Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you're curious about a nerd's views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I've watched some Star Trek before but not all of it!
Season 2 is literally coming out still AS I AM WRITING THIS. SO BIG SPOILERS, OKAY? SPOILERS TIME. I know literally nothing about it, except that it's after season 1, which is the best season of Star Trek ever, in the best Star Trek show, ever. HIT IT!
The Broken Circle - SNW
9/10
Our episode starts directly after season 2! Pike is going to some Super Lawyer 3 days away to get her to defend Una. Spock has been put in control of the Enterprise, and he is NOT happy. He is suffering from what, "you humans call stress".
M'Benga suggests he pick up music which is rad. His heart rate goes down. And then he sees Nurse Chapel, and it goes RIGHT back up.
Ooh Uhura is... GRUMPY. She finally has a place she belongs and anyone who DARES THREATEN IT WILL BE SHOT I mean, yelled at. "We're in SPACE DOCK, who would be sending you a message here?" Oh. It's La'an! She's coming back sooner than I expected, but Admirals be Admiralin' (take a drink), and the Enterprise is refused to leave. Well, there's really only one thing we can do in a situation like this. It's time to steal the God Damn Enterprise.
Oh hey, Mitchell is in on the meetings now! Maybe she'll be A Character! Mitchell was in like, all of the episodes, at the weapons systems. She's our Chekov. But she barely did anything other than say Weapons Systems Things. Maybe now they'll let her be a character, which could be neat!
SHE IMMEDIATELY DOES THINGS, OH MY GOD. To get everyone off the ship, she causes a fucking coolant leak. It does not work, because now we have this lady.
She teaches a class on coolant leaks basically, and IMMEDIATELY goes "oh yeah no you're faking this, this isn't real. And the ONLY reason you'd have to do that would be to steal the Enterprise. SOUNDS SICK, I WANT FUCKING IN"
Holy shit she is INSANE, I LOVE HER!
Her accent is fucking WEIRD, it's like no accent that's ever existed, and it's really hammy. She's hammy herself, and basically skulks around the god damn ship, demanding she be made the new Engineer for this mission. She's like a god damn Witch. She's a fucking baba yaga cackling and skulking around,
"Everyone in the captain's seat has their thing. Hit it. Engage. Y'know, their thing. What's your's, Spock?"
"I would like the ship to go, now."
This is the best Star Trek show ever made.
KLINGONS! KLINGONS THAT LOOK LIKE KLINGONS! Klingons doing DRINKING GAMES! :D La'an is doing drinking games with Klingons, and drinking them UNDER THE TABLE! So, La'an, what is SO serious you'd demand the Enteprise for? What's so serious it could destroy the Federation like you said? "Capitalists who run this mining planet is trying to restart the war, because peace is bad for business". Ah.
When did Star Trek get so woke???
The girl from the Gorn episode's parents are here, and hurt! M'Benga and Chapel are here to help, and HOLY SHIT, HER PARENTS ARE A LESBIAN COUPLE?? YOU CAN'T MAKE ME SAY STAR TREK IS TOO WOKE TWICE IN THREE MINUTES?!
La'an is doing Shady Dealings, and she beats back all the Klingons with some great bluffing. "Are you sure you have no Klingon in you?" says the illegal dealer she's dealing with.
I half expected him to go "Do you WANT to?" It was implied, at least.
Chapel and M'Benga are kidnapped, because the Gang Lords need them to do medicine. M'Benga is suffering from PTSD over the Klingon war, which is an interesting place to take his character. I was worried that they wouldn't know what to do with him after cleaning up his plot threads so well in season 1. M'Benga is a sweet old chill guy. He's caring, but hard when he needs to be. You could do VERY bad turning him into sad war criminal with PTSD. Neli said maybe they'll do a Priest From Firefly thing with him, which I could see being good. Let's see how they do it.
Oh, Nurse Chapel and Doctor M'Benga just took stimpacks and are literally punching out every Klingon.
And then we watch M'Benga torture a Klingon. Hmmm. There's actually a LOT of violence here. Chapel KNOCKS OUT KLINGONS WITH A STEEL PIPE. What the fuck is this. Streets of Rage?! The fight scene is actually pretty nice, and it IS nice to see Chapel holding her own. But it's literally her VS like 4 Klingons alone, jesus. She's all bloodied. Badass.
