I liked the musical episode, and everyone who hated it were the worst human beings this planet shits out, so "My Human Best Friend" must cure cancer and regrow limbs.
meh-it was a retelling of "Shore Leave" and as a bottle episode, it worked. I used to do a similar thing with my motorcycle keys when I was out drinking, hiding them somewhere I wouldn't think about till I was sober again. The one thing that's bugging me is that in this episode there's a reference to Erika and a dragon that we didn't see, but we know that at some point this season they encounter a dragon we do.
Only seen the first ep so far, and it was good - although it really marks the difference from TNG. I mean, they basically watched as the Martians went full Starship Troopers - the movie, not the book - on BugWorld, wiping all life on the planet, eventually wiping all life out on Mars, and wiping out a good chunk of life on Earth. No Fourth Doctor holding the wires, and asking if he had the right, no Picard having a sermon, fuck it, let's hammer those genocide and extinction buttons! If I was a paid reviewer, I'd pretty much have to do this one as a Family Guy skit... Peter Griffin is dressed as Captain Pike, Carter Pewterschmidt as Commodore April April: “So what did you see, back in the age of dinosaurs?” Pike: “Well, Commodore May” April: “April” Pike Inner Monologue: Should I be happy we're on first name terms, or worried he has a girl's name? And what kind of name is April May anyway? Pike: “Well, we sure didn't see any Voth! Or Adam Driver. Pike turns to the camera, sotto voce, “Nobody saw that film. Nobody” Pike: “Lois punched a dinosaur. Oh, and we met a nice Martian lady with a bug infestation, and since Raid hadn't been invented yet, she stole some antimatter and blew up their planet, which killed her planet, and killed all the dinosaurs on Earth.” April: “And you just let her?” Pike: “Eh. Bugs are dumb.” April: “You were instrumental in killing all life on two planets, and uncountable ones on Earth!” Pike: “I can assure you there were no instrumentals involved, although I considered Yakkety Sax. With kazoos. Would that be Yakkety Kazoo?” Door noise sounds. Pike opens the door to Barney the Dinosaur. Barney: “I'm the Voth ambassador from the future and we need a word.”
I can accept that in any other genre but what bothers me most about this in Star Trek is the lack of curiosity amongst the characters affected. You mean to tell me Spock is just going to drop the fact that he seems to have dismembered himself while hallucinating on an empty starship? Fucking SPOCK? La’an impaled Kirk and no one is going to arrest her or treat her for hallucinations? No sir. This episode is incomplete. Everyone keeps referencing other episodes where Star Trek did horror and I’m honestly struggling to recall even one. Can someone jog my memory?
DS9 had the episode Empok Nor and Enterprise had the episode Impulse. TNG probably had the most, with Schisms, Night Terrors, Frame of Mind, and possibly Genesis. Voyager had the clown episode, but that was about it.
I guess they can't all be epic space adventures. Questioning whether starfleet officers would be willing and permitted to visit Planet Hallicinogen. You gotta respect the effort of memorizing that song in Klingon.
But this episode doesn't want to cure cancer. It wants to turn people into dinosaurs IYKYK. TNG's Schisms (Riker and other crew are taken to another dimension where aliens are experimenting on them -- the scene where they recreate the room where they have been taken to is one of the creepiest/well-done things in Trek) Enterprise's Impulse (Vulcans are turned into zombies by prolonged Trellium-D exposure) SNW did have the episode where the Gorn were essentially xenomorphs in its first season.
TNG's Schisms is still one of my all time favorite creepy Trek episodes. I like watching it with the lights off late at night for the extra creep.
