Marty kinda reminds me of him a little bit.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x10 - "Hegemony"
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So.. The Gorn have ID4-sized ships?
Oh for....
I guess he has eighteen months to think up some orders.
I guess he has eighteen months to think up some orders.
Well that's an interesting way to end the season and we now have like a 2 year wait to see what happens next. I probably should be a little more angry, but it's 12:05 Thursday Morning and I'm too tired for that. Let's just say get these strikes over with so it might be only a year, maybe year and a half.
As for the episode, it was pretty good, even though there were things that made me shake my head. The colony being a midwestern US town? The small universe syndrome of Palia knowing Scotty, Scotty's appearance just adding more for the original series and not allowing Strange New Worlds to stand on it's own, and the continued confusion that is The Gorn as Star Trek's version of Aliens. There were good moments, like Pike and Marie reconnecting, the shuttle scene, and the actor who played Scotty, and the cliffhanger ending, but for a finale it didn't knock my socks off or anything.
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As for the episode, it was pretty good, even though there were things that made me shake my head. The colony being a midwestern US town? The small universe syndrome of Palia knowing Scotty, Scotty's appearance just adding more for the original series and not allowing Strange New Worlds to stand on it's own, and the continued confusion that is The Gorn as Star Trek's version of Aliens. There were good moments, like Pike and Marie reconnecting, the shuttle scene, and the actor who played Scotty, and the cliffhanger ending, but for a finale it didn't knock my socks off or anything.
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Explain!
I liked the episode for the most part, but I have to think about it some more before I can have some actual thoughts. I hate that it's a cliffhanger, particularly because the strike means who knows when we'll see season 3, and they were able to do a great finale last season without relying on that cheap trick but I guess I can't blame them for doing it.
I thought it was funny that the equivalent of being Amish to these people is living in middle America... I think living in a suburban car-dependent hellscape makes about the same amount of sense as Rome planet or Nazi planet, so at least it checks out with the rest of TOS canon.
Scotty was great and I hope he's part of the cast next season. I assume he can have a thing with Pelia in the same way that Stamets and Reno play off each other on Discovery.
I'm mixed on the Gorn. I like that they're acting on instinct, driving by the CME to go on a hunt, but it seems rather silly that they'd like send a message warning people off after they killed thousands of people. It's like they're rational enough to draft a border agreement but not rational enough to, I dunno, clone organic food blobs or something instead of starting wars in order to eat people? At least you can argue that the Federation can't respond because they're weak from the Klingon war, but I just have some trouble reconciling that in my mind.
Chapel and Spock having plot armor is fine, but I wish she wasn't the only survivor on the Cayuga. But also I get it, the episode is already 50ish minutes, you don't need more scenes with random Cayuga crew members running around.
One funny thought I had on another board was that what if Batel was a secret Gorn, much like Ash on Discovery, and she was sent on a mission to seduce Pike and get Federation secrets. Well, it didn't exactly play out that way but she did turn Gorn. lol
Anyhoo... it's going to be a long wait to season 3. I hope the studios just stop being assholes and give the writers and actors what they want so everyone can get back to work and we can get it sooner rather than later.
I thought it was funny that the equivalent of being Amish to these people is living in middle America... I think living in a suburban car-dependent hellscape makes about the same amount of sense as Rome planet or Nazi planet, so at least it checks out with the rest of TOS canon.
Scotty was great and I hope he's part of the cast next season. I assume he can have a thing with Pelia in the same way that Stamets and Reno play off each other on Discovery.
I'm mixed on the Gorn. I like that they're acting on instinct, driving by the CME to go on a hunt, but it seems rather silly that they'd like send a message warning people off after they killed thousands of people. It's like they're rational enough to draft a border agreement but not rational enough to, I dunno, clone organic food blobs or something instead of starting wars in order to eat people? At least you can argue that the Federation can't respond because they're weak from the Klingon war, but I just have some trouble reconciling that in my mind.
Chapel and Spock having plot armor is fine, but I wish she wasn't the only survivor on the Cayuga. But also I get it, the episode is already 50ish minutes, you don't need more scenes with random Cayuga crew members running around.
One funny thought I had on another board was that what if Batel was a secret Gorn, much like Ash on Discovery, and she was sent on a mission to seduce Pike and get Federation secrets. Well, it didn't exactly play out that way but she did turn Gorn. lol
Anyhoo... it's going to be a long wait to season 3. I hope the studios just stop being assholes and give the writers and actors what they want so everyone can get back to work and we can get it sooner rather than later.
God damn it. I hate loving the fact that they used the "To Be Continued..." title screen. Have missed that. Come on Strike end.
Also I realized something they made Pelia the Yoda of Star Trek. She probably taught every Starfleet officer we have come to know and love at some point.
Also I realized something they made Pelia the Yoda of Star Trek. She probably taught every Starfleet officer we have come to know and love at some point.
just like the Klingons and the Romulans, they like to annex what isn't theirs. Makes me even wonder if Cestus III was really a Section 31 OP to spy on the lizard-heads.
Also can we have a moratorium on directors using the spinning camera move while running through the decks of the ship? Please find something else to do. lol
I think you could argue that maybe it's a trap to trick "food" into settling near them so they can consume them later, but how many times would that work before the Federation either dies or fights back?
Unless Gorn become vegan by the TNG era, I wonder how they would solve this problem. Hell, maybe they should have sent the Gorn to the Gamma Quadrant and told them that there was lots of food over there.
Midwestern towns are extra delicious.
Liking this Scott, but his accent means more hitting the "replay" button with CC.
Well what do ya know they went with a rubber suit after all
just ask the xenomorphs
I do wonder if Scotty is going to be sticking around for the rest of the series as Pelia's Protégé. I mean we know that the Enterprise was first assignment as Chief engineer.
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