Star Trek : Strange New Worlds

So they have reinvented the gorn, clicks to talk? When i heard the kid do clicks i thought it was the aliens who kidnapped the crew of ent d, and were experimented on, that or the insectoids from xindi maybe, or at a push tholians but then thats more of shrieks. Also, cool but not accurate ships of the gorn too.
 
1x04 - "Memento Mori"

*sigh*

The Good

Anson Mount.
Actually, nearly all of the cast.
VFX team doin' their thang.
The Gorn communication method (light bursts Morse-ing out a code) was a neat touch.

The Bad

I'm pretty sure the Gorn weren't this well known to the Federation in TOS' "Arena".
This 'remembrance day' thing seems more suited to the Starfleet of the TNG era than the one of the 23rd century.
We already did the whole 'submarine warfare IN SPAAAAAAAAACCEEE' deal rather better in TOS' "Balance of Terror", DS9's "Starship Down" and the second film.
If "everything" is offline in sickbay, how is M'Benga's daughter okay in her Magic Transporter Beam Of Preserving™? Or did they forget about her between last week and now?
Did we also forget that flying a ship around a strong gravity source is a quick way to travel back in time?
Not for the first time in Trek we see our ship taking faintly catastrophic damage (indeed, the structure of whole decks getting wrecked) that will doubtless be all repaired by next week. Hell, the corridor we see at the very end of the episode already looks pretty much immaculate.

The Kurtzman

La'an Noonien-Singh :rolleyes:
Once again we have an enemy vessel far larger than the Enterprise. In TOS you could have a dinky little Romulan Bird of Prey-type ship using an outmoded power source be a compelling threat. Now it seems the showrunners need the enemy to have overwhelming strength in order to achieve the same.
The episode coming to a shuddering halt in the mind meld sequence so we can wang on about Spock losing Burnham. Mercifully brief, and yet still somehow wildly irritating.

The Uncategorised

For just the 15th time in all of Trek we get an episode title in Latin - "memento mori" meaning "remember you [have to] die", i.e. a reminder of the inevitability of death.

Weakest episode so far for me. Still orders of magnitude better than nearly all of STD.
 
I hope theres more drama than action in future eps. Or more scientific or cultural problems instead of battle of the week.

The gorn i think are known but not well in tos era, there has been skirmishes between feds and them. I think the gorn might turn out to be a mayor player in this show with khans off spring stuff and now this ep. Sry i dont remember anyone's names but spock and pike, christine, lol. There just not memorable yet.

Anyone notice on the bridge the new bloke that looks like some random utuber with millions of followers that looks a bit girly?

I wish, is it star trek continues? That well made continuation of tos, i wish more of that was made it was amazing.
 
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The pilot (Erica Ortegas) reminds me a little of Tom Paris (didn't particularly like him). I'm actually warming to them a little, I feel like they're the only one who realises, acknowledges how needlessly stupid this often is!

The actor who plays Hemmer is actually blind! (sharing cause I've just learned this)

I like the synopsis for the next episode, sounds like it might be more light hearted fun, less doom and gloom.

A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.
 
Efour said:
Dont get the Chapel hype personally. Maybe cos she looks like a guy i went to school with????
Still cant get over the luxury and size of crew cabins.... silly.
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I'm space mass doesn't matter so much and it would be expected that senior staff have decently sized quarters. It does kind of make the size of the Enterprise like a Tardis inside though, even the bridge appears to be twice the size of TOS.
 
MissChief said:
I'm space mass doesn't matter so much and it would be expected that senior staff have decently sized quarters. It does kind of make the size of the Enterprise like a Tardis inside though, even the bridge appears to be twice the size of TOS.
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That's 'cause they scaled the ship up to fit the STD aesthetic. Instead of being 289m long this Enterprise is around the 440m mark.
 
VincentHanna said:
Because 60's and 70's sci-fi devices would like stupid?
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As stupid as having a ~440m long ship become 305m? And that's if we ignore TOS entirely!

Also, on the whole 'nurr TOS consoles look stupid today nurr' - there's a reason why spacecraft in the main use proven, robust, reliable technology. There's at least one episode of STD where the fancy dan touchscreen consoles completely screw the crew up when the computer goes wappy. You use buttons, and sliders, and toggles because when you're a long way from a drydock you can nail **** back together again with bailing twine and prayer.

Stuff is allowed to make sense in sci-fi, you know. Rather than just being absolutely fantastical :)
 
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