Not the first. There was an episode of Enterprise with Vulcan rage-zombies, though they technically weren't dead.
Not to mention the Borg, who generally fit the literal "reanimated corpse that will infect/turn you if it catches you."
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Not to mention the Borg, who generally fit the literal "reanimated corpse that will infect/turn you if it catches you."
Saw SNW 3x8 Four and half Vulcans.
There's an extra scene at the end!!!!
That was hilarious! Ended too quickly. Still absolutely hilarious.
Did folks note how amazing Andon Mount Pike is when he's acting as another character? He was amazing as the weird writer is the fake Trek and he's also amazing here. Funny chameleon, he's.
There's an extra scene at the end!!!!
That was hilarious! Ended too quickly. Still absolutely hilarious.
Did folks note how amazing Andon Mount Pike is when he's acting as another character? He was amazing as the weird writer is the fake Trek and he's also amazing here. Funny chameleon, he's.
He should definitely considered being an actor.
Never saw Inhumans. Pike with black hair is weeeeird different!
That Mixalot scene would have been too much! Haha!
That Mixalot scene would have been too much! Haha!
Watching this episode and then looking back at the season and considering the apparent upcoming Muppet episode, I get Thor 4 vibes. Yes, you took some risks with Thor 3 and it paid off, but I didn't want THIS.
Una not being able to control herself around Doug is just dumb and not given any explanation. It is just being silly. Granted the after credits scene is really kind of a gag reel, but everything Spock tells him could be looked up. That's the merely silly. Working a ballroom dance into a mind meld, bleh. The constant jokes about Spock being only half Vulcan I actually found funny.
I can JUST stomach the idea of a treatment that turns you genetically into an entirely different species and yet you are still just a version of yourself. Okay. It's science fiction, not science. But you don't act like a Vulcan because your DNA became Vulcan and it doesn't restyle your hair, which isn't genetic. Turning them into untrained Vulcans would be a disaster. The whole episode acts like being logical is genetic to Vulcans, but it isn't. They work hard to learn that and control their emotions. And that just wrecks the entire premise of the episode.
And I am so weirded out by Kirk showing up every day.
Una not being able to control herself around Doug is just dumb and not given any explanation. It is just being silly. Granted the after credits scene is really kind of a gag reel, but everything Spock tells him could be looked up. That's the merely silly. Working a ballroom dance into a mind meld, bleh. The constant jokes about Spock being only half Vulcan I actually found funny.
I can JUST stomach the idea of a treatment that turns you genetically into an entirely different species and yet you are still just a version of yourself. Okay. It's science fiction, not science. But you don't act like a Vulcan because your DNA became Vulcan and it doesn't restyle your hair, which isn't genetic. Turning them into untrained Vulcans would be a disaster. The whole episode acts like being logical is genetic to Vulcans, but it isn't. They work hard to learn that and control their emotions. And that just wrecks the entire premise of the episode.
And I am so weirded out by Kirk showing up every day.
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I'm not going to get into an argument about how wrong you are to disdain Trek when it goes all out for the silly humor, but it really does need stating that they DID handwave a technobabbly explanation for why they not only looked Vulcan, but started thinking/acting like them too (a specific, but apparently unexpected, side-effect of the method adapted from what they used on Spock when he became fully human).
Does it really make sense? No. But they DID acknowledge it. Precisely because the premise of the episode DID depend on it, no doubt, and the writers were fully aware that "being logical is genetic to Vulcans" had been so thoroughly made impossible by previous canon.
It was right at the beginning, basically like they got Spock's level of logic, conditioning, and training.
Personally, I loved how Tlaan became a Romulan and how Scotty and Kirk had to deal with her. Loved Una and Doug's relationship. Loved his conversations with Spock in the post-credits scene.
Somebody should tell the writers not every episode has to be a rehash of TOS.
I really liked the plot twist on this. a human band of space pirates, running space around for centuries to loot alien ships. I find it totally believable that they would quickly devolve into that. I also like how they just mixed so much alien technology and were extremey tough for it.
I am giving them the benefit of this being a young Scotty, a decade before we meet him in TOS. He still has some growing up to do, but he is already a miracle worker.
I actually didn't really like this episode and it made me not like the guy, but it still wasn't that bad of an episode.
When will he get older than Kirk?
I am not aware of a single reference in any show that canonically requires Scotty (the character, not James Doohan, the actor) to be older than Kirk. Where are you getting this, that it's such an issue for you?
Well, according to Memory Alpha Scotty was born in 2222 and Kirk in 2233. So that's 11 years difference.