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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
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I don't think he will feel to much like playing his saxophone while standing in the airlock with me!
I'm a HUGE TOS fan and even I will admit that's not the case.Nope. Their is no such thing as a bad TOS episode.
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Okay I admit their is some bad TOS episodes. As in 80's slang were "bad" means, good.
Pike is getting less focus. When he does its more action bits. Even his advice or bits of morality is starting to falter. He finds out M'Benga lied to him about killing the klingon ambassador aboard his ship and does a 180 from where he was before. Just not the same Pike from season 1 and 2. We're getting less time and less episodes centering on his character. He's the lead. There's a finite amount of episodes and we aren't getting any stories centering on him. Hopefully captain Betell turning into a Gorn will give him an episode.
I think Pike has been shown to be a leader many times this season in the serious episodes. Wedding Bells and Space Adventure didn't require him to be and what we've seen of him has shown us that he isn't a super serious leader at all times, he's personable, congenial and warm. Those are also important aspects of who we know him to be and it's important we see that too.
Mentor is a weird one, as SNW is episodic with sometimes weeks or months between episodes there aren't that many opportunities for Pike to really be a mentor without it looking like the best of the best flagship crew are a bit incompetent. The Discovery crew needed that aspect of him and it worked in the more compressed timeline of a serialised season and it works with Kirk.
There could be room for it but it would require a specific plot to be written for it. Uhura's transfer to the command divison maybe, Una possibly looking at becoming a captain but his crew as they are in their day to day adventures don't really need a mentor.
Mentor is a weird one, as SNW is episodic with sometimes weeks or months between episodes there aren't that many opportunities for Pike to really be a mentor without it looking like the best of the best flagship crew are a bit incompetent. The Discovery crew needed that aspect of him and it worked in the more compressed timeline of a serialised season and it works with Kirk.
There could be room for it but it would require a specific plot to be written for it. Uhura's transfer to the command divison maybe, Una possibly looking at becoming a captain but his crew as they are in their day to day adventures don't really need a mentor.
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Unavailable? Dodged a phaser blast there. 
I do think Pike has been sidelined for much of this season. Una too. This show was sold as a Pike show.
As cool as it was to see Kirk's first command, i hope they remember this is supposed to be Pike's story
As cool as it was to see Kirk's first command, i hope they remember this is supposed to be Pike's story
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Unavailable? Dodged a phaser blast there.
Not so fast. I hate it when videos try and trick you into not knowing if you should type l or I.
2017: "Why is the show focusing so much on Michael Burnham? Why aren't they giving the bridge crew any development? Star Trek is supposed to be an ensemble."
2025:
I actually remember the show being sold on the idea of it being a return to more traditional Star Trek storytelling, which means an ensemble.
2025:
*Heavy sigh*
I actually remember the show being sold on the idea of it being a return to more traditional Star Trek storytelling, which means an ensemble.
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They marketed it as the cage being a pilot and snw taking 58 years to become a series. So yeah it was supposed to be a series about Pike and his crew exploring strange new worlds not being a slow burn getting Kirk and his crew together.
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2017: "Why is the show focusing so much on Michael Burnham? Why aren't they giving the bridge crew any development? Star Trek is supposed to be an ensemble."
2025
*Heavy sigh*
I actually remember the show being sold on the idea of it being a return to more traditional Star Trek storytelling, which means an ensemble.
TOS was mostly about the big three. I wouldn't say it was a show about the entire ensemble. Mostly though I think they have done good by most of the characters, except for Ortegas. At least though they cast a pilot character. I wonder why they didn't do that on Enterprise?
I agree. In fact, at the time I commented that while TOS was about the "big three", Discovery was about the "core four": Burnham, Saru, Tilly and Stamets.
Welcome to the torment of Trek production teams. Have an easier time asking four teenagers what they want for dinner than what Trek fans want any given day2017: "Why is the show focusing so much on Michael Burnham? Why aren't they giving the bridge crew any development? Star Trek is supposed to be an ensemble."
2025:
*Heavy sigh*
I actually remember the show being sold on the idea of it being a return to more traditional Star Trek storytelling, which means an ensemble.
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