Starting a new thread for the new season. Earlier mentions / footage of season three are at the end of the season two thread.
New teaser:
Article about the new teaser:
I’ve been giddily awaiting this new season!
Tripler
Been sitting on Season 2’s cliffhanger for far too long.
I appreciate you starting a new thread for a new season, hopefully it can become standard practice here.
Here’s hoping we get another all-singing, all-dancing episode but this time set in the Mirror Universe.
Looking forward to it.
When we get a date, I’ll update the title.
Was that Patton Oswalt playing a Romulan?
Nope. Patton Oswalt playing a Vulcan.
Carrying what appears to be roses
I liked this better than the first teaser that implied that Vulcans are logical because of genetics which is 100% not the case and undercuts every Vulcan character to date.
This is (probably) not an episode from the new season.
And it’s back! I liked lighter episode 2 more than serious episode 1. And we get a SDMB-adjacent reference to North American cereal farming!
What a wonderful surprise to have John de Lancie return.
Rhys Darby is really channeling Trelane, the Squire of Gothos, even in dress.
Love the Twilight Zone reference, especially as so beloved here on the SDMB.
OK, so he was playing Trelane, weird. But we finally have canonical confirmation that Trelane is a Q.
Not just a Q, but the Q’s son.
There’s a wonderful book all about this.
Retcon headache, though.
When we see Trelane “later” (38 years ago), his daddy was voiced by Bart La Rue.
Unless we’re going to get a remastered remaster to change that to John DeLancie’s voice?
It was a fun episode but there is no way it fits continuity. Even going back to when Peter David wrote (a really good) book about it. Trelane used technology to aid his powers. The Q have said they couldn’t reproduce until they did so in Voyager (although the Voyager stuff was after the book was published). Really all Trelane had in common with Q were vast powers and being a pain in the ass and there are plenty of alien races in Star Trek that fit that criteria.
And that doesn’t even cover why Spock et al. would have no memory of dealing with him here when they meet him “again” in the Squire of Gothos.
Except for the fact that he looked like an Andorian to them the entire time.
Spock learned his power set. Would it not jog his memory?
These reality shifting shenanigans probably get mentally filed away as mere dreams after a few hours before anybody has a chance to write them down.