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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x05 - "Through the Lens of Time"
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I think we can assume that happened off screen
Doubtful. The production is based in Toronto; to setup filming in SoCal for a 1 off would be prohibitively expensive. They can recreate VR in the Volume set but what would be the point?
I thought about this too, especially since I'm assuming that the Vezda are much older than the Gorn. However, Vezda-Gamble appeared to recognize and acknowledge Gorn-Patel in a somewhat more intimately familiar way (i.e. "You") than he did the others (e.g. "Lanthanite child...").
I dunno. Fascinating.
So thinking about it afterward, Batel is probably going to be heavily involved when Scotty and/or Pelia discover that the Evil Being is in the Enterprise systems.
Just because of her being able to sense what it is due to her Gorn DNA.
Wonder how many Red Shirts will die before they rid themselves of it.
Just because of her being able to sense what it is due to her Gorn DNA.
Wonder how many Red Shirts will die before they rid themselves of it.
I thought about this too, especially since I'm assuming that the Vezda are much older than the Gorn. However, Vezda-Gamble appeared to recognize and acknowledge Gorn-Patel in a somewhat more intimately familiar way (i.e. "You") than he did the others (e.g. "Lanthanite child...").
I dunno. Fascinating.
Yeah, Gamble-Vezda recognizing even a hint of Gorn DNA in Batel and vice versa makes me think the two species go way back.
I did see someone elsewhere who argued that perhaps the discrepancy between the Gorn in TOS and what we see in SNW is because all the Gorn we've met have been processed by Vezda. As part of the process of merging Batel's human and Gorn DNA, they've somehow created an uninfected Gorn mind hiding within her, which will help to eventually "liberate" them.
Seems a bit farfetched to me. I do like the idea though that as bad as the SNW Gorn have been, there are demonstrably worse things out there.
Another aspect of this episode I liked was how the fight between Gamble and Batel looked like it was between creatures trying to move in ways humans aren't meant to.
Better. This just reaches an 8.
It's a threadbare story and not all that original, but again, the cast makes it above avg, and it looks like they're laying down a foundation for the finale.
There are a few obvious ideas about the identity of these aliens, and I suppose the most obvious one is derived from the lingering shot of the monitor at the end of the episode. What entity do we know that was ancient, full of hate and could inhabit...a computer!?
Redjac.
Don't let Trek turn into Hellrazer though please.
It's a threadbare story and not all that original, but again, the cast makes it above avg, and it looks like they're laying down a foundation for the finale.
There are a few obvious ideas about the identity of these aliens, and I suppose the most obvious one is derived from the lingering shot of the monitor at the end of the episode. What entity do we know that was ancient, full of hate and could inhabit...a computer!?
Redjac.
Don't let Trek turn into Hellrazer though please.
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Pike: Oh no, it's a full blown Vezda invasion!
Gorn Batel: I know what I have to do! (transforms into a Gorn) My Gorn DNA is the only thing that can stop them, I need to jump into the Vezda hell dimension and stay there indefinitely to keep them out!
Pike: Marie, no don't do this!!!
Gorn Batel: I know what I have to do! (transforms into a Gorn) My Gorn DNA is the only thing that can stop them, I need to jump into the Vezda hell dimension and stay there indefinitely to keep them out!
Pike: Marie, no don't do this!!!
Oh, it dawns me that nobody has mentioned my favorite line in this episode, which I am so jealous of and that I'm surprised it took so long for Trek to go there:
"Enterprise, we're going to need a bigger landing party."
Anybody else feel like Chapel's "Let's go dig up the past" at the end of the mission briefing is taken from the mission briefings on Leverage - "Let's go steal a {whatever}?
It was because his visor needed the pain to work. New eyes would have eliminated that ability.
I believe Chapel wore the white standard uniform in the beginning of Hegemony Part 1.
I think with their hibernation cycles the Gorn are an older species. Probably popping up through out several millennia. perhaps their "claim" on Cestus III is thousands of years of old and they do not recognize the rights of "squatters".I thought about this too, especially since I'm assuming that the Vezda are much older than the Gorn. However, Vezda-Gamble appeared to recognize and acknowledge Gorn-Patel in a somewhat more intimately familiar way (i.e. "You") than he did the others (e.g. "Lanthanite child...").
I dunno. Fascinating.
There's something in Ortegas' and Batels mind. They both saw what I thought was just a scary Gorn, but it could be a race memory of some sort...primitive but old Gorn. There are a lot of old races hanging around here. N'Jal (Majel?) was a less advanced offshoot of one of the prison guards.
The unfolding 'ghost alien' from the 1963 Outer Limits episode Wolf-359 scared the hell out of 6 year old me. (Didn't stop me from watching it - I just closed my eyes
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You may have commented on it, or maybe not, but when they showed the illuminated boards with text in the temple/prison, the text looked familiar to me. I paused the frame and was surprised to see that the letters were Tibetan, albeit facing in different directions and at times written in a slightly calligraphic style.
I wonder if they were used randomly as less familiar characters or if this theme will be developed further...If I find the time, I may transcribe them and see if there is any meaning that can be translated...
You may have commented on it, or maybe not, but when they showed the illuminated boards with text in the temple/prison, the text looked familiar to me. I paused the frame and was surprised to see that the letters were Tibetan, albeit facing in different directions and at times written in a slightly calligraphic style.
I wonder if they were used randomly as less familiar characters or if this theme will be developed further...If I find the time, I may transcribe them and see if there is any meaning that can be translated...
Pretty sure Ortega's was just PTSD, and not related to Batel's thing.
The solution seems ridiculously simple. Pick a number somewhere between 10 and 22. I think a 16 episode season would make a decent compromise. (Notice that it falls right between 10 and 22 . . .
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