Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"

[V'Lias]

So uh someone from the VFX team might have snuck a TARDIS into the episode? Image is from reddit, but I checked myself, it's there 11:27 in Canadian P+

We all know that the reason Scotty is so good at fixing things is because Pelia gave him a strange device that manages to do whatever he needs! Unless it involves a piece of wood. There's no setting for that.

 

[indranee]

The official site database said Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet back in the day. That being said Terral on Discovery bulldozed that and that database on the official site isn't up anymore

Yes. Get ready for at least ONE smart alec green-blooded pointy-eared Sheldon on Starfleet Academy.

 

[JohnCrichton1999]

Also visible around 33:15

11th-12th Doctor Police Box from the looks of it. Hope it was 12 that was there. Also would be pretty flipping insane for the Scavenger to be able to capture a friggin' TARDIS of all things! But now I gotta go think up a fanfic crossover tidbit for this.

 

[Fateor]

So uh someone from the VFX team might have snuck a TARDIS into the episode? Image is from reddit, but I checked myself, it's there 11:27 in Canadian P+

Not the first time something like that's happened, probably won't be the last.

 

[Yistaan]

I guess those IDW Trek/Who comics are canon now huh?

 

[cooleddie74]

Three close up and fantastic views of the Farragut.

 

[fireproof78]

I guess those IDW Trek/Who comics are canon now huh?

Please, no.

 

[Gepard]

After watching the episode again, I think I'm even more impressed with the final scene between Pike and Kirk. The conversation avoided heavy-handed moralizing about the loss of life being a Bad Thing (TM) like TNG probably would have done, but they also didn't descend into savage celebration a la Trek 09. It was a very mature acknowledgment that Kirk did the best he could, and it was the right call for the situation, but at the same time that doesn't negate the tragic elements of the outcome.

 

[gaghyogi49]

Three close up and fantastic views of the Farragut.

Credit: Jörg Hillebrand

 

[Enterprise is Great]

What is the ship class of the Farragut?

 

[Trekker4747]

Three close up and fantastic views of the Farragut.

Almost a proto-Cerritos.

 

[Maurice]

Pretty good action episode.

A few observations:

Poor Ortegas still only ever gets to do one thing.

Wesley still does nothing for me as Kirk, and as such, I don't much care about his crisis of confidence.

So, why did this scavenger ship blast this planet and then beat feet immediately after nabbing the Enterprise? For kicks?

The Enterprise party are real quick to jump to the idea of relieving Kirk of command, and Spock's totes right to shut that down.

In-story, I can buy that Starfleet screwed up by relying too much on non-wired systems. That happens now. Example: a few years ago, the US Navy reverted from touchscreen throttle and helm controls to physical controls on some destroyers following a collision.

"Specifically, the board points to the touchscreens on the bridge, noting that mechanical throttles are generally preferred because 'they provide both immediate and tactile feedback to the operator.'"

So, sure, maybe Starfleet went too far down the wireless path. Sometimes you just need two tin cans and a string.

The literal face on the scavenger ship was ridiculous and kinda ruined the design for me.

My biggest complaint: the staging of the climactic action was poor. The first time I watched it, I didn't even see that it was the Klingon ship the torpedoes hit. I guessed that was what happened and went back to watch it again, and it wasn't til a second rewatch that I saw it.

I like that the show doesn't always spell out every little thing, but that the Klingon ship 'sploded so spectacularly as to blow up the Scavenger ship seemed awfully convenient. What? They drained it of everything but its antimatter stores? Was its photon torpedo magazine detonated? How did Spock even know there was Klingon ship in there? Did he spot it when they got line-of-sight? I just don't feel like that was set up properly.

 

[AntonyF]

I felt this was a reasonably competent episode. Unlike Maurice actually I did start to buy into Kirk for the first time here. I could start to see it. The crisis of confidence felt a bit forced, and "I do fucking everything Chapel" talking about relieving him of duty I wanted to shout "get back in your box". Really you're a nurse, and you're within minutes talking PUBLICLY to the bridge crew about relieving him of command. Shut up.

The ship was silly, and something like out of a Disney theme park ride.

But I liked how they had the two crews working together, and how it was a bit better at balancing it so the cast was included (although where was M'Benga?).

Also I felt they really had quite an interesting origin story going here... and it was nice to have some new story telling. I felt they could have done more with it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

11th-12th Doctor Police Box from the looks of it. Hope it was 12 that was there. Also would be pretty flipping insane for the Scavenger to be able to capture a friggin' TARDIS of all things! But now I gotta go think up a fanfic crossover tidbit for this.

The TARDIS goes where it needs to be.

