#StarTrekSNW

Re-watching this episode, which I mostly enjoy. But boy, Chapel is a jerk to Spock! It also really bugs me that whatever organization oversees the "fellowship" program she goes on, they apparently have no HR policies about being in a relationship with your supervisor whatsoever. Or the two of them just ignore those policies. What Korby describes, the romance plus Chapel rapidly becoming an equal in their workplace, presumably bossing around others when she's the newly arrived intern and the boss's girlfriend, seems really unethical. However, I love Spock's line to Korby: "Dr., if one of our intellects could bestow immunity, I am confident it would not be yours." What a good insult! #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW

I'm re-watching Those Old Scientists. Erica mentions having been on "Starbase Earhart"--I totally missed that when I watched this before! What a great reference thrown in! Even though it's before they found out what actually happened to her. #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW

Pelia calls Spock "Spock-O" in #StarTrekSNW's "New Life and New Civilizations"⬆️, similar to when Kirk called Spock "Spocko" in #StarTrekTOS' "A Piece of the Action"⬇️. :-)

Listen, I do know that there is no up and down in space. Nonetheless, I found the unusual, long shots of the Enterprise in #StarTrekSNW's "New Life and New Civilizations" soaring through space with it's nacelles below the engineering section at the same time fascinating and unnerving. 😅

Here's a comparison of Scotty in his dress uniform in #StarTrekTOS' "The Savage Curtain"⬆️ and in #StarTrekSNW's "New Worlds and New Civilizations"⬅️➡️. I like how faithfully this was recreated!

I used Google Translate to translate the left Swaheli text seen on the entryway on the floating Cali-Katchna temple in #StarTrekSNW's "New Worlds and New Civilizations". Very ominous indeed!

I'm re-watching Charades (s2e5). Overall, I like the episode. But boy, it's hard to watch how much Amanda gave up and put up with in order to be with Sarek. It really leaves me wondering why he was worth putting up with that much racism and even physical pain for. Saying she's in love with him doesn't seem like a sufficient explanation, especially given how little he seems to give back in the relationship. I sort of wish Amanda had persuaded him to live someplace other than Vulcan for their life together. This episode is supposed to be funny, and I guess it is, but the non-funny parts are what I notice. Also, many Vulcans are so hypocritical. They just claim that whatever it is they want is what's logical. T'pring's mother is not in any way logical. There are certainly things we can learn as humans from this about how people justify their behavior, like people who claim that whatever they want is what the Bible says, or whatever they want is what's better for the environment, or whatever the particular individual's motivation is. #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW

I had forgotten that we had seen galaxy/star eyes before #StarTrekSNW's "New Life and New Civilizations"⬆️ namely in #StarTrekTOS' "Where No Man Has Gone Before"⬇️. My friends don't know it yet but I really want to rewatch that episode on #StarTrekNight tonight! :-)

I just loved this episode. I do not get what various people online are complaining about, and I really don't want to get what they're complaining about. I loved the various nicknames Spock collected (Spocko, Uncle Sock). I loved the whole alternate future happy life interlude, and that we really didn't know what was going on while it was happening (real possible future? Nexus illusion? hallucination?). I do hope Pike gets to keep those memories. I loved all the interactions between Spock and Kirk, leading into their later friendship, and all Kirk's facial expressions. I thought Kirk's explanation of how little he likes Vulcan mind melds was a nice joke in terms of foreshadowing--how many times in TOS must he have experienced them? (I don't remember, I'm guessing.) I'm glad they kind of wrapped things up with Batel in a way that was plausible. After all that Gorn stuff, it seems reasonable that she couldn't emotionally just go back to being a lawyer, no matter how big the promotion. And now we know why he'll be able to go live his life out with Veena eventually. But instead of Pike just losing Batel, they got that whole extended future memory thing first. I loved during that sequence when he unexpectedly came back healthy when he was expecting to meet his fate--both their discussions about whether there is fate, and how badly shaken he was by not having this awful thing happen that he's been counting down toward for 9 years. I liked their repeated references after that to being on borrowed time they didn't expect to have. Overall, I thought it was an excellent episode. #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW