After the skirmish of life or death of the previous mission with the Gorn, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 3 Episode 2, “Wedding Bell Blues”, adjusts the course to enjoy some issues of the heart.
Nurse Christine Chapel has been out for three months, and Mr. Spock still has a torch for her ex -girlfriend. Unfortunately for the company’s science officer, however, she takes home with a new boyfriend, and her identity will be familiar for fans of the original series.
A Q (played by Rhys Darby) does everything possible to twist the love triangle in favor of Spock, but fate, also known as existing canon, means that Christine and Dr. Roger Korby have Being together, if it’s just for a short time. Here is everything you need to know about the new boyfriend of nurse Chapel, and how it fits into a broader tradition of “Star Trek.”
Set Phasers for caution! Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen “Bell Bell Blues”
Why has Dr. Roger Korby appeared in the company?
In the first game of two parts of season 2/season 3 “Hegemony“, Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) was aimed at a three -month communion, studying arhaeological medicine with the legendary scientist Dr. Roger Korby (Cillian O’Sullivan). He has written 234 documents on the subject, for what he presumed.
At the beginning of “Wedding Bell Blues”, the scholarship is complete, the company is ready for the flight after its meeting with the bruise with the WasteAnd the chapel is ready to return to Sickbay. However, it is not alone, because Dr. Korby has also become the day of the Federation, a celebration that marks the centenary of the Interplanetary UN Foundation in 2161.
Nor has he been traveled in a professional capacity, because Chapel tells a surprised spock (Ethan Peck) in the transporter room, Dr. Korby is there as his appointment. Too much to take a break to handle feelings for vulcan ship partners …
Why is the name of Dr. Roger Korby so familiar?
In addition to Bee mentioned several times in “Strange New Worlds” season 2, Korld also appears in the episode of the original series “What are the girls made?”, Established about five years after “Bell Bell Bell Blues” in the “Trek” chronology.
It is clear that Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) have the scientist in very high esteem. Spock says that “it is often called archaeological medicine pasteur”, a description also used by Dr. Joseph M’BENGA (Babs Olusanmokun) in “SNW”, and explains that “his translation of medical records of the Rin de Orion.” Revolutionized. “Kirk adds that this was” required reading in the [Starfleet] Academia “and I always wanted to meet him.
Perhaps the most important thing, however, “what are done to girls or?” He reveals that Korby is the former acquired of nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett), and that cools a race in Bio-Osearch to serve in the company.
Where does the Kirk company find Dr. Korby?
The company arrives at Planet Exo III, five years after Dr. Korby went to an expedition there. Althegh, the world, was once the home of a prosperous society, a sun that fades means that it is now frozen (“100 degrees below zero”) and in hospitable.
Then, with the chans of anyone who has survived somewhere unlikely, the crew is somewhat surprised when Korby (played by Michael Strong) responds to his hail.
How did Korby survive in such a hostile world?
Together with his former Brown assistant (an old acquaintance of the chapel) and a woman named Andrea (No An old acquaintance of the chapel), Korby has survived underground in a quick network of caves. These caves were a home for the “old”, the original inhabitants of Exo III who moved from the planet’s surface when the weather became too cold.
What has Korby been doing in Exo III?
It turns out that the ancients were advanced technological enough to build sophisticated androids. A long time ago, Korby found one of these automatons called Ruk (played by Ted Cassidy, the most famous as Lurb in the television show “Addams Family” of 1960) and reprogrammed it to make his first leg.
Unfortunately, Jerk Malinterpreta Korby’s instructions on the protection of human life and kills two or Kirk security details, even more statistics in the biggest book of deceased red t -shirts.
Duration of his time in Exo III, Korby has become a fan of Android technology, and tries to convince Kirk that its implementation could be greatly beneficial for the Federation. It is also revealed that both Brown and Andrea are androids themselves.
Korby and Chapel live happily in the original series?
Unfortunately, no, what makes the romance in “new strange worlds” particularly tragic, since the timeline of the timeline will have to make its thick trip to Exo III in the very close future.
In “What are the girls made?”, Korby is so obsessed with bringing his technological discoveries to the federation that creates an unauthorized replica of Kirk and sends to impose to the company. Spock only sees the false because the OG Kirk has cheated the robot to use a racial insult totally out of place to address its first officer.
And then comes the great turn, while Korby scrapes his hand on a wall, taking off a layer of skin to reveal that he is also an android. Unable to survive in the frozen conditions of Exo III, OG Korby transferred his conscience to a robot body. Now he is convinced that technology can be used to eliminate disease, death and suffering in the human race.
He tries to assure the chapel that “I am still the same as before”, but his obsessive behavior (he executes Jen becomes an incidentality, summons her that he is no longer the man who fell in love. He anguished, Korby ends up vaping to himself anda Andrea with a Phaser.
Back in the company, Kirk tells Spock that Dr. Korby “was never here”, while the afflicted chapel decides to stay on the ship.
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