 

[SG-17]

I want a comic or a novel about the journey of the XCV-100 from launch to its end.

 

[The Wormhole]

So uh someone from the VFX team might have snuck a TARDIS into the episode? Image is from reddit, but I checked myself, it's there 11:27 in Canadian P+

Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor did say he needs to visit Star Trek. Though, given the recent Doctor Who finale, I guess this would actually be the Billie Piper Doctor?

I want a comic or a novel about the journey of the XCV-100 from launch to its end.

Would be kind of a downer. Astronauts leave Earth with dreams and aspirations of exploring space and making a difference. Instead their experiences lead them to becoming evil as they attack and slaughter anyone they run into until they are eventually killed by an enemy they can't defeat. With the twist being that enemy is in fact their own people.

 

[FederationHistorian]

I think some eagle-eyed fan already pointed out that the flag has 50 stars, although TNG: The Royale said that the US flag got 52 stars in 2033. That means that the ship launched before 2033, yet Pelia says it launched in the aftermath of World War 3, which would put the launch in the late 2050s or early 2060s.

OH NO! Continuity error! WORST EPISODE EVER! Trek is ruined, I tell you, ruined!!!!!

Except it does not mess with continuity, and lines up with the events of PIC S2 quite fine. Since the Shango has to spend 3-4 years getting to Europa, then find the Borg nanites on Io, then spend another 3-4 years returning back to Earth with them. And Ricardo (the kid from PIC S2) would only be 20 in 2033, around the time the Shango returns, before he could assemble a team of bright mind to study and use the nanites to heal the planet.

SNW just time slides the Second Civil War-Eugenics Wars-WW3 window to occurring between 2026 and 2033. Unless there was a second nuclear exchange twenty years later.

But that's for someone else to figure out.

 

[Pauln6]

I felt this was a reasonably competent episode. Unlike Maurice actually I did start to buy into Kirk for the first time here. I could start to see it. The crisis of confidence felt a bit forced, and "I do fucking everything Chapel" talking about relieving him of duty I wanted to shout "get back in your box". Really you're a nurse, and you're within minutes talking PUBLICLY to the bridge crew about relieving him of command. Shut up.

The ship was silly, and something like out of a Disney theme park ride.

But I liked how they had the two crews working together, and how it was a bit better at balancing it so the cast was included (although where was M'Benga?).

Also I felt they really had quite an interesting origin story going here... and it was nice to have some new story telling. I felt they could have done more with it.

I admit, I did wonder about what was fuelling the explosion. If the Enterprise was drained of power, why wasn't the Klingon ship?

A Romulan ship powered by a quantum singularity might have caused but it would grow unstable rapidly and wink out of existence.

Still, it's less silly than jettisoning the main power source for propulsion and shields when trying to escape an intense gravity well

 

[Jayson1]

Pretty good action episode.

A few observations:

Poor Ortegas still only ever gets to do one thing.

Wesley still does nothing for me as Kirk, and as such, I don't much care about his crisis of confidence.

So, why did this scavenger ship blast this planet and then beat feet immediately after nabbing the Enterprise? For kicks?

The Enterprise party are real quick to jump to the idea of relieving Kirk of command, and Spock's totes right to shut that down.

In-story, I can buy that Starfleet screwed up by relying too much on non-wired systems. That happens now. Example: a few years ago, the US Navy reverted from touchscreen throttle and helm controls to physical controls on some destroyers following a collision.

So, sure, maybe Starfleet went too far down the wireless path. Sometimes you just need two tin cans and a string.

The literal face on the scavenger ship was ridiculous and kinda ruined the design for me.

My biggest complaint: the staging of the climactic action was poor. The first time I watched it, I didn't even see that it was the Klingon ship the torpedoes hit. I guessed that was what happened and went back to watch it again, and it wasn't til a second rewatch that I saw it.

I like that the show doesn't always spell out every little thing, but that the Klingon ship 'sploded so spectacularly as to blow up the Scavenger ship seemed awfully convenient. What? They drained it of everything but its antimatter stores? Was its photon torpedo magazine detonated? How did Spock even know there was Klingon ship in there? Did he spot it when they got line-of-sight? I just don't feel like that was set up properly.

I agree about Ortegas. She is one my favorite characters, yet we are getting close to the end of season 3 and she still hasn't had even a single episode dedicated to her.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

11th-12th Doctor Police Box from the looks of it. Hope it was 12 that was there. Also would be pretty flipping insane for the Scavenger to be able to capture a friggin' TARDIS of all things! But now I gotta go think up a fanfic crossover tidbit for this.

It happened in Journey to the Center of the TARDIS.
The Doctor lowered shields while teaching Clara the controls.