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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"

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shakham said:
My bad, I need to choose my words more carefully in the future. Forget I said LSD!
Off topic, I was prescribed Percoset once, hated it!

On topic now...
I understand that they had to stop the ship, but it would have been nice if they detailed some sort of thought to the strategy to get there. For example, we need to get the bridge, shortest path is here, longer path is here, we may have less resistance in the longer path, but we don't have a choice so we have to take shorter path! Cue in any form of bravado music, trumpet, etc. Take the blue liquid, and boom!

Remember they fought through a whole bunch of Klingons who aren't battle slouches. I was just surprised nobody had any weapons (or minimal weapons). They could have just said "notice nobody has any weapons, that certainly helps our odds".

Maybe I missed the build up....I'll watch it again and see.
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Show (which they did), don’t tell. Nothing needed explanation beyond what we saw. It was a textbook case of a self-explanatory scene.
 
shakham said:
Remember they fought through a whole bunch of Klingons who aren't battle slouches. I was just surprised nobody had any weapons (or minimal weapons). They could have just said "notice nobody has any weapons, that certainly helps our odds".
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They were not warriors.
 
shakham said:
So I'm supposed to believe a bunch of Klingon paper pushers were trying to re-spawn a war between the Federation and the Klingons? lol :D
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Let me see if I understand this correctly. The assumption is that they must be warriors because only warriors would start a war? Otherwise they are only pencil pushers? An odd binary choice to be sure.
 
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Commander Troi said:
I was fairly sure they said Klingon and human soldiers were trying to restart the war.
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Not all soldiers are equally skilled in close combat. Soldiers can be supply personnel (the category of soldier that historically have run the black markets that generate profits in wartime—and who are in that position because their combat skills are not “top of the line”).
 
Ovation said:
Not all soldiers are equally skilled in close combat. Soldiers can be supply personnel (the category of soldier that historically have run the black markets that generate profits in wartime—and who are in that position because their combat skills are not “top of the line”).
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Yeah and these particular soldiers were in for the money.
 
shakham said:
My dead horse is showing signs of life.
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I always have a morbid curiosity about people's perspectives on art.

I still discuss Star Wars and what could have been done better with that film. That film has been out a mite longer than this episode.
 
Ovation said:
Not all soldiers are equally skilled in close combat. Soldiers can be supply personnel (the category of soldier that historically have run the black markets that generate profits in wartime—and who are in that position because their combat skills are not “top of the line”).
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OK, *that* I can buy!
 
Sci said:
DIS S3 is canon, and its explicit reference to every FTL-capable starship in the Milky Way Galaxy exploding as a result of the Burn rather firmly implies that Romulan singularity drives, if they still exist, use dilithium...

Seems improbable that interstellar trade could support such a massive long-term industry when the Romulans hid from the rest of local space for a hundred years and then became mostly recluses again for like eighty years...

...It's almost as rude as ignoring the dramatic heart of the story in favor of nitpicking over technobabble...
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Well, I am pretty much done with this conversation, but before I go.

Point 1. Until DIS s3 decided to go with the Burn, it wasn't canon that Romulans used dilithium in their engines. That was my entire point about canon. It makes no sense to argue that it was part of canon AFTER the Burn was developed.

Point 2. The Romulans were only recluses against our side of their territory. And with enough internal space they could sustain plenty of interstellar trade.

Point 3. I didn't ignore the "dramatic heart" of the story. I found it boring, last minute, and poorly done. And I don't really understand how you can equate "ignoring" a story point and being rude to someone you don't even know. But I guess that is how the internet works, and hence why I am done with this conversation.
 
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