Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x01 - "Strange New Worlds"

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' started by Serveaux, May 2, 2022.

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  1. cooleddie74

    cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    "See that up there? That's my winning card."

    "What are cards?"

    "Okay, we're leaving. Bomb yourselves to extinction for all I care."
     
  2. NCC-73515

    NCC-73515 Vice Admiral Admiral

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    TOS transporters could dematerialize a sitting person with their hands on plane controls, and rematerialize them standing up with their hands hanging down on the sides. That may be more complex than changing clothes...
     
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  3. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Ah, the Picard maneuver.
     
  4. Kevman7987

    Kevman7987 Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    Final thoughts on my earlier posts: It's probably just me and my own personal fears but I still find it very upsetting that Batel (someone who seems to deeply care for Pike) just straight up abandons him when he becomes disabled as far as current continuity goes. Yes Spock will come for Pike and reunite him with his true love Vina, but still.
     
  5. Farscape One

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    There's still a lot of years until his fate. She could have been killed. She could have been on a deep space assignment. She might not have even known... even Kirk didn't know he was crippled when he went to the starbase.
     
  6. Captain Jollydark

    Captain Jollydark Captain Captain

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    But it hasn't happened yet and we can't know yet and what if she dies before it happens or she has been there and we didn't see her. That's the great thing about fiction.
     
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  7. cooleddie74

    cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Mendez: "You don't know? You actually don't know what's happened to Captain Pike? There's been subspace chatter about it for months."

    Seems that Kirk and the Enterprise were largely out of touch on the frontier or the decision to reveal Fleet Captain Pike's injuries was one that involved leaking the news out piecemeal without some huge news service story being published.
     
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  8. Farscape One

    Farscape One Vice Admiral Admiral

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    If she was on a deep space assignment, on the frontier, she likely wouldn't hear about it, just like Kirk.
     
  9. Turtletrekker

    Turtletrekker Admiral Admiral

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    Maybe she died. Maybe they broke up years prior. Who knows?
     
  10. JoaquinSlowly

    JoaquinSlowly Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    ‪‪I don’t think that we have any reason to believe that Batel abandons him at all. ‪‪Given all the information we have available to us, I don’t think he and Batel were in a committed exclusive relationship. ‪‪I responded yesterday regarding part of my reason for this thinking:

    ‪‪I absolutely understand the concern, ‪‪I wouldn’t want to see them portray someone abandoning their partner because they’ve become disabled. ‪‪I don’t think at this point we should assume much from Batel and Pike’s relationship. ‪‪I think there’s a high likelihood that we will see Pike playing the field this season, and throughout the course of this series.
     
  11. Noname Given

    Noname Given Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    A lot can change in any relationship over 8 - 10 years. In TOS S2 - "The Menagerie" it's stated there's been subspace chatter for months. For all we know, she came by earlier and Pike sent her away.
     
  12. T'Bonz

    T'Bonz Romulan Curmudgeon Administrator

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    Pretty sad that it takes a non-American to "get it." Sign me moderate Independent.

    Back to Trek - sometimes it was laid on really thick (Let That Be....), and other times (A Private Little War) it was done very well. I don't mind a bit of preaching as some call it, but subtlety is always welcome as opposed to the hammer.
     
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  13. NCC-73515

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    Here it is for non-P+ers and not-yet-P+ers, official and free:

     
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  14. Enterprise is Great

    Enterprise is Great Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Pretty good debut episode. Funny how the planet in this episode was very much like Earth considering what the name of the series is. But OTOH Earth is a pretty strange place at times. I gave it a 7.
     
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  15. VKORECTU

    VKORECTU Lieutenant Red Shirt

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    The ending was very rushed and they did not even leave mediators behimnd or explain the cause of the war which would have made it more meaningful. This failure make its vapid and superficial.

    Instead they wasted time on the stupid chase scene by the white haired nurse for a cheap laugh.
    Why would the pserson do that anyway i mean they came from white corridors and rooms on the planet and were still in a white room so why the panic. why the fear?


    Is the white hair a wig or really like that?
     
  16. Belz...

    Belz... Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Sensing a pattern, here.

    If you think waking up surrounded by aliens probing you is not fear-inducing, you are braver than I.
     
  17. VKORECTU

    VKORECTU Lieutenant Red Shirt

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    What aliens. They looked very similar and were hardly monsters. no one was probing anyone. he was just lying on a bed.
    They could jusy have left him in the transporter or the brig or a white painted room.
     
  18. Gov Kodos

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    No, there was no need for spoon feeding, or the Federation's Burden to Civilize the Natives. Pike left them like Klaatu at the start. Gave them the facts and left them to decide what to do with their planet. The implications from the scenes afterward imply they stepped back from their abyss. No need for spoon feeding.

    Aliens, he freaked out seeing aliens. Running through corridors without security all the way to the bridge is just old school TOS. Silly but security has always sucked on the Enterprise.


    About as important as nacelle colors.
     
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  19. VKORECTU

    VKORECTU Lieutenant Red Shirt

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    The wig was seen in Eternals or x-men i think
     
  20. Paterson

    Paterson Lieutenant Red Shirt

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    I can suspend disbelief in these cases, but in the end it is really mostly just a weird nose, not much obviously apparent "alienness" involved.