Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"

[Timofnine]

qe saw a GORN WEDDING (all caps), but they definitely weren’t friendly to the party crasher and no hint on wether they are in the federation, allies, enemies or whatever.

Perhaps the wedding was a Metron test to see if anybody who came to the party was intellectually and socially evolved enough to make first contact with them? I’ve not seen this Lower Deck’s episode yet so I’m unsure as to what context the Gorn are shown in it? I am assuming that it is a cameo. Humanity and the Federation do keep failing the Metron test when it comes to ‘trial by combat’, so maybe they decided to implement a ‘trial by wedding’ test instead?

 

[jackoverfull]

It is a completely out of context cameo, but no mention of the metron whatsoever.

 

[Timofnine]

It is a completely out of context cameo, but no mention of the metron whatsoever.

Doesn’t need to be… it’s a secret.

 

[Mudd]

Loved the music in this one. Very tense.

Same composer as Prodigy. She's just not scoring a kid's cartoon.

Oh...10.

 

[Mudd]

So...the little girl in Aliens was Newt, and this one is "Fig?"

Cute.

 

[DEWLine]

Yeah.

Meantime, I expect astronomy students who know their way around the existing databases to try to pin down the Finibus system to someplace already known to us...or likely to have a star that could become a black hole in the next 250 years. Beta Quadrant side, rimward?

 

[Mudd]

The black hole in this instance may not yet be massive enough for us to notice. There's certainly no shortage of brown dwarves.

 

[Belz...]

The black hole in this instance may not yet be massive enough for us to notice. There's certainly no shortage of brown dwarves.

Indeed. It's not even clear that brown dwarves are stars, as argued in the episode. In some cases, some nuclear fusion is going on, and in others not. I guess the exact threshold between gas giant and miniature star is difficult to ascertain, as is often the case.

 

[valkyrie013]

There really showings Pikes .. Aggressiveness? He knows he'll survive for another 10 years, so he's being quite reckless.. I'm on the enterprise, I survive, so the enterprise will survive whatever completly insane scheme we do... Reckless.

 

[Mudd]

There really showings Pikes .. Aggressiveness? He knows he'll survive for another 10 years, so he's being quite reckless.. I'm on the enterprise, I survive, so the enterprise will survive whatever completly insane scheme we do... Reckless.

Nope.
He did what needed to be done, when it needed to be done.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I can't wait to see what they come up with and I can't wait to laugh at all of the complaints about canon violations.

I watched Arena again after I read that the Gorn are gonna be mentioned or even appear in SNW, and you could say they vaguely knew about them, just not in detail, and not everyone was briefed about them

Since Captain Lorca even had a Gorn skeleton displayed in his Ready Room, I'm not all that worried.

The script for “Arena” episode turned out too similar to a short story by scifi writer Fredrick Brown. So they bought the story from him and gave him story credit for the episode. I haven’t read that short story but I suspect there are no Gorn in it.

The alien adversary's form is that of a red sphere about 1 yard (0.91 m) in diameter with about a dozen thin, retractable tentacles. At one point it tosses a dead lizard at the human.

 

[Amasov]

I thought this was an excellent episode. I'm almost taken aback by how consistently good the series has been so far.

Excellent performances, lots of tension, and wonderful character building.

But I need more Hemmer. I absolutely love this character and he steals every single scene he's in.

Also, I really loved the idea of Starfleet Remembrance Day combined with Pike's speech at the start of the episode.

 

[Timofnine]

Since Captain Lorca even had a Gorn skeleton displayed in his Ready Room, I'm not all that worried.

That was an obvious forgery. It looked to me like a modified human skeleton with a ridiculously oversized reptilian head. Perhaps Mirror Lorca forged a Gorn skeleton to make him seem more powerful and feared due to this species reputation? Or maybe Mirror Lorca also failed the Metron test but got to take the skeleton of the defeated Gorn away as a trophy. He thought that he had won the ultimate prize by defeating the Gorn, but instead he failed to make diplomatic relations with the Metron’s which would have led to social enlightenment and wondrous new technological marvels being shared in cultural exchanges! This mirror universe is well over 1,000 years away from making relations with the Metron’s… it just may never happen for them. I’m assuming that the Metron’s domain transcends multiverses and is a universal constant, seperate from and unaffected by divergences in the timeline.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

So, last week Lord Garth was sold on this show. This week it's me. Memento Mori, a properly fantastic episode of Star Trek. I didn't exactly have doubts before as I've enjoyed it week on week, but SNW really has grown with each episode. I preferred E02 to E01, then I preferred E03 to E02... the fourth episode is the best of the lot. What a brilliant show this is.

 

[Noname Given]

qe saw a GORN WEDDING (all caps), but they definitely weren’t friendly to the party crasher and no hint on wether they are in the federation, allies, enemies or whatever.

To be fair we saw a Klingon/Trill wedding on DS9 in the 24th century too. Doesn't change the fact that a century earlier the Klingon Empire and the Federation were mortal enemies.

 

[Space Lemur X]

"Non", not "Na'an".

Challenge accepted!

 

[Hawku]

Voted 10. I loved this episode.

 

[wayoung]

I like garlic naan.

 

[Belz...]

That was an obvious forgery. It looked to me like a modified human skeleton with a ridiculously oversized reptilian head.

Maybe it was the skeleton of the actor who wore the suit back in the 60s.

 

[TRON JA307020]

The most persistent of wanks.

I'm just extrapolating where they are possibly headed. They really don't seem to like anything from TOS set design. Even the officers quarters are much larger than on TOS. It goes against what Scotty said in TNG about ship quarters during the TOS era. I like SNW but I not fooling myself that TOS as is is part of the main visual continuity timeline now. Yeah we will see something with Kirk as captain one day.