Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x07 - "The Serene Squall"

[Verteron]

This episode was an 8 for me rather than a 9 or 10, as I still find it hard to believe quite how easily Starfleet ships can get taken over and it breaks my immersion a bit to see it. I suppose in-universe it's consistent, but jeez, if some space pirates can manage it, I'm sure the Romulans could.

Still a very, very solid and enjoyable ride though. Aspen(sp?)/Angel was fantastic, that about-turn when they revealed their true identity came a a genuine surprise and suddenly I was all like "why didn't I see that before!". The counselling scenes in particular had me totally convinced they were real Starfleet stuff.

Some great bridge crew moments as well, particularly "our mutiny is still in progress" from Una. That put a huge smile on my face. Pike playing the tough guy after doing a romance last week was good balance too. Very much from a similar mould as another 23rd century captain who will later sit in his chair on the Big E!

Wondering if Sybok might reappear as the antagonist in a two-part finale.

 

[tomalak301]

Much better than last week. This was an 8 episode, but then that ending came with the Sybok reveal and it took the episode up another point to a 9.

I had a lot of fun with this episode. I'm starting to think T'Pring might be my favorite Vulcan of the new era, mainly because of her smarts and attractiveness, and she does have excellent chemistry with Spock. The Pike part of the story was all kinds of fun, and I guess they wanted to name a planet after Brannon Braga? Nice call out to 90s Trek there, writers, or at least I like to think so.

I hope we see Angel again. She was a great villain.

 

[Verteron]

Also, I forgot to say, I LOVED the "why it's fun to be friends with Vulcans" explanation

 

[E-DUB]

At least that engine room doesn't look like a brewery.

 

[Kevman7987]

Pike's plan was very Kirkesque.

Loved the Serene Squall having a literal ship"s wheel.

Anybody else get angry at the pirates for messing up Pike's hair?

Poor Chapel; Never gets Spock and Roger Korby goes MIA and dies.

Sybok! Another L for the "Star Trek V is not canon" folks.

 

[wayoung]

At least that engine room doesn't look like a brewery.

Scotty and Riley probably feel differently.

 

[Yistaan]

Poor Chapel; Never gets Spock and Roger Korby goes MIA and dies.

Sybok! Another L for the "Star Trek V is not canon" folks.

For all we know Chapel and Spock were getting it on every other week in the TOS movie period. After all, who else was around to help Spock with subsequent pon farrs? And for all we know young Picard attended the wedding of Spock and elderly Chapel.

Also Gene Roddenberry himself was the first and most prominent of the "Star Trek V isn't canon folks" (if you don't believe me, look up the 2224 entry on the 1990s editions of Star Trek Omnipedia/Encylopedia if you have it, in regards to Sybok's conjectured birth year and the note there mentioning Gene's canon stance on ST5). CBS/Paramount are well within their rights to bring back Sybok and do what they want with him, but they can't claim they're following "Gene's vision" or whatever in this regard.

 

[tomalak301]

As someone who doesn't hate Star Trek V as much as others, I'm loving that they brought back Sybok. He is Spock's half brother. Let's explore that more.

 

[Yistaan]

As someone who doesn't hate Star Trek V as much as others, I'm loving that they brought back Sybok. He is Spock's half brother. Let's explore that more.

I want to know how Sybok got the Enterprise (and the Klingon ship following it) to the galactic center within days when Voyager couldn't do that in years.

 

[wayoung]

Gene's vision was money and sex, everything else is hagiography and irrelevant. Sybock is part of the show. Grousing about what Gene wanted (which changed all the time) is pointless, especially since he's been dead for longer than some of the people working on this series have been alive.

 

[wayoung]

I want to know how Sybok got the Enterprise (and the Klingon ship following it) to the galactic center within days when Voyager couldn't do that in years.

Same way T'Pring got to the Enterprise so fast this episode when communication back to Starfleet would take days. Warp moves at the speed of plot.

 

[Yistaan]

Same way T'Pring got to the Enterprise so fast this episode when communication back to Starfleet would take days. Warp moves at the speed of plot.

There's wiggle room on that as T'Pring was technically not on Vulcan but on the Vulcan prison world that could've been a lot closer to the frontier.

 

[Verteron]

TrekCulture pointed out a possible inconsistency in this episode, which is that the Enterprise was 2 days from realtime communication range at the start of the episode, but Angel was able to call T'Pring in real time.

Bit of a 'hmmm'.

However, simple headcanon explanation is that the pirates have access to a subspace relay network in the region that Starfleet doesn't know about or have access to. Maybe all the way back to Orion.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm sure the Romulans could.

Well, they did infiltrate Romulan diplomatic corps. And that was *shrug* type of moment.

I want to know how Sybok got the Enterprise (and the Klingon ship following it) to the galactic center within days when Voyager couldn't do that in years.

Warp drive broke.

 

[Yistaan]

TrekCulture pointed out a possible inconsistency in this episode, which is that the Enterprise was 2 days from realtime communication range at the start of the episode, but Angel was able to call T'Pring in real time.

Bit of a 'hmmm'.

However, simple headcanon explanation is that the pirates have access to a subspace relay network in the region that Starfleet doesn't know about or have access to. Maybe all the way back to Orion.

Again we don't actually know where T'Pring's prison world is located in relation to the rest of Starfleet.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Brillian........this episode does not get the T because of the pew pew hand phasers, i was so hoping for beam ones, but the Sybok reveal was great, but i will just have to accept that no beam hand phasers i guess.

 

[Yistaan]

Brillian........this episode does not get the T because of the pew pew hand phasers, i was so hoping for them, but the Sybok reveal was great, but i will just have to accept that no beam hand phasers i guess.

And everyone keeps complaining that SNW is too advanced compared to TOS.

 

[cooleddie74]

At least the ship's main phasers are still screeching beams that vary from blue to red.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Pike's plan was very Kirkesque.

Anybody else get angry at the pirates for messing up Pike's hair?
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I did get angry, but I also yelled, "NO, NOT THE FACE!" during all the hitting. Turns out 'Pike after a fistfight' is just as good, if not better.

 

[kirk55555]

That was an extremely mediocre episode. Good to know that a hilariously gigantic starship with a crew somewhere betyween 200-500 can be taken over by half a dozen morons in about 5 minutes. Actually, I guess that gives this episode even more of a connection to Star Trek TFF

4/10, not outright awful like Spock Amok but pretty stupid and uninteresting. I really can't stand T'Pring, hopefully they don't use her in Season 2 (which the show is apparently already renewed for).