ThePyroPython 64 points 3 years ago

It was a great episode.

Also, Number One saying "They put that on the poster?" made my heart melt.

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richieadler 28 points 3 years ago

And the gag with Ransom calling Una the sexiest, given the actors' relationship.

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majestictechie 13 points 3 years ago

Wait, what's this now?

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Lorindol 34 points 3 years ago

Ransom's voice actor Jerry O'Connell is complimenting his wife, Rebecca Romjin, who plays Una.

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majestictechie 14 points 3 years ago

I didn't know that tidbit

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Skips 8 points 3 years ago

I believe the actors are married in real life

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wingsfortheirsmiles 35 points 3 years ago

I adore this episode, especially later on when the SNW crew go fan crazy over the NX-01 crew with those Boimler and Mariner grinning in the background. That and Boim's Section 31 fast walk

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tedmustard 34 points 3 years ago

I've watched this episode twice and I'm about to watch it a third time since you reminded me about it

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BolexForSoup 16 points 3 years ago

Everyone keeps saying “this episode” but I don’t know which series or which episode y’all are referring to lol

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sopelj 43 points 3 years ago

"Those Old Scientists" - Strange New Worlds S2E07. It's a crossover with Lower Decks and it's awesome.

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ijeff 14 points 3 years ago

Oh what! I definitely need to get caught up!

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keefshape 5 points 3 years ago

It's just going to keep getting better, just wait and see.

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BolexForSoup 9 points 3 years ago

Thanks!

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Damage 11 points 3 years ago

The next few years under captain Pike will have to be very harsh on Spock to get him to Nimoy's look

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ricecooker 2 points 3 years ago

CGI jowls!

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livedeified 9 points 3 years ago

this is a great episode! when she comes through the portal. I always think "oh gawd, here we go". the characters are played flawlessly and really bring the shows together in a way that few are able to achieve.

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ruckblack 8 points 3 years ago

Is this what this show is like?

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GenderNeutralBro 69 points 3 years ago

Lower Decks is an animated comedy. It's Star Trek in a new genre. They speak very fast, very loudly, and try to make every line at least a little funny, often sliding in obscure references to Trek lore. Think Futurama or Rick and Morty.

Strange New Worlds is a modern take on classic Star Trek, which is much more buttoned-up. It's true to the more serious tone of previous live-action Trek series.

This is from the crossover episode, where two Lower Decks characters appeared in Strange New Worlds. The contrast between them and the Enterprise crew was a riot, and IMHO they didn't overdo it; they got it just right. It's everything I could have hoped for as a fan of both of these two very different series.

I recommend both shows.

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FrostyCaveman 59 points 3 years ago

Lower Decks is certainly fast, loud and in-your-face funny. But what I was completely not expecting is for it to be so respectful and adoring of what came before in the franchise. I thought originally, ah yeah one of those “fast edgy animated comedies”, it surely would be derisive and treat Trek like a joke itself, but actually, no it does not. It’s a comedy set in the Trek universe, it’s not a comedy where Trek is the punchline.

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wingsfortheirsmiles 19 points 3 years ago

Mike McMahan is a lifelong Trekkie and it shows! Whilst I do wish the references to other shows were toned down a smidge in favour of building new lore I always enjoy them hah. "Not the 'Gazer!"

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ricecooker 12 points 3 years ago

I feel the same way. The writers do such a good job integrating ST lore that it just really displays their knowledge and respect for the universe.

Off the top of my head:

random references to made up Star Trek words and concepts, like Ponfarr and Chadeetch (I'm not looking these words up)
getting to revisit 1 off species. Everyone loves the metaphor aliens (TEMBA ARMS WIDE OPEN) so it's fun to bring them back and poke fun. It's basically the Airplane scene ("Excuse me miss, I speak jive.")
Characters are very aware of various ways to die as red shirt

It's a fun show

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MudMan 27 points 3 years ago

Weeell, SNW is only on season 2 and we've already had an animated crossover, a musical episode, two characters doing Star Trek mythbusters, a double date sitcom setup with Spock and a renfair episode.

SNW isn't a self-parody, but it's certainly aiming for TOS' blend of camp and speculative sci-fi more than the "serious tone" of 90s Trek, if that's how we want to describe it.

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TheOctonaut 23 points 3 years ago

Where did people get the idea that 90s Trek was serious?

Do people not remember Lwaxana Troi? Q being Marvel's Loki?

