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

[Morrus]

Like I said above, I feel the show is leaning too hard into these "gimmick" concepts.

I'm starting to think so too. 'Crew beams down to an alien planet and has an adventure' is becoming a rarity.

 

[Vael]

Poor Spock though. He joined Starfleet to get away from this exact situation, and now it's been thrust into his face like a plate of live gagh. I think it's easy to forget that even when Spock is being insufferably Vulcan, he's actually trying hard not to be, and that real Vulcans can be oh, so much worse!

Do note that the Kerkovian serum Chapel was using was based on Spock, so a lot of the crew's behavior seems to be a mish-mash of Spock's view of his fellow Vulcans with added their own emotional deals. We have Doug and the Admiral ... "real" Vulcans, and they did not act nearly as poorly.

Someone suggested that this episode and the Vulcans can be a manifestation of Spock's anxiety dreams, and I would concur with that.

 

[pukunui]

I'm starting to think so too. 'Crew beams down to an alien planet and has an adventure' is becoming a rarity.

Yeah, that's what I was complaining about earlier in the thread ... it feels like they never really explore "strange new worlds" or go "where no one has gone before" anymore.

I mean, in this most recent episode, we didn't even get to see the surface of the strange new world that needed help from Vulcans or the established pleasure world they visited for their shore leave. The entirety of the episode took place on board the Enterprise.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, that's what I was complaining about earlier in the thread ... it feels like they never really explore "strange new worlds" or go "where no one has gone before" anymore.

I mean, in this most recent episode, we didn't even get to see the surface of the strange new world that needed help from Vulcans or the established pleasure world they visited for their shore leave. The entirety of the episode took place on board the Enterprise.

I really think they have a massive budget problem and it shows. No extras, few additional sets... just the core cast in the handful of (gorgeous) Enterprise sets they have already set up.

 

[pukunui]

I really think they have a massive budget problem and it shows. No extras, few additional sets... just the core cast in the handful of (gorgeous) Enterprise sets they have already set up.

Yeah, I'm thinking that too. That and some "undercooked" writing problems potentially stemming from that last writers' strike.

 

[Rabulias]

Someone suggested that this episode and the Vulcans can be a manifestation of Spock's anxiety dreams, and I would concur with ththat.

Hmmm... so maybe at the end of season finale, T'Pring steps out of the sonic shower, and Spock says "I had the strangest dream..."

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, that's what I was complaining about earlier in the thread ... it feels like they never really explore "strange new worlds" or go "where no one has gone before" anymore.

I mean, in this most recent episode, we didn't even get to see the surface of the strange new world that needed help from Vulcans or the established pleasure world they visited for their shore leave. The entirety of the episode took place on board the Enterprise.

I'm trying to think of places around Toronto that they could use for alien landscapes. They already used Ontario Place, in season 1. The Cheltenham Badlands? Canada's Wonderland (theme/amusement park) for a "pleasure planet"? "The Expanse" (and many others) already used the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant as a prison, so that might be too recognizable at this point.

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[pukunui]

I'm trying to think of places around Toronto that they could use for alien landscapes. They already used Ontario Place, in season 1. The Cheltenham Badlands? Canada's Wonderland (theme/amusement park) for a "pleasure planet"? "The Expanse" (and many others) already used the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant as a prison, so that might be too recognizable at this point.

Google Maps

Explore a place through a 360° photo.

maps.app.goo.gl

Hmm. Yes, I guess if their budget limits them to terrain in the immediate vicinity of the film studio, then that makes it harder to come up with exotic alien locales!

 

[Ryujin]

Hmm. Yes, I guess if their budget limits them to terrain in the immediate vicinity of the film studio, then that makes it harder to come up with exotic alien locales!

If they could somehow get permission to film on The Badlands that would work, but they had to close them to direct public access because people are stupid and were actively causing damage to a protected space, that exists to demonstrate how man has affected nature.

EDIT - When it was still open for people to directly interact with, as when I took that picture, I would generally bring a couple of shopping bags with me and never failed to fill them with other people's trash.

 

[James Gasik]

Do note that the Kerkovian serum Chapel was using was based on Spock, so a lot of the crew's behavior seems to be a mish-mash of Spock's view of his fellow Vulcans with added their own emotional deals. We have Doug and the Admiral ... "real" Vulcans, and they did not act nearly as poorly.

Someone suggested that this episode and the Vulcans can be a manifestation of Spock's anxiety dreams, and I would concur with that.

Does Spock know Romulans are related to Vulcans? He seemed surprised in TOS, but I don't know if that means anything.