‘Strange New Worlds” Patton Oswalt goes out and plays a sexy vulcan
Spoiler alert: Do not continue to read if you have not seen “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, episode 8 entitled “Vierz-and half fillcans”
This week’s episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” comes in a number of hilarious and unexpected ways in all things Vulcan.
To kick things off, the company is due to Shore Leave, during which number one (Rebecca Romijn) is planning to stay on the ship – more about that later. But before they can reach the planet where the coast should take place, they are pulled into an emergency situation.
To make a long story short, the Vulcans helped a pre -war society prior to the founding of the federation. Now that society is in urgent need for technical support or they will be confronted with a disastrous disaster. Since Vulcans are the only aliens who will recognize this society without violating the first guideline, Spock (Ethan Peck) agrees to lead a team that consists of Pike (Anson Mount), La’an (Christina Chong), Chapel (Jess Bush) and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding).
The plan is to use an alien formula to convert the other four temporarily into vulcans, during what time they decide to keep remembering that it is only half Vulcan. But when the time comes for the four new Gemint Vulcans to change, things do not work completely and they decide to stay permanent vulcans.
While their new logical approach is starting to wear the crew, Spock and the others determine that if they have access to their countrymen human Katra (the Vulcan equivalent to the soul), they can convince them to be normal again. It appears that the reason that number one wanted to avoid coastal leave, because the planet of the coastal leave was very close to the house of her ex-lover, a vulcan that is an expert in Katras.
Ensured Patton Oswalt as Doug, a vulcan with an artistic side. He and number one share a kind of insane, irresistible chemistry so that they cannot keep their hands apart. In an interview with VarietyOswalt spoke about what it was like to play against both Peck and Romijn on the camera.
“Ethan is such a great actor and Rebecca is just so loose and really in the scenes,” he said. “It was really fun to play because I am a very stiff, controlled vulcan, and she is very passionate. So that was really fun.”
Oswalt, who was allowed to keep his Vulcan ears of the set, admits that he is not the largest “Star Trek” fan in the world, but enjoyed the chance to appear on the screen in the franchise.
“Star Trek” was always this thing that was in the background for me, “he said. “I saw ‘Star Wars’ when I was seven, and that kind of fritzed my brain, so’ Star Trek ‘did not really land with me as I saw the films. Only then’ Wrath of Khan ‘that I really came in.’
“And the set is a practical set of 360 degrees,” Oswalt continued. “You can walk around. You can go through the passages, the corridors, to the other rooms. It is pretty amazing. It feels like the overwhelming awe that you would feel on a spaceship.”
In the core, “Star Trek” has always been a drama about the interactions of humanity with other species and dangerous situations between the stars. But some of the best moments/episodes in the history of the “Star Trek” are without a doubt those who lean more comically.
As an accomplished comedian himself, Oswalt has eliminated why he feels that the comedy in “Star Trek” has passed as well as.
“People will still make mistakes and do crazy things and apologize for that, so they didn’t shy away from that,” he said. “They understood very much that humanity is fallible and always does crazy things. And I think that is probably one of the reasons why it connects people in the show and fascinates them as much as it is, you look at how people will act in the future and in some respects they will not be much different than the way we act. And that is a kind of comforting.”
