Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x06 - "Lost in Translation"
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As with most SNW episodes – not great, not bad. Enjoyed it a little more than most of season two due to Hemmer's reappearance, he was my favourite character in the first season. Also, I'm kind of warming to Wesley's Kirk – he doesn't feel at all like classic Kirk to me, which is probably just as well as I'm not keen on either Shatner or classic Kirk particularly, but he is becoming a likeable character in his own right, and starting to step successfully out of Chris Pine's shadow too. Even though he does have a strange Jim Carrey face where he seems to age fifteen years whenever he smiles.
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Maybe don't play on your phone while the episode is on and you'll actually understand it.
Because it made sense fine.
Rewatching again cuz it's a great episode and so much better than the cartoon one. A couple observations:
Shouldn't the security guy be in front of the captain when searching for a dangerous person?
Uhura sat next to Kirk because it was the only open chair at the bar.
Why does uhura disobey orders to wait and go into the access tube to find Ramon?
The emergency transport happens instantly. Amazing. But, am I remembering wrong - Didn't Scotty develop intra-ship transport in TOS?
Shouldn't the security guy be in front of the captain when searching for a dangerous person?
Uhura sat next to Kirk because it was the only open chair at the bar.
Why does uhura disobey orders to wait and go into the access tube to find Ramon?
The emergency transport happens instantly. Amazing. But, am I remembering wrong - Didn't Scotty develop intra-ship transport in TOS?
Never really worked on Star Trek. The captain always does stupidly dangerous stuff first.
No. Just noted its very dangerous.
Yeah that's what I thought too, captains do stupidly dangerous stuff on a regular basis. Spock should chime in with a cost comparison of the star fleet expenditure training a captain vs a security guy.
Thanks for the clarification. I've been watching TOS since the original run, but my old age memory isn't what it used to be - and it was never very good!
Well, he set up an intraship beaming in "Day of the Dove" and mentioned how risky it was.
Even that may have been more of an issue with transmitting vs receiving.
not exactly: the dangerous part is beaming someone *to* an areas of the ship, beaming *from* somewhere in the ship to the transporter room is probably safe.
And anyway that ship sailed with Discovery already, with Lorca too lazy to use a turbo lift to reach his ready room.
If anyone is going to use dangerous technology flippantly Lorca is the dude.
Plus he probably expected the tech in this Universe to be pretty much equal to what it was in his Mirror universe.
So he was pushing the boundaries here.
In a lot of ways, this episode was "Devil in the Dark," but it was well-done and not predictable. And really, I don't mind visiting some of the same concepts that TOS did -- part of the appeal of SNW is giving us the chance to see what the TOS premise and spirit would give us when moved from the 1960s to today.
Probably. As well as useful in an attack situation. How to gain the upper hand.
His whole private lab on Discovery just screamed "stuff I'm working on to get home and assume my rightful place as ruler of my side."
They seem to be telegraphing Sam's eventual departure from Starfleet because he is clearly jealous of Jim's career.
Sam is also chaffing under his father's demands too. I think he finds his own path and prefers it to the Starfleet life.
Since Sam is still serving on the Enterprise in the alternate timeline of "A Quality of Mercy" it appears that whatever is the cause of Sam leaving Starfleet, Jim is responsible. So it would seem that Sam has no problem serving with Pike, but he couldn't have his own brother also be his captain.
That's the vibe I got from this episode, anyway. The brothers are clearly very close and aren't actively fighting but when Jim is around, Sam kind of has that jealousy bubble up a little. Putting distance between them would help. So I predict that Sam will leave for Deneva once Jim takes over command of the Enterprise.
That's the vibe I got from this episode, anyway. The brothers are clearly very close and aren't actively fighting but when Jim is around, Sam kind of has that jealousy bubble up a little. Putting distance between them would help. So I predict that Sam will leave for Deneva once Jim takes over command of the Enterprise.
No.
From TOS S3 Day Of The Dove
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/66.htm
And even in this situation, it not that type of intra ship beaming in that they are being beamed out of a ship location they are standing in directly to the Transporter Room, so zero chance of ending up in a Bulkhead.
Rarely. So...room for DSC's uses of it.
