Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x08 - "Under the Cloak of War"
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He may have spent the past several years carrying a lot of guilt and wanted some sort of release from it all.
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Klingons do have consciences. Worf showed us every season in every series he was in. Kor is another example.
It Can't Happen Here (c)?
Please correct me if I'm taking it wrong, doesn't half of America citizens right now want the certain person to be a President, while the other half demands him to be jailed?
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Gorkon, too. The way he spoke with Kirk, saying "you don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."
It made me think that he had his own sins, his own prejudices to deal with, and it weighed so heavily on his conscience that he went forward with the peace process knowing it could lead to his death.
Not sure what point you are making about Soros? But it was mentioned in publicity for the first episodes of DSC that there were 24 Houses of Klingons. Plenty of room for all the head-shaped, skin colours, blood colours and variety of uniform fashions in a multi-planet Empire of aliens that were also afflicted with a virus and had access to genetic experimentation and plastic surgery.
Gorkon could have been a brutal warrior earlier in his career. You don't carry a walking stick made from a huge bone unless you did some pretty unsavory things earlier in life.
yeah, I watched this yesterday as part of my rewatch and noticed it too. I coulda sworn she had said they were in a relationship. It’s just been a really long time since I watched I guess.
If they can show a flashback of Jeffrey Hunter and Leonard Nimoy before a show starring Anson Mount and Ethan Peck I think they can handle some Klingons.
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See, now I need to go watch Star Trek VI again, because this episode put me in that mood.
The Ambassador's head ridges were very reminiscent of the designs from Discovery.
Yes, for those who haven't watched it in a while (or those who haven't)
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Wow, this was a really good episode. SNW kind of firing on all cylinders the last few weeks, and across a variety of tones.
This solidified M'Benga and Chapel as my two favorite characters on this series thus far. The actors do such a great job, and the writers aren't afraid to give them some really meaty material to chew on. That final scene between M'Benga and Pike was absolutely chilling. I love that the writers had the courage to at least have M'Benga own up to being glad he got to kill Rah. Very DS9, and very well performed.
The framing narration with the broken biobed was even really well handled, setting up the overall theme of the episode at the end quite nicely.
This solidified M'Benga and Chapel as my two favorite characters on this series thus far. The actors do such a great job, and the writers aren't afraid to give them some really meaty material to chew on. That final scene between M'Benga and Pike was absolutely chilling. I love that the writers had the courage to at least have M'Benga own up to being glad he got to kill Rah. Very DS9, and very well performed.
The framing narration with the broken biobed was even really well handled, setting up the overall theme of the episode at the end quite nicely.
Absolutely. It's the best way.
That's just what those specific Klingons looked like. Love 'em or not.
Even in the cyclical pragmatist sense lying for survival is one thing, lying to build influence, affluence, power, and control is another. So I have no sympathy for the character Rah, he got what was coming to him not only for trying to push M'benga to validate his self serving lie even after he learns who M'benga really is, but also for not (as a klingon) being cognizant of all the potential weapons in the room especially the one coated in the smell of dried blood/joke.
Also a "second chance" from the federation probably should have been a very quiet retirement as a quadrotriticale farmer, but then we wouldn't have a story now would we?
No propaganda value in that.
its more just to answer the counter-point pike was making at the end.
Not very warrior like though. So he might kill himself out dishonor or something.
All the other Klingons would laugh and call him names. And not let him play any Klingon games.
