Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x02 - "Children of The Comet"

She was studying the language. The ship is sentient after all and just wanted to make sure they understood it.

I'm guessing we can presume he has them "saved" from previous searches.

 

The Galactic Song Contest...

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Since he knows that those students are cadets, he probably has a good guess as to what their age range will be given that he knows how far into the future that he will become a paraplegic.

Do a basic subtraction for maximum possible age range, you can considerably narrow down what year they were born in.

 

I'm not a musical expert, but it looks to me like Uhura converted the symbols on the 'egg' to musical notes by having Spock repeat the notes to see how the 'egg' reacted. Then was able to figure out which symbols changed intensity with each note. That enable Uhura to read the symbols and convert them to the proper notes. If Uhura sees a pattern of notes that appear to be a song, then starts singing them.

It reminds me of the communication used by the ET's in: Close Encounters of the Third kind. Instead of colored lights, it is lighted symbols that react to sounds.



It could have been something as simple as the object felt threatened when Kirk touched it, so it raised the force field. Then when it recognized a communication attempt it considered to be non-threatening, it shut off the force field. It may not have required a specific song to lower the field.

 

Yeah, I thought that this is something Pike does routinely, perhaps every night.

Pretty good episode and for once the crazy aliens were right. And who was behind the comet? The Perservers?

The highlight for me this episode was the dinner in Pike’s quarters. I like the character interactions so far on this show.

 

Well, that was delightful.

Celia Rose Gooding is fantastic.

 

I enjoyed this episode far more than the opener. The plot and character moments are nicely balanced. I liked the last part where characters realise that they're part of what was always meant to happen (the comet knowing it was to be helped from destroying the planet) juxtaposed with Pike and his foreknowledge of what is to come: Is that also always meant to happen? (forgive the tense mix)

Anyone else felt that maybe this is how the Progenitors may have seeded life or seeded water and turned Trek planets habitable?

 

I choose to believe its the Preservers because nothing in Star Trek can be wholly new.

 

That is what I was thinking too. Maybe Spock spent time studying the symbols on the 'egg' and that is what enabled him to 'read' the ones on the obelisk that he encountered years later.

 

Ok.
I'd say the second episode is not as good as the first one, but it has a number of interesting elements.
I don't think singing was ever quite used this way in a Trek story before. And it's nice to see a Kirk be a redshirt for once.
It's interesting to see that the preview scene with Hemmer was actually him and Spock messing around with the newbie.

 

It was very disjointed and lacked gravitas. The forknowlefge thing is becoming very tiresome now. 10 years in the future.
Also he is not even dying. just an injury.

Comets are not alive so thats sounds like new age stuff.

Spick could make him forget using the mind meld thingy

 

he can be selfish and not bother or just warn them. its seems stupid. if he knows hecan change the future. bad writing and bad plot

 

Didn't we see them on Enterprise? Or at least hear about them?

It's an expression.

He says he "lived" this moment, so presumably he'd know these cadets in that moment and could remember their names after the vision.

Why not? After this five-year mission who knows where each person will be reassigned?

TOS-era prime directive was a different beast.

Agreed.
And for some reason that reminds me of the shot in LD season 1 (the holodeck novella episode) where they spin around the ship endlessly like in TMP.

I do think they were usually red on the show. What I'd have prefered is white photon torpedoes. Can't always get what I want.

 

Only temporarily. He was back on his feet in the following movie.

Two is tiresome? His arc is learning to cope with this knowledge. We knew this months in advance.

"Just" an injury that leaves him almost vegetative. It's worse than death.

The comet wasn't alive. It was a mechanism.

He doesn't know any of that.

 

Good.

 

I've been thinking exactly this since I first saw the show.

Hubris. Defiance of the Fates makes a tragedy.

 

Wow. This is the opposite of my reaction. Every scene with these people reminds me of what stiffs the Trek characters have been since 1987, and I'm gleeful to see the writers allowed to discard all of that.

 

3 times last week and again this week.

If he knows he can CHOOSE not to be there. he Can warn others. he can even destroy the cause. or take a ship and destroy it or just phone in sick. Its not wriiten in stone.

They are supposed to be the best of the best and he is written to be a snowflake pansy with no grit or even shrug of the shoulders and refusal to take any action. Making him look helpless...

 

I mean it absolutely is because we, the audience, know it is.

And Pike thinks he is trading his life for five people.

I think that is the opposite of your choice of words.

 

I think we probably have a short-term visitor here.