Star Trek : Strange New Worlds

MissChief said:
A vastly different time, I thought you had, er, other reasons! Sorry if I got the wrong idea!
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Ah lol. I remember the episode quite well. It is one of the few which I can remember from TOS.

I think the season long story arcs tend to wear thin and are not too well thought out. They end up using dull predictable tropes and we lose interest. Something which started with stuff like Lost. Also Burnham and most of the cast of Picard were insufferable.
 
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Wasn't expecting the twist in this week's episode, got dark pretty quick.

Was nice seeing Lindy Booth back on screen and a little nod crossover from The Librarians having her and Rebecca Romjin on screen together again.
 
Glanza said:
Wasn't expecting the twist in this week's episode, got dark pretty quick.

Was nice seeing Lindy Booth back on screen and a little nod crossover from The Librarians having her and Rebecca Romjin on screen together again.
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Really? Bit surprised it was seen as a twist at all.
I am enjoying this series, but found this week episode to be weak, it is a complete rip off from a stargate episode from many many years ago, where a kid trains and then is sacrificed to give everyone the collective knowledge.
Still better than almost anything discovery has throw our way.
 
Glanza said:
Wasn't expecting the twist in this week's episode, got dark pretty quick.

Was nice seeing Lindy Booth back on screen and a little nod crossover from The Librarians having her and Rebecca Romjin on screen together again.
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Destination said:
Really? Bit surprised it was seen as a twist at all.
I am enjoying this series, but found this week episode to be weak, it is a complete rip off from a stargate episode from many many years ago, where a kid trains and then is sacrificed to give everyone the collective knowledge.
Still better than almost anything discovery has throw our way.
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When the traitorous guard said he was protecting the chosen one before being zapped I knew something was up. I'm surprised Pike didn't pick up on it.
 
Destination said:
Really? Bit surprised it was seen as a twist at all.
I am enjoying this series, but found this week episode to be weak, it is a complete rip off from a stargate episode from many many years ago, where a kid trains and then is sacrificed to give everyone the collective knowledge.
Still better than almost anything discovery has throw our way.
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LOL!

Um, yeah...the bones of the story are actually from a bit before Stargate was a thing :D
 
"Spore Drive" lol why couldn't they just use transwarp. Also them phaser beam things look like the cheap disco lights you get on ebay. Ghey.
Also having virgin which is daylight robbery anyway and expecting one to fork out even more for individual channels is daylight robbery + rape.
 
BIackMagic said:
"Spore Drive" lol why couldn't they just use transwarp. Also them phaser beam things look like the cheap disco lights you get on ebay. Ghey.
Also having virgin which is daylight robbery anyway and expecting one to fork out even more for individual channels is daylight robbery + rape.
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Wut?!

Spore Drive - wrong show.

Virgin?

Rape?
 
1x07 - The Serene Squall

Memory-Alpha said:
While on a dangerous humanitarian mission, the crew of the USS Enterprise stumbles into a harrowing game of leverage with the quadrant's deadliest space pirate.
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The Good

Anson Mount.
VFX team on point as ever.
A Jefferies tube!!!!
Loved the bit with Pike vamping and doing a spot of cooking, while probing for info and weak spots - which, because he's the Captain, comes up trumps.

The Bad

As great as Jess Bush is, I can't help but think that they should have come up with an original character for her rather than have her play a mostly in-name-only Chapel.
The Angel double-cross was a bit too telegraphed. Or maybe I've just seen one too many fake-outs in modern Trek. This one seemed right out of the STD School Of Overly Obvious Twists™. Unfortunate.
There have been many, many better examinations of Spock's identity - human, Vulcan, neither - than this.
I'm not one of those who think the fifth film is the worst...but I am surprised that they'd choose to mine it for the character that effectively sets this episode in motion (Sybok, Spock's half brother who rejected the Vulcan control of emotions).
For a lady who Spock hadn't seen in a while before TOS' "Amok Time" T'Pring sure shows up a lot, doesn't she?

The Kurtzman

La'an Noonien-Singh :rolleyes:
 
Arr!! I’ve rewinded that scene so many times in the past 10mins. It came out of no where and I can’t stop laughing. I don’t think it was even in the script but the show runners kept it because it was so hilarious.
 
Kainz said:
Arr!! I’ve rewinded that scene so many times in the past 10mins. It came out of no where and I can’t stop laughing. I don’t think it was even in the script but the show runners kept it because it was so hilarious.
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If it was scripted, good on the writers.

If it was ad-libbed, it's just another example of how Anson Mount is one of the better things about modern Trek :D
 
Great episode!

There was a feeling of doom and dread and so much potential when the Enterprise was taken over and Pike and crew held hostage. Torture, threats to space the crew - then he offered to cook them dinner. Everything after that was a pantomime :(

But a fun episode!
 
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