Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x07 - "The Serene Squall"
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Tbey've shot just about all of it. It's good to keep up.
Una's startled reaction and her plea for him to stop, followed by Ortegas' smile is what sold that scene for me.
I said it before but the black matte finish to the Engine Room combined with all the physical buttons, switches and sliders is just gorgeous to behold. The old late '60s set had that "there are smudged fingerprints on all the surfaces" look and this one mimics that. It feels like the ship's matter/antimatter engine components are in that room, something many other recent Engineering sections in Trek failed to capture.
From the sound of it, there has to be another crime. But also, the belief of the rehab crew is that it was the rejection of logic that put their wards in a state of mind to accept a criminal life as an acceptable path.
I asked that after Spock Amok. Sure is looking that way which is pretty dystopian.
It matters if you’ve never seen someone like yourself on screen before.
Think of it like it’s food. Some of you have been at a buffet your whole lives, the rest of us have been wandering the wastelands and just found a sandwich.
Awww, you're going to be sad then. T'Pring is in S2.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).
Sybok's followers took over the Enterprise-A with just one shuttlecraft and a handful of handmade projectile weapons. Not everyone on the ship could have been brainwashed by Sybok's telepathic talents given how much time he spends on the bridge or with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Security on a Federation starship is a pretty flimsy concept and if ships named Enterprise can fall to a small band of disgruntled rebels then there's not much hope for the rest of Starfleet's vessels.
I loved the entire episode up to the final reveal. Sybok is not an i dotted nor t crossed I give a damn about. But there it is.
Pike's "Long John Silver" schtick was freaking hilarious, though! Robert Newton himself would have loved it.
Pike's "Long John Silver" schtick was freaking hilarious, though! Robert Newton himself would have loved it.
My bullshit theory is that the "God" of Sha'karee is a Cytherian prisoner who was imprisoned for trying to take over the Cytherian "government". Before he was captured he retasked several of the Cytherian reverse exploration probes to send out telepathic signals that would convince a suitable telepath in range that their societies version of a deity was calling them to the center of the galaxy to find whatever their version of the Garden of Eden or paradise was.
Sybok heard this signal and began his crusade because of it.
Once he had captured the Enterprise, using his Cytherian enhanced mind he enhanced the Enterprise warp drive until it could achieve warp whatever speed and cross the distance to the Great Barrier in days, just like Barclay enhanced the Enterprise-D warp drive to reach the center of the galaxy in TNG The Nth Degree. The Bird of Prey cloaked and snuck inside their warp bubble so they could travel along.
The method of travel would blow up the warp drive if continued in use after the round trip to the center of the galaxy and back (to avoid it being used to return and attack the Cytherians) and since Sybok was dead none of the Enterprise crew knew how to reproduce it. And Barclay forgot how to do it as soon as he was "released" by the Cytherian mind probe anyway.
- Both the Cytherians and "God" present as giant disembodied glowing heads.
- Both the Cytherians and God use a person they've contacted and manipulated to bring a ship to them; the Cytherians to explore and meet other cultures without leaving home, and God to hijack a starship as a means of escape and/or conquest.
- Both involve enhancing ships to achieve vastly higher warp speeds.
- Both reside at the center of the galaxy.
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No. I'm pretty sure the guy in Spock Amok committed an actual crime. It's in the dialog. Renouncing logic is not the crime - although it seems the Vulcans believe a person wouldn't commit a crime if in the right state of mind, that state being "logical." Which is weird because the logic extremists think they are the bestest at logic.
I'm sure she has one. Spock on the other hand...Someone needs to give T’Pring a copy of the Karma Sutra.
wut????
wut????
Nah.
That's not "tight canon", that's just your assumptions.
When Dr. Simon Van Gelder can Kirk chop an Enterprise security guard unconscious ON THE BRIDGE WHILE KIRK IS THERE something has seriously gone wrong with starship security protocols. 
After fifty years and more, maybe it’s a security feature and not a bug.When Dr. Simon Van Gelder can Kirk chop an Enterprise security guard unconscious ON THE BRIDGE WHILE KIRK IS THERE something has seriously gone wrong with starship security protocols.
Archer in 2161: "Maybe any future ship with this name should have a dedicated security team that aren't MACOs and, you know, some seatbelts."
Starfleet: "We'll get to work on that."
Starfleet: "We'll get to work on that."
You're wrong.
I guess it's just me but I think the writing on this show is terrible which is too bad. This episode has too many holes to talk about. The filming is beautiful, the cast is great and there is such great potential here but I feel like they are missing the boat. I wish the crew acted more like a military vessel instead of high school pals. The other thing that annoys me terribly is that they seem to always focus on the secondary characters which I don't care as much about as Pike, Number One and Spock. I do enjoy the Chapel role, great improvement over the original Chapel but it is a little annoying that she is more of a doctor than a nurse. I want to like the show but it's not easy, lol.