Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x05 - "Through the Lens of Time"

[Tuskin38]

Trekmed operates at the need of plot.

McCoy's miracle pill that can regrow kidneys.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Ensigns with Ga in their surnames don't fare well, do they?

 

[Tuskin38]

Now you understand why everybody sends Robots IRL when you need to Touch Something Weird or something that goes Boom!

If the Robot goes down, nobody bats an eye, just calls it cost of doing business.

If you loose a poor Ensign like Gamble, that's a tragic loss that the family has to suffer through for the rest of their natural lives.

Robots won't work if it's something that only activates to organic interation.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Robots won't work if it's something that only activates to organic interation.

Or they drop the glass orb and it breaks into pieces, some people can be "Butter Fingers" when on remote controls.
Ergo releasing the Energy Being from it's confinement.

 

[indranee]

This is my first time here.
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...

Welcome aboard!! I take it you're Tibetan... I have a personal connection to Tibet. Either way, I hope you have fun here

 

[Noname Given]

Geordi was blind from birth, he had nothing to repair.

Well, remember his eyes actually did fully regenerate in the feature film ST: INS.

And this next comment is not directed at the poster I quoted but to all those TNG fans who forgot that Dr. Crusher offered to give Geordi 'normal' eye implants, he passed, and then to see if she could lessen the pain he experienced using the visor and he passed again fearing that would change how it worked for him.

Dr. Pulaski offered both options to Geordi when she came on board in TNG S2 and he passed again.

He didn't accept the offer of more normal eye implants until sometime between ST: GEN and ST:FC as he had new eye implants in ST:FC

 

[Nyotarules]

The problem I have with episodes like this is there's no tension for most of the characters. We know that all the main characters are obviously alive for TOS so there's no risk to them.

Never watch Titanic

 

[aquova]

It's been a while since I've had such mental whiplash watching an episode

"Dude, don't touch that it's clearly a grenade"
"Oh, never mind, it's just a glowy magic orb"
"Oh nevermind it was a grenade!!"

 

[DaveyNY]

Kind of surprised that as of today, at least on my P+ app, they still haven’t corrected the spelling of “Lens”. Surely somebody’s noticed by now? (I wondered if perhaps there’s an archaic spelling with an “e” somewhere, but haven’t turned any up.)

From the internets ... (specifically here https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/206629-lense/)


"Posted December 10, 2005
Lense is an old variant of lens, going back over a century. Also technical lens designers often were math wizzes, with a lesser speelling capacity. The variant lense seems to bother folks who dont work in optical design, like a green horn white shirted prepie college grad student correcting what an 80 year old Iowa farmer in overalls calls cow dung.<BR><BR>"Lense" is in more common in older US patent's, in some medical eye textbooks, and is used with contact lenses at times. A contact lens fitting guide I have from the mid 1980's uses "contact lens" and contact lense" in the college text that cost over 100 bucks. Maybe there was a trademark issue in the 1950's or something with contact lenses? Lense is alot more common with medical-eye literature, journals, and advertising. There are also trademarks with the variant "lense" in the name. I suppose you could elect Hillary and form a commission to weed out 100 years worth of texts and patents, and just raise taxes a tad? I learned that "lense" was a variant when studying optics, many decades ago. In Warren Smiths optical course 3 decades ago he said it was an obscure variant. <BR><BR>Fellow engineers often use the term lense in lab notebooks, either due to personal preference or missspelling, or maybe just to tick off folks who worry about speelling. When a patent is applied for this spelling variant gets into the legal patent system. With 100 to 80 year old patents, the variant "lense" is more common than one "spelling police" want to imagine. <BR><BR>Lense is also a last name, ie the Lense-Thirring effect too. Liquid Lense is a trademark to fix scratches. LeNSE (Learning Network South East) is a high bandwidth Regional Area Network."

 

[Tuskin38]

You can see one of the creatures from this episode during Spock's mind meld with Batel in Episode 3.

