Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3, Episode 8 – “4-And-A-Half Vulcans”Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 8 has an ideal callback to a Vulcan insult in direction of people in Star Trek: Enterprise. Directed by Jordan Canning and written by Dana Horgan and Henry Alonso Myers, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 8, “4-and-a-Half Vulcans,” is the collection’ third Vulcan farce in as many seasons.
When Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), and Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) are generically altered into Vulcans, they shortly discover that they cannot revert. Many of the newly pointy-eared Starfleet Officers return to obligation and their numerous relationships with people.
Vulcan Captain Pike makes good on a favor to his girlfriend, Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano), to arrange dinner for one more Vulcan, Vice Admiral Pasalk (Graeme Somerville). Batel must impress her former boss to present her again her job as an legal professional for Starfleet Judiciary division. Pike, nonetheless, finds fault with Marie’s humanity he by no means perceived earlier than he was Vulcan.
Unusual New Worlds Calls Again To Star Trek: Enterprise’s Vulcan Insult In the direction of People
Vulcan Captain Christopher Pike was displeased by Captain Marie Batel’s “human scent,” which is “very disagreeable to Vulcans.” Vulcan Chris determined to excessively “take away” the odor from his quarters aboard the Starship Enterprise as a substitute of asking Vice Admiral Pasalk to “tolerate” it.
Captain Pike’s disdain for human physique odor was an invention of Star Trek: Enterprise. Subcommander T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) was the primary to say to Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) how badly people scent to Vulcans in Enterprise season 1, and that some Vulcans resorted to utilizing a nasal numbing agent to tolerate people.
T’Pol herself ultimately obtained used to the scent of people aboard the NX-01 Enterprise. In the meantime, Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) additionally commented on human physique order in Star Trek: Enterprise, indicating that Denobulans and Vulcans each needed to be taught to endure the people’ scent.
People smelling badly to Vulcans was beforehand referenced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 5, “Charades.” After Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) briefly turned totally human, the mother and father of his then-fiance, T’Pring (Gia Sandhu), commented on human physique odor, implying blame on Spock’s mom, Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner).
Enterprise Is A Fixed Affect On Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds
Star Trek: Enterprise takes place a few hundred years earlier than Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds in Star Trek‘s Prime timeline. It is logical that Captain Archer’s pioneering voyages aboard the primary Starship Enterprise would function an inspiration for Captain Pike and his USS Enterprise crew.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds did not instantly handle Enterprise’s impression till season 2’s crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks. That is after we discovered Captain Pike was impressed by Captain Archer, Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) appears to be like as much as Ensign Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery), and Uhura hero worships Ensign Hoshi Sato (Linda Park).
Most amusingly, Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh “loves grapplers,” the gadgets utilized by the NX-01 Enterprise earlier than Starfleet perfected tractor beams. There may be additionally a picture of the NX-01 Enterprise seen by the doorway to Captain Pike’s prepared room, a reminder of the legacy of the Starship Enterprise.
When human physique odor stopped smelling badly to Vulcans is not clear, but it surely’s clearly nonetheless a problem in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. Curiously, Captain Pike was the one one of many Enterprise’s new Vulcans to complain, because the others did not elevate a stink with their respective love pursuits.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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- Launch Date
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Could 5, 2022
- Community
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
- Administrators
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
- Writers
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Onitra Johnson
