Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x03 - "Ghosts of Illyria"

I'm not having any trouble with M'Benga's dialogue, but I've been fortunate enough to be exposed to a wide variety of international accents most of my life. If anything is going to trip me up, it's usually certain American accents.

 

It's a West African accent it seems but I don't have too much trouble following what his character says.

 

They're just following TOS, the stardates in that were also all over the place. Discovery seasons 1 and 2 did the same, and once they got to the 32nd century they started using the TNG stardate system, and I believe they have been consistent.

 

I gave it an 8.

I thought the episode was very good, but I deducted a point because they had a medical doctor jury rig the transporter in such as way that Scotty -- one of the best engineers of the 23rd Century -- had to invent 50 years later during a crisis and at incredible risk. I also deducted a point for the whole "Flagship of the Federation" nonsense. In this era, the Enterprise was nothing special and hadn't gained any greater notoriety than the other Constitution Class ships.

 

It wasn't the same way at all.
Scotty had to set his into a diagnostic loop so he and his friend wouldn't rematerialize. While M'Benga is just keeping her in the buffer then rematerializing her every once and a while to keep her pattern from degrading.

M'Benga didn't jury rig anything.

 

I don't think contradicting your head canon is a flaw, though.

I just gave you the perfect system. Stop looking!

 

I'll run it through my secret decoder ring and have it sorted in a jiff.

 

Kirk never said he was Born in Iowa, the best we ever got was him telling Dr. Gillian Taylor he was FROM Iowa.
(ST:TSFS)




(and I just realized my 21st anniversary around here passed a few days ago)

 

According to... well I don't remember which writer, the attack on the ship put her into early labour. If it wasn't for Nero, they would have been at Earth for his birth.

There was a Warp 3 test ship. Only mentioned, not seen.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/NX-Delta

 

Unless she's a time traveler, that would be almost impossible. In the late 20th Century, Khan and his gang were put into suspended animation and launched into deep space. Unless they had some vacation time, they are not re-awoken until the Enterprise, commanded by James Kirk runs into them. And that takes place 10-12 years AFTER SNW.

Agree with the transporter jury rig. But the Enterprise WAS the flagship. It didn't become that after Kirk took over.

 

I thought it was a interesting episode with layers of grey in it. Lots of threads left unresolved, proving you can do a episodic-based season but still have viewer investment in both character and plot arcs.

Very nice parallel between Pike willing to give Una the benefit of the doubt and Una paying it forward with M’Benga. I think when she’s asking if Pike would do the same thing if she wasn’t one of the good ones, she’s also asking herself if she would do the same thing if M’Benga wasn’t the CMO of the Enterprise.

 

We're twenty-five pages in...is no one going to talk about how this episode was directed by Kira Nerys' mother?!

Although Leslie Hope will always be Susan from the movie Men at Work for me.

 

I noticed but couldn't remember who Hope played.

 

I give this a 7. Good episode that didn't quite land for me the same as the first two did. I thought the resolution to the disease was really quick and convenient, but that's nothing new to Trek so not a huge deal. That's probably really my only nitpick.

 

Exactly.

 

TOS Space Seed says Khan and his ilk were the result of selective breeding, no genetic editing/modification, but later series seem to imply they specifically altered.

 

Kirk's exact words in the episode were "a product of controlled genetics," which can easily mean either. Selective breeding or gene manipulation. So it still covers all the bases.