Prime Kirk Saves Uhura • Star Trek Strange New Worlds S02E06

[@matiasrocha317]

Paul Wesley is really good in the role . I love this version of James Kirk . Great chemistry between Uhura and James in this episode 🖖🖖🖖 .

[@thejamesasher]

i just wish he didnt look like jim carey. WHY did vic mignogna have to fuck up!?

[@Knightfall182]

@@thejamesasher Vic is like 80 years old

[@James.G.Ireland]

It's like a bad Jim Carey from wish

[@Shadowkey392]

If only he actually ACTED like Kirk!

[@DubzBoyz30214]

​@@Shadowkey392 Chris Pine didn't really act like Kirk either, but back then that was just William Shatner's impression and that's typically how his acting style is, Chris Pine's version is just typical Chris Pine instead of Kirk in my opinion, but Paul Wesley's Kirk is also his own Kirk but stays more to the actual Trekkie side you know, so I actually like Paul's impression of Kirk.

[@PfunkGW]

I for one love the romance. TOS is dated firmly in the 1960s in many ways, from the models to the costumes to the sets. But it is dated in less tangible ways, as well. For example, Kirk's love affairs. He swept many women off their feet rather melodramatically in torrid and brief love affairs that don't quite fit with modern sensibilities. But look past the portrayal to the thing portrayed - those magical, romantic, sublime, beautiful moments where you are falling in love with someone. Those moments people remember for life and dream about years afterwards. The falling in love shared with people who are so special we all only get a few of them in our lives, if we are lucky. Those moments are so powerful and magical that TOS tried to portray them all the time, but here is the updated version. We are seeing what those women saw in Kirk as they were falling for him, and we are seeing it through La'an's eyes in a way that is refreshingly stripped of modern cynicism and irony.

[@kurumais]

wow great comment

[@perfectsplit5515]

A commenter on AOL once compared Kirk and Picard like this: “Captain Kirk was a macho hero out of 1950’s pulp fiction who always duked it out with the alien bad guys and got the girl in the end. Captain Picard was a more modern captain who came up in a time where a Starfleet captain who got horizontal with every green space babe had to worry about the possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted disease.”

[@christineking5096]

I don't think Kirk was bedding girls in every episode, and one in which he had a "one-episode-fling"-City on the Edge of Forever. He deeply loved her. Kirk has an undeserved reputation. Also, think of it, the best episodes, such as the Trouble With Tribbles, Kirk isn't banging any girl.

[@mattboesch8907]

I always wondered if Kirk's flings with all those alien women were his way of coping with the fact that his relationship with Carol ended miserably and that she wanted him to stay away from her or their son.

[@shingshongshamalama]

He's a flirtatious and charismatic man. I'd honestly be disappointed if the utopia of the future didn't have room for a man like that.

[@Creasy5678]

Awkward, she is having real trouble not seeing the Kirk she knew in a man she doesn't know. But I think she WANTS to...

[@BR-cq2hm]

OK, do phasers not have stun settings anymore? This is the umteenth time in New Trek where they hesitated to shoot someone they had a phaser pointed at, only to have to fight the person in hand combat. STUN THEM and ask questions later.

[@jesusmora9379]

this is TOS era

[@spaceboomer564]

She said "I don't want to blow either of us up" which implies firing an energy weapon even at a stun setting is presumably dangerous within the control room.

[@ram64man]

​​@@jesusmora9379the ost did have set phasers to stun. remember the blue light

[@jesusmora9379]

@@ram64man this is between the cage and TOS

[@ThePathStrider]

Maybe stun settings in this era are as reliable as modern day tasers.

[@benrussell-gough1201]

I'm looking forward to a redo of 'Space Seed' when, during the fight in Engineering, Kirk taunts: "You know, I dated your great-granddaughter and she thinks you suck!"

[@grantparke5452]

Pretty sure the shielding in the nacelle prevents beaming.

[@jjack232]

Wonder where i left that stun setting hmmm.... 🤔

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I wonder if Kirk and La'an will ever knock boots in a future episode?

[@CancelHappiness]

Hello, brother.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

The redshirt Uhura's fighting with....Section 31?

