Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - The Broken Circle
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startrek.websiteCanon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - The Broken Circle - Star Trek: Website- The episode title “The Broken Circle” is similar to the title of DS9’s second
season episode, “The Circle”. - The titular Circle in “The Circle” was the
colloquial name for a Bajoran extremist organization, the Alliance for Global
Unity, who were being covertly supplied by the Cardassian Union in order to sow
political chaos and smooth the way for them to retake Bajor. Here the Broken
Circle is a mining syndicate made up of former soldiers from both the Federation
and Klingon empire looking to reignite the war between powers so they can profit
off the conflict. - At Starbase 1 we see: - A number of ships which appear to be
identical to the drones used by the Section 31 ships under the control
of…Control during “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”. - Shuttlecraft of the type
introduced in the episode, “Strange New Worlds”. - A Starfleet vessel of a
previously unseen configuration. - We only see the nacelles, struts, and a bit
of the secondary hull that they’re attached to of this ship, but it appears to
be the Crossfake-class from later in the episode flipped upside down, including
have the registry. - A single nacelle ship, of the same type as the USS Archer
seen in “Strange New Worlds”. - The USS Enterprise NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C,
D, E, F, or G. - A starship with the same spaceframe as the USS Farragut as seen
in “A Quality of Mercy”. - Pike’s [Anson Mount] captain’s log records the
stardate as 2369.2. - One time to refresh everyone’s memory of how SNW does
things, here are the stardates mentioned in season one: |Episode|Stardate|
|:-|:-| |“Strange New Worlds”|1739.12| |“Strange New Worlds”|2259.42| |“Children
of the Comet”|2912.4| |“Ghosts of Illyria”|1224.3| |“Memento Mori”|3177.3|
|“Memento Mori”|3177.9| |“Spock Amok”|2341.4| |“Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot
Reach”|1943.7| |“The Serene Squall”|1997.7| |“The Elysian Kingdom”|2341.6| |”All
Those Who Wander”|2510.6| |“Errand of Mercy”|1457.9| - “Oh sure, just take three
days off from being captain of the Enterprise to go to the other side of the
quadrant and get a door slammed in your face.” Quadrant here doesn’t likely
refer to the entire alpha quadrant, but the smaller quadrants that were
frequently mentioned in TOS and TNG, before DS9 and VOY started having major
concerns on the other side of the galaxy. - Doctor M’Benga [Babs Olusanmokun]
cites the events of season one’s “All Those Who Wander” where Spock [Ethan Peck]
embraced his anger over the death of lieutenant Duke to combat the Gorn.
Apparently doing so has had long term impact on Spock’s ability to suppress his
powerful Vulcan emotions. - Doctor M’Benga produced a Vulcan lute from a supply
closet. We know from season one that Spock has one in his quarters as well. The
instrument was introduced in “Charlie X”. - Nurse Chapel [Jess Bush] tells
Doctor M’Benga she is considering applying for an archeological medicine
fellowship. Her future fiancée, Roger Korby, is referred to by Spock as ”The
Pasteur of archeological medicine,” in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and he
taught classes that Chapel attended. - Nyota Uhura [Celia Rose Gooding] has
traded in her cadet’s badge for that of an officer. She did have on an officer’s
delta during Pike’s flash forward in “A Quality of Mercy” but at the very end of
the episode when we saw her in the show’s present, she was back to being a
cadet. - Admiral Robert April [Adrian Holmes] refers to lieutenant La’an
Noonien-Singh [Christina Chong] as ”a former member of Starfleet,” because she’s
been on voluntary leave for a few months. Seems kind of harsh, especially when
we’ve seen characters resign their commission and come back to duty with no
consequence, such as Worf in “Redemption” and “Redemption II”. - Changes from
the season one opening credits: - The Enterprise flies through the atmosphere of
a planet with massive trees - The Enterprise is depicted in front of a field of
ice - The Enterprise performs a roll as it flies directly at the viewer, and the
Enterprise flies over the surface of a planet towards a distant tower - The
camera pans across the rear of the Enterprise from starboard - The planetary
ring from the season one credits appears to be burning up, and the Enterprise
flies from right to left - The Enterprise flies left to right through a
planetary ring - Meteorites impact against the shields of the Enterprise - A
nebula orbiting a star is visible beyond the bow of the Enterprise - The
Enterprise orbits Starbase 1 with an arctic environment visible in on of the
biomes - The Enterprise orbits Starbase 1 with a deciduous forest environment
visible in on of the biomes - Spock and the remaining senior staff enact a plan
to steal the Enterprise so they can intervene in the threat La’an warned them
