I want to see Dr. Boyce, Gary Mitchell, Finnegan, Matt Decker and Garth of Izar make appearances. Also: Dr. Daystrom could try out the M-1 through M-4 computers.
It appears that hijinks are the logical course of action.
I did not see a Freaky Friday episode coming.
I could do with Lt. (or cadet) Riley treating us to a little, “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen.”
Fun episode.
Was that the actress who plays Uhura singing the song at the end?
I’ve only seen clips of the show. There sure seems to be a lot of ‘talking back’ and editorializing from the crew rather then a professional ‘aye aye sir’.
Which is fine actually cause what I’ve seen, Pike fosters that kind of socializing/ atmosphere.
But I want to see Kirk come along and (WITHOUT making him seem like an asshole) create the atmosphere we see in TOS.
I also want to see how they manage to do the adventures of Pike right up to Spock leaving him on The Menagerie planet without breaking canon. Remember, Kirk was in charge with Spock for probably a year before Pike had his accident. Also, so we don’t get Mount just stuck in a chair with nothing to do, I assume we’ll get mind-melds from Spock enabling us to see scenes of them together. I also assume they will ditch the whole ‘BEEEEEEP’ thing.*
*Or maybe the last shot will just be Kirk saying “Mr. Mitchell, set course for the edge of the galaxy.”
In Discovery it was annoying, “wink-wink, nudge-nudge” stuff.
But with Strange New Worlds, I see it as foreshadowing. The ship and crew of the Enterprise in the original series didn’t come out of a vacuum. (Well, the vacuum of space, but you know what I mean.) I don’t see these as coincidences so much as exploring how what we’ve seen came to be.
To put it another way, if a young Bruce Wayne runs into a young Lois Lane in a Batman prequel series, that’s fanservice. If a young Clark Kent runs into a young Lois Lane in a Superman prequel series, well that’s just how they met. We already knew it happened, we’re just now being shown how it happened.
Nitpick…in the Gorn episode (And this is a serious nitpick) am i to understand the Gorn sacrificed some of their crew to draw out the Enterprise? Nahhhhh…while the ep draws from Arena in showing how damn clever the Gorn are (I call them PvP as opposed to the normal PvE opponents Trek runs into) In my head canon the Gorn care about their crew very much. In Arena they immediatly beam up when that photon grenade is used, and it enhances the ep, if i believe that the Gorn captain very much cares that he is fighting for his crew.
Told you it was a nitpick…
But i liked what I saw…other then too much dramatic pausing and damnit, I like Pike but I miss Kirk sniping at his crew.
From the Gorn’s POV, I don’t think they were necessarily sacrificing one ship – they were just risking one ship to draw out Enterprise. They might have thought the ship would be able to dodge or resist any incoming fire; but the act of firing would reveal the Enterprise. And it did, though the Gorn ship was lost. A reasonable calculated risk, IMO.
Thats a good point!
I’m not sure but I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that “Even God couldn’t tell one Carbon atom from another”.
At first I was really not delighted with the “Spock is engaged” thing, but this episode used the character to very amusing effect.
Yes, it was good to see T’Pring intimately involved in an episode. Pun intended.
Did anyone else notice during Spock’s Pon Farr dream that the incidental music used during the fight was the same melody used during the Amok Time episode in TOS (and many other fight scenes in other episodes)?
I was just saying “this scene NEEDS the star trek fight music” and then it started 
Well yeah. But I said “they BETTER play the fight music” and then it started.
Great minds think alike!
But he was engaged in TOS also, this episode was a callback to the TOS episode Amok Time, when Spock returned to Vulcan to mate with T’Pring (his “betrothed”) due to pon farr. Even the episode title Spock Amok alluded to it. So they’re just being consistent.
I mean, I guess they could have figured that Spock wasn’t engaged yet at this point, so that they could later show the marriage proposal on screen during this series because I don’t think they had previously established when they’d been engaged, but they didn’t go that route.
T’Pring asked Spock to marry her in the opening of Episode 1… He had been waiting all thru dinner for the query - he was practically giddy.
I forgot that. 