It always felt like a rubber suit to me, but the script was so great I felt fine ignoring the visuals.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"
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The really astonishing thing is that these super future ships with their matter-antimatter power sources don't carry weapons that can utterly destroy any unshielded vehicle with a single hit.
They should throw malfunctioning 350 series air filtration units at them.
They should throw malfunctioning 350 series air filtration units at them.
IDK - they took out the three smaller ships using various methods, and truthfully I don't think Pike would have batted an eye about taking out the third one if the Enterprise have the capability to do so; but due to the initial surprise attack by the Gorn, that was no longer an option due to the condition of his ship.
The really astonishing thing is that these super future ships with their matter-antimatter power sources don't carry weapons that can utterly destroy any unshielded vehicle with a single hit.
They should throw malfunctioning 350 series air filtration units at them.
IDK - the photon torpedo Pike dropped on the smaller Gorn ship while they were maneuvering within the atmosphere of the brown dwarf took out the unshieled enemy Gorn ship quite nicely.
I was actually very happy they did it that way and didn't go with the oft used Star Trek trope of using damaged equipment about to explode (such that series 350 air filtration unit) to take out an enemy. When Spock did mention that the damage took all the ships weapons offline; and that even if they found a way to fire the one remaining Photon torpedo manually, it wouldn't be able to track a target in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf; I was expecting someone to bring up the situation with the damaged series 350 air recycling unit, and they'd attempt to use it as a makeshift weapon. So yeah I was happy when Pike decided to use the photon torpedo as an improvised bomb in an ultimately successful attempt to destroy one of the smaller Gorn ships.
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100% Agree.
To paraphrase the showrunner from another series:
It's not that you can tell it's a man in a rubber suit, it's that 40 years later you're still looking at them. - Steven Moffat
Yeah, that's what I meant. I didn't mean that they did it out of compassion or anything. It was just nice of the scriptwriters to find another solution to the crisis: escape.
FWIW, I wasn't suggesting that they should do that. I was joking about the fact that their armament never seems to be sufficient to do the job, but they seem to have a lot of random equipment that turns more lethal than military-grade explosives when the plot calls for it.
Isn't that what she did in this episode?
For half a minute, yes. They were even beamed back offscreen. But aside from that very short outing they haven't given her much to do, job-wise. Again, if the First Officer has something else to do (helmsman in her case in The Cage, Spock as science officer in TOS, etc.) I think it's better.
Yes.
The character is feeling a bit redundant to me right now, with La'an taking over as first officer 50% of the time. I'm hoping she'll get more of a role in later stories.
I've got a similar feeling with M'Benga and Chapel. Two main characters on the medical staff seems a bit much. I'd rather not lose any of them, however.
Chapel eventually leaves because of Roger Korby only to come back in 2266 after Kirk's taken command. She'll be leaving at some point anyways because that's what her character history demands.
The things that just happen to come with meter-length POSITRON RODS? OMFG, you'd think a ship getting hit by one of those ought to go up in burst of white light.They should throw malfunctioning 350 series air filtration units at them.
You're expecting the showrunners to care about precise established continuity; a few lines of dialog in a single episode aired over fifty five years back. I don't.
You could be right but these showrunners went out of their way to mention the Battle of Donatu V in the very first episode of DSC and that's a deep cut even the 1987-2005 series never referenced.
Did we learn nothing from Halogen torchieres?
Anyway, as mentioned uptopic they are featuring different characters each week, and Una had her turn last week with "Ghosts of Illyria." Uhura got "Children of The Comet" and "Memento Mori" was La'an's. Una is getting more than sufficient exposure; that she's the second-in-command in-story has no bearing on how important she is to the series. None.
Seems logical to have some step in for the XO, if the XO is incapacitated. That's not redundancy to me. On the other shows we see crew stepping in at helm, navigation, communications and science all of the time. So why not XO?
Yeah absolutely. I'm just saying that the series keeps making the case for why she's not necessary instead of showing why she's important.
You say that, but they already referred to her as a civilian in Episode 1 because she shouldn't be part of the Starfleet yet.