Strange New Worlds Dispels A Modern Star Trek Myth
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 5 — «Spock Amok»
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds dispels a myth surrounding the modern Star Trek franchise. Both a spin-off from Star Trek: Discovery and a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, it sits along with a stable of live-action and animated Trek shows. However, Strange New Worlds season 1, episode 5 «Spock Amok» owes more to the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks than it does to these modern live-action shows.
With the ship undergoing repairs after their traumatic encounter with the Gorn in season 1, episode 4 «Memento Mori», the Enterprise crew is enjoying some well-deserved rest and relaxation. As the crew embarks on their shore leave, Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) are left behind to negotiate a treaty with the R'ongovians. The Federation hopes that the empathetic species will join them, scoring much-needed allies following the Klingon war. This vital negotiation is complicated by a visit from Spock's betrothed, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu.)
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«Spock Amok» was billed by Paramount+ as a "comedy of manners" and it certainly delivers on the comedy. Acting on advice from Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), Spock suggests a soul-sharing ceremony with T'Pring so that they can better understand each other as a couple. It goes comically wrong when they accidentally swap bodies, just as negotiations with the R'ongovians heat up. It's a classic body-swap comedy plot that feels refreshing in modern, live-action Star Trek. By writing what is possibly the first overtly comic Star Trek episode since the early 2000s, Henry Alonso Myers & Robin Wasserman disprove a modern belief that each
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