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I liked the chemistry lab explosion at the beginning of the episode, not a movie fireball explosion, like a puff-of-smoke and then the force field containment with "shoot, I inhaled some of that" and then it briefly being investigated as a possible cause of the events. Every detail was perfect
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Gwaihir posted:What an absolutely exceptional episode. This show owns. Glad they got some good quality time with Hemmer on this one too, although I do echo the sentiment that Enterprise's Andorians were and still are the best looking version of that species, largely because of yeah, the antenna movements they did really accentuated Shran and company's expressions. You loving racist. He's an Aenar.
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Cojawfee posted:You loving racist. He's an Aenar. Actually, suggesting that Aenar and Andorians aren't even the same species would be racist. Like saying Black and White people are two different species. So, since Andorians and Aenar are the same species, and Enterprise mainly only showed Andorians, it would be correct to say "Enterprise's Andorians were the best looking version of (that species)". 
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XboxPants posted:Actually, suggesting that Aenar and Andorians aren't even the same species would be racist. Like saying Black and White people are two different species. So, since Andorians and Aenar are the same species, and Enterprise mainly only showed Andorians, it would be correct to say "Enterprise's Andorians were the best looking version of (that species)". Understanding and accepting racial differences is SO CLOSE to the writing on Discovery that it makes me want to spontaneously ejaculate blood
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I Am Fowl posted:I kind of love that M'benga's daughter was writing shipping the characters in her head. Do you think she progressed to full on fanfics in the nebula with Debra? Gonna pretend that they trap passing ships and make them perform 1 fanfic before letting them leave Truly a terrible entity!
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Gonna pretend that they trap passing ships and make them perform 1 fanfic before letting them leave conSCRIPTion I'll get my coat
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Gonna pretend that they trap passing ships and make them perform 1 fanfic before letting them leave "Truly, it was a paradise." "And all you had to put up with was one really annoying Star Trek fan." "Let's get out of here." ----------------
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Gonna pretend that they trap passing ships and make them perform 1 fanfic before letting them leave Melllvar rides again.
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Jun 23, 2022 22:58
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This weeks SNW: I'm not crying.... you're crying!!!! 
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Gwaihir posted:Glad they got some good quality time with Hemmer on this one too, although I do echo the sentiment that Enterprise's Andorians were and still are the best looking version of that species, largely because of yeah, the antenna movements they did really accentuated Shran and company's expressions. I'm going to partly agree and partly disagree I think Enterprise's Andorians were the most advanced from a technical and special effects standpoint and looked great, but they suffered from the same sort if problem that the Klingons suffered from and that the Vulcans still suffer from, which is that they're obviously just people in blue makeup and with antennae. Adding little ridges and points to their face, which was done by Duscovery and SNW at least suggests that, hey, these are aliens. They don't look just like human beings. I think there's something nice about that.
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Yeah, I don't dislike that part, but also "blue face people" didn't really bother me either. You gotta attribute part of the success of Enterprise Andorians to the amount of time they got as characters and just how good Jeffrey coombs is too, I think.
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What a wonderful episode. Every moment was a treat. Honestly this is one of my all time favorite episode of Trek ever.
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Yeah, this is one for the books.
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Another banger goddamn. Absorb one of the lessers and let's get a proper 20+ season in there (which would likely significantly drop it's batting average but that's fine.)
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I shouldn't count the chickens before they come home to roost but in my view the spell of nu-trek has finally been broken
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DaveKap posted:Decent episode but I had a couple of problems. Firstly, the incredible closeness to "gently caress yeah science" or "I loving love science." Any time something resembles Discovery writing, I start to recoil like I smelled vomit. It felt to me like they were mocking the line there so I was fine with it. XboxPants posted:I was glad to see a little bit of wiggle in Hemmer's antennae, but I wish they were as expressive as they made them on Enterprise. They were always squirming all over the place in that show... animatronics? I'm glad to see Hemmer isn't just a curmudgeon but he has a fun side, too. Yeah they were remote controlled in Enterprise and showed emotion. I cannot express how mad I am that they got rid of that for the new makeup. Incomprehensible choice.
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I took Hemmer's lines about science as him playing along with the setting and the role he was assigned in a very begrudging, Hemmer-y way, especially since his two examples of "science" were "using a cutting torch" and "pressing a button on the tricorder"
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Anson Mount was having the most fun out of anyone this episode. His expressions were amazing and I love him.  Check out the Volume for next episode: 
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The_Doctor posted:Anson Mount was having the most fun out of anyone this episode. Disagree, I think Christina Chong edged him out there. Especially given how restrained she usually needs to play it. And the dog.
