James is Sam Kirk’s brother, who was introduced in the episode “Where No Man has Gone Before”.
Deep cut. Love how they continue to flesh out these obscure characters from Trek canon!
We see lieutenant Mitchell in the captain’s chair, I believe for the first time.
Kind of hoping they promote Rong Fu to a regular simply so that she is no longer the only bridge crew person who isn't.
IKS par’Machstreet Boys
This is canon now.
Oh, c'mon, why do you have to do Frakes so dirty like that?
”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.
Okay, that part is true.
Edit also how could I forget what seems an inspiration of this episode MAS*H
Yes, definitely had a MASH vibe.
"We must personally attack Burrito Truck and his sanity." -The people behind SNW
I can only presume that you are currently doing "Those Old Scientists" but may die in the process.
Yep, they confirm it in Ready Room. Apparently Frakes' wife was dying from laughter watching the episode when that happened.
Still kind of hoping that one year they do a "Trials and Tribble-Ations" tribute episode where they go back to the Enterprise during TAS and splice in the LD guys in in the TAS style.
They could call it "Those Animated Scientists"
The content will be shopped around to other platforms. You can probably expect some of it to end up on freemium/advertisement-based streaming services. The rest will just go into the proverbial vault.
What's weird is that Paramount HAS perhaps the best Freemium service: Pluto TV. One has to wonder if perhaps that is where Prodigy will end up (it may seem strange for a company to totally remove it from one streaming platform and move it to another that they also own, but the legalities of streaming rights are WEIRD. For example, some of the Looney Tunes shorts were removed from Max but can still be found on other WB/Discovery platforms, like their YouTube channel and the Boomerang streaming service- ultimately it was just an accounting trick)
Thoughts as I watch the episode:
Previously on Star Trek: Una is an augment, and Starfleet greatly dislikes that.
Oh, Kid Una!
“How can he council me when he works for you?” Good point!
This was the ready room scene last week.
Illyrians hiding on a poisonous planet is a nice touch.
So, this is an allegory for Don't Ask-Don't Tell and similar anti-gay and discriminatory policies, isn't it? Hiding who she is, for example. Timely.
Damn, Batel's boss is an asshole.
Damn, that took awhile to get to credits.
Oh, more case law for Starfleet!
“I know you hate giving inspiring speeches.” Heh.
Ortegas imagining a Vulcan conversation is hilarious.
“I regret that you had to witness that outburst.”
Seriously, that outburst, it was so horrifying. Not sure if I can ever emotionally recover from it.
Oh, those dress unis! Look so much like the TOS ones while still being all modern.
Hahaha, she's using all the times they ignore the Prime Directive to show the hypocrisy of rules.
The stuff about her being tried for stuff her parents did calls to mind the stuff with the DREAM act.
Hang on, wouldn't the fact that La'an has Khan blood flowing through her veins kind of give a possible method of pointing out how much hypocrisy there is to the law?
“An affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan Musicals”
Good point about how family isn't destiny and also how the discriminated against can be led to self-loathing.
I just noticed that the mural/engraving behind witness stand seems to show a bunch of humans, tellarites, andorians, and so on... wonder if it's meant to show the founding of the Federation or great legal scholars of the Fed species.
Oh shit, she turned herself in.
“Starfleet is not a perfect organization, but it strives to be.” We all should try to live up to that.
My Badmiral Sense is tingling.
Ah, so an asylum loophole! Clever way of allowing her to stay in while still keeping the anti-genetics stuff still in place come Bashir and Dal's time.
Pike Hugs must be the best hugs.
Fun as always, although a bummer that Lemmy can't let you have the full post all in the top post.
Also, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught the reference Korby's specialty.
From what I understand based on what they said in BTS stuff, the fight was partly inspired by the fact that Babs Olusanmokun is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Why they had to have him be juiced-up fighting Klingons, I don't know. Lord knows he could have been fighting humans without steroids.
Observations and thoughts as I watched (initially posted at the other place):
We begin with "Twovix".
Holodeck waste material, AKA jizz, poop, and god knows what else.
Oh, hey, T'Lyn!
DAT VOYAGER THEME!
Oh, hey, the probe from the one with the whales!
Neelix cheese!
Shit did get freaky.
Oh shit, they're going to Tuvix Billups and T'ana!
"Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix."
MACROVIRUS.
The Pike Thing, of course.
"Back in the 70s"
"Captain, I caution against socializing with the organism."
So many VOY deep cuts.
"Holy shit. Janeway didn't mess around."
Macrovirus of Borg. And robotic warp salamander of Borg.
"Water, room temperature."
This is definitely T'Ana's side of T'Llups.
Oh god, they tuvixed the Matt the whale! Wait, what about Kimolu? Is he alright? Is he okay?
A Tuvixy meatball!
Heh, the real solution to the Tuvix conundrum was just to keep merging until it's a nonsentient blob of meat so there is no murder, so to speak.
Oh god I just realized that we're going to get so much Tuvixy fanart.
Bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles.
SHE GOT A PIP
Beckett Mariner receives the fate worse than death for her: promotion.
Nothing ever good happens "somewhere in Klingon space"
RIP Klingon lower-deckers.
And now, episode 2:
Heh, Romulan lower decks.
Goodbye, Romulan lower deckers!
Heh, those 80s workout stuff.
Oh, cool, Boimler still has his Tom Paris tplate!
Please tell me Denty has a Memory Alpha page.
The Nacelle is right there!
Non-botanicals
I have just met Moopsy but I would die for it.
Oddly enough, this is the SECOND time this year that a Jack Quaid character looked at a VERY bright light. Shoutout to my boy Richard Feynman, the one man crazy enough to watch a nuclear test without goggles.
Okay, I would no longer die for the moopsy.
Tucker Tubes! Good old Trip got stuff named for him!
The Ad Astra Per Aspera poster!
I do feel like Starfleet would have better soundproofing, but then again this is the Cerritos.
RIP corn guy.
LIVIK!
Aww, D'Vana Tendi giving orders.
Teeth as bread crumbs.
Heh, the humans really are the worst.
Hah, he could have just used the viewports.
Overall, I think I liked this second episode more, even though I loved the VOY fan service.