Ah. This is what their plan is. They have a False Flag operation going on. They have a fake Enterprise ship, and they're going to use it to attack Klingons and restart a war. Spock orders to follow, but NOT fire, because M'Benga and (more importantly) Chapel are on board.
Spock fires. Just as M'Benga and Chapel take their only way out. They have no suits, and the ship is about to explode so uhhhh, let's just fly out of the god damn ship WITH NO SUITS. Spock is VERY... unlogical, as he screams, giving her CPR to bring her back. Hmm what's going on there.
Q'PLA! EVERYTHING IS GOOD! MAY YOUR BLOOD BURN!
Turns out the Chief Engineer is a "Lanthanite". An alien species that hid among humans and is nearly immortal. Ooh, fun. Apparently there's a very important reason she stole the Enterprise with them.
She was bored as fuck. Yeah, me too.
The Admirals are like "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU STEAL THE ENTERPRISE. DO IT AGAIN AND YOU'RE FIRED"
I can't see that happening ever again, that'd be silly. Menagerie, what's that? Anyways, they let him off cause oops there might be a Gorn War.
This episode was good. The pacing felt maybe a little off, and rushed. They had to do a lot here to set things back up, with La'an joining back in, setting up future plot threads, getting Spock and M'Benga's new plots rolling.
Ad Astra per Aspera - SNW
10/10
slams hands on desk COURT EPISODE! COURT EPISODE! COURT EPISODE!
This episode starts with a scene from Una's childhood where her family REFUSED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL because it might ruin her life. Especially considering racial prejudice against her people. WOW! GOOD THING THIS IS FICTION!
....The heavy hitting doesn't stop there. Una's defense lawyer is like "Hey we should take the plea deal" Her opponent in the court case is "You should listen to him." and Una is like "Uh of course you'd say that, you hired him???"
Meanwhile, Pike is on an Illyrian planet to find a defense lawyer. An Illyrian lawyer who's been suing the Federations for years over their draconian race laws. The air here is poisonous to anyone but Illyrians. And Pike is literally willing to let his oxygen run out to blackmail them into letting him see her. Pike, being Pike, eventually wins her over.
This defense lawyer is NOT happy. She HATES Una. Una basically hid and pretended not to be an Illyrian so that she could run away to Starfleet and live a better life. She's PISSED, because some Illyrians can't hide, or don't want to. They shouldn't HAVE to. So she's taking this case so no one will have to again.
So yes you see this episode is going MASSIVELY hard. And it doesn't stop there. "WHAT IF THE LAW IS WRONG?" Yeah, what if, Pike? Gosh that'd be weird. WHEN DID STAR TREK GET SO WOKE?
Captain Batel has been trying to get Una to sign a plea deal. Batel is Pike's girlfriend, or uh, partner? I dunno. She knows it's wrong but she also thinks it's her job to uphold the law, even if it's wrong, and do everything she can to amend it so that people are hurt the LEAST. Hmm. Anyways Una rejects her plea deal, and Pike chooses Una, so Batel is pissed. The new demands are that she go to jail for 20 years. The "normal" number for this kind of charge is 2 years. It's personal now. She is actually trying to fight back against unfair bullshit, so they're going to make her suffer. How dare they. Anyways NO ONE is happy with Una. Not her defense lawyer, or her opposition. Pike still likes her though!
La'an is back, and she's here to help! She brings up a court case which proves if evidence is gotten illegally, it can't be used. Hmm. That might be important.
"You can't go up there and give an inspiring speech. Which is fine, cause I know you hate giving inspiring speeches."
"But it's actually cause you'd fucking KILL her case. Look I need to fight her, but I WANT her to win. Please don't make it easier for me"
Good scenes.
ALSO good scene. "You can tell a lot from Vulcans by their body language. Those two hate each other." *pans to Spock and another Vulcan just sitting there" "You're kidding me, right?"
Spock, walking over: "I am sorry you had to see that outburst"
This is why I love Strange New Worlds. It can hold heavy themes, give them in a good strong way, but also have GREAT character moments that are very, very funny. That tonal balance is REALLY hard? And they do it perfectly.
