If you watch the scene, Ortegas does not immediately fire torpedoes. As soon as Uhura gives the order, there is a pause and if you look at Pike he gives a look and a nod, and it's after that nod that Ortega's lets loose the photon torpedoes.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x06 - "Lost in Translation"
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If you watch the scene, Ortegas does not immediately fire torpedoes. As soon as Uhura gives the order, there is a pause and if you look at Pike he gives a look and a nod, and it's after that nod that Ortega's lets loose the photon torpedoes.
If they're 30 minutes late, is the margherita pizza free?
La’an not Ortegas
Aren't torpedoes fired from the helm console? Like they will be in TOS? La'an has a side station at Security. You may be right, I'll concede that.
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I know. My point was that some photons hurt us (Gamma rays), while other photons don't. I should have said visible light, though, to make it work better.Gamma rays are photons
You missed the part where they couldn't turn it off?
That's very true. I agree with everything you wrote. However, having preferences of one portrayal over another, and even disliking some portrayals is absolutely fair. I like Connery's Bond more than Moore's.
I want to like Wesley as Kirk. I really do. He's just not working for me yet. Although, maybe some of that is because he's playing a younger Kirk. Not sure. I guess time will tell.
Right now, I much prefer Pine's portrayal of Kirk over Wesley's.
There were a couple of times where Chekov fired phasers and or photons from the navigation station (because Sulu was off being a Green Beret
); but he could be right. I assumed they were fired by Ortegas because in the past she has been the one firing the weapons of the Enterprise.
TOS could be all over the map about which station did what defensive function so I guess La'an could have fired weapons from her side station. That's a pretty TOS thing to do.
In TOS, we see her in a very limited, specific context. She's barely even a character. In Amok Time, she's come up with a plan with a specific goal, break the engagement with Spock and be with Stonn. According to Vulcan culture, there are only certain ways to do that. So, her options were extremely constrained. She might've been experiencing Ponn Farr as well.I still can’t reconcile the two versions; SNW T’Pring is likable and I don’t want her to turn into that Machiavellian hellcat.
I love how SNW have given her real characterization and motivations.
I loved that too. A responsible action despite knowing it could (and did) get her taken off duty.
Oh my god, I didn't even connect that because of the whole scary hallucination thing. That's just yummy!Meeting Uhura at the bar leaves Jim Kirk with his nose broken. Always
Yeah, it's really a fucking no brainer. Blow the stuff. Save lives.
Ok, noted! Scratching that off my to do list.
Just look away while pumping it, like you're supposed to do with regular gas to avoid inhaling it. Piece of cake!There goes my dream of being an interstellar gas station attendant.
Not a bad ep. Fortunately, I hadn't noticed the episode title, so I had a mystery for a while.
Uhura shone in this episode as did Kirk. Wesley's Kirk is really coming into his own now. And the sibling rivalry between the Kirk brothers is amusing.
Less amusing - Pelia. I'm just not warming up to her.
The romance. WTH Christine? Longing gazes all feckin' season and finally you get him and meh? What is WRONG with you? And given how Chapel moons after him in TOS...I just wanna bang my head against a door or something. It would have been nice to have had a week or two of niceness before the inevitable breakup/return to T'Pring.
Like most, I'd like to see more Pike.
Hemmer, good use of the character.
A nice solid episode. I'm not so sure about the crossover, because as much as I like Lower Decks, I'm not sure how that bunch of clueless funny losers will fit in the "real" Trek world. Stay tuned, I guess.
Uhura shone in this episode as did Kirk. Wesley's Kirk is really coming into his own now. And the sibling rivalry between the Kirk brothers is amusing.
Less amusing - Pelia. I'm just not warming up to her.
The romance. WTH Christine? Longing gazes all feckin' season and finally you get him and meh? What is WRONG with you? And given how Chapel moons after him in TOS...I just wanna bang my head against a door or something. It would have been nice to have had a week or two of niceness before the inevitable breakup/return to T'Pring.
Like most, I'd like to see more Pike.
Hemmer, good use of the character.
A nice solid episode. I'm not so sure about the crossover, because as much as I like Lower Decks, I'm not sure how that bunch of clueless funny losers will fit in the "real" Trek world. Stay tuned, I guess.
Not amazing but a pretty good episode -- mostly a character piece, really. I really like the idea that the first person Jim really bonds with isn't the obvious pairing of Spock -- it's Nyota. There was a nice parallel between Prime Jim and Prime Nyota meeting for the first time at the bar in the Enterprise mess hall and Kelvin Jim and Kelvin Nyota meeting for the first time in the bar in Riverside; Prime Jim is much more mature and so his meeting with Nyota isn't so disrespectful and sexually harassing.
I really like the idea that when realizing that their utilization of a scarce resource is causing tremendous damage to other lifeforms, Starfleet's first response is to just stop. It's a much more optimistic take than what tends to happen in analogous situations in real life today.
Gooding continues to be wonderful as Nyota, and it was great to see Bruce Horak again.
I loved the scene between Jim and La'an. Very charming. I hope we see La'an open herself up again.
I really like the idea that when realizing that their utilization of a scarce resource is causing tremendous damage to other lifeforms, Starfleet's first response is to just stop. It's a much more optimistic take than what tends to happen in analogous situations in real life today.
Gooding continues to be wonderful as Nyota, and it was great to see Bruce Horak again.
I loved the scene between Jim and La'an. Very charming. I hope we see La'an open herself up again.
Pretty good episode. Just like the episode about Rigel a few weeks ago, very TOS like. Certainly a step up from last week…imo. However I did think the Pelia/Una conflict stuff felt kinda tacked on.
I’m still iffy on Wesley-Kirk. He seems to get a bit better each time he’s on. But for me, there is still just something off. The fighting death speech was pretty good though.
I get the feeling they are going to set it up as the crewmates not receiving the Spock/Chapel relationship well. “Like…we are happy for you two but it seems kinda fucked up that you’d break up a marriage.” Optics could also be why Christine wants to keep it under wraps.
“I only said that because he’s dead”. Ha!
If it’s a temporary thing, why would Pike still have to wear the fancy badge? Feels like it’s just a super cheap way to get around that line from The Menagerie.
It seems weird to me that both the Kelvin timeline and now nu-Trek keep pushing Kirk and Uhura together on a more personal level instead of just the Captain/subordinate relationship they had during TOS. It’s because of the kiss isnt it?
put me down for a 8/10.
I’m still iffy on Wesley-Kirk. He seems to get a bit better each time he’s on. But for me, there is still just something off. The fighting death speech was pretty good though.
I get the feeling they are going to set it up as the crewmates not receiving the Spock/Chapel relationship well. “Like…we are happy for you two but it seems kinda fucked up that you’d break up a marriage.” Optics could also be why Christine wants to keep it under wraps.
“I only said that because he’s dead”. Ha!
If it’s a temporary thing, why would Pike still have to wear the fancy badge? Feels like it’s just a super cheap way to get around that line from The Menagerie.
It seems weird to me that both the Kelvin timeline and now nu-Trek keep pushing Kirk and Uhura together on a more personal level instead of just the Captain/subordinate relationship they had during TOS. It’s because of the kiss isnt it?
put me down for a 8/10.
I quite enjoyed this episode. And I don't know how I didn't notice it before, or maybe they changed Sam Kirk's hair or something, but he seemed hotter than I remember, somehow. lol
