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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x01 - "Valles Marineris"

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And I've always been completely fine with that. It's not a PBS Nova episode or Carl Sagan documentary series. It's costume drama and social commentary. The day I rely on Star Trek to make me feel good about science is the day I've failed both.

All science fiction is like that. You can't time travel, or have FTL drives. There's no flying about the galaxy like driving to the grocery store. But that's OK, it's all in the story telling that makes it good.

Not that I'll quit nitpicking on Star Trek's science, because that's fun as well. LOL
 
Always wondered if transporter clones are made out of shit? The additional matter has to come from somewhere...

Also the extra mass of Neelix and Tuvok in "Tuvix".

The first time you get transported, you return as sentient poo. The original you, including the waste present in your bladder and intestine, got turned into energy and future raw material for the transporter and food synthesizer.

Why do you think Pike cooks so much?
 
Just started this episode. The Spock/La’An stuff is just creepy.

Hopefully the Martian portion of the program is better.
 
Always wondered if transporter clones are made out of shit? The additional matter has to come from somewhere...

you can just convert energy to matter and vice versa. Replicators can do this too, but its way more energy intensive than modifying existing matter, which is why waste matter is plan A.
 
Okay.

That was some Planet of the Titans nonsense bullshit. I mean, Jesus Christ it was just nonsense.

I loved it. Easily the best episode of SNW.

Just so much fun. An easy 9.
That read like
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Sometimes I just like weird nonsense. Where it feels like someone just let their imagination run wild.

I like fun. This was fun.

Honestly, I wonder if the call-out to Edgar Rice Burrough and A Princess of Mars was some kinda meta-admission that, "Look, we're not not doing rigorous hard SF this week. We're going for pulpy, old-time SF sense of wonder, complete with a lost Martian civilization!"
 
Okay.

That was some Planet of the Titans nonsense bullshit. I mean, Jesus Christ it was just nonsense.

I loved it. Easily the best episode of SNW.

Just so much fun. An easy 9.
Loving the POTT reference there.

I also loved this episode. A 10 for me.
 
Honestly, I wonder if the call-out to Edgar Rice Burrough and A Princess of Mars was some kinda meta-admission that, "Look, we're not not doing rigorous hard SF this week. We're going for pulpy, old-time SF sense of wonder, complete with a lost Martian civilization!"
Foreshadowing
 
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