"Returning to a planet that dredges up tragic memories, Captain Pike and his landing party find themselves forgetting everything, including their own identities as he confronts a ghost from his past." - TrekMovie.com
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x04 - "Among the Lotus Eaters"
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"Returning to a planet that dredges up tragic memories, Captain Pike and his landing party find themselves forgetting everything, including their own identities as he confronts a ghost from his past." - TrekMovie.com
Worth revisiting...
They have a track record of turning out very entertaining episodes, so I'm reasonably sure this will be cool, but to be honest, I still wish they would do less revisiting of old places, people and concepts. I guess it's kinda baked into the idea of doing a “Pike show”, but at this point I'm pretty confident these writers are capable of telling compelling stories without having to rely on old stuff. I wonder if the part of the audience that's new to Trek isn't overwhelmed by the amount of callbacks they are presented with. With these last couple of episodes I often found myself having to give my non-Trekkie wife a quick rundown of stuff like augments, the Eugenics wars, Khan etc.
New doesn't sell lads.
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Certainly weren't in TOS.
Despite it supposedly being the franchise's party line, we didn't actually see very many "new" planets in TOS. Okay, by virtue of being the first series, they were all new to the audience, but a majority of the time the planets they went to were either known or already visited by someone from Earth/the Federation. There really isn't very much actual exploration done in Star Trek.
Dear God, I hope not.
*yawn*
No it isn't, it's ok you didn't like it; the franchise is not doomed because of this.
This is a good point! TNG, VOY, and ENT probably have the most "strange new worlds" stuff happening in them...
We barely know anything about Rigel VII outside of the Cage, so it's essentially new.
Indeed, yes. I expect more of the same.
Yooo Insight is such a great series. My brother studying film and production at Drexel introduced it to me.Looking forward to Pike and M'Benga's little adventure
Voyager and Enterprise more so than TNG. TNG still had quite a bit of pre-explored/contacted planets. Even then, since Voyager was about getting back home, that means Enterprise was the only series purely about exploration for its own sake. And they abandoned that premise in the third season.
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