This article contains spoilers For “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, episode 2 – “Wedding Bell Blues”
After the hectic and surprisingly bloody nature of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Première in season 3 “, Hegemony, Part II,” The Enterprise crew can at least temporarily resume their collective breath. “Wedding Bell Blues” offers a little time jump and a welcome respite of brutality, opting to focus on character relationships – in particular, the love triangle between Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), his new boyfriend Dr Corby (Cillian O’Sullivan), and the Lovelorn Spock (Ethan Peck). Unfortunately, the extraterrestrial similar to God Trelane (Rhys Darby of “Our flag means renown”) soon begins to confuse water with its playful manners and altering reality. Suddenly, Spock and Chapel get married, and only Corby seems to realize that something is wrong …
Yes, this is one of those The episodes of “Star Trek”, and it’s refreshing to have a really weird of it – especially since “Wedding Bell Blues” throws something more for the Fandom. The hair of Captain Christopher Pike (Mount Anson) have been the subject of memes and jokes of good humor for some time now, and the episode tackles heavily via Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano). At the beginning of the episode, Pike and Batel reflect on their feelings with each other and how their professions as captains of dishes mean posing serious challenges for a more serious relationship. At the end of the conversation, Batel jokingly thinks of what would happen if they both tried to live in the neighborhoods of his captain – and where all the hair products of Pike would adapt. It is an obvious wink and nod with memes of hair that it is easy to imagine a lot of fans that strike the air when they see the scene.
Captain Pike’s glorious hair is a lasting meme
“Wedding Bell Blues” is an episode imbued with the “Star Trek” myth. Dr. Corby is familiar with the episode of “Star Trek: The Original Series” “What are the little girls made of?” (where it was played by Michael Strong). Likewise, Trelane was last seen in “The Original Series” Episode “The Squire of Gothos” (with William Campbell in the role), and the father entity of Trelane turns out to be other than Q, the emblematic Trickster Entity by John de Lancie.
Even in the middle of this reference and feedback dam, the joke on Pike’s hair is a remarkable moment. Many individual memes on the subject of an entire account dedicated to Captain Pike’s hair on X (previously known as Twitter), the hairstyle defying gravity has built a fairly dedicated suite. We can also be almost sure that the joke of the hair product is not an accident, because people behind the show are extremely aware of the reputation that Pike’s hair enjoy. In fact, Anson Mount was asking herself in interviews in 2022. In an interview with Esquire, he granted the credit where the credit is due, while recognizing that Pike’s hairstyle made waves:
“This is all our resident hair guru, Daniel Losco. His work seems to have been noticed.”
The appropriate hairdressing -adjacent hair product joke can be considered a subtle wink in Losco, because it confirms that Pike is not only going on a bed resembling this. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ends after season 5 and the fans only know that the complicated future of Captain Pike will imply a severe demotion in appearance (among others), so let’s hope that his hair will have a lot of time under the spotlight before fate catches up.
