Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
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Did anybody, back in the day, own the specific models of various land line phones that Pelia brought out?
But yes, I support STAR TREK: YEAR ONE based on this.
Mind you that's because I see this as, "Strange New Worlds shouldn't be cancelled so it would be the BOSCH: LEGACY of SNW."
Mind you that's because I see this as, "Strange New Worlds shouldn't be cancelled so it would be the BOSCH: LEGACY of SNW."
I think they are xenophobic proto-Terrans. They were the "best of humanity" but that doesn't mean they view aliens as people.
I can see that but I am guessing by the time we see them in this episode they see everyone as food.
I actually thought that the extent of the modification we see on the ship suggests they have to have some sort of base where they can park for refits. I wouldn't want to just stop in some random spot for the time it would take to put a working mouth on my ship. I do suspect there is a colony out there with a permanent population.
I don't understand the fixation on Year One. We have a full implied new 5 year mission immediately after TMP. Set a new show then. They can even continue all the Spock/Chapel drama they want since Chapel was in TMP.
That would be a interesting twist and frankly they would make for a good ongoing villain for a TOS reboot show focusing on Kirk and the crew, which this episode almost feels like a backdoor pilot to.
At first I thought they where dealing with the Breen.
Kirk: I'm hungry, anyone in the mood to eat some green jello?
I imagine they are more likely to kill aliens for a "no witnesses" policy than food but then again the Gorn are unlikely to view cannibalism with disdain.
Mind you, they fell back when they saw Pike was human.
It's a shame we didn't get to see their reaction.
Kirk: What could possibly make humans go bad?
Pike: It could be their own depravity and desperation. I mean just last week we had Ensign Gamble get taken over by an alien and we had to put him down, but with these scavengers I'll just assume it was their own depravity and desperation and not alien influence.
Pike: It could be their own depravity and desperation. I mean just last week we had Ensign Gamble get taken over by an alien and we had to put him down, but with these scavengers I'll just assume it was their own depravity and desperation and not alien influence.
TOS Kirk did a LOT of "we're savages at heart" speeches, which is interesting to contrast Picard who went, "We're not savages anymore."
This was the best episode this season, it was fantastic. Very cool to see the SNW versions of the TOS crew work together for the first times, Kirk's failing at Captaining at first. The giant monster ship with a mouth, eating ships was straight out of the Early Voyages comics. The twist at the end has been done to death in Star Trek (see: Star Trek Beyond), but I enjoyed it still.
Almost made me forget about the holodeck episode.
Almost made me forget about the holodeck episode.
I think the writers forgot that La'an was Newt in Aliens and not raised by the Gorn.
I doubt she heard them talking about the Scavengers.
I doubt she heard them talking about the Scavengers.
Why is NASA or the USA always responsible for future space screw ups?
First good episode of the season, Kirk's gambit was pretty by-the-numbers but it's amazing how fun it was to watch anyway. Loved the phone stuff too and Ortegas mistaking the phone for, you know, something else.
I did hate the twist though. It wasn't enough to tank the episode, but who cares about the race of the scavengers? There's no moral difference either on their part or Kirk's if they were humans, Andorians, Tholians, Gorn, weird interdimensional people, or whatever else. The script set up a situation where the scavs objectively had to be destroyed to prevent imminent planetary calamity, and Kirk made an attempt to rescue survivors afterward, so the "oh, but they were our race" stuff afterward fell totally flat.
Still, 8/10. Peck was finally allowed to be Spock again, and he's still superb in the role. Wesley absolutely has what it takes to helm a series if that's the way things go.
I did hate the twist though. It wasn't enough to tank the episode, but who cares about the race of the scavengers? There's no moral difference either on their part or Kirk's if they were humans, Andorians, Tholians, Gorn, weird interdimensional people, or whatever else. The script set up a situation where the scavs objectively had to be destroyed to prevent imminent planetary calamity, and Kirk made an attempt to rescue survivors afterward, so the "oh, but they were our race" stuff afterward fell totally flat.
Still, 8/10. Peck was finally allowed to be Spock again, and he's still superb in the role. Wesley absolutely has what it takes to helm a series if that's the way things go.
Chekov: The Russians are the...bad guys?
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