I always laugh when you point out inconsistencies with your direct writing style.

Whenever Culber is on screen I turn to my partner and say he’s died. More often than not it comes up.

You honestly just know when it’s a Frakes directed episode. Things just feel quality.

Is this to give context on all the things in the episode? My girlfriend would love it if I could talk about all that random stuff here instead of pausing the episode to tell her. Please save my relationship haha.

Sweet thanks for clearing that up. I really need to rewatch all of the movies again. I really appreciate that the writers of SNW seem to be trekkie enough to catch these things.

Fantastic episode! Loved it from cover to cover. I like how we have Spock reverting back to being classic Spock in a musical episode. Arguably it makes this episode one of the most important episodes to canon. Also did Kirk know about Marcus beforehand? I swear he learned about him in Wrath of Kahn but I haven’t seen that film in forever.

I’m excited because I think it will be cringe!

While I do agree that TOS looked dated even when I was a kid I don’t know if we should redo TOS just for updating it’s sake. I don’t remember how far into the 5 year mission TOS starts but I would be happy to get episodes before or after it. My main point is that I think society is at a different place and our science fiction should represent that. I think some of the great TOS episodes hit so hard because we understand our society having that problem and it gives us solutions to our own struggles. While many of the social issues of the late 60’s are still prevalent and it seems like American (I’m not American) is backsliding on a lot of things such as Women’s Rights I would still like these issues looked at from where we are today and not where we were in the 60’s.

TL:DR Science fiction is an abstraction of our society and I want our Sci-fi to abstract 20XX and not 1960’s.

Does anyone know if these are new Hemmer shots and if the Hemmet actor was also the zombie?

Hahaha actually very close.

I haven’t watched this week’s episode yet. I was watching last week and something just always gives me a slight off feeling about SNW’s Kirk. I think the actor is doing an amazing job and everything but I couldn’t put my finger on it until I realized he’s 2023 attractive. Shatner had the big barrel chest, and the sort of swagger that’s of the era. The new actor fights in with our modern time period in a way Shatner never could and I think that’s why I find it off.