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Only M'Benga does that!

Beam her onto a shuttle and tow said shuttle. Would amputating her arm help? Or is it too late for that? I'm assuming they can regrow limbs and/or have excellent prosthetic limbs.

Was Boyce in Where No Man Has Gone Before? The SNW showrunners seem to have forgotten about the second TOS Pilot. The uniforms have already changed over to the TOS era.

They also have very cool spacesuits.

Scotty! I've struggled to accept the SNW Chapel, Spock and Uhura not because the actors playing them aren't engaging and likeable, but because they simply aren't the same people. Yet this Scotty I can accept right off the bat, he is exactly the smart, resourceful Scotty we all know and love. Oh those poor colony planets just trying to be the US Midwest or Scotland. I did like the classic Mainstreet with the little car-things going back and forth. That was tense and good, but it could be literally YEARS until we see what happens thanks to the Writer's and Actor's Strike! It was only three months between Best of Both worlds Parts One and Two. As for bringing back more TOS Characters, if M'Benga ever leaves (Maybe his past catches up to him) I almost hope we get Boyce rather than McCoy, as Boyce is just an older white guy we don't know much about, a blank slate for the actor hired to play him.

Yes. I lose interest when everybody is a super-genius. I'm more likely to engage with characters who are smart and competent but a still imperfect and struggling. Betas rather than Alphas.

It occurs to me that La'an shares a lot of Character DNA with Tasha Yar, in that she was the Security Chief with a traumatic past. In season 1 of SNW we also had a blind engineer. As for the "Wokeness" of various Treks, I think that one thing that annoys us about Discovery is how seemingly self-congratulatory it is about its' own wokeness.

TOS had a Japanese Helmsman twenty years after the end of WWII. We also saw a black scientist (Daystrom) and a Commodore (Stone). And a Russian Navigator during the cold war/space race. We all know the mark Uhura left on our popular culture. So yes, quite daring and "woke" for its' time.

I stand corrected @Chicago Redshirt. Whatever the case, I have always found the TOS fight scenes wonderful. I do wonder if we will see how SNW Paul Wesley’s Kirk handles himself in a fight.

I almost forgot about that one!

Has Kirk EVER lost a fight? He even took down his would-be assassin after being stabbed in the lung Journey to Babel. Everybody use their Data Plan and not the Wi-Fi.

Yes. Manually forwarding emails isn't even a thing now.

I'm still not clear on why Uhura had to manually forward everybody's emails. In TOS (and in other shows) Uhura was always sending messages via subspace. Did that ability not exist before this episode? They must have worked out the whole Breaking into Song thing.

Rewatching. “I need to say this before it comes out in the form of a 17th Century Sea Shanty” 😂

That's a great description of Kirk. He even showed compassion to Janice Lester after she stole his body. I now think Shatner's hamminess was a feature rather than a bug, although it sometimes did make it hard to take Kirk seriously, particularly when compared to Patrick Stewart/Picard's gravitas. I'm starting to appreciate Paul Wesley's take that Kirk is supremely confident yet thoughtful and serious. As for Kirk's endless space babes, his two greatest loves were the Enterprise herself and Spock. YMMV.

Awhile ago I listened to a podcast with the LD show runner, who emphasized that his goal is to have fun *with* the rest of Trek, not make fun *of* it. YMMV

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember M'Benga singing.

Sareth wanted to know why the assassination attempt failed. Not sure if she was behind it or why.

King-Pop is a thing now ! Wish we got more than thirty seconds.

Won’t Day have Poly and Contance imprisoned and/ or killed as soon as they land on Trantor? Perhaps turning them into martyrs is part of Seldon’s plan. I continue to be impressed of how contemptuous this show is towards religion. Hologram Seldom turns himself into a god out of shear strategy. “I see you now are in a religious phase and worship me. That’s adorable.” Chekov’s Wine seems significant. Among other things, the Vault is a replicator.

So Uhura did the same job for most of her career and is still venerated. I kind of like that.

I may be alone here, but I am starting to LOVE this show. It has that slightly heightened, stagey dialogue . The art direction is more than a little similar to Star Wars, but I still enjoy it. The Informant's house hidden in the hills reminded me of my visit to Cappadocia in Turkey. Sareth being behind Day's assassination attempt (?) was not something I expected. As I said on the Silo forum. Apple isn't afraid to burn huge piles of money for shows almost no one watches.

Although this episode was a head -scratcher for me, I agree that the Klingons were the best part. K-Pop=Klingon pop! The dancing while swingling the Bat'leths was perfection. It was great because we were expecting opera. Klingons are allowed to have more than one musical genre, just like us.

More singing Klingons please. A lot more.

I did like Uhura's song.