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 (First watched 2023-07-23) What a weird episode. It sometimes felt more like Lower Decks than Strange New Worlds, but all the characters were true to themselves, and the guest characters even worked well at poking further at many of the SNW character storylines: Spock/Chapel, Uhura feeling the newbie, Una feeling the outcast, La'an's troubling time travel experience, Pike and his... limited time remaining as a regular guy.
+I wonder how horonium became so rare, when apparently a century earlier Earth was so flush with it that they were shoving so much of it in every part of the NX class that even the little doohicky they found in engineering had enough to power two trips through time.
+I keep thinking about Boimler's interactions with Spock and Chapel. Of course the whole episode is a big time loop, but more specifically here could it be a predestination paradox that Boimler's revelation that Spock's period of emotionality is small enough to not even be remembered by history causes Christine to realize their relationship is doomed and so push her towards moving past it? Based on previous history we know sometime within the next two years she should be engaged to someone else.
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+(First watched 2023-07-27) This is... gray. Maybe the most DS9-ish episode since DS9? Seemed built very much like something about Kira and Cardassians would be, but here it's M'Benga and Chapel (mostly) and the Klingons. So much is gray it's hard for me to say I liked the episode, though. M'Benga ends up stabbing a damn dude to death, but we're left both unclear about how exactly the fight went down, and what exactly the Klingon general/ambassador's true motivations were.
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+(First watched 2023-08-04) Wow. The sci-fi reasoning for things turning into a musical was paper-thin, but how much do you need to have a good time? They really swung for it and for the most part it worked. Again, like with Those Old Scientists, a goofy episode idea still furthered the continuing stories of much of the crew. And holy shit, those Klingons.
+Chapel definitively ready to move on from Spock... man, that recontextualizes things. Not just a past relationship, but in TOS Spock can now be seen as the jilted ex who is especially unreceptive to her advances.
+And... Jim Kirk was back. No, they can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar. How much will they stretch this in future seasons?
+I was trying to place if the Klingon captain was a familiar actor, but I did not realize it was [[Bruce Horak]].
+The more I think about it, the more I feel like the Spock/Chapel relationship went really quick, though with only 10 episodes a year it could be stretched out over many months. After a ~year of seeming interested in him, they got together four episodes ago. Two episodes ago she was broken up about not seeming to have a lasting effect on Spock. Last episode she just wanted to be left alone. And in this one she sings a big number about basically how now that she's got a cool three-month job offer she's ready to drop him like a sack of potatoes.
+Coming back yet yet again to Spock/Chapel... whatever the problem was between them, it feels like she's using the internship as an excuse. Seems like every third person on the ship is in a long-distance relationship. The captain, for instance. Sam is married with kids! But a three-month internship would necessitate breaking it off with somebody? Of course, I'm speaking from a position of greater knowledge, where I know this internship leads to... her doing the same stuff on the Enterprise for another decade, just sometimes much more quietly.
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+Speaking of relationships that seem to have largely happened off-screen, Uhura and Hemmer. Back in season 1 we saw one episode where they worked together in a big way, but this is now the second episode this season where Uhura has referenced how close they got and what a huge impact he had on her.
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