Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x10 - "Hegemony"

[Amaris]

Antarctica is a desert.
Who's to say they didn't have a doctor? Maybe the doctor is the one who put the call in to Starfleet. This wouldn't be the first colony in Star Trek to get a vaccine shipment via Starfleet.

This. Starships are essentially flying cities, with everything needed to sustain long journeys away from civilizations. Where a small colony can't manufacture a vaccine, a call in to Starfleet, and a Constitution class ship can drop off all you need with a tip of the hat and be on their way.

 

[Tuskin38]

Can we talk about how the Space Amish want to live in the current American midwest? I need someone to explain the appeal. lol

Why are you calling them Amish?

 

[Macintosh]

Like most of this season – it's not bad, it's not great, it's okay. Surprisingly low-key for a season finale in a lot of ways. Still think they could have come up with an original race rather than just completely reinventing the Gorn and turning them into CGI Magogs but it's much less annoying than when DIS tried to reinvent the Klingons. And yay, a Scottish Scotty at last.

 

[Tuskin38]

That EV suit bay was dreadfully conveniently placed heh

And also in her uniform colour

 

[Amaris]

And also in her uniform colour

It was in Sickbay, which is a reasonable place to keep emergency EV suits. Also, it was in Sickbay.

 

[Lord Garth]

The moment Scotty appeared, something told me it was him before he even said a word.

I still love this show a ton. I really do, but, for crying out loud I wish they would stop with the legacy characters. This has been my only real complain about SNW.

Kirk has been in about 30% of the season and now Scotty's been (re)introduced. I'm starting to get that same feeling at the end of last season of Picard where it feels like they were just clearing the stage for the-then upcoming TNG reunion.

While they aren't removing anyone from this show and replacing them with a TOS character (unless Pelia doesn't remain past the first episode of next season), it feels like it's marching toward TOS much faster than it should.

And I wish they would stop with this.

Given what's going on, it's best not to make assumptions about how long or short the show will run.

If they knew ENT would only last four seasons, the pace of that show would've been very different.

Before SNW, I always thought Kirk's crew in WNMHGB was the crew he inherited from Pike. So Scotty being there doesn't seem odd.

It always seemed to me, SNW or not, that the Enterprise had gradual turnover before TOS.

 

[Amaris]

Given what's going on, it's best not to make assumptions about how long or short the show will run.

If they knew ENT would only last four seasons, the pace of that show would've been very different.

Before SNW, I always thought Kirk's crew in WNMHGB was the crew he inherited from Pike. So Scotty being there doesn't seem odd.

It always seemed to me, SNW or not, that the Enterprise had gradual turnover before TOS.

Yep. If Season 3 is going to be the last (it better not, Paramount), then we need to start seeing those people appear.

 

[sevenstars]

It was in Sickbay, which is a reasonable place to keep emergency EV suits. Also, it was in Sickbay.

I thought they said Sickbay was gone?

 

[Amasov]

Given what's going on, it's best not to make assumptions about how long or short the show will run.

If they knew ENT would only last four seasons, the pace of that show would've been very different.

Before SNW, I always thought Kirk's crew in WNMHGB was the crew he inherited from Pike. So Scotty being there doesn't seem odd.

It always seemed to me, SNW or not, that the Enterprise had gradual turnover before TOS.

I don't disagree. And you're right, we don't know how long it's going to run. It just feels too soon to me.

 

[DaveyNY]

I figured Christine was still near the transporter room when the Gorn fired on the ship.
It wasn't long after she beamed up.
She might have stopped for a friendly moment to talk to the person doing the transporting.

She was in a corridore when she woke up.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Like most of this season – it's not bad, it's not great, it's okay. Surprisingly low-key for a season finale in a lot of ways. Still think they could have come up with an original race rather than just completely reinventing the Gorn and turning them into CGI Magogs but it's much less annoying than when DIS tried to reinvent the Klingons. And yay, a Scottish Scotty at last.

Puppet and costume Magogs (mostly)

 

[Turtletrekker]

Cestus III was probably a victim of this same mistake if we assume that the planet was settled by colonists before SNW and has been in place for at least a little while.

It was established as being in place all the way back in Discovery season 2. Leland from Section 31 mentioned "wrestling alligators" when he was assigned there.

 

[Amaris]

I thought they said Sickbay was gone?

They did, but not all of it was destroyed, because when they zoom in, you can see that parts of the ship are still getting power, so I'd imagine there are force fields in place where she is, though we cut to her when we get close up on one particular area of Sickbay open to space. Chapel wakes up she manages to get life support stable, sees the Enterprise, tries to signal them, sees Spock, goes and grabs the EV suit from the back wall.

 

[Mudd]

It's very funny to see how mad they are at Pike being "indecisive" this episode when he almost immediately orders his ship to go help the Cayuga, ignores April, and seems perfectly capable of being decisive in a dangerous situation on the ground. Even at the end it's perfectly understandable that he's reticent to abandon all the people he just worked so hard to save plus half his senior staff, and is trying to think of a way to pull a rabbit out of his hat. Almost certainly in the next time on he'll snap out of it and start giving orders.

The question is: what's the order? Pike has to figure out what he can do to rescue his people before he can take some heroic stance and order it done.

The writers didn't completely devastate Cuyahoga by accident. They've left no doubt what would happen to a Constitution class vessel whose captain charged in barking "Fire!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why are you calling them Amish?

They're not exactly "technophobes". The vehicles seen seem reasonably advanced.

 

[DaveyNY]

Christine was in a corridor when she woke up.

I don't think the room where she found the equipment was sickbay, there were windows looking out of the ship.
I thought sickbay was more on interior of the primary hull.
(at least I don't remember seeing windows there in other episodes)

 

[Amaris]

Christine was in a corridor when she woke up.

I don't think the room she found the equipment was sickbay, there were windows looking out of the ship..

That's possible. I went back and looked, and you can see where they get close to the ship, showing the rooms in open space, and some of the rooms have power, but I'm not sure if they had forcefields in place to protect from vacuum. Then they cut to her where she wakes up. It may be a corridor, but it looks more like an auxiliary sickbay or a utility area, because there are shelves and storage bins.

 

[DaveyNY]

It's also quite likely that the transporter room she beamed to was on the far side of remaining half of the primary hull.
Not anywhere near the missing half.

What we saw left was mostly intact on that side.

 

[Amaris]

This is the last picture we see before it cuts to Christine:

Unfortunately, there aren't enough visual clues after to say where she is on the ship. She does seem to wake up in a corridor, and then steps into a room and there's lots of shelves, bins, power connectors. They keep parts of it blurry (likely on purpose), and focus mainly on her as she spots the Enterprise.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The question is: what's the order? Pike has to figure out what he can do to rescue his people before he can take some heroic stance and order it done.

The writers didn't completely devastate Cuyahoga by accident. They've left no doubt what would happen to a Constitution class vessel whose captain charged in barking "Fire!"

Federation ships aim to wound.

If they were serious about killing, they wouldn't always lose every war they get into and then have to time travel to save themselves.

Pike could even phrase it as abortion, which is very topical at the moment.

A thousand micro Gorn babies are going to eat their way out of hundreds of the insides of human faces, and then eat whatever living remains are still pulsating and screaming, for nourishment, and then kill each other like Highlanders.

The Gorn are only going to keep going after Star Fleet Ships and Federation Territory unless there are stern consequences for going after Star Fleet ships and Federation Territory.

It's the Vulcan Hello, again.