Most people, including me, thought it was a Gorn, but if you freeze frame it, it's not a Gorn, it matches what Spock sees in the sphere in this episode.

 

[Annorax849]

You can see one of the creatures from this episode during Spock's mind meld with Batel in Episode 3.

Most people, including me, thought it was a Gorn, but if you freeze frame it, it's not a Gorn, it matches what Spock sees in the sphere in this episode.

At first I thought Spock, even in this episode, was seeing the Gorn because the orb triggered that image in his mind. But yeah, now it seems pretty clear it was meant to be the Vezda

 

[V'Lias]

You can see one of the creatures from this episode during Spock's mind meld with Batel in Episode 3.

Most people, including me, thought it was a Gorn, but if you freeze frame it, it's not a Gorn, it matches what Spock sees in the sphere in this episode.

I took screenshots of them both last night so I could compare them, once I get off work today I'll maybe see about getting the episode 5 screenshot hosted somewhere so I can post it here too.

Edited to add the screenshots I took:

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

You can see one of the creatures from this episode during Spock's mind meld with Batel in Episode 3.

Most people, including me, thought it was a Gorn, but if you freeze frame it, it's not a Gorn, it matches what Spock sees in the sphere in this episode.

So whatever Genetic material left from the Gorn inside Captain Marie Batel, it seems to be some sort of "Ancient Genetic Memory"?

Something that was getting triggered early when the USS Enterprise wasn't anywhere near that planet that Dr. Korby took the Enterprise to.

From what I can tell about the Vezda Energy Being, it seems to have some form of Telepathy on top of it's Organic Being Possession capability that is very strong.

If the SNW crew were truly smart, they would isolate the Pattern Buffer that Vezda was residing, move it into a Off-Line Pattern Buffer that has it's own Power Source, then move that device to the original planet that can trap it or throw it in a Black Hole ASAP.

 

[FredH]

From the internets ... (specifically here https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/206629-lense/)


"Posted December 10, 2005
Lense is an old variant of lens, going back over a century. Also technical lens designers often were math wizzes, with a lesser speelling capacity.

…fine. Though I’ll note one has to go back twenty years just to find that.

 

[Okmyx]

…fine. Though I’ll note one has to go back twenty years just to find that.

www.grammar.com says

When do we use “lense”?

Never! “Lense” is simply a misspelling of “lens”, appeared because of the confusion we discussed above. You should never use “lense” in any message or expression, because this word does not exist in any notorious English language dictionary and is always considered a wrong spelling.

I can find several other references saying the same thing as grammar.com

 

[MikeReed013]

You can see one of the creatures from this episode during Spock's mind meld with Batel in Episode 3.

Most people, including me, thought it was a Gorn, but if you freeze frame it, it's not a Gorn, it matches what Spock sees in the sphere in this episode.

It kind of reminds me of the Cloverfield monster or those Cthulhu but not expressly called Cthulhu things from that movie Underwater.

 

[The Wormhole]

Pretty sure Ortega's was just PTSD, and not related to Batel's thing.

Don't you know? People in Star Trek aren't allowed to get PTSD because that's lazy writing and against Gene's Vision. The writers need to earn their paycheck by making in a sci-fi thing like an alien infection that manifests itself with PTSD like symptoms instead.

Yes, this is a joke referencing things people actually said during Detmer's PTSD storyline on Disco.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

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Spoiler: TL;DR The article's theory

The Vezda are the "Conspiracy" aliens.

 

[Dar70]

Geordi was blind from birth, he had nothing to repair.

He had a full set of eyes. What's not to repair?

 

[Dar70]

Trekmed operates at the need of plot.

This is true. But a blind character was in Trek for seven seasons of TNG, 5 movies and 1 season of Picard. If they can generate brand news eyes by SNW from almost empty eye sockets I would think Geordie had more material to work with.

I was surprised it got passed the writers of this show..same with the Holodeck. I don't think they really do their research.