The ghost ship episode was okay. The gore was unexpected but that kind of stuff doesn't bother me (RL, doncha know...). I've never been into horror as a genre, though. I didn't think I'd like the drunk planet story as much as I eventually did. Mainly because of Ortegas and Scotty finding common ground but also because of various little touches throughout ("It's green"). I laughed out loud when Ortegas reached for a roll of 20th-century gaffers tape to cover the warning indicators on her panel. One thing these episodes made me realize is that while Paul Wesley is okay as Kirk in SNW, I don't know that I'd buy him as the lede actor in a post-SNW series with him as captain of the Enterprise. Unlike Anson Mount, I don't know that Wesley has the presence to pull off the role full-time. YMMV
Oh good, the new episode opened with a tribble moving so I have my answer: Sometimes they roll, but mostly kind of glide. While this episode answered that question, it raises at least two new ones: 1: Why the fuck does everyone make such a big deal about Risa being the ultimate vacation spot when apparently Dave Foley's Drug Atmosphere Planet has been there this entire time? 2: If Kirk was real the whole time and also on leave and visiting Dave Foley's Drug Atmosphere Planet, why was he in uniform? That's something Picard might do if his senior officers bullied him into going, but not Kirk. Also: La'an: *hits pike with stick* La'an: "Look at me. I'm the captain now." Una: "La'an! This isn't a Klingon ship, that's not how promotions work in--" La'an: *Punches Una* Una: *Runs away* La'an: "I'm the captain now."
He doesn't. He's more like some actor filling the role of Kirk because he sorta kinda looks like Kirk. Oh wait... Yeah naw, Paul Wesley will just be bringing his interpretation of the role... he doesn't have nearly the gravity Shatner did at first. We'll see.
I didn't HATE it...but I didn't LIKE it (probably mainly because most show tunes do nothing for me) and will skip it on every rewatch. HATE I reserve for "Four and a Half Vulcans"
"because he sorta kinda looks like Kirk." He doesn't even do that. Like - at all. Those eyebrows, man. For all my dissatisfaction with the JJ movies, the thing they nailed is the casting (apart from Scotty, appearance wise, and to a minor degree Checkov) Chris Pine bears a decent resemblance to young Shat. This guy doesn't.
I quite like Paul Wesley as Kirk, and I hope TOS gets rebooted just so I can visit here every week to see @Nova's head explode.
All caught up. Eventerprise Horizon was a pretty good ghost story, and I'd kind of like a Division 12 limited series. Star Trek, Ghostbusters, and the X Files being put in a blender sounds pretty interesting. Like they kept the horror law of don't explain, whilst opening up to some being explainable with Pike's comments. The shore leave ep was fun, and seemed to be a bit of a nod to The Game film from the 90s, lots of references and resolved Scotty and Ortegas' beef with one another.
He doesn't strike me as anyone Hollywood producers will be battle royale-ing over to throw roles at, so I'd be happy to have him grow into the role and make it it his own.
Today's episode: for those of you who might be inclined to think the actor playing Kor is the actor who played Tuvix on VOY... it's in fact, Demore Barnes who played Hector on The Unit and Raphael in Supernatural. I first looked at him and thought "no fucking way they brought that guy back! Too bad Janeway's not here to push him into the transporter." Nothing about this rendition of Kor interested me, but then I'm a big John Colicos fan.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S04E04, "A Case of Chiaroscuro" It was... okay. I've sat here thinking on it for the past few minutes after watching it, and I have to say that it should have worked for me. I should have loved this episode, it has everything I like: film noir, WW2 resistance allegory, a mysterious whodunit, Una in charge and kicking ass where necessary, a little steampunk thrown in for good measure, but it doesn't really work for me. It feels like all of the pieces are there to make a great story, but it doesn't work for me. It honestly feels more like a pastiche of a pastiche right down to specific set pieces with no connection to the environment around them, even the music doesn't fit, it stands out and makes itself present, which it shouldn't do, it should blend in to the scene and reinforce the story, but it almost feels like it was tacked on afterward. I don't know, for some reason it just doesn't work for me. 6/10.
It was the effects of some kind of radiation from what M'Benga says, which worked well enough for me. I'm sure there really are weird sections of space that could do that. We know, for example, that some nebulae smell like raspberries.
There was some anthology series episode or a movie where there was a black sun that made everything black & white. Ohhh, what the Hell was it? It's gonna drive me crazy....
Dune. So now to recap: episode 1 was Star Trek does Jurassic Park, episode 2 is Star Trek does Event Horizon, episode 3 is Star Trek does The Hangover, and this week's episode it's Star Trek does Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Edit: Maybe more Casablanca than Sky Captain.
I don't know, but there was an episode of Star Trek Continues that had a world with that same lighting effect. It had Colin Baker and Anne Lockhart in it. Great episode.
