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Thought she looked familiar. Wondered why she didn't stuff the bald Vulcan up her cosmic hoo-haw.
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Strange New Worlds season 2
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CaptainWacky
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There was one line Una had (I can't remember it) that made me flashback to this.
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I... actually really liked this week's. Alternate-Kirk came off like a weird cross between TOS Kirk and Kyle Reese, but that played surprisingly well. The episode also did a King size job of fleshing out the Auggie broad. So, all told, well done.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Anson Mount was on paternity leave so that's why he hasn't been in it much yet.
It was good, Christina Chong is always compelling and did very good work in all her emotional scenes. I thought her and Kirk had good chemistry and I liked him better here than his first appearance - though he still doesn't feel exactly like Kirk and I don't think he needs his own spin-off series or anything. I do hope this is the last time we have to hear about Khan though. Enough legacy stuff, just move on. Nice that was he was Indian again and not a digitally de-aged Benedict Cumberbatch.
The plot got a bit meandering in the middle and the trip to see Pelia was kind of pointless, but also the kind of thing these types of Stark Trek episodes do. It was weird that La'an didn't check in with Pelia at the end to see if she remembered meeting her 240 years ago?
As soon as Adelaide Kane appeared I thought "she's going to be a Romulan and she's wearing the hat to hide her ears!" I was right about the first part! I bet at least four people have Googled "is Adelaide Kane related to Carol Kane?" (She's not.)
It was good, Christina Chong is always compelling and did very good work in all her emotional scenes. I thought her and Kirk had good chemistry and I liked him better here than his first appearance - though he still doesn't feel exactly like Kirk and I don't think he needs his own spin-off series or anything. I do hope this is the last time we have to hear about Khan though. Enough legacy stuff, just move on. Nice that was he was Indian again and not a digitally de-aged Benedict Cumberbatch.
The plot got a bit meandering in the middle and the trip to see Pelia was kind of pointless, but also the kind of thing these types of Stark Trek episodes do. It was weird that La'an didn't check in with Pelia at the end to see if she remembered meeting her 240 years ago?
As soon as Adelaide Kane appeared I thought "she's going to be a Romulan and she's wearing the hat to hide her ears!" I was right about the first part! I bet at least four people have Googled "is Adelaide Kane related to Carol Kane?" (She's not.)
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I was pleasantly surprised that they didn't have Orla Brady, Hwil Hweaton, or Isa Briones show up to deal with the temporal incursion, even though narratively that's supposed to be their job.
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Yeah, that was a nice touch. Though I did find myself laughing at it, to wit:
"I have been waiting for thirty years!"
"But have you been falling... for THIRTY MINUTES!"?
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Um...
He already had his own spinoff series. They filmed it in the 1960s. It was called Star Trek.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
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Great episode. I wasn't sure I'd be sold on this one or the concept or Paul Wesley as Kirk again, but it all worked for me. Pretty nice character work throughout and unless I missed something it was pretty internally consistent with the time change/not change stuff.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
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Oh right, except for that part.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
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I figured out what bothers me about Paul Wesley, and it's not a big deal. Most people see Jim Carrey, and I get that too, but in certain scenes he looks almost exactly like Jeffrey Hunter, original Pike.
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That might not have clicked for me if you hadn't posted it, but... yep. I can't un-see it now.
Loktar
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The other timeline got erased. So no, Pelia wouldn't remember meeting La'an in the past.
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Correct, because she's not an El-Aurian.
Which... they really could totally have made her an El-Aurian and it would have made perfect sense. Instead of introducing Yet Another Nigh Immortal Extraterrestrial Humanoid Species That Lived Among Humans For Centuries...
They already had one. And they totally could have used that one. But, meh, nope. They didn't. Why didn't they? Because the writers don't really know their lore, or give a fuck about it.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
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Oh, this might get complicated. Technically they met before the timeline changed, no? And then the timeline didn't change, so it's the same timeline where they met.
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Exactly. Plus, the heavy, heavy inference that it's because of La'an's talk of "Oh, you're such a great engineer!" that turns Pelia on to Engineering as a vocation in the first place -- so, yeah, there's no magic undo button on that, since it clearly has come to fruition.