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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x10 - "Hegemony"
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That's why you need the buddy system, so you don't get someone left behind when the bus leaves. Dude was probably trying to send out a SOS or something lol
Wasn't his buddy the one Spock iced on the bridge?
Hmm. I thought it was the same one, although if there were two that would show the failure in the buddy system if both buddies are absent lol.
One nitpick:
In the past few episodes, they've made a point of talking about subspace relays and how long it takes to send messages back and forth to the more central areas of Federation space.
Yet here, once again, communications move at the speed of plot. On the very forward edge of Federation space, Pike and April have a conversation in real time, Starfleet communicates the demarcation line to them in near real-time, and at the end with TSHTF, April is apparently monitoring their situation in real time (presumably from Earth) and orders them to retreat.
So. I call.....
shenanigans!
In the past few episodes, they've made a point of talking about subspace relays and how long it takes to send messages back and forth to the more central areas of Federation space.
Yet here, once again, communications move at the speed of plot. On the very forward edge of Federation space, Pike and April have a conversation in real time, Starfleet communicates the demarcation line to them in near real-time, and at the end with TSHTF, April is apparently monitoring their situation in real time (presumably from Earth) and orders them to retreat.
So. I call.....
shenanigans!
The guy in the "Arena" looks like he stole his costume from Spirit Halloween on 11:59 on Oct. 31st.
I'm simply never going to take the "HOW DARE THEY VIOLATE THAT CANON" seriously when you would prefer Spirit Halloween Gorn to a serious alien threat.
I'm simply never going to take the "HOW DARE THEY VIOLATE THAT CANON" seriously when you would prefer Spirit Halloween Gorn to a serious alien threat.
Given what we've seen and La'an's breathless exhortations about how the Gorn hunt and don't give up, one has to wonder why the Gorn flee the Enterprise after leveling Cestus III in Arena. Just sayin'.
Or you could quit complaining long enough to come up with a logical explanation. The "hunt" La'an mentions was for food, for their children.
There was nothing to indicate that was true about the Gorn in TOS.
The Gorn in "Arena" was well done for the time, especially compared to what the Irwin Allen shows of the period were putting out. That being said, I am enjoying seeing the Gorn civilization fleshed out and explored in a modern series.
Yea... I mean I thought at some point people would just accept that technology, effects, filming, budget all improved. I mean look at the bridge.
TOS
SNW
The OG Gorn was like what you get from a Sid and Marty Croft show.
Totally!
It's funny to think that he's one of the crewmen in the TMP Rec Deck scene.
Although, they mentioned last week that April had a nice baritone singing voice, and it seemed that the subspace rhapsody probability field was still somewhat localized, so it's possible because of the Gorn threat that April has moved to a Starbase much closer to Gorn space.
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Yes...but I was meaning that the reason for Vulcans not being in starfleet is more about Vulcan bigotry towards humans and Starfleet, not the other way around
Now that we've seen a full-size Gorn in an exosuit, I'm willing to go with the Roddenberry line of 'well that's how they always looked' vis-a-vis the Klngons in 1979.
Dude, they were repurposing stuff from The Outer Limits, which did aliens about 100 times better than Trek.
I'm glad to see the rubber lizard retired.
Heh ... INDIANA JONES and the TEMPLE OF GORN
Exactly! I had in mind that colonies were set up according to what the majority colonizing wanted it to be like. And I see no problem with how it was set up. It's the idyllic small town where everyone can live a peaceful existence, kind of the Main Street, USA section of a Disney park. Well, it was until the Gorn destroyed it.
Hell, until TNG and DS9 came along I always figured most Federation colonies were majority- or all-human.
The Klingons complained about it in TUC, for cryin out loud!
True. As late as 2293 (thirty-three years after the events of "Hegemony") Azetbur called the Federation little more than a "homo sapiens-only club." Given how relative few aliens served on Starfleet ships we saw between 1966 and 1991 it's an easy stereotype to buy into.
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