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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x09 - "All Those Who Wander"
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There's a "send Dick Cheney back in time to 1953" joke somewhere in there.
I’d rate it an 11/10. Perfection from start to finish. Easily one of the best modern Star Trek episodes. I also want to applaud the actors. Their reactions and mannerisms are so believable for example Nurse Chapel’s fear when she saw the Gorn hatch. It was so believable to the point where I felt the anxiety as if I were in the same room as her. SNW has potential to become the best modern Star Trek series. I really hope it lasts more than 5 seasons because it seems to be appealing to Gen Z as well.
Who says he's a different character, eh?
Ah, Witness Protection
Which is an upgrade.
Admiral Cartwright's cooking sucked. He couldn't even whip up a plot.
Very late and perhaps already discussed to death, but you'd think someone might have figured it out and she would have heard about it. But being a kid or having repressed memories works as an easy handwave.
I missed nothing. It is a straw man argument then.
We saw so many horrible things in Picard season 1...
No wonder he had so many health issues in DS9...he's gotta' be almost as old as McCoy.
Late to the party, as always. Definitely one of the season’s strongest—I’m rarely a fan of Trek horror episodes largely because the execution usually falls short, but this was really well handled. Like much of the season, it wears its inspiration clear on its sleeve (not this time a past Trek episode, but Ridley Scott’s Alien), but Hemmer’s death showed consequences and elevated the ending. I liked the guy, although didn’t yet feel enough of a bond to be too moved, but it was executed well (and we don’t see his actual death or body, so I’m not entirely convinced it’s the past we’ve seen of him). Solid work. Looking forward to the finale.
5/10 I felt this episode played too much with the imagery of the Alien and Predator films (maybe a little Jurassic Park), and really didn't add anything new to the formula. FWIW, I don't mind the Gorn redesign. These young ones look like they might grow into something like the CGI Gorn from Enterprise. The acid attack is a new trick though, and if we are supposed to be in the same continuity as ENT and TOS, why didn't the Gorn there use it? Maybe there's a taboo among 'civilized' Gorn against spitting acid, even in self-defense. Or maybe fully mature Gorn lose this ability? Maybe its a DNA thing, only Gorn birthed from certain species have the ability?
They killed Hemmer, god damn.
At least he inspired Uhura to establish roots on the Enterprise and become its Comms officer. He had some great scenes with her.
I don't really get the Sombra class. It's supposedly faster than a standard Constitution class, but seems to be indistinguishable from a standard Constitution class aside from some cosmetic blue highlights. So what makes it go faster, the smaller crew? Less mass to carry around? We're told it uses the same internal and external parts. How are they used to make the ship go faster? Could a standard Connie like the Enterprise be converted to Sombra specs?
They killed Hemmer, god damn.
At least he inspired Uhura to establish roots on the Enterprise and become its Comms officer. He had some great scenes with her.
I don't really get the Sombra class. It's supposedly faster than a standard Constitution class, but seems to be indistinguishable from a standard Constitution class aside from some cosmetic blue highlights. So what makes it go faster, the smaller crew? Less mass to carry around? We're told it uses the same internal and external parts. How are they used to make the ship go faster? Could a standard Connie like the Enterprise be converted to Sombra specs?
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They don't say it's faster than a Constitution-class, they just say it's "fast". The dedication plaque for the Peregrine still gives its cruising speed as warp 6 and its maximum speed as warp 8.
As the Peregrine was scouting when it crashed I'm imagining that the relationship between the Sombra and the Constitution is the same as the difference between the old Franz Joseph Hermes-class scouts and Saladin-class destroyers respectively – the Sombra is a much more lightly armed, lightly equipped, lightly crewed, stripped down version of the Constitution, which has all the bells and whistles installed. With the same engine technology she'd be as fast as the Constitution, and with fewer systems and crew she might even have the edge on acceleration, but she'd be far less flexible while being cheaper to manufacture and deploy.
So the Sombra is basically like a scout, establishing possible areas for deeper exploration by the more decked out Constitution class ships.
With a lot more equipment aboard given that it has less than half a Connie's crew complement or even a fourth if they've already risen to more than 400. 99 officers and crew is barely larger than Enterprise NX-01's complement a century earlier.
When this baby hits Warp 8.8. you're gonna see some serious shit.
I finally watched an episode of "Strange New Worlds". All I can say is . . . eh. It's not bad, but it's not earth shattering. I don't see what all of the fuss is about. But this episode was sufficiently scary. However . . . Pike is just as boring as he was in "Discovery". As for the guy playing Sam Kirk . . . bit of a ham.
I mean, the show probably isn't going to work for you if the lead character is considered "boring."
And I don't say that as a jab because I literally bailed on TNG because of Picard. Pike is what I have awaited for for 25 years. I'll take it.
To some of us it is a barrel of ice water in the desert.
TOS fans have waited for this for decades never really believing it would happen but finally has. That gives it a lot of grace with us.
Imagine becoming allergic to your favorite food then being healed of that allergy after decades of abstinence. Even a terrible recipe may not prevent devouring it all.