Finally had time to watch it tonight and I thought it was great.
I feel like what seemed corny or off was on purpose. Spock is on a learning curve with his emotions/duty conundrum and we certainly felt that.
Looking forward to next week!
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I also enjoyed this week's episode. I don't care for how close Spock and nurse Chapel are, but ok that's fine I guess lol
I hope to see more cooking.
Before season 1, I was sceptical about what I'd heard of the direction they were taking with Chapel, but Jess Bush's depiction of her has been one of my favourite things about the show so far. I'm happy to see more of her and Spock working their way through this.
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That was my interpretation too. I'm cautiously optimistic!
Did anyone else giggle uncontrollably at “we must steal the Enterprise”?
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As President of the Spock/Chapel fanclub and a sucker for Klingons, I feel that this episode was plucked out of my brain.
I loved it.
I’m also glad they began to explore a bit of post war PTSD through M’Benga. It’ll be interesting to see how far they go with the Gorn.
Enjoyed pretty much everything in this episode except the magic super steroids. The sequence went on for so long.. I assumed that I had forgotten something from last series because there’s no way they would have had this to hand the whole time and never thought to use it during any one of the many life and death emergencies?
That aside. Loved the rest of the episode and looking forward to where things go from here (plus really really happy to have weekly Trek again!)
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Spock steals the Enterprise (again) -- what more could I ask for?
Also yeah -- I really love how SNW is establishing that Spock has been, in the words of Eleanor Shellstrop of The Good Place, a messy bench who loves drama, since, you know, forever. How did he put it? "I thought it was obvious. I am proposing we steal the Enterprise." Amazing.
Fun episode, but bits and pieces always felt a little off. Pelia was fantastic - love seeing competent non-main-characters in any sort of fiction.
Chapel/Spock... ugh. Not so much.
Whats with the wierd "Crossfield" class?
I'm going with the thought that others have posted, since it's probably quite unlikely that the Klingons just stole an entire ship, that this ship must've been hacked together out of salvage from the War.
I bet we're going to see that Pelia was involved in things during the ENT era, and possibly also that she might connect to Scotty too.
Chris Fisher, who lasted directed A Quality of Mercy, directs the hell out of the two SNW eps he's helmed. Wow, are they creative.
So much to say, but all I can I say is that this show just makes you smile from ear to ear and tug at your heartstrings.
Ethan Peck just knocks this episode out of the goddamn park too. He nails the funny, the serious, the inner tumultuousness of Spock.
Also glad we get to see so much of M'Benga and Chapel and their relationship too. Seems like with a war amongst the Gorn brewing, we'll see it mirrored alongside everyone's experiences in the Klingon War.
If my memory is correct, this episode contained more than half of the scenes from the trailers, most of which were theorized to be from different episodes.
That leaves two possibilities:
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this episode is the most interesting episode, which would be unfortunate but not unheardof for Paramount
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the best is yet to come, and we have no idea what's coming.
I choose to believe the second, for now, and I'm excited.
Nice episode, I was expecting a cliffhanger at the end showing what Pike was up to.
I am curious about the Lanthanites, I’ve had visitor before, like Guinan in 1890s, but a whole species living among side humans, maybe they don’t have a big population, I bet they could be the origin of many human myths. I wonder what was their reason.
Maybe It will help with Una’s trial, since both pretended to be humans.
Also, in TOS there was about an Immortal Human, maybe he was a Lanthanite and just didn’t know.
Her accent is Dracula. She's a vampire. 😊
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