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The Chairman posted:I took Hemmer's lines about science as him playing along with the setting and the role he was assigned in a very begrudging, Hemmer-y way, especially since his two examples of "science" were "using a cutting torch" and "pressing a button on the tricorder" Yeah, this is the correct, non-brokebrained response, not that it was a secret Discovery slam
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The_Doctor posted:Anson Mount was having the most fun out of anyone this episode. His expressions were amazing and I love him. It must be so much nicer to do acting in front of those live screens instead of the blue/green screen void they have been using for the past 20ish years
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I was literally in tears. I'm so happy for that ending and also that proper Star Trek is back. I love SNW so much.
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Nitrousoxide posted:It must be so much nicer to do acting in front of those live screens instead of the blue/green screen void they have been using for the past 20ish years We've had almost 20 years of genre media production stills being huge swathes of green. It's so cool to see the fully actualized sets and the actors actually performing in them
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The_Doctor posted:Anson Mount was having the most fun out of anyone this episode. His expressions were amazing and I love him. Now I'm gonna be spending the whole week wondering how a starship manages to crash at that angle
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The Chairman posted:I took Hemmer's lines about science as him playing along with the setting and the role he was assigned in a very begrudging, Hemmer-y way, especially since his two examples of "science" were "using a cutting torch" and "pressing a button on the tricorder" I agree. This wasn't "THAT'S THE POWER OF MATH PEOPLE! THIS IS WHY WE SCIENCE!" It was Hemmer trying to play along in the story.
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There was one big glaring flaw in this episode: not enough Christina Chong singing.
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The_Doctor posted:Anson Mount was having the most fun out of anyone this episode. His expressions were amazing and I love him. I feel as though the Volume is most appropriate for Star Trek out of any show, because standing around in front of a painting next to some foam rocks is literally the TOS away team experience
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Butternubs posted:There was one big glaring flaw in this episode: not enough Christina Chong
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Butternubs posted:There was one big glaring flaw in this episode: not enough Christina Chong singing. Singing a song of mourningggggggggggg and applauding by holding the dog's paws and clapping them together. And wearing a very sparkly dress.
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G-III posted:I shouldn't count the chickens before they come home to roost but in my view the spell of nu-trek has finally been broken 3/5 new Star Trek shows are good. I’m happy with that. Discovery and Picard can go sit at the kid’s table.
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King: "You don't even know each other!" Z'ymira: "Not to contradict you, but we know each other quite, quite well." Adya: "Quite well." Rukiya being a little shipper!
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Phylodox posted:Disagree, I think Christina Chong edged him out there. Especially given how restrained she usually needs to play it. And the dog. Yeah, you can't really beat out the actor who got to just spend the whole shooting day with her dog.
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Next episode is the horror Gorn story on the spooky wrecked Constitution class ship and the finale is titled A Quality of Mercy…and M’Benga’s actor said in today’s Ready Room that we’d see his relationship with the Klingons. So I guess between that and the title we’re gonna get to see how SNW gets to interpret them.
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Phylodox posted:Disagree, I think Christina Chong edged him out there. Especially given how restrained she usually needs to play it. And the dog. That dress could not restrain her, that's for sure
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Episode was pretty boring. It wasn’t bad. It was just boring. I didn’t feel tired at all starting it, but fell asleep over and over at the 30 minute mark and had to kept rewinding. Could have used some better scene chewing and haminess. Ortegas had too many lines and they were all so… blandly delivered. Chapel and La’an felt more into it, but were barely used. I don’t know, premise good, story good, space cloud good, just needed something to be a good episode for me. As it is, just kind of bland despite the premise. killer crane posted:Jeffery Combs's head just does that. 
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Lol, just read a thing about how Melissa Navia (Ortegas) heard that she would be playing a knight sometime in the season and started sword training for it with the stunt team. She had no clue what the context was or even what the fight was going to be but by god she would be prepared for it.
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I want to group-hang with all of the Star Trek chief engineers, they're dope.
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MillennialVulcan posted:I want to group-hang with all of the Star Trek chief engineers, they're dope. Geordi would make it weird. Another coco-no-no?
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muscles like this! posted:Lol, just read a thing about how Melissa Navia (Ortegas) heard that she would be playing a knight sometime in the season and started sword training for it with the stunt team. She had no clue what the context was or even what the fight was going to be but by god she would be prepared for it. She's the best. A bit more backstory: https://www.cinemablend.com/intervi...like-to-do-next Melissa Navia posted:I know you guys won't see it but I’ll post pictures of [the costume]. Underneath, I have the coolest suspenders, and I have these leather pants. We’re telling each other, and I’m telling the writers, ‘We need to do like a Prohibition era-like thing. Maybe song and dance, mobsters.’ I just want to wear suspenders again, and a hat. I don't know how to make it work, but I need to see a Strange New Worlds visit to the Iotians of "A Piece of the Action."
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