I’ll get back to Futurama/hour long scifi/drama next week but right now gonna do the last New Voyages episode.

Kitumba is another one based off an aborted Phase II script…

The New Voyages Adaptation of “The Child” is much stronger than what was done for TNG. Very good.

At this point Xon’s bringing an idea of the Mind Meld again, something that Kirk had asked Spock earlier and didn’t think was a good idea

Yeah but I’m like full Vulcan and Spock’s mind meld are weeeeak. then Spock turn around like

Whaaaaat? You did not just talk shit about me to my BroCaptain on the Bridge!

Scotty is listening to bagpipe music! And he’s allowing alien made children to look at ship schematics!

James Cawley’s hair and delivery makes so much more sense now that I know he *really* is an Elvis Impersonator…

The Child, the original Phase II script that was adapted for the TNG episode of the same name (and came about because of the ‘88 Writer’s Guild Strike) is readapted in this episode by the original writers Jon Povill and Jaron Summers (Maurice Hurley did the TNG adaption). Jon Povill also directed this episode so he basically gets to tell his story. In this version, they pass through a Nebula where there’s a bunch of these pin lights (TNG just had one randomly stumbling across the ship). There as in TNG one pin goes around until it finds a female crewmember, although here it leaves something behind before departing. The crewmember is Deltan (who wears wigs!) and makes it rather interesting (“I have not broken my vows of celibacy.”). Then, rather than have all those “Well whose the father!” scenes we jump straight ahead to three days when Isel’s about to give birth. 

Isel: “Deltan women experience childbirth as another kind of orgasm."