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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"

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::: spoiler Logline An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where they belong before they can alter the timeline. ::: Written by Kathryn Lyn & Bill Wolkoff Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Show threadwilliams_482Jul 23, 2023

Poor Christine Chapel! Now she knows what the audience has always known: her relationship with Spock is ultimately doomed. Plus a delightful mix of guilt and fear that she could unwittingly cause Spock to never measure up to the vague but crucial future that Boimler mentioned to her in the turbolift.

That suuuuuucks.

Show threadconcrete_baby
So Boimler inadvertently causes Nurse Chapel to end her relationship with Spock and encourage him to go back to T’Pring?
Jul 23, 2023 at 5:18pmWeb
Show threadJestersageJul 24, 2023
Predestination paradox. In fact the entire thing is likely a predestinaiton paradox. “Activated 120 years ago”, which is caused by the imager at “now”; the reason why the two can go back home is because Tendi told them about the version according to Orion and mentioned her great-grandma being the discoverer, which is what let the past Orion to recognize the truth and probably themselves assigned it to Tendi’s great-grandma?
Show threadsamus12345Jul 26, 2023
Tendi just said her great-grandmother was on the ship that discovered it, not that she was the discoverer.
Show threadpolymorphist_neuroidJul 26, 2023
…and this little bit of cooperation between the Federation and the Orions, which is ultimately caused by Tendi, probably improves their relationship a bit, which will eventually lead to Orions joining the Federation, which is how Tendi is friends with Boimler in the first place, which is how Boimler knows that not all Orions are pirates which is why Pike tones down his hostile response which gets them to a deal with the Orions…