FUCKING CHRIST. THE FOLLOWING SCENE. I... Her defense lawyer is.... not throwing any punches. "Yes, it's illegal to be genetically modified. You know what was also coded into law before? Slavery. Apartheid."
And then she brings up one of the things that's one of the Dark Parts Of Star Trek.
The Prime Directive.
Law is important. We're following the law here. So why is it that Star Trek often just... ignores when captains break the law, if they win? If the captain saves the day, the law means nothing.
God fucking damn. She basically indicts Admiral April, the previous Enterprise Captain. Oh, the law means nothing when you need to make a tough decision, but here it does? And she gets him to flat out admit he's racist. Everyone is PISSED. April is pissed. Una is pissed! It's not about saving her, it's about getting a soapbox and making the Federation look bad.
"You're going too far in calling out injustices, because now it's making me FEEL bad that I have to ACKNOWLEDGE my problems and personal failings!! Sure I don't want to hurt my friend, but not if it means I'd FEEL BAD ABOUT MYSELF!" Fucking Christ.
Switching gears. La'an, Spock, and M'Benga defend her. They do what Pike can't do, without killing his own career.
Good scene with the defense lawyer and La'an. "Genetics is not your destiny. You are not born a monster, just with the capacity for actions, good or ill, like the rest of us." La'an is terrified that her log is what caused this, her original anger. She realizes she was wrong. It was a good scene. It's not her fault, though.
Aaaand back to serious. Straight up eluding to... Things. In America's history. Hiding their customs. Hiding their traditions. Seeking friendly doctors. Persecution. Stores that won't serve you. Rumors, attacks even on innocent people. And finally, direct political segregation. And those that could "pass" did, to escape the worst problems.
So, The Federation is not perfect. I do like when Star Trek does its best to show that. It often tries to show things of being a utopia. But here it is, VERY directly tied in with segregation and persecution in America. Star Trek can show how we are, and how we should be. This is doing that.
Anyways, it turns out Una turned herself in. She was tired of hiding. Of being in the closet, sorry, of not being allowed to be herself. She wanted to do this to change things and better things to all Illyrians, to risk her life and her career to help others, and better Starfleet, to make it a better organization. What it CAN be. Good shit.
TIME FOR MY LEAST FAVORITE TROPE! THE ASSHOLE ADMIRAL! He breaks conduct to force Una to admit that Pike knew she was an Illyrian, so he can implicate him as well and take him out. Why? I dunno! Because he's evil! This is my immediate thoughts upon it, he's a Vulcan who's smirking with an evil grin as HE WINS. MUAHAHAHA. Maybe it'll turn out better than I expect but my immediate reaction is VERY negative. I've been LOVING this episode but Christ.
Defense Lawyer does one final power move. She pulls to an obscure loophole. If someone is avoiding persecution, fearing for their life, they can seek safety within Starfleet, and request Asylum. And authority figures must show discretion about these situations. POLITICAL LOOPHOLE TO SAVE THE DAY! I'd think this would be a very obvious thing. But they were setting up all of this, showing what Illyrians are and what they do and live like, to close the hole, and get through. It feels like a bit of a copout, but it's built up. If they pulled that out immediately, it'd be a harder sell. It's legit.
The day is saved. Good episode, powerful. I did not like Evil Asshole Vulcan... but it does I GUESS make sense for a kind of Vulcan. STRICT LOGICAL ADHERENCE TO THE LAW. Also, another outlook. He gave a smile at the end, as she closed the loophole. Maybe he set them up intentionally so she could cinch it. That COULD be an outlook, though Spock hates the guy, so he's prolly an actually asshole, I dunno. You can be an asshole and still do the right thing though.
Also Neli has a theory the defense lawyer is supposed to be trans. It's possible, some of the hints and looks when talking about her "childhood best friend", who was a little boy. The hand holding. This series is queer af. But I argue prolly not, because if she was trans, they would have made it more obvious. This series is very openly queer.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - SNW
10/10
La'an episode! I like her a lot more now that she's chilled out. And it starts in a super good line.
Spock in a bathrobe.
