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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x04 - "Among the Lotus Eaters"

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see? we learned a lot about her. she is a pilot, she flies the ship, she wants to go on a landing party, she likes hats.

compare that to o'brien after 14 episodes

Colm went home, and costarred in a blockbuster movie, briefly becoming more real world famous than any one else on the cast except Wheaton and Burton.

If not for "the Commitments" nothing would have become of Chief O'Brien.

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Thinking back on the episode, I understand what they were trying to say.
Over the past few months, I have experienced the loss of my mother to cancer, and I have had to adopt our cats out so they could have a better future than the one I could give them. The memories of them are evanescent; however, the emotions that I felt for them were strong and this is what I remember most about them, what they gave me emotionally.

The problem lay with the story. I grew bored by it and jumped ahead to the end to see the conclusion.
 
I think Ad Astra per Aspera is one of those episodes. While this season has been hit or miss for me, I'd put that episode up against any of the previous shows' greatest hits.
That's fair. My brain can't get over the nitpicks that I have with the episode, so the message and the resolution is a miss for me. Meanwhile this episode with the old man remembering the grief of his family dying and realizing that it's better to have those memories than not? Simple but effective, but I think the episode, like the last one, didn't really need the nearly 1 hour run time.

That's the downside of the serialized format. With SNW I can pop in any episode from any time and be able to follow along. Also, if I didn't care for an episode, I know that next week's episode will be something different. I do that with the older shows quite a bit. With Picard I feel like I have to start from the beginning to understand what's going on, because each episode builds on the last one and it's one storyline for the whole season. So if you don't care for the storyline, well, you're SOL until next season. And the only season storyline I care to revisit is the third one.
I guess with Picard S3 you could just watch the final episode because that's all anyone really wants out of that show anyway. But I didn't like that finale at all, so even then I wouldn't want to revisit it.
 
Colm went home, and costarred in a blockbuster movie, briefly becoming more real world famous than any one else on the cast except Wheaton and Burton.

If not for "the Commitments" nothing would have become of Chief O'Brien.
Plus, kind of weird to try and compare an opening credits regular with someone who was a bit player for a huge chunk of their time on TNG.

If we're talking about main character ship pilots who get very little fleshing out, Travis is right there. :D
 
Another pile of crap from this season. Its really looking like the Strange New Worlds experiment is pretty much over, too many shitty producers/writers in the mix for the good cast and premise to compensate for. This week was basically just a normal (terrible) Discovery episode, minus the scenes of the main character crying that would be required on an episode of Discovery. Unsurprisingly, one of the credited writers of this episode was a staff writer on Discovery.

The description of next weeks episode seems even worse then this episode. I don't think I've seen a Trek show fall this badly from one season to another, at this point the LD crossover is the only episode that will probably be any good.

This is all I need to tell me the episode wasn't "that bad."
 
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Another pile of crap from this season. Its really looking like the Strange New Worlds experiment is pretty much over, too many shitty producers/writers in the mix for the good cast and premise to compensate for. This week was basically just a normal (terrible) Discovery episode, minus the scenes of the main character crying that would be required on an episode of Discovery. Unsurprisingly, one of the credited writers of this episode was a staff writer on Discovery.

The description of next weeks episode seems even worse than this episode. I don't think I've seen a Trek show fall this badly from one season to another, at this point the LD crossover is the only episode that will probably be any good.

Yawn.
 
So did Spock & the other characters all forget how to read? Or was it just Spock forgetting how to read English?
This is tangential, and I know I'm basically answering my own question since it's arguably a function of Star Trek being an American produced show with a mostly English-speaking audience ... BUT ... I've always been curious how in-universe English became "standard" not only for Earth but across the Federation.

If aliens showed up today and surveyed Earth, the attempt to communicate with us might be in Mandarin, since it's the most spoken first language on the planet. English and French being the languages for scientific journals, air travel, the United Nations and other official functions today is due to the influence of the British Empire, the United States, and the allied victors of World War II at the time those decisions were made.

But by the 22nd century, when United Earth becomes a thing, one would think that a significant part of Asia and Africa might necessitate moving beyond just English and French. Unless World War III was far more devastating for the "Eastern Coalition" and significant parts of Asia were destroyed? Although, Picard and his family are French and are the most English French people ever depicted in a television show, so maybe in the Star Trek universe the English language conquered all of the other languages lol.
 
Anyone else think Spock's idea to flee into the asteroid belt would only make things worse and instead he should have gone for empty space?

Isn't that the logic? When in a situation you go where you came from (you know what is there) not too where you haven't been (you don't know what's there.)

Spock should've been smarter than that.
that was his original proposition, but Una ordered him to keep the ship close to the planet. I did suspect it would make things worse, however by then everyone was obviously not thinking straight already.
 
The monks said that the future is unavoidable as soon as he took the time crystal. Alt Future Pike in the Motion Picture uniform said that seriously bad shit happens if he tries to cheat fate.

Chair.

Beep beep boop beep.

Inevitable.
true. However, as I pointed out elsewhere years ago, nothing forbids his body to be restored afterwards. He knows nothing of what happens after the accident and we know nothing of what happens after his return to Talos IV.
 
A few things would have made it a bit better for me, Ortegas wearing the Hat on the bridge, showing her displeasure at being kicked off the away team, with her telling Una, just let me have this for abit.
As someone said before, have Pelia tell Pike, Have fun storming the castle!
Rest was good, they need to work on the use of "Vollume" a bit better, could tell they were on there, Mandalorian gets to a point where you can't tell your on it. But, lots better than potted plants and cardboard for a planet!
 
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