Christina Chong 
INTERVIEW: ACTRESS CHRISTINA CHONG ON HER DEBUT SINGLE AND UPCOMING EP “TWIN FLAMES” | THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE (untitled-magazine.com)
There’s no way that Babs (M’Benga) did his own signing, at least not in that very deep voice we heard.
Is M’Benga the only doctor onboard the Enterprise? If so it makes sense that Chapel would essentially be a nurse practitioner. Her having more autonomy under M’Benga than under McCoy is one factor that would push her to go to medical school.
When they said the cause of the singing was an “improbability field” I was kind of hoping the photon torpedoes would turn into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias.
I don’t think so, I swear I’ve seen more blue-shirted folks in sickbay helping out.
Yup, here is a screenshot:
Note that you also see another nurse in the background on the left, and I assume that’s another doctor on the right.
One thing I noticed is that on SNW, the medical officers and science officers wear different shades of blue. It’s obvious in any scene where Spock and M’Benga are standing next to each other.
Here is a picture, funny that it took a lot of digging to find a clear screenshot with both of them in it.
In TOS, M’Benga wore the same uniform as Spock (except with short sleeves), just as McCoy did. Chapel just had a dress version of it.
Episode 10:
Monty’s got a really strong accent. Chrissy’s got really strong plot armor. Is Captain Girlfriend getting fridged? Woah, major cliffhanger, like something out of TNG.
Chekhov’s nitrogen grenade?
The horse is well out of the barn at this point but I’m really not a fan of SNW making the Gorn into Trek Xenomorphs. It would have been enough for them to be a culture of violent carnivores that see no problem with snacking on other sapient species. They could even keep the parts where people are kidnapped and dumped on breeding planets for their young, or unsuspecting colony worlds turned into breeding planets by the Gorn. But having Gorn lay eggs in people, and have that egg-laying mechanic be exactly like a zombie infection, is just silly.
Agreed. Its lazy and unimaginative.
The move and act too much like insects. Too alien to be anything other then ‘evillllllll’. Whereas in TOS the were highly innovative and seemed to care for each other greatly. That was the POINT. To be able to feel empathy for them.
Not happy with the general goofiness of Scotty. Can we get a serious character without ‘being a hardass’? Also he looks too much like Adam Scott. Just get Adam Scott.
But fine fine…I prefer the final frontier/ militariness of early TOS. But its a different show, the USS Wink-nod we’re explorers not soldiers is fine. I just don’t want to see Pike become hard to segue more tidily into TOS.
Honestly I thought the Gorn in TOS were goofy and boring. “This is an alien that looks like a lizard, the galaxy sure is weird.” SNW makes them into better antagonists to me. But YMMV of course.
Overall I liked this episode. Drama without being too dark. I like how they mix different genres in, with this one going back to the horror well. The only thing that was annoying was that certain characters have plot armor, so some of the drama isn’t genuine. That’s always going to be a risk in any kind of prequel show or film, of course.
I LIKED how slow the Gorn was. If other animals are fast to us, why wouldn’t there be creatures we are fast to?
The concept is fine, I just didn’t like the execution.
It would have been good if they made the Gorn into a saurian species that acts as a slow, implacable juggernaut. But I still like what SNW did with them. They’re also not far off from the Gorn we see in one episode of Enterprise.
He seemed more like Pegg Scotty than Doohan Scotty. And he’s too young. According to Memory Alpha he’s 11 years older than Kirk.
Thank God the musical episode is behind us. I don’t think I could handle Pike’s rendition of “Girlfriend in a Coma”.
The entire point of the Episode Arena was that the Gorn weren’t needlessly violent. They thought the Federation was encroaching on their territory. SNWs kind of spits in the face of that which bugs me a little. I wish they used a new race or used one that had been mentioned but never seen like the Tzenkethi. I was hoping this would turn out that the Gorn were actually scared of the true threat and in the end the Enterprise would have to work with them against something else but what can you do? They may still surprise us next season.
There are hints made. The observations that they are behaving differently, cooperating instead of fight for dominance. The bit about how the solar flares may have triggered a response. Archer going from sometimes a monster is just a monster to wondering about finding some common ground.
FWIW I like this version of Scotty.
I loved Scotty. This is young, relatively inexperienced Scotty, who hasn’t yet learned to exaggerate repair estimates and such. I look forward to seeing his development.
Did they? I seem to recall the Gorn sent a map “this far and no furher” and then went to ‘thier planet’ , they did not attack the enterprise so long as they stayed on the other side of the line (within eyesight!) - now, the Gorn could have given the federation time to pull the colony - but that planet was outside of the federation lines (even before the gorn sent the map).
So - I don’t think SNW ‘spit in the face’ of Arena - but added to it.
To clarify I was talking about the TOS episode that introduced the Gorn. In that episode the Gorn said they were defending themselves from perceived invaders.
RIght - I think the difference here is that in SNW - we ‘know’ the line where in Arena it seems we didn’t.
Who else was hoping to see one of the little Gorn demodogs bite off Scotty’s finger?