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Omega_Jimes 12 points 3 years ago

I think this is because TNG had a very serious tone, and very ridiculous plots. Surface level they spent a lot of time adjusting shirts and trying to act prim and respectful with horns and orchestra in the background, then someone turns into a spider.

I think this causes people to see different things in it.

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MudMan 6 points 3 years ago

Agreed. I'm using serious here to meet the previous poster halfway and... well, because yeah, if you compare it to TOS I guess it's more serious than that.

In any case, TOS and TNG (and especially DS9 and Voyager) are on different tones and SNW is, appropriately, aiming for modern TOS, not modern TNG.

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Carlo 15 points 3 years ago

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xusontha 14 points 3 years ago

Lol no that was a unique (but still great) episode

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socprof 13 points 3 years ago

@xusontha @ruckblack Well, it's very in line with LD but unique for SNW. It's the incongruity that makes it a riot.

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Splitdipless 4 points 3 years ago

I could watch Boimler hop in the saddle and exclaim "Riker" over, and over...

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gmtom 3 points 3 years ago

Is that Bill?

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pastabatman 2 points 3 years ago

I know boimler's hair is purple in lower decks, but I didn't expect it to be purple in live action for some reason and I couldn't stop thinking about how weird it was whenever he was on screen. Like, the Simpsons have yellow skin while animated but if they were real life people it wouldn't be neon yellow. Am I crazy?

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CeruleanRuin 1 point 3 years ago

Turns out that's not just an animation convention, Boimler's hair really is purple. He dyes it.

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Lucidlethargy 0 points 3 years ago

I loved this crossover, but Spock's casting was very rough. He's a talented actor, but he's not Spock...

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hazelnot 9 points 3 years ago

TOS is unwatchable to me so Ethan Peck has become the Spock for me lol

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Terevos 6 points 3 years ago

TOS is really rough, but what about the movies? Some of those were really great. That's the main reason Leonard Nimoy is Spock to me

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hazelnot 4 points 3 years ago

Ah fair. I've never seen any of the Star Trek movies 😅

I started with Discovery, I liked it at the time and jumped back to TNG and went from there. I ended up skipping like half of TNG and all of Voyager though 💀

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kelseybcool 10 points 3 years ago

Start with "wrath of kahn". Thank me later.

Or don't I'm not your dad.

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Repelle 7 points 3 years ago

To me I feel like Ethan peck is actually very good at acting as Spock, but the writing is extremely unspock like and so it doesn’t feel right. Kirk’s writing also seems more like the mythos of Kirk remembered as by the 24th century than the actual buttoned up officer of the 23rd.

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Stamets 6 points 3 years ago

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kamenlady 5 points 3 years ago

IMO he plays the Spock perfectly and i watched and love TOS in all its glory.

He's not Leonard and doesn't need to be.

These are all personal opinions anyway, but find me any one who didn't feel it, when he went

"I'd like this ship to fly. Now!"

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Benfell 2 points 3 years ago

@kamenlady @Stamets

When I think of Spock in the original series (#TOS), I find more than a few things implausible.

Would, for example, Spock really know impossible odds with multiple unknown variables to several decimal places? More seriously, in TOS, Spock never satisfactorily explained the Vulcan logic for logic. They've addressed this since, but I had realized that the attachment to life is emotional, not logical, and therefore concluded that in denying emotion, Vulcans could have no logical reason to live.

Even Leonard Nimoy's Spock addressed some of this in the movies, and they aren't quoting odds to ludicrous precision anymore, so I find the more recent iterations of Spock much more believable.

As for the acting, Ethan Peck plays a younger, less experienced Spock. Given Vulcan lifespans, this probably shouldn't make quite the difference we see. But that's how I've accounted for that difference and I've been interested in seeing the backstory.

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kamenlady 2 points 3 years ago

In addition to less experience, his human side is still very present and interfering in ways that you'll never see again in TOS.

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Date	Episode	Title
08-20	SNW 4x05	"Level-Five Transporter Accident"
08-27	SNW 4x06	“Off-Hour”
09-03	SNW 4x07	“Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”
09-10	SNW 4x08	“Orders of Magnitude”
09-17	SNW 4x09	"Once La’An a Time"

Date	Episode	Title
08-20	SNW 4x05	"Level-Five Transporter Accident"
08-27	SNW 4x06	“Off-Hour”
09-03	SNW 4x07	“Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”
09-10	SNW 4x08	“Orders of Magnitude”
09-17	SNW 4x09	"Once La’An a Time"