This episode was amazing. Can’t wait for season two. Paul Wesley was amazing as Prime Kirk. Can’t wait to see him in Season 2. Also felt like a mid season finale rather than a “season finale.”
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x10 - "A Quality of Mercy"
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Pike didn't hand the ship to Kirk in TOS because of his accident either. The Menagerie says that Pike got promoted to fleet captain, then Kirk took command. The handover is in no way connected to the accident at all.
Also isn't Pike now obligated to tell Starfleet Command everything that happened or at least that Romulans, the Fed's oldest enemy, are an offshoot of Vulcans? This isn't classified like the Disco stuff was. He has no reason to keep it secret.
The wine-red on blood-red looks odd, and the flap angle is too low. Otherwise it looks great!
The Farragut's inward curving pylons look ridiculous
But I like the Romulan uniforms in this alternate future.
This was a combination of Tapestry and BoT, and I like the Tapestry aspect of it. The BoT was a little too much of a copy of the original.
The Farragut's inward curving pylons look ridiculous
But I like the Romulan uniforms in this alternate future.
This was a combination of Tapestry and BoT, and I like the Tapestry aspect of it. The BoT was a little too much of a copy of the original.
Wow, that was an amazing episode. I cannot wait to see what happens in Season 2--and if they can find a way to save Una's career in the process.
Great episode, and then they straight up stole the Lower Decks season 2 cliffhanger.
It's just the shoulder strap being too long and the angle of the flap that's very... cosplay-ish. Maybe it looks better in motion.
Great episode, a 10. Some tiny elements of it backed it from that 11, but a great episode. Liked them going into BoT.
But warp in a TOS shuttle? No.
Off-screen Scotty handing the tool over while talking with his thick accent? A bit corny.
And I wasn't feeling this look/take in Kirk. He really seemed to lack Kirk's handsomeness and charm. It didn't feel like Kirk.
And people up thread comparing this to LD? Keep your rapid-fire, canon-referencing, low-brow humor elsewhere. (Sorry, just really dislike LD and don't think it fits with anything else going on in the franchise.)
But this episode was great.
A 10.... Okay, 10.5.
But warp in a TOS shuttle? No.
Off-screen Scotty handing the tool over while talking with his thick accent? A bit corny.
And I wasn't feeling this look/take in Kirk. He really seemed to lack Kirk's handsomeness and charm. It didn't feel like Kirk.
And people up thread comparing this to LD? Keep your rapid-fire, canon-referencing, low-brow humor elsewhere. (Sorry, just really dislike LD and don't think it fits with anything else going on in the franchise.)
But this episode was great.
A 10.... Okay, 10.5.
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Great ending to the best first season of Star Trek.
Funny the tiny things that bugged me... Ortegas still having the exact same haircut after 7 years seemed very unlikely! I guess we're doing pretty well if that's the level of thing that is left to annoy me.
The shooty phaser battle was fun!
I really didn't see any of TOS Kirk in Paul Wesley's performance, which felt a little weird considering how much of the original characters are in Anson Mount and Ethan Peck's versions. I thought he was fine, there just wasn't anything there to make me think "this is Kirk", despite really trying to find some glimmer of it.
Funny the tiny things that bugged me... Ortegas still having the exact same haircut after 7 years seemed very unlikely! I guess we're doing pretty well if that's the level of thing that is left to annoy me.
The shooty phaser battle was fun!
I really didn't see any of TOS Kirk in Paul Wesley's performance, which felt a little weird considering how much of the original characters are in Anson Mount and Ethan Peck's versions. I thought he was fine, there just wasn't anything there to make me think "this is Kirk", despite really trying to find some glimmer of it.
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Future Pike: Spock is crippled or killed in every attempt to avert the delta radiation accident! And Spock needs to save Earth from the whale probe!
Pike: If Spock transfers his katra elsewhere, then we flash grow a clone Spock and transfer his katra back into it, everything will be fine. In fact, I have a feeling that's *already* happened even before this whale probe business you mention.
Pike: If Spock transfers his katra elsewhere, then we flash grow a clone Spock and transfer his katra back into it, everything will be fine. In fact, I have a feeling that's *already* happened even before this whale probe business you mention.
I was just comparing it to how LD season 2 ended. Una and Mariners Mom are both arrested by starfleet security.
I like the alternate take on "Balance of Terror", but this doesn't match up to that. Kirk also doesn't feel like Kirk. @Trekker4747 sums it up.
The Romulan Commander, though, did act in-character and felt the way he should. And the Praetor's response was dead-on. She wants to test the Federation's strength and, in her eyes, they failed.
Pike, here, was even more dove-ish than Picard. Even Picard, always less gung-ho than Kirk, knew how to stare down the Romulans.
Pike really cares about his crew and doing what he thinks is best for them. Like any father-figure. And he's willing to sacrifice his own fate so Spock can have a better future and so millions of lives won't be lost on a war with the Romulans.
I'm wondering why it took until the 10th episode to arrest Number One. I wonder if it took seven episodes' worth of time for the Federation Council to deliberate? In which case, if it took that long to argue about it behind the scenes and figure out what to do, then not everyone in the Federation Council agrees with arresting her.
I'll go with an 8.
Pretty much my take.
The Romulan Commander, though, did act in-character and felt the way he should. And the Praetor's response was dead-on. She wants to test the Federation's strength and, in her eyes, they failed.
Pike, here, was even more dove-ish than Picard. Even Picard, always less gung-ho than Kirk, knew how to stare down the Romulans.
Pike really cares about his crew and doing what he thinks is best for them. Like any father-figure. And he's willing to sacrifice his own fate so Spock can have a better future and so millions of lives won't be lost on a war with the Romulans.
I'm wondering why it took until the 10th episode to arrest Number One. I wonder if it took seven episodes' worth of time for the Federation Council to deliberate? In which case, if it took that long to argue about it behind the scenes and figure out what to do, then not everyone in the Federation Council agrees with arresting her.
I'll go with an 8.
New theory: Khan wasn't actually going to take over Kirk's ship in Space Seed, just wake the rest of his people then go on his way. But once he read on the Enterprise's computer what happened to Una, and seeing fellow Augments persecuted and treated like criminal trash, he snapped and decided to get revenge. The Fed's actions caused Khan to go on his 23rd century rampages.
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