La'an spars with M'Benga, that's cute. "You should seek help" "You're my sparring partner, not my physician right now" "As your sparring partner, you should talk to your physician". Anyways, she's... doing better. But she's not perfect. She didn't go to Una's party. She's a little lonely. Anyways, some guy who was shot by a bullet shows up and tells her there was "an attack in the past", and she had to get to the bridge. She gets there and finds Kirk at the comm, like "who the fuck are you and why are you on my bridge"
Alternate future storyline! :D In this alternate timeline, Vulcans are not allied with humans. They're both at war with the Romulans. La'an talks to Kirk and tries to get him to help her, and they fight over some device the dead guy gave her and boom they're in the past. FUN!
TOS had a LOT of going into the past to contemporary times~ La'an is the voice of reason, which is fun. A season ago she would NOT have been. They're in mid 21st century Toronto. Star Trek Character Out of Temporal Place is always a lot of fun, and a VERY Storied thing. It's nice to see this in modern Trek, it's not as common now!
Well one of us is going to have to change.
Kirk gets them money in the best way. By beating people at chess, and betting money. Kirk canonically beat Spock at chess, he could do this. That's SUCH a good way to deal with the money issue, I love it. And along the way, we find out more of what's changed in this timeline. Earth is under a layer of radioactive ash, in Kirk's future. He was born on the space station Iowa. It's a good set up.
Anyways La'an has the hots for Kirk. I dunno how to feel about that. It's weird seeing it from this side. Anyways ignoring that, Kirk doesn't WANT to change the future. He'd stop existing! And what's WRONG with his reality really? Sure they're at war and Earth is a nuclear waste, but hey. It's all good. Oh, Sam Kirk is alive in La'an's timeline (for now)? Yeah okay let's go with it.
A bridge explodes, but that happened in both their timelines so that's not it. Some space debris hit it. OMFG "How did you learn to do that?" after Kirk neck pinches. "Spent six months in a Denobulan prison, cell mate was a vulcan. I can also make soup in a toilet!" :D
I LOVE THIS KIRK, I LOVE HOW FLIPPANT HE IS
OH NO THEY GOT KIRK IN FRONT OF A CAR IT'S PIECE OF THE ACTION AGAIN
Ooh, Kirk doesn't recognize La'an's last name, Noonien-Singh. That's a good hint as to what's going on~ And a good setup, there's some good stuff they can do with having to make it so the Eugenics Wars actually happen, like, holy shit.
Practical effects with a fucking car chase? Hell yeah. Anyways they're stopped by cops, but some lady (who was at the bridge earlier) saves them. She seems to be an.... alien conspiracy crackpot? Stuff about ancient government conspiracies, even JFK, all run by aliens. The funny thing is you have no idea what's real and what's not, cause this universe is different. But she DOES have pictures of a Romulan ship which is.... A Thing.
Anyways, in a few days, a cold fusion reactor in the city will wipe Toronto off the map with a Romulan first strike. They need to get some kind of detector to find the reactor before the enemy time traveler does!! But who do they know who can do that?
omfg they are making the most of having an immortal lead engineer, ALREADY. We JUST got her. PELIA THE WARP CORE WITCH IS HERE! That's what I'm calling her now. Because it's straight up what she is, she's an old goofy unhinged witch. Anyways WHOOPS SHE'S NOT ACTUALLY A FUCKING ENGINEERING GENIUS AT THIS POINT? Makes sense. Why would she? She works retails. God she's fun. She's like Guinan and your Drunk Aunt fused. She helps them by getting them a detector for Tritium.
It's a bit fast, but he IS Kirk. Anyways this will end in tragedy.
And it happens VERY fast. That lady from earlier, the crackpot? Oh she's a Romulan here from the future trying to kill humanity, basically. And she shoots Kirk, whoopsies. I just watched James T. Kirk actually fucking die. And this time he's probably not coming back to life, he's prolly not being injected with... tribble blood, or whatever the fuck happened in that stupid god damn movie.
Anyways this Romulan is a good villain. She WAS gonna blow up the reactor, but now she's here.
Time to SAVE KHAN. We kill Kirk and save Khan what the fuck is this episode? Also, WILD LORE? This Romulan has been here for 30 years. It was supposed to happen in 1992. Temporal wars have been fought over this. All kinds of temporal wars, over and over. This is how Star Trek is keeping the timeline kinda consistent but also updating it for a modern era. Fascinating.
