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Star Trek: New Voyages 4×03: “World Enough and Time”

Star Trek: New Voyages 4×03: “World Enough and Time”

Plot: After the ship is trapped in a dimensional rift, a transporter accident sends Mr. Sulu and a young scientist through a portal into another world. When they are recovered, 30 years have passed for them, and Sulu is accompanied by his daughter, Alyssa. To rescue the ship from danger, the crew must unlock a memory hidden in his mind for three decades….

Thoughts: Fans, fans, fans. Where does the money come to do this? To make special effects that beautiful, with perfect computer models of not just the Enterprise, but the Excelsior? To construct a separate bridge set styled after Star Trek VI, and movie-era costumes for a whole new crew? To attract guest stars like George Takei, Grace Lee Whitney, and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as the voice of the ship’s computer? I’m more than impressed.

The actors playing the big three characters irritate me because they aren’t Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelley. The actor playing Scott may, in fact, be doing a better Scottish accent than James Doohan, but it’s not the right accent for Scotty. This is strangely jarring. Also, the read on Kirk’s character that he’s a lonely guy who needs a woman in every port frustrates me. The character lost definition and stature towards the end of TOS, but that’s not the Kirk I know from TOS season one and the first two thirds of season two. It may describe Kirk from the reboot movie.

I have to give the episode a high pass, however, if only because I’d be happy just watching George Takei read the phone book. Never mind that the whole premise makes little sense.The actress who plays Alyssa gave a fine performance.

Rating: contrived, sentimental, but very sweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TC5wl0IzE&list=PL5h4ur_aSq8N5yx46vUjnNbsaQ74kcBLV&index=7

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  1. Randi Cohen Avatar
    Randi Cohen

    I cried at the end!  I admit it!  Love George Takei mixed with Genghis Khan, those costumes are awesome.   Really, this is better than a real Star Trek episode, as far as packing an emotional punch – somehow when the “big 3” lose someone important to them, and especially Kirk, there’s a lack of emotional resonance and acknowledgment that that loss carries into the future, that was totally present here.

    Why dedicate this to Ray Bradbury?

    Yes, it is massively annoying of course that the title characters are played by other actors, I felt the need to look away from the screen at times because it was so grating, although new Spock is growing on me more than the others (I think the actor and writers have a better grasp on Spock’s character than the other two characters — I particularly like the line about incorrectly modifying unique).

    Overall, this was a truly amazing effort!   The special effects and the whole look of the episode is very professional and the plot, while nonsensical, is not more nonsensical than most in the series.  And it does illustrate some moral points (sacrificing the one to save many, that even the memory of love is worth the pain of loss, that genuine human connection is what defines quality of life rather than exterior trappings – a point I wish more people could truly realize in today’s society).

    Definitely worth watching.

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