TOS is still my favorite Trek. But SNW is a solid denizen of the top tier now.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"
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I definitely haven'tWhy wait?
A lovely person on AO3 thinks S2 will be kind of like Spock's "rumspringa." And now I'm totally on board.
The math is always TOS > TNG.
It's where Jean-Luc Picard went to die.
(Remember, he's just a Synth like Data 2.0 now. The real Jean-Luc Picard is now a preserved corpse stored at the Daystrom Institute.)
Picard's preserved corpse was the true metaphor for PIC 3.
It's backstory from before season 1, something that happened during the Klingon War, but we haven't heard the details yet.
I found the whole battle serum klingon kombat sequence to be really silly and out of character for the show, but I still loved the episode regardless. Hardly the first time Star Trek has made me roll my eyes.
I mean, over 100 years earlier a Klingon scientist developed an Augmented super soldier serum that when working as planned made warriors much stronger and more nimble in personal combat and even when reverse-engineered GAVE a human Klingon cranial ridges in addition to other Klingon appetites and traits, however fleeting.
Green "Kick Somebody's Ass" juice is a relatively minor achievement all things considered.
Green "Kick Somebody's Ass" juice is a relatively minor achievement all things considered.
It's not out of character for SNW. This show is very much its own thing in the Star Trek universe - it's more immediate and has a vitality that's really kind of freakish for what's nominally a prequel to a half-century old TV show coming on the tail end of eight hundred episodes.
We get a casualty/fatality number for the Federation-Klingon War of 100 million, which would put it around twice the amount of dead for World War II, which given the interstellar nature of the conflict is arguably not that bad in the bigger scheme when each sides starships arguably have the ability to glass a planet with anti-matter based weapons.
On the other hand, since the war only lasts for like a year, that number would indicate that more than a few colonies were obliterated and may have been raining blood, given that starships of the era only carry crews in the hundreds, and I don't think either side lost thousands of ships in the war in that short of a time. So gods knows how many colonies along the Klingon border are just gone.
Also, I did like the touch that for all their bluster and warrior bullshit, the Klingons may have only moved the border 3-6 light-years. It's basically the equivalent of the (space) Battle of the Somme.
I have a feeling it's something that's alien which M'Benga might have discovered during the war, perhaps a secret that only Chapel and M'Benga know about, and has some nasty side-effects they haven't expanded on just yet. M'Benga and Chapel seem very reluctant to use it. And if it was standard issue, and something known and issued by the Federation, you would think they would of broke it out when they were having issues with the Gorn last season
Although, there was an option they could have gone with and didn't. The story kinda loses track of La'an and could of just as easily set up her coming to the rescue of Chapel and M'Benga, and all of them having to find a way off the ship together, instead of going with Super-Soldier Serum.
On the other hand, since the war only lasts for like a year, that number would indicate that more than a few colonies were obliterated and may have been raining blood, given that starships of the era only carry crews in the hundreds, and I don't think either side lost thousands of ships in the war in that short of a time. So gods knows how many colonies along the Klingon border are just gone.
Also, I did like the touch that for all their bluster and warrior bullshit, the Klingons may have only moved the border 3-6 light-years. It's basically the equivalent of the (space) Battle of the Somme.
That would certainly fit with Tasha Yar preaching to Wesley about drug use in TNG lol.
I have a feeling it's something that's alien which M'Benga might have discovered during the war, perhaps a secret that only Chapel and M'Benga know about, and has some nasty side-effects they haven't expanded on just yet. M'Benga and Chapel seem very reluctant to use it. And if it was standard issue, and something known and issued by the Federation, you would think they would of broke it out when they were having issues with the Gorn last season
To me, it felt like the writers couldn't reason a really good way to get Chapel and M'Benga off that ship another way, and decided to lean into well they just fight their way off. We just gotta go with that the Klingons are stupid and no one decides: "Hey, why don't we just shoot them with a disruptor?"
Although, there was an option they could have gone with and didn't. The story kinda loses track of La'an and could of just as easily set up her coming to the rescue of Chapel and M'Benga, and all of them having to find a way off the ship together, instead of going with Super-Soldier Serum.
Actually she is, people are mistaking her for an alien, but Spock said "That you managed to live on Earth among OTHER humans undetected" , not "That you managed to live on Earth among humans undetected", the word Other implies whatever her race is, its a species of human, not alien.
Not all none homo sapien species are aliens. The Voth are not aliens, they evovled on earth from Dinosaurs. Augments aren't natural, but they are none Homo Sapien humans, as are Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, etc, so Pelia's people could be one future branch of human evolution. Or maybe her race evovled on an alternatie earth. So she's likely a none homo sapien form of human, like I think Terrans might be (they seem to possess some physical traits different from other humans).
What a great episode.
The scenes with Dr. M’Benga and Chapel were terrific — emotional, surprising, action packed.
Spock clearly in love with Chapel but putting the needs of the many ahead of the one.
Spock and La’an with the Klingons. Priceless.
I also like the alien engineer and hope for an Amanda guest appearance.
i still hope this is an alternate universe. If it betters the story, save Pike and let Spock and Chapel be together.
The scenes with Dr. M’Benga and Chapel were terrific — emotional, surprising, action packed.
Spock clearly in love with Chapel but putting the needs of the many ahead of the one.
Spock and La’an with the Klingons. Priceless.
I also like the alien engineer and hope for an Amanda guest appearance.
i still hope this is an alternate universe. If it betters the story, save Pike and let Spock and Chapel be together.
My sense was that it was some pretty nasty stuff and a hole that they really didn't want to go back down into. There's certainly precedent in wartime military practice.
I dunno, it just doesn't strike me as anything special that requires explanation. So some of the Feds used uppers in combat, right?
All they really need to say is the green juice gives you space cancer or makes you go psycho if you shoot up too much of it.