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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x09 - "All Those Who Wander"
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I was thinking the same thing. Why in the world jump off a cliff when you can be zapped into oblivion in just a second? And I can understand some folks having an issue with this version of the Gorn because they are nothing like what we've seen before. I can see everyone that plays a Gorn in Star Trek Online asking to be made more fast and with the ability to spit venom from their mouth.
Having said all that, this was an AWESOME episode! After last week's fairy tale shtick I was looking forward to an episode with some horror vibes to it. Loved it! Another 10 for me.
As he would be the first to tell you, Hemmer isn't disabled
After about the third version of the Klingons I just assume that, like earth, there are different races of all species and call it a day.
Whoa, they actually went THERE.
Even though this was a "homage" episode, I liked that there were real stakes. I also like the fact that you can do "action 'Trek" without the need to be STAR WARS. Just because you have a ship and crew that is about "peaceful exploration, that doesn't mean that the encounters will always be peaceful. In fact, some encounters, IMO, should be horrific in nature. I just got through re-watching the TOS episode "Devil in the Dark", which was, on the surface, a horror episode. However, how the stakes were resolved was what made that episode characteristically STAR TREK, as it should be. Maybe a better resolution would be for La'an to be less "Ellen Ripley", and more like Captain James T. Kirk, when he decided, against everyone's better advice, saved the Horta. I know that the Gorn, in this iteration of 'Trek, are set up to be the scary monsters of the week types, but I hope that an understanding of sorts is made between the Gorn Hegemony and the Federation, with La'an being the instrument of that understanding. We'll see.
Anyway, I give this episode a 9. Again, I never give a perfect score to anything, but this episode comes very, very close for me to revise my rating criteria. All the characters were on point, and the resolution was "shocking", to say the least. SNW is the best 'Trek show since the Berman Era. IMO, SNW, LDs and PROD have been decent to excellent programming. Hopefully, I can include DISC and PIC on my "wins" list, the next time they are released for public consumption. Later...
Even though this was a "homage" episode, I liked that there were real stakes. I also like the fact that you can do "action 'Trek" without the need to be STAR WARS. Just because you have a ship and crew that is about "peaceful exploration, that doesn't mean that the encounters will always be peaceful. In fact, some encounters, IMO, should be horrific in nature. I just got through re-watching the TOS episode "Devil in the Dark", which was, on the surface, a horror episode. However, how the stakes were resolved was what made that episode characteristically STAR TREK, as it should be. Maybe a better resolution would be for La'an to be less "Ellen Ripley", and more like Captain James T. Kirk, when he decided, against everyone's better advice, saved the Horta. I know that the Gorn, in this iteration of 'Trek, are set up to be the scary monsters of the week types, but I hope that an understanding of sorts is made between the Gorn Hegemony and the Federation, with La'an being the instrument of that understanding. We'll see.
Anyway, I give this episode a 9. Again, I never give a perfect score to anything, but this episode comes very, very close for me to revise my rating criteria. All the characters were on point, and the resolution was "shocking", to say the least. SNW is the best 'Trek show since the Berman Era. IMO, SNW, LDs and PROD have been decent to excellent programming. Hopefully, I can include DISC and PIC on my "wins" list, the next time they are released for public consumption. Later...
Maybe Kirk in 'Arena' referred to his opponent as a "creature that calls itself a Gorn" not because he had never heard of them before, but because the Gorn captain didn't look like the Gorn Starfleet had seen before.
I think the last scene of her on the bridge with a standard patch on is saying that she's staying. And she's an ensign.
I thought that they'd find out the Gornbabies just fell off his face dead because they Aenea blood is poison to them.
But of course it's small universe. It's ONE STARSHIP that TOS personnel served on, some before JTKirk, some came aboard when he took over. We know he inherited Spock, probably Sulu, Scotty. Did Chapel and M'Benga leave for a while then come back? Maybe.
Hemmer was one of a set of quadruplets. His siblings were Arrmin, Annvil, and Sledj.
It was Hemmer, his brother Hemmer, his other brother Hemmer and his other-other brother Hemmer.
Seriously, it sounds like that breakfast was awesome. That omlet-cake/pie thing looked great.
Agree with some other comments, this episode was amazing and was a welcome return to Trek after the weird previous episode. Although it definitely had an Alien vibe to it.
I really hope La'an returns in the next season. She is a really strong character.
Sad that Hemmer is gone, he was a really good character too.
I really hope La'an returns in the next season. She is a really strong character.
Sad that Hemmer is gone, he was a really good character too.
La'an has already been seen filming on location shots.
How dense are you...The entire setting of Forbidden Planet IS Star Trek itself.
Hell - there's a line in FP - "De-C at 17:01 skipper..."
And tell me - what is the NCC number of the Enterprise again? Oh yeah, 1701.
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I get that the little gornbabies were all murderous and whatnot, but I think it needs to be said that the Enterprise crew basically killed a bunch of toddlers, with La'an literally freezing and smashing the corpse of a baby *sentient being* - who, for all they knew, was merely having the alien equivalent of the terrible twos. It wasn't some kind of animal. It was a person. Operating on a violent alien instinct, perhaps not even capable of reason or speech yet, but it was a person, not a monster. I don't think they tried very hard to corral it or communicate instead of just killing it as plan A.
Sprinkled with extra cheese, with a side of thick, sizzling bacon. MMmmm...
It was so good La'an forgot what cheese was!