Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x09 - "All Those Who Wander"

So: Alien, Predator, and I'm going to throw The Thing and even a Tremors 2 in there for good measure. And you know what? I'm all for it.

 

It would be like that Stargate Atlantis episode which is similar where Sheppard kept mentioning it, spooking McKay.

 

Spoiler: S2

La'An was seeing in the set pictures taken with Paul Wesley as James T Kirk.

 

The Dominion War would've been over a lot quicker if the Gorn took a side. How did these super strong, super fast, invisible to sensors species not just take over the galaxy?

 

He was the Bill Paxton for this story.
He did save Spock’s life.

 

I've always felt that Nomad mind-wipe was more (or less) complex than he just reformatted her brain, they retaught her everything she needed to know as a functional human and Starfleet officer and she went on without a single memory of life before Nomad; while her actual memories and everything were also recovered or just came back on their own in time.

That it simply didn't happen that way and what we saw was a quirk of Kirk's dranatized/extreme-style of log entry being formated to a TV episode. (How we're kinda supposed to write off the oddities of TOS that are a product of connecting the oddities of 1960s television production with modern TV production.)

 

Okay, put an Aliens in there. Sam Kirk is reaching "game over, man!" levels.

 

Galaxy Quest: Resurrection.

 

It’s a shame Hemmer off’ed himself before they were born. I would have liked to see a Aenar Gorn.

 

Seriously La'an didn't warn anyone that Gorn lay eggs in people by venom spray like a gazillion episodes ago? Why wasn't everyone wearing full environmental suit armor?

 

I don't thank La'an knew that Hemmer was infected. I think she surmised based on his state and what he was saying and preparing to do. A logical leap, so to speak.

Enterprise already had the Gorn move far faster then what was shown in TOS's Arena so I assume they are working with the physicality more from that than from TOS.

 

Okay that's a 10. A "genuine" 10 (the first one was kinda a "fuck it 10" but maybe more a 9.987 or something.) Oddly both my 10's involved the Gorn a La'an (and secondarily a Hemmler/Uhurah dynamic.)

Reading bits of this thread spoiled ne on Hemmler (my fault, no blame spread here) but it still gave me impact. After two or three weeks of kinda meh stuff this one was great.

Our first two "offical" "red shirt deaths" too.

 

Huh. Space velociraptors.

 

I was about to be annoyed that they just killed red shirts they introduced only for this episode but then at least they did something at the end to make it more meaningful.

My big fear is that they'll turn the Gorn into the Borg and we'll have a sexy Seven of Gorn join the show in season 4, but hopefully along with Uhura, this also closes La'an's arc and they won't need to fall back on the Gorn again and again until they make them boring.

 

Velociraprors, Chest Bursters, Xenomorphs, Screechers, Hunters, they're a combination.

 

shame about hemmer we need more non human in star trek not less, but anyway the episode was awesome and i really like the new xenogorn they're much better than the terrible ''rubber'' garbage of TOS which never seemed like a credible threat unlike the one in SNW

lol

 

Couldn't sleep, so I got up and just watched this. It felt more season-finale-ish than I expected the penultimate episode to be. Makes me wonder about what they'll do in the actual season finale.

The Gorn here remind me of the Xenomorphs from the Alien films. Not a bad place to start to get the image I had of them from "Arena" out of my head. I approve.

I kind of wish George Kirk was the one who was killed. He reminds me of Chris Pine's Kirk, except with a mustache. Half the time I wanted to tell him, "Please just shut up, already."

I like where they're going with Spock and Chapel. But I also hope they don't use Spock's rage as an excuse to have him act... like an abusive piece of shit. Make sure you keep that punching directed at walls. Thanks.

Sorry to see Hemmer go. I have to agree with others who think this means we'll probably see Scotty soon.

I've got a feeling La'an will be back early next season. But she'll be on a mission with Kirk == Jim Kirk -- first.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think Uhura will be back right away. This is the equivalent of her finishing an Internship. What's likely to happen is she'll go other places, then deicde the Enterprise is where she really wants to be, and then she'll come back. But she needs to go to those other places and have those other assignments first, and that's going to take some time.

I'm split on whether or not I want to give this a 7 or 8., so I'll split the difference and call it a 7.5.

 

Did anyone else think when the girl was revealed, “well there’s Newt.”
Also, I don’t think La’an is a Noonien Singh. She’s a Ripley.

 

I thought that too.

 

I wonder if the actor who played Hemmer wanted out... One of the few alien characters with an interesting background which was never explored. It seems incredible the writers wanted him out...