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Mia Kirshner reprises her role from Discovery as Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson, and does a wonderful job with both the comedic moments as well as the more heartfelt ones. It’s a shame the writers haven’t yet discovered what a talent they have in Jess Bush, and I look forward to them figuring that out in the future.īut I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the guest characters.
Up until now, Jess Bush has been just crushing it and doing an amazing job of making her Christine Chapel a likable presence on screen despite not being given much to work with beyond her will-they-won’t-they dance with Spock.Īnd much like last week’s “ Among the Lotus Eaters” teased at its outset an even bigger focus on the previously under-utilized Ortegas than it ultimately delivered, “Charades” begins with Chapel only to pivot to a much more Spock-centric story. The plot involving her interview for The Vulcan Science Academy Fellowship certainly gives her a bit more to do outside of her relationship with Spock, but this is still the episode’s biggest weakness. “Charades” is also, to a lesser extent, a Nurse Chapel episode. Jess Bush as Christine Chapel (Paramount+)
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Just two weeks ago, Strange New Worlds even fixed a long-established canonical problem with a retcon that reconciles the timeline of The Eugenics Wars that were established in The Original Series to have occurred during the 1990s only to be later reestablished as taking place sometime in the mid-21st Century. Lord knows this franchise has done so many times before. As long as doing so is in service of a good story and richer characters, I’m fine with violating the established canon from time to time. This show is a prequel and is bound to break or bend all sorts of established canon before it ends. Personally, I’m long past caring about nitpicky canon issues.
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Certainly some will probably raise objections about how a Spock who’s experienced several days as a full human years before ever serving under Captain Kirk tracks canonically when that original iteration of the character started out completely confounded by almost every aspect of humanity. Some audiences want only serious Trek with end-of-the-universe stakes.
How well this screwball comedy works for you, I suppose mileage may vary.
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And no sooner does Spock begin to figure out how to be human than he finds himself being taught by his friends and human mother how to successfully pass for Vulcan.
It eventually morphs into an almost reverse fish-out-of-water scenario merged with a comedy of manners as Spock becomes embroiled in a ruse to now - at his least Vulcan - try to pass himself off as, if possible, even more so than ever to impress his future mother-in-law who already viewed him as deficient. We begin with a classic fish-out-of-water conceit with Spock suddenly experiencing life as a full human for the first time. Other times it may be a big action spectacle or a monster story. Sometimes it’s a serious morality play or courtroom drama that interrogates our sense of justice or what it means to be human. Now comes “Charades,” which at times reaches a level of madcap, screwball romantic comedy that feels like a spiritual sequel to “Spock Amok,” both in terms of tone and in its focus on the Spock/T’Pring/Chapel love triangle. So it is with Strange New World‘s Ethan Peck, whose comedy chops appeared on full display in season one’s body-swapping farce, “Spock Amok.” I’ve also already praised Peck for some of season two’s funniest moments.
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