{"id":978790,"date":"2025-08-28T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=978790"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:14:57","slug":"star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-episode-8-review-four-and-a-half-vulcans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-episode-8-review-four-and-a-half-vulcans\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 8 Review \u2014 Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-spoiler-alert\"><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 23\"><path d=\"M15.713 6.511c-2.41 0-4.376 2.057-4.376 4.591 0 2.527 1.96 4.591 4.376 4.591 2.41 0 4.375-2.057 4.375-4.591 0-2.527-1.966-4.591-4.375-4.591z\"\/><path d=\"M15.713 18.358c-3.88 0-7.04-3.253-7.04-7.256s3.16-7.255 7.04-7.255c3.879 0 7.04 3.252 7.04 7.255s-3.161 7.256-7.04 7.256zm16.085-7.961C27.63 3.709 22.015.027 16 .027 9.985.026 4.369 3.708.202 10.396c-.267.43-.267.98 0 1.41C4.37 18.495 9.985 22.178 16 22.178c6.015 0 11.624-3.683 15.798-10.37.267-.432.267-.98 0-1.411z\"\/><\/svg><em>This&nbsp;<strong>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/strong> review contains spoilers for season 3 episode 8.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged that even the best television shows have average episodes.<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds\/\"><em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/em><\/a><strong> <\/strong>fans are more spoiled than most, simply because we don\u2019t get them very often. In fact, subpar episodes of this series tend to just be straight-up <em>bad<\/em> before they\u2019re anything as pedestrian as mediocre. See also: Last week\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-episode-7-review-what-is-starfleet\/#disqus_thread\"> weird faux documentary<\/a>, which easily clocked in as the worst episode of the season. Happily, \u201cFour-and-a-Half Vulcans\u201d isn\u2019t nearly as irritating. But unfortunately, that\u2019s also not the same thing as saying it\u2019s <em>good.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s that we already saw the episode\u2019s central reveal\u2014four of our favorite <em>Enterprise<\/em> crew members suddenly become Vulcans\u2014as part of a package of Comic-Con clips released back in 2024 and have had far too long to internalize it. But something about the whole thing feels strangely anticlimactic. To be fair, \u201cFour-and-a-Half Vulcans\u201d manages to pull off some solid comedic moments, but much of the episode feels more like a series of ideas for various jokes strung together than an actual cohesive story that has anything new to say about its characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While on a brief stop for some shore leave, the <em>Enterprise <\/em>receives an urgent message from the Vulcan High Command. The planet of Tezaar, which isn\u2019t a member of the Federation and technically doesn\u2019t have warp technology yet, is in the throes of a particularly unique emergency.&nbsp; Their energy system, which was gifted to them from the Vulcans\u2014who made contact with them before the Federation\u2019s founding, thereby not <em>actually <\/em>violating the Prime Directive\u2014is failing, which means a planetwide nuclear meltdown is imminent. All Vulcan ships are too far away to get to Tezaar in time to repair it before it overloads, which means that the <em>Enterprise<\/em> is their only hope. (So weird how often some variation of this scenario seems to happen, is all I\u2019m saying.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But because the Tezaarans have extremely advanced scanning technology, the Starfleet crew can\u2019t just disguise themselves as Vulcans. They have to <em>be<\/em> Vulcans, which is where Chapel\u2019s newly modified version of the serum that saved the day back when Spock was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-episode-5-review\/\"> turned human last season<\/a> comes in. Pike, Uhura, La\u2019an, Chapel, and Pelia all dose themselves with it, but the latter\u2019s Lanthanite metabolism keeps her from transforming. (Which is honestly a shame, as the idea of a Vulcan version of the loud, hedonistic Pelia is intriguing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely, however, after all this build-up, we don\u2019t actually see anything of the rescue mission they\u2019re ostensibly meant to be on, outside of an admittedly badass slo-mo power walk down a ship\u2019s corridor. The threat of nuclear disaster is solved in the space of a couple of minutes, and the speed of its solution is played for laughs. The gang returns to the ship almost immediately, where (to the likely surprise of no one who\u2019s ever seen this show before) the antidote doesn\u2019t