Spock and Nurse Chapel Versus The Gorn

[Night Sky 867]

Much to my surprise, there's only two or three clips of this on YouTube, and they are all kind of rough. So, I created a presentation up to my own standards and am now sharing it. 

Btw, my channel is not monetized. It is a fan channel that gives free advertising to the franchises I love and I have no copyright strikes. Everything I host is known to the IP holders and they permit it to be shared.

Spock and Nurse Chapel got into a zero gravity battle with a Gorn warrior on the bridge of a destroyed Starfleet vessel, during Hegemony, the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

It is easily the most epic fight scene in the entire series so far and one of the most epic zero gravity fights I've ever seen. 

Star Trek hasn't really been scary in a very long time. The Gorn are scary, they are dark, they're A L I E N as they wanna be. I don't want this epic incident to slip through the cracks of the hive mind, so here it is, presented the way it deserves to be;

 

 

Edited May 21 by Night Sky

[Fluttershutter 2,911]

It's a cool scene but That's supposed to be this?

This is supposed to be this?

Some of the many reasons I gave up on this post-Enterprise recast, reboot Star Trek.

 

[ZiggWheelsManning 13,245]

Nothing sits well in the recent Star Trek movies on that.  

[Night Sky 867]

8 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

It's a cool scene but That's supposed to be this?

This is supposed to be this?

Some of the many reasons I gave up on this post-Enterprise recast, reboot Star Trek.

 

With the exception of a few unexpectedly good episodes, Star Trek Discovery was just not my thing. Then again, neither was Enterprise. See, I am old. When Voyager started going south, I also gave up on Deep Space 9. Old or not, as far as Star Trek is concerned, in one sense I am an awful purist. For me, Star Trek is TOS, TNG, the TOC movies plus Star Trek First Contact...and then anything after that is either deuterocanonical or just plain apocryphal. 

It doesn't mean I've stopped watching or started disliking anything New Trek that I see.

It's just a matter of remembering that I watched TOS on syndication before TNG was released, when you're that old...there are implications. 

I tried to like Discovery, I really did, but the only thing to come out of it that I could hang onto was Anson Mount and Ethan Peck. No one can replace Leonard and Bill, but Mount and Peck are a blanket I can comfortably wrap myself up in.

Then again, I was just disappointed and saddened by Picard as well.

Of course, all of these are just my opinions, and given what they are, why do I really dig Strange New Worlds?

I do not know!

It is a huge mystery to me, but I do. 

Beyond Anson Mount and Ethan Peck as Capt. Pike and Spock, there is much I can sink my teeth into;

Something about the way Christina Chong plays La'an...it is as though some part of Khan (Ricardo Montalban's Khan!) somehow comes back to us, every scene she's in has this old TOS flair as a result, I can't get enough of it.

Just like I think Ethan Peck does the better job of being Spock, I think that Celia Gooding just nails it as Uhura, same with Jess Bush's interpretation of Nurse Chapel. 

The actors and actresses on this show are succeeding at bringing classic characters back to life, and creating new ones that it's easy to care about. 

Of course, there is only one Worf, and that Worf is Michael Dorn.  

Edited May 23 by Night Sky

[Fluttershutter 2,911]

On 2025-05-23 at 4:10 AM, Night Sky said:

With the exception of a few unexpectedly good episodes, Star Trek Discovery was just not my thing. Then again, neither was Enterprise. See, I am old. When Voyager started going south, I also gave up on Deep Space 9. Old or not, as far as Star Trek is concerned, in one sense I am an awful purist. For me, Star Trek is TOS, TNG, the TOC movies plus Star Trek First Contact...and then anything after that is either deuterocanonical or just plain apocryphal. 

It doesn't mean I've stopped watching or started disliking anything New Trek that I see.

It's just a matter of remembering that I watched TOS on syndication before TNG was released, when you're that old...there are implications. 

I tried to like Discovery, I really did, but the only thing to come out of it that I could hang onto was Anson Mount and Ethan Peck. No one can replace Leonard and Bill, but Mount and Peck are a blanket I can comfortably wrap myself up in.

Then again, I was just disappointed and saddened by Picard as well.

Of course, all of these are just my opinions, and given what they are, why do I really dig Strange New Worlds?

I do not know!

It is a huge mystery to me, but I do. 

Beyond Anson Mount and Ethan Peck as Capt. Pike and Spock, there is much I can sink my teeth into;

Something about the way Christina Chong plays La'an...it is as though some part of Khan (Ricardo Montalban's Khan!) somehow comes back to us, every scene she's in has this old TOS flair as a result, I can't get enough of it.

Just like I think Ethan Peck does the better job of being Spock, I think that Celia Gooding just nails it as Uhura, same with Jess Bush's interpretation of Nurse Chapel. 

The actors and actresses on this show are succeeding at bringing classic characters back to life, and creating new ones that it's easy to care about. 

Of course, there is only one Worf, and that Worf is Michael Dorn.  

I like everything up to and including Enterprise, though there are plenty of flaws. Obviously Voyager went downhill in the end where I thought the last season of Enterprise was the best.

I watched the terrible Abrams movies and then the first season of Discovery, which was so little like Star Trek I pretty much gave up then. It also pisses me off that now they incorporate things from the Abrams movies like Romilus being destroyed, which means everything since then is an alternate and inferior timeline as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, I would never recast Worf(or anybody really). But if I was going to it would have to be Peter Macon.

 

[Night Sky 867]

Exactly, there are positives which it's been possible to extract, but overall the trajectory Star Trek has been on is not achieving escape velocity. I somehow think that if they did a Strange New Worlds film, with a HUGE budget and a really good story, that could make good on the franchise again.

AND YES, FLUTTERSHUTTER IS TELLING THE TRUTH,

THE ABRAMS FILMS ARE AWFUL!!!

SRRY, JUST SAYIN'