Spoilers for the newest episode of “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” to comply with.
When you thought “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” season 3 received its silliness out of its system with “Marriage ceremony Bell Blues,” suppose once more.
Probably the greatest obtained episodes of “Unusual New Worlds” season 2 was “Charades,” during which Spock (Ethan Peck) is quickly become a full human. So, the newest episode flips that premise and turns half of the human predominant characters into Vulcans. “Charades” and “Marriage ceremony Bell Blues” director Jordan Canning even sits again within the chair to helm “4-and-a-Half Vulcans.”
On this episode, the Enterprise has to go to the planet Tezaar to repair a failing energy provide. The one downside? The Tezaarians are a pre-warp individuals who have not made contact with the Federation, so below the Prime Directive, Starfleet is barred from serving to. However there is a loophole right here. The Tezaarians had made contact with the Vulcans, and solely the Vulcans, earlier than the founding of the Federation. (The Vulcans gave them the facility provide within the first place.) So, a Vulcan crew can go on the planet with out breaking the Prime Directive of noninterference. Spock is seemingly the one Vulcan on the Enterprise, and fixing the facility provide is a 5 Vulcan job.
Nonetheless, Pike (Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Chapel (Jess Bush), and La’an (Christina Chong) cannot simply disguise themselves as Vulcans as a result of the Tezaarians (in some way) have superior scanning expertise. As an alternative, they must turn out to be Vulcans by taking the serum that turned human Spock again to his regular self in “Charades.”
The set-up is painfully contrived, however it’s a tad simpler to swallow since this can be a comedy episode. The now-Vulcan Enterprise crew fixes the issue on Tezaar in about 10 seconds earlier than beaming again to the ship. However the serum would not reverse the results, and shortly, they determine they will keep as Vulcans.
Vulcans could be prejudiced and elitist as a result of they suppose their logical methods make them superior to extra emotional races like people. Throughout Spock’s childhood on Vulcan, he was bullied for being half-human. His now Vulcan mates repeat that, consistently reminding Spock that they are (genetically) extra Vulcan than he’s.
The remainder of the Enterprise crew refuses to just accept this choice, as a result of their now Vulcan shipmates are all large a-holes. One in every of them even turns into outright harmful. La’an, because the ship’s safety officer and survivor of childhood trauma, is closed-off and paranoid. She retains these traits after her transformation, so she’s much less a logical Vulcan and extra of a devious Romulan.