work, and they\u2019re all stuck as Vulcans for the foreseeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, it feels as though \u201cFour-and-a-Half Vulcans\u201d is going to be a Spock episode. There\u2019s the title, for one thing, and the fact that the first thing that the newly changed <em>Enterprise<\/em> team members glom onto is how Spock is only <em>half<\/em> Vulcan. (The implication being, of course, that he\u2019s lesser than they are because of it. They\u2019re pretty rude about it, honestly.) But the issue doesn\u2019t really come up again for whatever reason, and the bulk of the hour focuses on the rest of the gang trying to navigate various issues in their personal lives from a more logical, Vulcan perspective. That goes about as well as anyone might expect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pike\u2019s hair has somehow grown at least three sizes in the course of his transformation, and, thanks to his newfound Vulcan obsessions with food and tidiness, Anson Mount gets the rare chance to show off the fact that, underneath his general golden retriever demeanor, he really is an excellent comedic actor. (Someone cast this man in a rom-com, please!) It seems, however, that for the second (third?) week in a row, we just won\u2019t be addressing the fact that his girlfriend seems to occasionally be <em>partially<\/em> possessed by a Gorn whenever the storyline needs it. (She has\u2026.super strength now? Maybe? Sometimes?)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batel\u2019s not the only character whose trauma comes and goes when the story requires it. Ortegas, despite her early-season struggles with PTSD, now seems remarkably fine, though understandably upset when she realizes that Uhura\u2019s essentially used a Vulcan mind meld to brainwash Beto into being a more palatable (and malleable) boyfriend. Given that this episode leans into the idea that these people are still humans at their core despite being transformed into Vulcans, it says something\u2026.let\u2019s just call it uncomfortable that this is the first thing Uhura decides to do with her new, more efficient consciousness. For her part, Chapel doubles down on becoming a workaholic, severing all the personal relationships in her life, while La\u2019an becomes increasingly violent, obsessed with weapons and the prospect of war. Spock says this has something to do with the fact that she\u2019s half human and half Augment, which is another interesting idea that doesn\u2019t get explored in any real depth. (Here\u2019s hoping that bit where Pike and La\u2019an both appear to acknowledge they remember their encounters with Romulans goes somewhere before the end of the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best moments in \u201cFour-and-a-Half Vulcans\u201d generally don\u2019t have much to do with the whole Vulcan problem. Every time Pelia is onscreen is delightful, and the seeds of what will become James Kirk and Montgomery Scott\u2019s future friendship are planted during a side quest in which they have to prevent La\u2019an from starting a war for fun. It might be better if we all just forget the awful subplot featuring Patton Oswalt as Una\u2019s ex ever existed. Truly, we deserve to learn more about Number One\u2019s life outside of her role on the <em>Enterprise<\/em>, but this subplot about her being unable to get over her intense sexual attraction to someone as uninteresting as Doug feels almost insulting, not to mention <em>wildly<\/em> out of character for the woman we\u2019ve gotten to know up until this point. (Also, it\u2019s just awkward as hell. No matter how funny Ethan Peck is while Spock\u2019s pretending to be married to her.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s the problem here\u2014this whole episode is awkward. It\u2019s weirdly paced, oddly pointless, and doesn\u2019t even seem to have a coherent central message. Is it that we are who we are deep down, no matter what species we happen to resemble? That too much logic can be just as dangerous as too much emotion? That La\u2019an is epically bad at relationships? Your guess is as good as mine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>New episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiere Thursdays on Paramount+, culminating with a finale on Sept. 11.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This&nbsp;Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers for season 3 episode 8. It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged that even the best television shows have average episodes. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans are more spoiled than most, simply because we don\u2019t get them very often. 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