Three, if you count the Captain he hooked up with in the opening episode.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x06 - "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
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Interesting. But I'd like to think that people in the future know how contraceptives work and, more importantly, use them responsibly.
Incredible. Pike has MORE squeeses than Kirk.Three, if you count the Captain he hooked up with in the opening episode.
Until she calls him on subspace in SNW S3 with:
"Hey Chris, you remember our night together...Congratulations we have another "First Servant" in the works...Thanks Chris, here's the invite to his ascension ceremony."
"Hey Chris, you remember our night together...Congratulations we have another "First Servant" in the works...Thanks Chris, here's the invite to his ascension ceremony."
Drusilla, Deela, Miramanee, possibly (probably?) Edith Keeler.
That's it. Everyone else was an ex or a flirtation.
That's it. Everyone else was an ex or a flirtation.
Or the teenage daughter of a mass murderer who killed 4,000 people.
Umm...that type of ending HAS been in TOS - TOS S2 - "A Private Little War".
Typical Star Trek, actually, right back to the beginning.
To be fair, in that instance Kirk was using her as a pawn/tool to get more info as to whether her father WAS actually Kodos or not.
(And yes, he was also attracted to her, but if not for the murder of his friend back on the planet and his suspicion as a result, he probably wouldn't have gone beyond flirting with her at the afterparty at his friend's residence.)
(And the episode being referred to here is: TOS S1 - "The Conscience Of The King")
James Kirk: he won't intend to go down the rabbit hole but when he does he creeps out all the rabbits.
Mirimanee for sure, since she was pregnant. Carol Marcus for the same reason. Though both are human. Not sure about Elaan. Yeah he was besotted but was there sex? Drusilla, I'm not sure of either. I think they stayed up all night and talked.
He might have closed the deal with Helen Noel on more than one occasion though we don't know how long she was stationed on the Enterprise.
Nah, Noel is one he probably wouldn't have.
I take it as a genuine response to "knowing she can die" that she talked about earlier in the season. She's going to make sure that she and everyone else on security takes everything seriously because it's literally life or death. It's a good trait for a security officer particularly. But she also has a fun side as we've seen.
La'an: Hey cadet who's specialty is in linguistics and not combat, go fire the phasers in my place because I said so. Oh what, you missed and vaporized the ship instead of fender-bendering them like the Captain wanted? Not my problem.
Uhura got to sit at the helm console at least once in TOS so at least this misadventure at the phaser controls is in keeping with that.
There should have been a gazillion holographic combat scenarios run with Uhura before she got to the real phaser. All the body language Uhura showed indicated she might not have even been in enough to count on 2 hands.
Yeah, La'an made a terrible decision. I can't defend her on this. I know it was just a way to get Uhura more directly involved in the story but, yeah, that was not award-winning thinking from her.
Someone who has gone through the academy should have combat training. That's not an unreasonable expectation.
I generally like to post my initial thoughts without reading the comments, but halfway through now and there have been some good ones, and I was unaware of the ULG short story, so I will add a few thoughts.
The fact that this idea may have been taken from one of Ursula's short stories does not bother me. With the caveat I have not read it. Though I can certainly see how that knowledge could detract from one's enjoyment of the episode. This is Trek and sci-fi, just because an idea has been explored before or elsewhere does not mean it should be off-limits. Be it a perfect society built on a dark secret (This Side of Paradise, The Cloud Minders), the dehumanizing effects of downloading human consciousness into a computer/robot or AI governance (What are Little Girls Made Of?, Return of the Archons), or a society willing to make a terrible sacrifice to maintain tranquility (A Taste of Armaggedon).
As for this episode, I knew something was up when the pathetically inferior ship fired on Enterprise. Plus, when something seems too good to be true, it usually is (This Side of Paradise, The Cloud Minders).
As for the idea that this was a plot episode instead of a character episode, I am not sure I agree. The child is willing to meet his doom in service of the greater good (informed consent ir not). Pike is facing a similar dilemna. One that we know he completes the same way a child did.
Lastly, I think Alora's point is spot on, shining a light on our willingness to sacrifice our children to, say, gun violence, for essentially nothing. Beyond plot/character, this a is a great social commentary episode along the lines of "Let this be your last Battlefield."
It is not perfect, to be sure. The reasoning for why it is necessary is shallow, and Uhura seems unconcerned about boowing an inferior ship out of the sky. And the ending is dark (for those that dislike that).
But I like it more because of the ending. No fix this time. If I could go back, I think I'd be in 9/10 range. This is shaping up to be the best S1 since TOS (though PRO was awful good, as were the first half of Disco & Picard, and S1 of LD).
I'd also rate it as the top half-season of NuTrek.
Excellent:
SNW so far
Very Good:
DISCO: S2 first half, S1 first half, S4 finish
PIC: S1 first half, S2 start & end.
LD: almost the whole thing. Mariner did get tedious there for a bit, but the S2 finish was AWESOME.
PRO: Whole first half
The fact that this idea may have been taken from one of Ursula's short stories does not bother me. With the caveat I have not read it. Though I can certainly see how that knowledge could detract from one's enjoyment of the episode. This is Trek and sci-fi, just because an idea has been explored before or elsewhere does not mean it should be off-limits. Be it a perfect society built on a dark secret (This Side of Paradise, The Cloud Minders), the dehumanizing effects of downloading human consciousness into a computer/robot or AI governance (What are Little Girls Made Of?, Return of the Archons), or a society willing to make a terrible sacrifice to maintain tranquility (A Taste of Armaggedon).
As for this episode, I knew something was up when the pathetically inferior ship fired on Enterprise. Plus, when something seems too good to be true, it usually is (This Side of Paradise, The Cloud Minders).
As for the idea that this was a plot episode instead of a character episode, I am not sure I agree. The child is willing to meet his doom in service of the greater good (informed consent ir not). Pike is facing a similar dilemna. One that we know he completes the same way a child did.
Lastly, I think Alora's point is spot on, shining a light on our willingness to sacrifice our children to, say, gun violence, for essentially nothing. Beyond plot/character, this a is a great social commentary episode along the lines of "Let this be your last Battlefield."
It is not perfect, to be sure. The reasoning for why it is necessary is shallow, and Uhura seems unconcerned about boowing an inferior ship out of the sky. And the ending is dark (for those that dislike that).
But I like it more because of the ending. No fix this time. If I could go back, I think I'd be in 9/10 range. This is shaping up to be the best S1 since TOS (though PRO was awful good, as were the first half of Disco & Picard, and S1 of LD).
I'd also rate it as the top half-season of NuTrek.
Excellent:
SNW so far
Very Good:
DISCO: S2 first half, S1 first half, S4 finish
PIC: S1 first half, S2 start & end.
LD: almost the whole thing. Mariner did get tedious there for a bit, but the S2 finish was AWESOME.
PRO: Whole first half