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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x06 - "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"

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This is the first episode where I'm giving a 5. It wasn't good or bad, but it was kinda boring. I did like the stuff with Uhura and La'an though, as the best thing about this series so far is just seeing relationships form throughout the crew. The stuff with Majelas though reminded me of a cross between Insurrection and The Prefect Mate, for some reason. Maybe with the whole acsension plot and then the people on Prospect 7 were trying to escape the main planet.
 
This series is all 10s for me so far. The show is really hitting all the classic Sci-Fi stories, and this is honestly the best Sci-Fi tragedy I've seen in a good while. Like, the second Alora said their motto science, service, sacrifice, the audience knows the kid has a sorry fate, but the ending is still crushing.
Hopefully the show goes a bit lighter than B5 on kid characters.
 
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What I first thought of after "Lesson two of security: there are no breaks in security ..."
 
Let's all assume now that Pike was frantically beeping "No" to Spock in the Menagerie because he assumed Spock was going to take him back to Alora's planet built on child suffering.

Also they should've just gone all the way with the horror vibe by adding one extra scene--

Alora: My night of passion with Chris will result in a child. Our new First Servant has arrived.
 
Loved it.

It hit all the right notes with me and delivered both a mystery as well as a sense of dread and wrapped it all up in a package with TOS-style paper and ribbons. Everything Pike did in this episode Kirk would have done ten years later and all the actions were believable right down to how the native leaders hide dirty secrets from the Starfleet crew until they no longer can. This show is now 6-0 for quality in its first six episodes.

That hasn't happened in Trek in decades. Whatever they're doing they need to keep it up.
 
Just an observation since they gave the detail and I find it amusing to routinely pause during the episode to peek at these things. (And not to take it too seriously since it doesn't really matter that much.)

Pike turbolifts to "Deck Six" in the beginning of the episode. Does this canonize transporters on deck six? Per M:A and Chakoteya / Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, 1701 transporters are on Deck 5 and Deck 6 contains other stuff.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Constitution_class_decks

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/70.htm
KIRK: Yes, I am. I think we can consider your problem settled. At least for the present. I have ordered guest quarters for you on deck six.
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SPOCK: Captain, I have located them on ship's sensors. Bele is chasing Lokai on deck three. Bele is passing recreation room three, approaching the crewmen's lounge. Lokai is running past the crewmen's lounge. Lokai has just arrived on deck five. Passing recreation room three.
 
They'd better wrap up the Rukiya thing within a season or 2 otherwise the actress will quickly age beyond the point of believability that she's an unaging kid mostly in suspended animation. I still remember how quickly the actor who played Walt on Lost aged.
 
Kai-Winn Scenario said:
Just a fun observation since they gave the detail and I find it amusing to peek at these things.

Pike turbolifts to "Deck Six" in the beginning of the episode. Does this canonize transporters on deck six? Per M:A and Chakoteya / Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, 1701 transporters are on Deck 5 and Deck 6 contains other stuff.
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I think it just confirms that the transporter room is on Deck 6 in 2259 and will be on Deck 5 in 2269 after the ship undergoes it's pre-Kirk refit. As most of us assumed. The ship will undergo a substantial internal overhaul to accommodate more crew and different equipment so by the time Kirk is Captain the transporter room will be on the same deck as the Captain's quarters.
 
The architecture is very nice and some of the shots in paricular really stand out. Very good work from the set designers, the director, and the cinematographer. Unfortunately, the story itself didn't grab me, even though the actors performances were very good, but it wasn't enough. So I'm giving this a 6.
 
Aragorn said:
Six episodes and Hemmer has been absent from half of them. Do they not know what to do with him?
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I think most of the major characters will get their own dedicated episodes.

Today's was focused on "Doctor M'Benga" & "The Captain" with the La'an & Uhura being the B-plot.

But what I'm curious about is WHY on earth would the machine need the brain of a child?

What's so special about the child's mind & their machine needing it.

That machine that runs their planet needs to use the Neural Network of a a chosen child that is super smart? Why would you design that kind of requirement into your computer system?

What kind of sick person does the calculation and say, we'll sacrifice the mind, and eventual body of a child by using their brain matter as a special Neural Computer to run calculations to keep your Society floating above Lava?

Why not literally just move your people off to a more hospitable planet so you don't need to run a society built on sacrificing children to the machine?

They obviously have space travel & space ships. They're not particularly powerful in the space combat department, but they don't need to be to migrate off world.

There are obviously colonies off world where their people have re-settled.
 
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