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This week was interesting. I've had some criticisms of Paul Wesley not seeming anything like Shatner's Kirk. It's clear now that this is a deliberate performance choice because Wesley is very capable of playing Shatner's Kirk.
I thought the episode might have been a tad bit too meta. I do like the idea of a proto-holodeck, and I like that it gets indefinitely delayed. My only issue with that is that it took 100 years to solve for it? I figure that would be a fairly big priority, and I feel like Scotty could've solved it if he had enough time.
I haven't seen this week's episode yet, but there was a holodeck of sorts in TAS, so they're not really breaking anything by having one a few years earlier.
As for the swings in tone, TOS had them, too, just not as severe, but watch Balance of Terror (submarine war movie), The Trouble With Tribbles (comedy) and Spectre of the Gun (psychedelic western) and tell me what kind of show it is. I think of SNW as a reaction to DISCO, and maybe an overreaction. SNW was supposed to be episodic, rather then heavily serialized, bright and hopeful rather than dark and grim, and, most of all, fun. It doesn't lean into allegory as much as it probably should to really be a successor to TOS, but I'm happy with it.
I thought the episode might have been a tad bit too meta. I do like the idea of a proto-holodeck, and I like that it gets indefinitely delayed. My only issue with that is that it took 100 years to solve for it? I figure that would be a fairly big priority, and I feel like Scotty could've solved it if he had enough time.
Scotty did solve it, but Pike buried the solution in the file.
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