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lightofdayeSo now I'm caught up I'm trying to stay on top of SNW. Spoilers under the cut.
Okay, so this was the designated vulcan-farce comedy episode of the season. I think the Trelane episode was that for this year but apparently not. Four crew members get transformed by technobabble into Vulcan because Contrived Hand Wave.
Even weirder, this also gives them the control, logic skills and attitudes of grown vulcans, despite them not being genetic but learned. Or possibly they become what Spock things adult Vulcans are like, it's really not clear. Though silver lining, they do acknowledge vulcans have strong powerful emotions that they are always controlling, and they kinda say this is why Vulcans are jerks?
Anyway, they initially think it's unethical to force them to transform back despite the fact that their personalities are radically altered and compromised. Pike puts the ship on an insanely convoluted schedule and argues against Batel returning to work. Chapel breaks up all her relationships to focus solely on work. Uhura alters Beto personality via mind meld, and La'an because of her augment dna is more of a proto-romulan tries to take over the ship only to be stopped by scotty (and *sigh* James Kirk)
They contact a katra expert that is an ex-flame of Number One she's gaga about to revert them. La'an takes a little more convincing. The end.
Lots of this stuff happens off-screen, including the mind meld, and Pike, Chapel and Uhura being return to normal which gives the episode a very disjointed feeling.
Basically it depends whether you find people acting like bad imitation Vulcans funny or not and I just didn't.
I don't like banging the 'this isn't star trek' drum but it's a consistent problem that it's supposed to be about exploration, the understanding of other cultures and acceptance but they constantly turn one of their most famous species and their attitudes into a punchline.
I think it was Star trek reviewer SFDebris who said you don't get how hard it is do a good Vulcan until you see it done badly. (and I think Wil Wheaton has said the same about androids like Data) And yeah, Mount was not doing a good job, but maybe that's what's the script was going for? Ugh. I don't know.
I feel like when you've had to knock her out for Mutiny, they'd be fully justified in treating La'an without her consent.
I'm strongly reminded how much I like Ma'jel in Season 2 prodigy, who is a Vulcan who neither an asshole or a cultural rebel like T'Lyn.
Okay, so this was the designated vulcan-farce comedy episode of the season. I think the Trelane episode was that for this year but apparently not. Four crew members get transformed by technobabble into Vulcan because Contrived Hand Wave.
Even weirder, this also gives them the control, logic skills and attitudes of grown vulcans, despite them not being genetic but learned. Or possibly they become what Spock things adult Vulcans are like, it's really not clear. Though silver lining, they do acknowledge vulcans have strong powerful emotions that they are always controlling, and they kinda say this is why Vulcans are jerks?
Anyway, they initially think it's unethical to force them to transform back despite the fact that their personalities are radically altered and compromised. Pike puts the ship on an insanely convoluted schedule and argues against Batel returning to work. Chapel breaks up all her relationships to focus solely on work. Uhura alters Beto personality via mind meld, and La'an because of her augment dna is more of a proto-romulan tries to take over the ship only to be stopped by scotty (and *sigh* James Kirk)
They contact a katra expert that is an ex-flame of Number One she's gaga about to revert them. La'an takes a little more convincing. The end.
Lots of this stuff happens off-screen, including the mind meld, and Pike, Chapel and Uhura being return to normal which gives the episode a very disjointed feeling.
Basically it depends whether you find people acting like bad imitation Vulcans funny or not and I just didn't.
I don't like banging the 'this isn't star trek' drum but it's a consistent problem that it's supposed to be about exploration, the understanding of other cultures and acceptance but they constantly turn one of their most famous species and their attitudes into a punchline.
I think it was Star trek reviewer SFDebris who said you don't get how hard it is do a good Vulcan until you see it done badly. (and I think Wil Wheaton has said the same about androids like Data) And yeah, Mount was not doing a good job, but maybe that's what's the script was going for? Ugh. I don't know.
I feel like when you've had to knock her out for Mutiny, they'd be fully justified in treating La'an without her consent.
I'm strongly reminded how much I like Ma'jel in Season 2 prodigy, who is a Vulcan who neither an asshole or a cultural rebel like T'Lyn.
