WAS IT AS BAD AS WE EXPECTED? Review: Star Trek Strange New Worlds,Season 2 Episode 7 Treknobabble

Riki & Alex review the seventh episode of Season 2 of Strange New Worlds - Lost in Translation. Hope you all enjoy it and will join us in the next one. Drop a comment below and we'll try and respond, or find us on twitter.
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[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Great review - thanks! Perhaps the comedy works so well because the whole crew is the foil.

[@TaraSocial]

This episode was awesome. Some Star Trek fans really need to lighten up.

[@treknobabble1701]

Have to admit, I was expecting it to not work...but it did!! Really liked it -Riki

[@Tvirus12]

I think the big smiles from Spock are from boimler's POV. Spock probably has regular smiles but in boimler's mind is just so wrong it gets exaggerated

[@treknobabble1701]

I like that theory a lot. Yep that's going in my head cannon for the rewatch

[@kirkdarling4120]

Inasmuch as we don't see them anywhere else except in Boimler's presence, I think so.

[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Showrunners could've also be going for an iconic Internet meme here - this video even closed with it!

[@treknobabble1701]

@@gr8tbigtreehugger I think you're 100% right, they must have known it would end up being that

[@katrineroberts4084]

Rutherfords line "the ancient thing is doing a thing!' Best line ever.

[@mjs6157]

It was a fun episode. The live action actors were very similar to their toons.

[@newsbender]

Yeah, insufferable

[@robslide3466]

I thought it was amazing probably the best Trek episode since it came back on screen 5 out of 5, love Lower Decks and the melding work so well, I think the scene of Ortegas and Uhura fan girling of the NX-01 crew and then going are we acting like them and it pans to Boimler and Mariner was brilliant. Boimler is the Star Trek fan in us all!

[@Mrwavrunnr2]

It was brilliant

[@Thoxxxik]

I didn't feel Spocks smile actually be over the top as I saw it as being more out of Boimlers perspective where he has this image of Spock being this logical and emotionless person. Even the faintest smile on Spocks face would have ticked off Boimler completely I guess. So I take this comical almost maniacal smile was more an interpretation than, well, "reality".

[@treknobabble1701]

I think you're right. On a rewatch that's how it appears to me too tbf 😅 -Riki

[@JoePlett]

....of course, in the context of THIS episode, TOS could've also been Those Orion Scientists. 🤨

[@tdrewman]

I love this episode so much I saw it three ties within the first 3 hours of release

[@treknobabble1701]

It turned out so much better than I expected. Love it. -Riki

[@Mrwavrunnr2]

Spock smiles in the cage

[@treknobabble1701]

he does but thanks to the menagerie ist not usually considered cannon...pike referencing a scene from it earlier this season does throw a spanner in the works with that though 😅

[@jsl151850b]

15:03 *The Musical Episode of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' was excellent!* Also.... Having a musical episode is a Trope. Scrubs did it too. (Explained as a patient's head injury.)

[@treknobabble1701]

Eh I tolerated it on Buffy because it was fairly new, now everyone does it. By the time it got to the flash I was well truly done with the trope and just wish it would go away 😅. I know loads of people love them, I've just never been a fan -Riki

[@jsl151850b]

@@treknobabble1701 There was an episode of Flash that was a musical? Oh! That's right! With Supergirl!

[@treknobabble1701]

@@jsl151850b yeah that's the one. It wasn't toooo bad, bearing in mind my distaste for them, so it was probably very good 😅

[@malcolmdrake6137]

If you "expected" it to be bad, why would you watch it? To encourage more garbage to be made? Brilliant.

[@treknobabble1701]

To give it a fair chance, since sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised. Some are decent and some suck, but I cant really comment on something I've not seen and we've committed to reviewing the whole series -Riki

[@DerbyJackMusic]

Very bad, gay and woke, and Spock is no more Spock! they fkd it up, Rodenberrys legacy has been destroyed!

[@gregscott7695]

Horrid. I've seen every non-cartoon Star Trek and that was the first episode I simply had to stop watching. I feel violated

[@treknobabble1701]

That was me with the musical episode 😅 -Riki

[@ShonnDaylee]

I almost didn't make it through the episode. The humor was incredibly cringey, and one note. Please never go down the Lower Decks route ever again. PLEASE! If it was a one off, then fine. Still painful to watch, but it's thankfully over now, and hopefully we can move on.

[@treknobabble1701]

We're slightly biased being lower decks fans tbf.

[@susansokoloski2233]

Not cringey at all. As Faith said, "find the fun, B."

[@jaimemurphy2208]

Best star trek episode in decades.