In a scuffle, the Romulan is killed. And we meet Khan. And La'an accepts both who she is, and that the evil Khan does has to happen, as she returns to her time. She's immediately met by a member of Temporal Investigations, which does not exist yet. I think they're first seen in DS9? Cool to have them here. And then she calls up Prime Timeline Kirk, just to see him. "Oh God. What did Sam do?" Fun.
This was a really fun episode. I'm sure it won't fuck La'an up in any considerable way that she is now the only survival of a temporal war. I absolutely loved it. It almost felt like a MOVIE.
Among the Lotus Leaters - SNW
8.5/10
This episode starts with Batel and Pike being all cute, so I guess there's no hard feelings about the whole "I had to arrest your bestie" thing. Though apparently, she's getting fucked over by that Asshole Vulcan, so that's a thing. Pike feels he's killing her career, so they're basically "going on a break". It's uncomfy.
:o Oh shit this episode is about Rigel VII! Does that sound familiar? It's the planet mentioned in The Cage, the pilot episode that Pike was originally from! Apparently they were there years ago and it Went Poorly. Now it seems the civilization there is using their insignia, so they have a Prime Directive Fuckery on their hands!
Ortegas was going to be on the landing party for once! She was SO EXCITED, but turns out they needed her back on the Enterprise, and she's sad =n= So now the landing party is Pike, Ortegas, and M'Benga. Pike brought them along because they are the ones who can handle themselves in a hand to hand fight, because no future tech. M'Benga is NOT happy. "Doctors love to be brought on missions because of their fighting skills."
Uh oh, La'an is having... issues. Losing time. Ears ringing. Light headedness. They're found by the natives, who know they're from Starfleet, and then M'Benga gets the same problems. And now we get the conceit of the episode. One of the KIA from the original mission years ago lived, armed the locals with knowledge and weapons, and became a godking. There's a radiation on this planet that fucks with your brain, makes you black out, makes you lose your memory and your mind. And he wants them to suffer like he did. La'an goes first, forgetting who the others are... But uh.... how did Zac (Lord Zaccarias now) not forget all this shit?
Oh no. It's spreading to the Enterprise, so whatever it is, it's Serious now. And Nurse Chapel is NOT feeling equipped to handle it. The tenseness of this episode is PALPABLE, and VERY interesting, very engaging.
Back on the planet, they've COMPLETELY forgotten who they are. They're saved from a cage from a guy who tells them to "live in the moment", and that they've had a "hard forgetting". On this planet, each night, people forget everything except for the "deep memories". That's fucked. But VERY fascinating. None of Pike, La'an, or M'Benga remember who they are or who the rest of each other are... but they gravitate to each other, fight the guards together. La'an is injured in the fight, and the friendly guy brings them to his home.
OMG WAIT. Okay so there are "Kalar", which I guess is the name of the people here. There's the Kalar who are "blessed" to forget, and are free from bad memories, and the Kalar who "cursed to remember and bear the burdens", and don't work in the fields and relax in the palace. But they're called Kalar. The Kalar. In The Cage, tehy talk about The Killer. So uh.... retcon? :3
Lots of interesting talk about painful memories. Isn't it okay to lose your memories if it means you lose all the pain to them? Pike and M'Benga don't think so.
Back on the Enterprise, everyone has forgotten themselves. We follow Ortegas as she wanders the Enterprise, terrified. And when she finally makes it back to her room, the Enterprise starts to lose its way in the asteroid field without her, and she cries out to make it stop. How scary! But she knows... Things. Deep down. And the computer tells her, she's the pilot. If they're going to get out of here, it's up to her. She flies the ship.
This is the most Ortegas we've gotten in two seasons it's good.
Holy shit, back down on the planet, Pike is in a shootout with Zac, the Godking. He's fucking BADASS, blocking phaser rifle fire with plates like a SHIELD. "I thought you'd get lost. Wander with the Field Kalar. Figures you'd start a revolution" that's REALLY funny. But Pike is not laughing. He's beating the shit out of Zac, losing himself, but he regains his memories JUST as he's about to blow Zac's fucking head off. Anyways, the palace is made of a metal that blocks the radiation, radiation from those asteroids they were flying through.
In the end, Pyke gets back with Batel, and Ortegas flies the ship. Good episode. It's both a Pike episode and an Ortegas episode, which we've gotten, and it's good!