[@stars9084]

Driven mad by an alien distress call

[@carter98nc]

It's kinda weird but this version of Kirk reminds me of Jim Carrey. Can't quite shake the feeling. Episode itself was good.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Agree

[@perfectsplit5515]

You always get all the women. I never get any! You even get the ugly ones!

[@richardb6260]

Paul Wesley is more Christopher Pike than James T Kirk. He looks more like Jeffrey Hunter than Anson Mount does. I just don't see any Kirk in him. No problem with someone else playing Kirk. Chris Pine's Kirk was one of the better things about the Kelvin films.

[@shep9231]

Kirk is supposed to be a genius. I see that here with Wesley's version of kirk

[@richardcutts196]

My first reaction in season 1 episode 10 was that he looked like Jim Carey. I kept waiting for him to say 'All rightey then'. I got over that after watching it a couple of times.

[@kingbeauregard]

@@richardcutts196I'm glad someone else sees the Jim Carey. Also he's got the mouth of Dick York. BUT - I like this James Kirk even if he feels like a different character who just happens to share the name "James Kirk" with William Shatner. And honestly, I'm okay with that. If we're being blunt, William Shatner's Kirk wasn't really a character so much as a collection of traits that Roddenberry thought a real man should have. The character was weak enough that, to squeeze some authentic emotion out of him, you'd have to do something like kill off his brother Sam. This new one, you can get about as much authentic emotion with just a minor squabble between Jim and Sam.

[@jonathanmyers2867]

Paul Wesley and Celia Rose Gooding are way better than Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana!

[@walterengler5709]

Stop calling it Prime. They have made so many differences and changes from TOS canon anyone still insisting it's prime is delusional. Yes it's a great show, and well written, and the acting is amazing. But there is nothing prime about this EXCEPT they view themselves as prime as any universe would view themselves.

[@rexduis467]

Instead of a close of up the bad guy I'd have done a slow-mo close up of Kirk and Uhura. She turns to look up at him as fire flares inches from their faces. Leave the bad guy and cut again to them materializing in the transporter room with steam rising off them, and their embrace lasting a little longer than it should have before they recover themselves. 💋 😘

[@timfremstad3434]

This series is interesting in it's own way, but totally unreallistic in the way senior officers interact with juniors.......too touchy feely.....it really seems to me to just be a light, comedic version of Star Trek

[@chrisbike77]

The concept of the way officers & personell interact is ours of the 20th century, 22nd might have learned something of trust, emotions & humour by identity NOT in rank by then.....

[@Howyaduing]

Why are they calling him prime Kirk?

[@TheVeritas1]

This Kirk is from the main TOS timeline rather than other timelines like the reboot films.

[@Howyaduing]

@@TheVeritas1 ya no he’s not

[@TheVeritas1]

@@Howyaduing He is in this episode. You must be thinking of a Kirk from different timeline.

[@zerohunter01]

Prime Capt Kirk was the pimp man of the galaxy.......I'm getting stickler vibes from this kirk. This is more Picard then the legendary James T. Kirk.

[@AndyCutright]

I'm not sure what you're driving at. Kirk didn't hit on every woman in the universe. Uhura and Kirk had professional relationship. The only physical relationship they shared was The Kiss. This episode is true to that relationship. As often as not, the romantic lead was a villain. Kahn, Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell, I believe Doctor Sevrin in "The Way to Eden." Other crew members took the lead as well, McCoy several times, Spock of course ...

[@shep9231]

The original prime kirk us suppsed to be a stack of books with legs.

[@JohnWinchester3567]

@@shep9231 In the academy. He graduated from the academy a while ago.

[@jamesbuchanan4414]

@@JohnWinchester3567 He didn't come out of his shell until he ran into Gary Mitchell on the USS Republic.

[@Howyaduing]

This is not Prime Kirk

[@pauld6967]

Canon Timeline Kitk played by William Shatner is the one that can properly be referred to as "Prime." This is the Kirk of Fake Trek: So Now What.

[@R3dp055um]

agreed

[@DeaconShadow]

There is no fake Trek.

[@cpte3729]

schizo