[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago

THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS AS I WATCH:

  • NOOO, I DON'T WANT THIS TO END!

  • Previously: The various stuff happened.

  • Oh, hey, Cayuga captains log.

  • Nice of them to have a colony modeled after an Earth town. Saves on budget.

  • "SIGNAL LOST." In space, a dropped call can mean only one thing: Invasion.

  • Oh, we're doing the Independence Day thing?

  • Telling a Starfleet captain to just do reconnaissance is basically telling them to go weapons free.

  • Nice little tinge of one of the TOS scores at the end of the cold open. Someone more geekier than I can probably place it.

  • If you ever feel like you are useless in life, just remember that there is a "skip intro" button during a "Space, the Final Frontier" monologue.

  • Is the "Gorn Protocol" a hand-cannon with with a diamond?

  • She flies the ship!

  • I'd like to imagine there is a deleted scene where they glue every piece of junk they have onto the shuttle.

  • If they're going to do a "is someone still alive in the wreckage" storyline, they probably should have flip-flopped Batel and Chapel's spots, given that we obviously know she's going to live.

  • They keep giving Jenna Mitchell lines! FREE MITCHELL! Give that actreess a cast credit, cowards!

  • Ah, a good old fashioned beam into the sky.

  • Oh, look, a Gornzooky!

  • And... vaporized.

  • More Gornzookies!

  • Oh my god, it's young Scotty. Hopefully this means Keenser is there. I always loved Keenser and his ability to sit on things he isn't supposed to.

  • Doesn't seem like Keenser is there :(

  • Of course Scotty would engineer a way to save people. He truly is a miracle worker.

  • Smashing a piece of space debris is a very... brilliant idea.

  • Pelia continuing to harass Una for her poor academics in engineering.

  • Why do I get the feeling that whatever plan Spock has to put the rockets on the hull will also allow him to check for survivors?

  • Wow, imagine that, Chapel is alive! Imagine that! Whoever would have thought! (Seriously they should have flip-flopped her and Batel if they were going to do this)

  • USE THE MORSE, CHRISTINE!

  • Oh, now she grabs the spacesuit. Although I guess she didn't need it yet.

  • WARNING: GORNZOOKY

  • COMMAND CODE INVALID'

  • That looks like a bigger Gorn. An adult? Or at least like a teenager.

  • So incredibly Alien.

  • "GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM, YOU BITCH!"

  • Oh shit, she's been impregnated with gornzookies. A very zombie movie trope.

  • "There'll be time later." Before or after you get engaged to Dr. Korby?

  • "We need to abort some Gornzookies."

  • Yeah, Scotty would be a shitty student despite being brilliant.

  • OH FUCK THE GORN KIDNAPPED THEM

  • TO BE CONTINUED?!?!!?! Okay, who wants to drive to Hollywood and personally beat up some billionaires? I want this strike over NOW and I want a conclusion WITHIN A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF MAX!

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

One thing that I loved is that the fact that that is so WEIRD is actually one of the major parts of the plot. I know other places like Buffy have done similar, but I feel like poking fun at the tropes of musical theater kind of enhances it for some people like me (I don't HATE musicals, but I don't love them either.)

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago

Thoughts/Observation as I watch:

  • Where will this stand in the long history of Star Trek gimmick episodes? After all, this is the franchise that gave us "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Take Me Out To The Holosuite", "In a Mirror, Darkly", the OG "Lower Decks", and most recently... "Those Old Scientists". Holy shit, that was just two episodes ago and in between we got the darkest Star Trek thing in years!

  • Uhura having to be the operator sounds like the most stressful thing to do that doesn't involve imminent danger.

  • "Even if it's not fully necessary." That basically sums up every contrivance to get Kirk on board.

  • KORBY ALERT

  • Ah, spatial distortions, the cause and solution to everything.

  • The facial acting as they enter musical-land is priceless.

  • Acapella theme song!

  • "So... that happened."

  • "Quantum uncertainty field". That's some Hitchiker Guide type stuff.

  • Ah, they brought back the Gilbert and Sullivan stuff.

  • I like how they are hanging a lampshade on just how BIZARRE it is that people sing out their biggest secrets and deepest feelings in musicals.

  • Good save, La'An.

  • "Surprisingly beautiful baritone"

  • It could have been worse for the crew. Imagine if Uhura had broadcast opera into it, then they'd ALWAYS be singing.

  • Shaxs would suggest blowing it up by ejecting the warp core.

  • Gratuitous zero-gee is gratuitous.

  • Oh god, singing Klingons.

  • Yeah, the Klingons would also like the "let's just blow it up" plan.

  • Wait were those extras twins?

  • Apparently the improbability field also affects the lighting of the bar.

