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smallblueandloud · 1 year

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i mean also. okay. this episode was extremely sweet. i love me a good time travel episode, i really loved the pelia moments, i like that they're paralleling city on the edge of forever, and i especially loved the little moment with the kid at the end.

but godDAMN these people are terrible at recreating kirk's voice. i know that the tone of SNW is extremely different from the tone of TOS, and also that kirk is the #1 sufferer of Mischaracterized By Pop Culture that star trek HAS.

but genuinely, still, there was nothing in that episode that made me think "damn, oh my god, that's jim!" he didn't talk like kirk, he didn't snark the way that kirk does, and he didn't even do the shoulder-grab that shatner does every time he kisses someone. i know that he's from an alternate timeline, that he's younger, that TOS had straight-up awkward dialogue and this show has better writers. but like. he doesn't feel like kirk and it made it very hard for this episode to land

#sb and l rambles #sb and l watches st #star trek #snw #st critical #i guess? idk guys #i love them. i think they are doing many wonderful things. but i think this could've used a lot more attention?#i feel like they're trying to do a similar thing with chapel and uhura -- modernizing them while also keeping them recognizable #they're doing a phenomenal job with uhura (i am also extremely biased. in fairness)#and chapel is... the way that they write her has its misses. but for the most part i think they've managed to capture the--#--wry humor and stubbornness that has always characterized christine chapel

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