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LoglineA shuttle accident leads to Spock’s Vulcan DNA being removed by aliens, making him fully human and completely unprepared to face T’Pring’s family during an important ceremonial dinner.

Written by Kathryn Lyn & Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Jordan Canning

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[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

So I'm not really the biggest fan of the episode. Felt a bit too obviously like mid-season filler or something. Though I didn't hate it.

But what I actually really appreciated about it, reflecting on it just now, is that I don't think it was predictable, like at all. You couldn't quite tell if the episode was going to go full comedy, or romantic drama or some whacky sci-fi stuff with the wormhole aliens.

And I think that might be one of SNW's strengths (?) A sort of comfortable and maybe confident fluidity around the tone and style it's going for in any episode and at any point in time.

[-] williams_482@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago

Felt a bit too obviously like mid-season filler or something. Though I didn’t hate it.

As far as I'm concerned, the weakest parts of the show were the parts that tried the hardest not to be "mid-season filler": creating and resolving the doctor's insane daughter-in-transporter-buffer situation, trying to set up a future "big bad" situation with Sybok, etc. I was very concerned from Alex Kurtzman's description of this current season many months ago that they might have learned the wrong lessons from the first season, but thank goodness that they seem to have stuck with what made the first season good: brilliantly executed character driven episodic storytelling.

[-] SoSquidTaste@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

future “big bad” situation with Sybok

For real though, wtf happened with that mic drop reveal. Not that I'm complaining; I don't feel particularly excited to learn about another previously-unheard-of Spock sibling.

Then again, the amount of times Sarek's name was dropped in this episode is probably a clear breadcrumb that this storyline is coming sooner than later.

[-] eva_sieve@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair, Sybok was the original spontaneous Spock sibling, even though Star Trek V was chronologically later.

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