Charades - SNW
8.5/10
Nurse Chapel is hanging with her friends as they have a bunch of downtime, and practicing for an exam with a Vulcan medical school. Meanwhile, Spock is also making the most of his downtime! He's loving it (as much as a Vulcan can love it), because it's helping him work on his emotions, and get in touch with his friends. He's learning to cook with Pike (apparently Vulcans dull their sense of smell so they can spend time with humans which is VERY funny and canon to Enterprise). He's very distracted though. And things between him and Chapel are.... very awkward. This is their first MAJOR time hanging out since their kiss, and since Spock gave her CPR.
Oh hey, Spock has to do a flyby of a moon! And hey Spock, you have a passenger now! OH WOAH IT'S NURSE CHAPEL? NO WAY.
Oh no, there's a Temporal Anomoly above their Ancient Civilizatiuon that disappeared suddenly from a Vulcan moon! :o. The anomaly fucks with the shuttle and they crash. Nurse Chapel is unharmed, but Spock was injured. "Something" saves him, but they turn him into a Human. Oops!
This made me fucking cackle.
MORE SPOCK HIJINKS, GO!
The aliens at the end of the tunnel "fixed the damages" Spock's DNA had "mxied instructions", so they FIXED him to fit the other person. And now it's time for a Peck Flexing episode, where Spock learns he LOVES being Human! He gets to laugh with his friends! His weird OCD doesn't bother him! And he can EAT BACON! SPOCK NO! YOU'RE VEGAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Oh no it's getting too... far. "I'M MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME" as he stuffs bacon in his mouth. "WHY DO I FEEL SO SICK". And then he tried to beat the shit out of Sam Kirk cause he was leaving his dishes sitting around. Turns out Spock is going through puberty. It's making him hungry and also horny. Spock learned what boobs are.
Oh hey, good time to introduce Human Spock to Nurse Chapel! Who is NOT having a good day. She's brushed off by the Vulcan Medical Facility, and her proteins she's working on to try and save Spock keep degrading! D:
Spock's mom is here! I love this scene. T'Pring's parents are apparently being shitty and are demanding the marriage be off unless Spock has some stupid dinner with them NOW, even though they hate his guts. Spock's Mom sees through this IMMEDIATELY, and decided to put Spock through a Class On How To Be Human. Pike and the rest of the crew are brought in to help! Spock is very very bad at this. They really only have one hope.
Nurse Chapel convinces Ortegas and Uhura to fly her back to the Temporal Anomaly. Ortegas is eating a giant god damn burger, and it's awesome. God I wish they did more with Ortegas but I'm happy she's getting SOME love. She needs like a FULL episode, all to herself. She has no real backstory or plot, like every other character does. So just seeing that she likes big-ass burgers makes me go "WHOO ORTEGAS LORE" cause I'm a fucking weirdo.
T'Pring's parents are here! And holy SHIT, her mom is a fucking bitch. She's racist, she's shitty to her daughter and her son in law, and she's just a terrible person. Her husband is nice, he's pleasant and very friendly, but he's also pussy whipped as fuck, so whenever she gives him a look as he compliments Pike's cooking or somenthing he has to go "I mean uh-" and insult them too.
This episode is doing the unthinkable. It's making me like T'Pring more. Because at least she's not HER MOM. And she's SO done with her mom's bullshit,
This is funny, and Spock Hijinks are a thing this series does well, but it's also Awkward Humor.
It also gets us the best gifs ever.
Anyways, Chapel finds a way to bring him back by begging the aliens and admitting she loves Spock. Spock is about to admit he loves her back as she injects him, and he has to go back to finish the ritual before he turns back. T'Pring's mother is like "Despite your failings, you have succeeded. A human would not be able to do this." And Spock takes off his ears and fucking RIPS into her, just "fuck your racism, humans can be the most powerful people I know. Like my mother." It's cheesy, but it's sweet.
T'Pring is actually HURT he didn't tell her about it, though. He was GOING to but he didn't want to worry her. And now she's, weirdly, emotional about it. And they have to go on a break. Hey Spock that sucks. But you know who's REALLY AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW?
Good episode. Cheesy but fun. Like all Spock Hijinks episodes. Though it changes a LOT for the series.
