there's also some similarities between the First Contact War in ME and the first contact conflict in B5.

ME actually has both kinds of FTL - the mass relays for vast distances (effectively jump gates as you say), but mass effect drives for smaller ones (which are effectively warp drives). (B5 also has ships able to generate jump points which is a whole other thing that ME doesn't have.)

As for Spock, he really was a sex symbol back during the ToS era, something a lot of modern fans might not know- the ladies found him very fascinating!

I feel like modern fans do know this, especially given how legendary Kirk/Spock fics are, as originating the entire genre of fanfic.

(And generally speaking slash fic about two male characters is primarily written by hetero women about characters they find attractive.)

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Kirk in a serious relationship of course being highly amusing to long-time fans.

It appears the kind of missions he does with the Farragut still allows such things. Other relationships usually last that long, so he even gets married when he's stuck on one planet. He basically ends up marrying the Enterprise, with its 5 year mission it is probably really tough to have a long-lasting relationship. (Though Pike is trying that as well.)

 

[Stalker0]

As for Spock, he really was a sex symbol back during the ToS era, something a lot of modern fans might not know- the ladies found him very fascinating!

I mean if we think about it. Spock is a man stronger than any human man, brilliant, well spoken, extremely accomplished, with incredible discipline, but has emotional issues and trouble expressing himself.

Its the definition of a chick magnet!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I mean if we think about it. Spock is a man stronger than any human man, brilliant, well spoken, extremely accomplished, with incredible discipline, but has emotional issues and trouble expressing himself.

Its the definition of a chick magnet!

It doesn’t seem to work for me.

 

[Ryujin]

I mean if we think about it. Spock is a man stronger than any human man, brilliant, well spoken, extremely accomplished, with incredible discipline, but has emotional issues and trouble expressing himself.

Its the definition of a chick magnet!

Far too many times I've seen "emotionally distant" be found attractive, by woman. Worked fairly well for me, as well, 40ish years ago

 

[pukunui]

La'an told Kirk about her feelings in the musical episode, but he said that things between him and Carol were getting serious.

That’s right! I forgot about that.

 

[MarkB]

For me this week's episode is the best of the season so far. We get some classic Trek investigation-of-alien-civilisations on the away mission, with a nice puzzle-solving flavour, and meanwhile some slow-build psychological horror back aboard the Enterprise.

Thankfully, while there is a smattering of relationship drama, it's very much toned down and doesn't interfere with the rest of the episode.

 

[Morrus]

Since that 'extras are expensive' handwave of an empty sickbay back in the first episode of the season, I keep noticing how deserted the Enterprise is. This week it was while they were walking down empty corridors talking. Plus I'm still not past the 210 crew thing, when I know it's 430!