  • Isn't K'tinga the later type of Klingon ship? Ah, screw it, musical rules.

  • "I don't love rules but I think you're about to break a big one."

  • This totally is going into Temporal Investigations Kirk file.

  • CAROL MARCUS REFERENCE

  • Oh shit, David Marcus reference!

  • "I'm the Ex" standing as if X in a math question is a good bit of workplay.

  • Kind of surprised it took this long to give Celia Rose Gooding a full-on solo.

  • Grammy-Award winning singer!

  • A grand finale. How meta!

  • Boy Band Klingons was not on my bingo card.

  • Lol, playing the TOS theme as a curtain-closer

  • "You sang about lying to me."

  • "Sorry, Earworm."

  • All-and-all, it was a good enough gimmick episode. But it was no "Take Me Out To The Holosuite." ("DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!")

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 64 points 1 year ago

2x07: Wacky crossover with the comedy cartoon!

2x08: WAR IS HELL, NOBODY IS INNOCENT, MORALITY IS GREY, FORGIVENESS IS QUESTIONABLE, AND THE FRIENDLY DOCTOR MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DELIBERATELY KILLED A GUY IN COLD BLOOD

2x09: Musical!

Find you a show that can do both.

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

I can only presume that you are currently doing "Those Old Scientists" but may die in the process.

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

Yep, they confirm it in Ready Room. Apparently Frakes' wife was dying from laughter watching the episode when that happened.

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

Let's face it: this isn't even in the top five strangest things to happen to a Starfleet vessel. Arguable if it's even in the top 10.

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

Still kind of hoping that one year they do a "Trials and Tribble-Ations" tribute episode where they go back to the Enterprise during TAS and splice in the LD guys in in the TAS style.

They could call it "Those Animated Scientists"

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago

Thoughts and observations as I watched over at the "other place", special Saturday night/early Sunday morning edition:

  • AHHHHH, WE'RE DOING THIS ON A SATURDAY!
  • AHHHHH, WE'RE GETTING THE CROSSOVER!
  • AHHHHH, A CROSSOVER BETWEEN A CARTOON COMEDY AND A LIVE ACTION DRAMA!
  • AHHHHH, IN GENERAL!
  • First off, that they have "Those Old Scientists" as the title is (chef's kiss).
  • Previously: Nyota had a really bad day, La'An got a bad case of Kirk hotness, and Chapel/Spock had a bad case of hotness for each other
  • OH GOD WE'RE STARTING ANIMATED
  • "Numero Una"
  • Tendi would like to remind you all that the Orions have a rich and varied history.
  • "You guys look... very realistic."
  • AHHHH, ANIMATED OPENING CREDITS!
  • Hahaha, the thing that eats the Ceritos Nacelle!
  • AHHHH, THE KOALA AT THE END OF THE CREDITS! WHY IS IT SMILING, WHAT DOES IT KNOW!?!?
  • "But flipping it open is the best part"
  • "Computer, end program."
  • "Worf's honor." DANGIT!
  • I wonder if Frakes showed Quaid how to properly do a Riker maneuver
  • "You just... laughed."
  • Ah, we're tying in with what Tendi said.
  • Boimler is a toddler knocking over furniture.
  • "We have jetpacks now"
  • Pike's birthday is a holiday... CRAP!
  • Boimler freaking out over the fact he made Spock laugh is such a Boimler thing.
  • Hey, a reference to his sehlat!
  • I like how they are using this episode to also move the other plotlines forward.
  • HE MENTIONED PIKE'S REALLY GREAT HAIR
  • Triticale, as opposed to Quadritriticale.
  • I totally saw Mariner coming.
  • Dystopian San Francisco!
  • "Have you noticed their references are weirdly specific?"
  • "Hot Spock agrees with me"
  • "It's a poster that is pinned up"
  • I feel like Tawny herself probably demanded a scene with Uhura
  • Ah, there's the Boimler scream!
  • "Holy Q!"
  • "They had a Trelane thing going on."
  • "He had to contour the hell out of the jawline"
  • "Oh, I already know." Hahaha, they finally got out-future knowledged.
  • Oh god, are they going to steal a piece of an NX?
  • Oh, just a piece of it in the Enterprise.
  • The "Mistress of the Winter Constellations" strikes again!
  • Of course Ransom calls Una the hottest first officer in starfleet history.
  • Hahaha, 2D animation Enterprise crew because they are drunk!
  • All-time classic.
[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

They also tied in to Tendi's story on LD (her constant reminding to people that Orions have a culture far beyond pirating), even though we didn't see her in Live Action.

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

I would not be opposed if episode five of every season of SNW involves Vulcan Hijinks.

[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?

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