SpaceChampion Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 (edited) September 7 And TODAY: Edited July 22, 2023 by SpaceChampion Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 Penultimate SNW of season 2: Ser Scot A Ellison, Poobah and Ran 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 Finally… season 4 Lower Decks trailer: https://youtu.be/lCQwncbQx04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 @SpaceChampion Thank you! That was a lot of fun. SpaceChampion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I misread the tweet initially...I need to finish what I'm doing tonight and get to a television! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 The musical episode looks incredibly silly and fun. IlyaP and Spockydog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 What an awesome, beautiful crossover episode (probably helped that I didnt have any expectations going in). I need to rewatch ASAP to see what I missed in the first go. Regarding the musical, I imagine the explanation is radiation/gas from a nebula/cloud affects the parietal lobes of the crew? Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denvek Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 (edited) Those Old Scientists 10/10 Spoiler The beauty of the SNW title sequence means it takes a few seconds before you realise they've animated it in Lower Decks style, and then as soon as you get over how amazingly they've recreated it, NACELLE SQUID! Not laughed that much at the TV for a long time Edited July 23, 2023 by Denvek Jaxom 1974, IlyaP and Ser Scot A Ellison 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 47 minutes ago, IheartIheartTesla said: What an awesome, beautiful crossover episode (probably helped that I didnt have any expectations going in). I need to rewatch ASAP to see what I missed in the first go. Regarding the musical, I imagine the explanation is radiation/gas from a nebula/cloud affects the parietal lobes of the crew? The Newsome and Quaid did a very nice job translating their animated characters movements to real life. The boimler run and scream were fun to see… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I recommend The Ready Room extra for this episode, which is practically a lovefest between Newsome, Quaid, Frakes and Wheaton. I also learned there that Newsome has been hired as a writer for Starfleet Academy, I had no idea that was in her wheelhouse too (it seems like she was offered the job because of her ad-libs in this episode?) IlyaP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 That wasn't just freaking brilliant...it wasn't even a placeholder episode just for fun...it actually developed characters in SNW. And the title sequence! And that was just about the best thing I've ever seen in Trek in a long long time. Gonna go gush some more after watching Ready Room... Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Well I might be the only here not familiar with Lower Decks but thoroughly enjoyed the episode, nonetheless. Felt too short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Fun episode, for certain. I was particularly pleased with the ending and its Lower Decks-ification of the SNW characters. And they managed to wring some pathos out of it all, by having Chapel learn that her relationship with Spock and her humanizing effect on him is destined to come to an end. Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Ran said: Fun episode, for certain. I was particularly pleased with the ending and its Lower Decks-ification of the SNW characters. And they managed to wring some pathos out of it all, by having Chapel learn that her relationship with Spock and her humanizing effect on him is destined to come to an end. Not just that, but it also continues to expand and give context to the nature of their TOS relationship... just really well done. Ser Scot A Ellison and Ran 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifth Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) It was a cute episode and fun. This is always the way I preferred Trek. A dark and serious episode one week, and a light hearted and fun one the next week. Edited July 24, 2023 by sifth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Next week looks to be heavy with some Klingon war trauma being visited (based on the preview and the focus on M'Benga), but then the week after we have the musical I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 I guess I’m in the minority, but I didn’t love this one. But that’s kinda on me, it was as good a crossover between these two shows you could ask for. I just love the competence porn, and I’ve compartmentalised Lower Decks in my head to account for that. I enjoy it but I don’t take it seriously as an actual depiction of Starfleet. So this felt like a clash for me, and basically every scene involved someone being grossly unprofessional when it comes to temporal protocol. Mostly Boimler and Mariner obviously, but none of the crew of the Enterprise helped at all. Pike just gave up trying to manage the situation, Boimler was provoked to tell them more, and Spock outright asked him about his future. It all felt strange when two episodes ago, this exact problem nearly destroyed the Federation. The rest was quite neat, it was a nice touch to have the Orion pirate thing come full circle. But didn’t enjoy it as much as the previous two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 13 hours ago, sifth said: It was a cute episode and fun. This is always the way I preferred Trek. A dark and serious episode one week, and a light hearted and fun one the next week. Sure, but as long as the serious episode doesn't kill off a promising/beloved character and then they go into song & dance in the next one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifth Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said: Sure, but as long as the serious episode doesn't kill off a promising/beloved character and then they go into song & dance in the next one. Has that ever happened before? You had me thinking for a sec, because at this point Trek has been around for decades, with over 1000 episodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 3 hours ago, sifth said: Has that ever happened before? You had me thinking for a sec, because at this point Trek has been around for decades, with over 1000 episodes. I don't know if it ever happened in that order, but last season of SNW we got the light-hearted, but emotional episode where the ship got turned into a magical kingdom and M'Benga's daughter joined an entity. Hemmer got to shine in that episode then in the following week we get an Alien-like episode and Hemmer died. Fortunately the season's finale was also suitably serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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