This put up incorporates spoilers for “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” season 3, episode 4, “A Area Journey Hour.”
The newest “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” episode, “A Area Journey Hour,” opens in weird style. On the bridge of a starship, a captain and his first officer focus on the ship selecting up some radiation. That does not sound too misplaced, does it? Besides the captain is performed by Paul Wesley (who performs Jim Kirk) and the primary officer by Jess Bush (who performs Christine Chapel), neither of whom are their ordinary characters. The costume, set design (magnetic laptop tapes!), rating, foggy digicam high quality, and tinny audio are all nearer to the authentic Sixties “Star Trek” … and that is precisely the purpose.
It seems the Enterprise, particularly La’an, is being tasked with learning a prototype holodeck. La’an chooses the setting: a mid-Twentieth century Hollywood homicide thriller. She performs detective Amelia Moon within the midst of the forged and crew of a soon-to-be-canceled sci-fi sequence, “The Final Frontier.” When the studio head is discovered useless, everyone seems to be a suspect. The holodeck fills the forged with avatars of the Enterprise crew. The episode’s chilly opening was a scene from “The Final Frontier” itself.
Like “Unusual New Worlds” season 1 episode “The Elysian Kingdom” (when the Enterprise crew was brainwashed into appearing like fantasy storybook characters), the episode exhibits the common forged play totally different characters than ordinary. Wesley’s Jim Kirk is already near William Shatner’s Captain Kirk from the unique “Star Trek.” He is a gambler who thinks exterior the field, however not a full-blown hothead skirt chaser like Chris Pine’s Kirk. However in “A Area Journey Hour,” he is not solely taking part in Kirk, he is taking part in Shatner himself.
Within the holodeck simulation, Wesley’s character is Maxwell Saint, lead actor on “The Final Frontier.” Onscreen, he is a starship captain with cool confidence and a particular, staccato cadence of talking. Offscreen, he is an egomaniac who will get underneath all his co-stars’ pores and skin. Shatner has a well-deserved fame as a ham (not that he is a foul actor, to be clear), each for being a prima donna and his usually exaggerated, simply imitable efficiency as Kirk. “Household Man” episode “When You Want Upon A Weinstein” did a cutaway gag of Shatner (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) appearing in “Fiddler on the Roof” and giving Tevye the identical mannerisms as Kirk. Shatner’s means of talking is simply that synonymous with him, and Wesley replicates it in addition to MacFarlane does.
“A Area Journey Hour” is a “Star Trek” episode about “Star Trek.” The diligent Trekkies will spot how Shatner is not the one Trek alum being lampooned on this episode.