Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

breezy1985 · 03-09-2022 10:32PM

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For all you know she has already found more balance. You would have just missed it because you "forward wound" all of her scenes 😛

pixelburp · 04-09-2022 09:18AM

I've liked Singh. I don't think hers has a bad actor, more that her part demands a certain "front" being put forward as part of her role. She has to be the tough no-nonsense security chief - but I really liked her scenes with Number 1 when she was clearly more relaxed, and they had a cute rapport of two senior staff being candid and finding fun for themselves.

eadrom · 04-09-2022 10:03AM

She was fantastic in that costume drama episode, took me a while to even recognise her. Got to show her range there a bit.

Definitely the character I was most worried about going in anyway, given the Khan connection, but quite like her by the end of the first season.

flazio · 04-09-2022 10:14AM

Least they remembered to appoint a chief of security, unlike that other crowd who bring back Na'an for one episode, show her choke her duty and then leave again.

Choong is a known name to television and film fans, so her inclusion is likely to gain a few more eyes on screen and she has good rapport with Rebecca Romjin.

pixelburp · 04-09-2022 10:53AM

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I think this was a good way to intentionally use the canon angle. She's knows the name is toxic, the world knows the name is toxic; there's no "shush it's a secret" twist I had initially bristled for. I'm sure we'll come back to her legacy in time but for now, her story was her own and all about her immediate past - not the sins of the father (as it were).

eadrom · 04-09-2022 11:34AM

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Yeah, exactly. Pre-release, I fully expected “Khan” to be a big reveal for the rest of her crew mates at some point during the season. But so far the only thing that connection has really done is to solidify that Khan is a known historical figure, which, actually, makes sense.

Homelander · 04-09-2022 11:40AM

I'm not a major Trek fan but I've seen all the movies, a lot of random TNG and Discovery/Picard. I thought this was really solid and well above those other Trek TV shows.

PhiloCypher · 04-09-2022 05:25PM

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Funny I didn't think she (La'an) was overacted at all. The only reason I can imagine she feels like that to you is her characters a bit more abrasive then the rest of the cast, but that's down to her characters background.

As you've mentioned she's similar to Kira but what you see as Visitor finding a balance and correcting a flaw in her performance , I see more as giving them giving her character rough edges(an arc) to round off over the course of the series as she realises Sisko/the federation arent the enemy .

breezy1985 · 04-09-2022 05:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570334#Comment_119570334

He wouldn't know he fast forwards all her dialogue.

EoinMcLovin · 08-09-2022 10:37PM

https://youtu.be/Pr-HpuGvlnc

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fritzelly · 08-09-2022 11:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119592973#Comment_119592973

Damn, don't be teasing us like that

ilovesmybrick · 08-09-2022 11:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119592973#Comment_119592973

Awesome!

pixelburp · 09-09-2022 06:37AM

Well that was a nice nugget of a surprise to wake up to. Poor Ortega! And sure enough I guess the absence of focus on her in season 1 was because she was lined up for season 2.

Also, am liking the small bit of the crew members in silly hats. Ok, it's just two people so far ...

pixelburp · 09-09-2022 08:26AM

So we know who the new chief engineer will be - and it ain't Scotty. Indeed, it's a rather fantastic piece of casting IMO: Carol Kane. Perhaps most recently famous for co-starring in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, alongside a CV full of comedy roles.

https://twitter.com/StarTrekOnPPlus/status/1567984406425370625

CastorTroy · 09-09-2022 09:42AM

I know her mainly for 2 things - One of the ghosts in Scrooged and Penguin's mother in Gotham.

At least they didn't jump straight to Scotty. Though maybe the plan is a new engineer every season.

eadrom · 09-09-2022 09:52AM

Miracle Max’s ~~witch~~ wife in The Princess Bride.

Could be good!

pixelburp · 09-09-2022 10:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119594142#Comment_119594142

Maybe they're going to take the "professor of the dark arts" tactic.

breezy1985 · 09-09-2022 10:10AM

I got a bit of a fright when I saw the black outfit and thought she was gonna reveal herself as S31

Evade · 09-09-2022 11:46AM

I can't see them getting a lot out of the new chief engineer besides scenes of sitting around talking.

09-09-2022 12:44PM

Yup, didn't take long

TheIrishGrover · 09-09-2022 12:49PM

I haven't seen her in anything dramatic (At least I don't think so). Does she keep the high-pitched comedy-tone in dramatic roles? It is certainly an interesting choice and I'm glad they haven't gone to Scotty (Yet anyway). But I just can't get that voice out of my head. I'm assuming she doesn't. That she has a more serious-role voice.

DoctorEdgeWild · 09-09-2022 02:26PM

I'm not crazy about the casting as I only know her from comedy roles, which hopefully this will not be! But any actor around that long must have some serious ability so I'll keep an open mind.

The people behind SNW have barely put a foot wrong so far so I've no reason to doubt their plans at all. Really looking forward to Season 2.

AMKC · 09-09-2022 09:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119595024#Comment_119595024

I don't get it. So a female engineer nothing new there. Belanna Torris was female just Klingon and not a full graduate from Starfleet mind but she still knew her stuff.

pixelburp · 09-09-2022 09:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119597457#Comment_119597457

Carol Kane played a small but memorable role in one of the greatest films of the 80s, The Princess Bride.

Interesting, in a minor way. That's two Treks running concurrently with female-comedians cast as the Engineers. That'd be a fun thing to become a proper trend.

https://youtu.be/d4ftmOI5NnI

AMKC · 09-09-2022 10:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119597492#Comment_119597492

Whats the other Trek show. If it begins with a D don't even bother to mention it.

flazio · 10-09-2022 06:14AM

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Take gender out and you have 4 comedy actors engineering star ships. As well as mentioned above you have Tig Notaro aboard Discovery (very occasionally, that ship seems to be run by the science division) then you have Paul Scheer aboard the Ceritos as Billups and Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog aboard The Protostar in Prodigy.

PhiloCypher · 10-09-2022 11:53AM

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Love that the first teaser is a Ortagas scene(from an Ortagas episode hopefully) because they know she was one of the most popular characters yet didn't get an episode dedicated to her in the 1st season .