about via a coded distress signal. Spock will also steal the Enterprise in “The
Menagerie, Part I”, and in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock” Kirk and the senior
staff steal the Enterprise to retrieve Spock’s body. - Commander Pelia [Carol
Kane] is seen wearing a Stafleet operations division badge with a black backing,
possibly indicating her position as an instructor at the Academy. - ”You can
always count on a Vulcan’s inability to lie.” Vulcans lie all the time. - In
“The Menagerie, Part I”, Spock tells Pike, “I have never disobeyed your orders
before, Captain,” which contradicts “The Red Angel” where he refuses an order to
stand down. - In “The Menagerie, Part I”, Spock made a false entry in the
Enterprise’s log. - In “The Menagerie, Part 2”, it is revealed that Spock has
been aware the entire time that the trial was a Talosian projection and thus has
been making false statements in service of that deception. - In “A Taste of
Armageddon”, Spock lies as a distraction, claiming there’s a bug on someone’s
shoulder before nerve pinching them. - In “Errand of Mercy”, Spock tells Kor
he’s a merchant. - In “Amok Time”, Spock lies about his excitement seeing that
Kirk survived kal-if-fee, claiming it was simply logical relief that Starfleet
did not lose a capable captain. - In “The Enterprise Incident”, the Romluan
commander asks if it is merely a myth that Vulcans cannot lie, to which he
responds, “It is no myth.” - In “The Enterprise incident”, Spock claims he was
unprepared for Kirk’s attack, and used the *”Vulcan death grip” instinctually.
Clearly the attack had been planned, and there is no such thing as a Vulcan
death grip. - In “Yesteryear”, Spock lies about his identity after travelling to
the past and visiting his family. - In “More Tribbles, More Troubles” Spock
claims that Vulcans don’t have a sense of humour, which they obviously do. - In
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”, Spock lies about how long it will take to
repair the Enterprise in case the transmission is being monitored. When Saavik
calls him on this, he claims he merely exaggerated. - In “Spock Amok”, Spock
told Chapel that he had a dream where he had to fight his human side, whereas it
was obvious that in his dream Spock was the human half fighting his Vulcan side.
- Pelia notes that Spock is the son of Amanda Grayson, a character first
introduced in “Journey to Babel” - We learn that Amanda is one of the first
people whom Pelia came out regarding being a Lanthanite. This is presented as
being fairly noteworthy, yet in the episode Spock is apparently unaware that
Pelia is a Lanthanite, or even that his mother is acquainted with one. It would
seem that Spock learned his habit of keeping personal information close to the
chest from Amanda. - Pelia implies that she contribute to the design of the
engines aboard the Enterprise. - Pelia says that it has been 100 years since she
previously was on a ship with engines she worked on, which would mean it was
around 2160. The Federation was established in 2161. - Uhura recognizes Pelia’s
accent as being Lanthanite. - Spock says that Lanthanites ”managed to live on
Earth among other humans, undetected until the 22nd century,” which would seem
to imply that Lanthanites are actually an extremely long lived subspecies of
humans. - In “Requiem for Methuselah” we were introduced to the character of
Flint, a human born 3834 BCE. - Spock’s “I would like the ship to go. Now,” does
not survive to his becoming first officer, nor does he have a “thing” in TOS or
the movies. - Kirk did not have a ”thing.” Nor did Sisko or Janeway. The idea
that everyone likely to give the command to go to warp needs to have their own
catchphrase is unsustainable. - The bloodwine mugs appear to be slightly
battered versions of the ones first seen in “Apocalypse Rising”. - When Doctor
M’Benga catches La’an’s attention, he traces a line with his index finger
beneath one eye, a gesture they shared in “Strange New Worlds”. - La’an reveals
she was able to locate the parents of Orianna, the child rescued from the wreck
of the USS Peregrine in “All Those Who Wander”. La’an took her leave of absence
to find them at the end of that episode. - ”Up until the war, this planet
provided a steady flow of dilithium to both sides, like it does now.” In “The
Vulcan Hello” it was established that there had been no interactions between the
Klingon Empire and the Federation for 100 years. Presumably one or both sides
could have been supplied through some third party, though. - We learn that
Doctor M’Benga and Chapel both served during the Federation-Klingon War. As per
“Project Daedalus” the USS Enterprise was not recalled during the war. - A
curtain in the makeshift medical tent reads ”Medical Clinic” in Federation
Standard, Klingon, Illyrian, Orion, and Tellarite. - The tent also has a
Starfleet Medical caduceus stencilled on it. Would you like to learn more?
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