Spock Amok
- Episode aired Jun 2, 2022
- TV-PG
- 52m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
4.9K
YOUR RATING
A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn Spock's dream of a kal-if-fee fight with himself, the music is the same as in Amok Time (1967) when Spock fights with Kirk. The striking music, by composer Gerald Fried, is frequently cited as not only one of the best Star Trek (1966) scores, but one of the most outstanding television music scores ever.
- GoofsThe Scorch cannot exist since it was part of the saucer section that was obliterated in Star Trek: Discovery (2017) Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (2019) when a photon torpedo that got jammed into the hull exploded.
- Quotes
Spock: Thank you for your advice. If I can ever return the favor, please do not hesitate to ask.
Nurse Christine Chapel: What are friends for?
Spock: [whispers to himself] What are friends for?
Nurse Christine Chapel: It was rhetorical, Spock.
Spock: Oh, I know. Humans are almost as easy to tease as Vulcans.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: Amok Time (1967)
Featured review
The weakest of the season thus far - but still Star Trek
No spoilers here, but some interesting observations.
This episode is all about character development - and uses a couple of interesting plot devices to achieve that. In all there are SEVEN different plot threads running through this episode, so it's a little busy but to their credit it's a longer episode at 52 minutes.
I am loving how they're working in TOS Alexander Courage theme music. In prior episodes this was a bar or two now and then, but in this one they take it whole cloth and it's delicious. The doors make the whoosh-squeak sort-of. It's there, but it's not as dominating as it was in TOS. Many of the sound effects of machine chirping and whirring is there, but only as a whisper. Pike wears the leisure wrap-around green tunic, but unlike Kirk's which had only a single command insignia on the "belt", Pike has that and the comm badge, so it looks a little strange. But, so glad that the show runners are pulling in so much of TOS in little ways, to give SNW the TOS flavor without going full-on fan boy.
The bad is that the writers really need to write their dialog for timeless rather than for trendy now. Stop with the contemporary euphemisms and chirps. No Star Fleet captain would ever say "totally!" or "pissed off" or "get a room." This dialog sounds dated now. So much of the TOS dialog stands up to time because it was written to stand up to time. Imagine Kirk quipping "Far out!" or "Cool!" or "Don't be such a drag, Spock." It dates the writing. It's lazy. Avoid it.
Another bad is that Pike is trying too hard to be likable and non-confrontational rather than be *in command*. Take off the training wheels, its time to give the crew - and us - someone to believe in.
Otherwise, this was a very enjoyable episode devoid of action but that wasn't the point of it. We now know more about the characters, and that's a good thing.
Keep it up.
This episode is all about character development - and uses a couple of interesting plot devices to achieve that. In all there are SEVEN different plot threads running through this episode, so it's a little busy but to their credit it's a longer episode at 52 minutes.
I am loving how they're working in TOS Alexander Courage theme music. In prior episodes this was a bar or two now and then, but in this one they take it whole cloth and it's delicious. The doors make the whoosh-squeak sort-of. It's there, but it's not as dominating as it was in TOS. Many of the sound effects of machine chirping and whirring is there, but only as a whisper. Pike wears the leisure wrap-around green tunic, but unlike Kirk's which had only a single command insignia on the "belt", Pike has that and the comm badge, so it looks a little strange. But, so glad that the show runners are pulling in so much of TOS in little ways, to give SNW the TOS flavor without going full-on fan boy.
The bad is that the writers really need to write their dialog for timeless rather than for trendy now. Stop with the contemporary euphemisms and chirps. No Star Fleet captain would ever say "totally!" or "pissed off" or "get a room." This dialog sounds dated now. So much of the TOS dialog stands up to time because it was written to stand up to time. Imagine Kirk quipping "Far out!" or "Cool!" or "Don't be such a drag, Spock." It dates the writing. It's lazy. Avoid it.
Another bad is that Pike is trying too hard to be likable and non-confrontational rather than be *in command*. Take off the training wheels, its time to give the crew - and us - someone to believe in.
Otherwise, this was a very enjoyable episode devoid of action but that wasn't the point of it. We now know more about the characters, and that's a good thing.
Keep it up.
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