Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"

[Enterprise1701]

I commend the writers. I was not expecting that ending!

I wish it had been executed slightly differently, though. Whose silly idea was it to never actually say the name of the ship, commander, or mission at all? If I were explaining about legends from the past, I would drop the name Jim Lovell or LM when talking about the Apollo 13 mission. It kind of ruins the period-accurate inclusion of the XCV-100 registry for me.

 

[Starkers]

Honestly, I could skip that aspect. Just picture some dire survival situations that push the crew to go beyond their moral bounds. I don't really need to see that.

But I wasn't a fan of the idea either because for a lone group to develop a ship that was so much stronger than any Klingon and Federation ship and able to destroy planets easily just is not feasible at all. Totally unbelievable. They did what neither the Federation or Klingon Empire could do.

I get the narrative reason for doing that but it broke my suspension of disbelief.

Maybe they didn't develop it. Maybe they chanced upon an abandoned ship that contained some advanced tech, or as someone else has said they encountered an advanced but naive species and swindled them out of their technology? There are a host of possible scenarios, even before you get to the fact that the episode itself revolved around the apparently inferior ships winning in the end

 

[thribs]

The first clue that Captain Lorca was evil was his citing Elon Musk to Tilly.

Was he evil? It’s all a matter of perspective

 

[Trekker4747]

Giving it a 2nd watch now. My second time today... And I've slept since then...

Anyway, in full post-work comfort mode which includes some THC which makes me feel things I enjoy deeply like Star Trek more intensely and like I'm watching it for the first time.

Something right off the bat I hadn't seen mentioned yet:
"First Officer's Personal Log, Stardate.... What is the the Stardate...?"

Just a kind of cute thing that I've never seen before.

I listen to Wesley's Kirk and I think, I can hear "a Kirk" in there, there's even a Shatner-ian pauses in there. Then it shows him and it kind of swerves into a tree. Something about his look doesn't work. His movements work there's a TOS Kirkian dance he does when he rushes over to suggest a landing party. Just there's something about his overall look that isn't clicking for me.

ETA: After the impact in "after big boom make everyone deaf* mode there's a flash of Kirk's fear of the chair arc. Beautiful shot of the modern take of show. Also, loved seeing the use of the yellow cartridges in this episode.

 

[thribs]

Anyone else notice the Star Trek VI like music at the end?

 

[Mr Awe]

I like Wesley because he was handed an impossible task.

For me, Pine pulled of the "impossible task" perfectly. Wesley not so much. However, he is growing on me slowly.

 

[UssGlenn]

was nice to see Kirk unaccustomed to command, although as a first officer (unless he's really new in that position) shouldn't he already be used to sometimes running the ship by himself?

They talked about how he'd had the conn before but this was his first crisis with the captain out of commission.

On the phones, where did they get the extra RJ11 phone plugs, and more importantly, the crimper? I should note I have a telephone collection so this is a deliberately pedantic complaint.

 

[Trekker4747]

My answer would be that "they replicated it" even though that type of replication technology doesn't exist yet. But...

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Am I the only one who interpreted the nacelle jettison differently?
it wasn't the nacelles that disable the scavenger.
Those were just the bait.
The scavenger's tentacles took a jab at the nacelles, missed and delivered a disabling shock to the hull, basically short circuiting itself.

 

[Mr Awe]

Uhura was able do something to pick up the signal. She said something in dialogue when Kirk said, "But how did you pick it up?" And she did proceed to do the 'line of sight' maneuver to allow Pike and Kirk to communicate via viewscreen and beam a few people off before all hell broke loose further.

Oh, that's what that was all about. It came across more as the plot needed it, so it happened.

 

[Yaroze86]

The XCV-100 could be our version of the USS Beagle from LD.

 

[Weyoun 251]

Not sure how to edit here yet but had a random thought: What if Pelia was that "really groovy chick" that Maury Ginsburg was wondering about after Quinn gave him a ride to Woodstock? After all, she DID just say she was a Grateful Dead groupie in this episode, and now that Q is connected, could she just be her? The groovy girl Maury got with?

Maury Ginsberg's Memory Alpha profile.

I approve this theory - very clever connection

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I wonder if every ship can just unclip its nacelles or if for the Farragut being just a saucer with pylons strapped under it that it's its equivalent of saucer separation

 

[Mr Awe]

I wonder if every ship can just unclip its nacelles or if for the Farragut being just a saucer with pylons strapped under it that it's its equivalent of saucer separation

I don't know, but your username is sure appropriate for this episode!

 

[Tuskin38]

I wonder if every ship can just unclip its nacelles or if for the Farragut being just a saucer with pylons strapped under it that it's its equivalent of saucer separation

Scotty mentioning jettisoning the warp engines in TOS.

 

[cooleddie74]

This does line up with Kirk's line to Scotty in "The Apple(TOS)" about "jettisoning the nacelles" and getting away from Gamma Trianguli VI with the main body of the Enterprise. Some interpret that as saucer separation, but it could also just as easily mean what we saw in this episode of SNW.

 

[Tuskin38]

This does line up with Kirk's line to Scotty in "The Apple(TOS)" about "jettisoning the nacelles" and getting away from Gamma Trianguli VI with the main body of the Enterprise. Some interpret that as saucer separation, but it could also just as easily mean what we saw in this episode of SNW.

Yep

It was also mentioned in The Savage Curtain

[Planet surface]

KIRK: Scotty, inform Starfleet Command. Disengage nacelles, Jettison if possible. Mister Spock, assist them. Advise and analyse. Scotty? Scotty?
ROCK: Your communicators no longer function, Captain. You may proceed with the spectacle.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

This does line up with Kirk's line to Scotty in "The Apple(TOS)" about "jettisoning the nacelles" and getting away from Gamma Trianguli VI with the main body of the Enterprise. Some interpret that as saucer separation, but it could also just as easily mean what we saw in this episode of SNW.

We've already have "The Picard Manuever"
We've already have "The Riker Manuever"

Do you think StarFleet Historians & Tacticians will call this "The Kirk Manuever"?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Oh, and I just had this youtube short in my recommendations.
Coincidence? I think not.

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[cooleddie74]

We've already have "The Picard Manuever"
We've already have "The Riker Manuever"

Do you think StarFleet Historians & Tacticians will call this "The Kirk Manuever"?

In NEM I believe Riker or Picard orders a tactical battle maneuver named after Kirk.