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

[Maurice]

I thought Pike and La'An injected baryon particles in one of them that made them retract. As Pike put it, "stir up a little acid reflux."

I guess. I get that the umbilical retracted, but why would all the other cables—which just seemed to be holding the ship—retract?

Anyway, these are just things that stuck out to me. It's one of the better episodes this year.

 

[Fateor]

Their ship is at best a couple of miles across. It's like a speck of dust to the Sphere in Las Vegas. How much of this material can they even carry? Anyway, the energy to blow a hole like that in a planet is so great that the energy potential in a ship like the Enterprise is like a watch battery to a power plant. Admittedly, the Doomsday Machine suffered the same problem of scale.

It wasn't their energy that blew apart the planet, it was the planets.

The planet was directly noted as being geologically unstable, and the tractor beam the Skullship was using to rip out the material it wanted caused the whole planet to go up like a Prince Rupert's drop that has it's tail broken.

 

[Maurice]

It wasn't their energy that blew apart the planet, it was the planets.

The planet was directly noted as being geologically unstable, and the tractor beam the Skullship was using to rip out the material it wanted caused the whole planet to go up like a Prince Rupert's drop that has it's tail broken.

I guess I missed that they didn't contribute to the ker-pow.

Anyway, planets can't blow up like that. The gravitational binding energy is too strong. But, hey, Star Trek rarely gets the science stuff right.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Maybe they just temporarily changed the gravitational constant of the universe.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Okay. At least it wasn't a holodeck episode.

Once again, we're doing TOS under the 'guise' of a Pike-era Trek show.
Once again, Pike and the SNW originals are sidelined by Kirk and the TOS reboots.
Once again, we have a recycled TOS plot. The Doomsday Machine, in this case.
Once again, we have max frivolity and stupidity with Pelia and the phone thing.
Once again, I'm reminded that Paul Wesley is grossly miscast as Kirk. I know opinions vary widely on that one, and again, no hate for the actor himself.

Is it just me, or does Anson Mount just seem like he's phoning in his three minutes of screen time per episode this season? At least we haven't seen him cooking, but we do have the continuous open flame in his quarters aboard a ship in space.

The idea that 'our best' take off into space and become the reavers from Firefly? Ughh.
The gaping maw supership with tentacles? Blasting colony worlds for decades, everyone knows about them but nobody has done anything about it? Because Spock blew the whole dang thing up with a whopping spread of three photon torpedoes. Seems like the Klingons might have done that a while back. GTFOOH.

Wasn't Spock supposed to be one of the only Vulcans in Starfleet? With the remainder serving aboard the Intrepid, an all-Vulcan ship? Why would Farragut have a Vulcan captain? Just as a plot foil for Kirk to be bored? At least this Vulcan wasn't a big bag of emotion.

Plus sides: Spock actually acted like f'n SPOCK, for once!
Jeffries tubes.
Not another ship in a bottle episode.

Not impressed. The writing on this show is WASTING the talents of the cast and the show's premise.

I agree with most of what you said. They clearly at the outset really wanted to tell the story of the original tos crew. Pike abd number one are drifting further and further into the background. This being the TOS crews first mission was pretty lame. The scavenger ship looked ridiculous. Also yeah the klingons didnt think if using their photon torpedoes. Three photon destroyed the entire ship. Lol. Kirk is supposed to be about 28 or so in this episode. He looks all of his 42 years. Wesley will be about 45 when they do year one of the Kirk 5 year mission. Yeah he can't pass for an early 30s now and will even less in 3 years. Kirk has been a commander for a couple years at this point and doesn't seem like hes learned very much. Made some pretty bone headed decisions. Also Chapel was annoying. Shes a civilian nurse. She can't take Kirk off duty. Also Kirk just went to a room be to think. Not a firm around to relieve him of command anyway.

Why was pike so worried about being vaporized with a phaser? He knows thats impossible yet he seemed in terror. After 4 or 5 years of knowing his fate he should know by now he's not going to die.

The phone bit was really dumb.

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.

Shes not going to have one. We still have another season and a half but Its been so long im really starting not to care about her now.

 

[Farscape One]

I don't know. DS9 was pretty balanced between the ensemble. There were quite a bit of episodes that barely had any appearances by Sisko.

Maybe I should clarify what I mean by Pike being sidelined as a captain.

I'm not talking about simply appearances in episodes. (Comparing DS9 to SNW appearances is a fool's errand... 3 full 'seasons' of SNW is barely more than 1 full season of DS9.)

What I mean is Pike actually being captain. Being a mentor. Actually commanding on the bridge. As the show has progressed, it feels like that has happened less and less. It was nice to be shown Pike doing something he is known for... mentoring.

 

[Nerys Myk]

How was the Enterprise suddenly free of all the cables wrapped around it when it was time to get out? Did they snap?

I'm also tired of the ship feeling like there are ten people on it. Where's the crew?

It’s the third season. It’s a TOS tradition.

 

[cooleddie74]

"The Mark of Gideon" has entered the chat.

 

[Maurice]

"The Mark of Gideon" has entered the chat.

At least that had crowds of Gideonites.

 

[cooleddie74]

At least that had crowds of Gideonites.

Effectively creepy crowds, I might add. That episode is a real dud, but the visuals and ambient sound effects were just first rate atmospheric spicing.

 

[Kraig]

I guess. I get that the umbilical retracted, but why would all the other cables—which just seemed to be holding the ship—retract?

Anyway, these are just things that stuck out to me. It's one of the better episodes this year.

The other cables holding the Enterprise may have let go because the scavenger ship shut down when it ate the Farragut's nacelles, and was finally "off leash" when the baryon particles were injected into the umbilical.

 

[Fateor]

I guess I missed that they didn't contribute to the ker-pow.

Anyway, planets can't blow up like that. The gravitational binding energy is too strong. But, hey, Star Trek rarely gets the science stuff right.

Planets where that happened naturally was a literal episode of star trek.

 

[Yistaan]

I don't think the captain of a STAR TREK series has been sidelined as much as Pike has been. (Outside LOWER DECKS, anyway. But even there, the series is mainly geared to be about the junior officers, not the captain. And Freeman got more development and spotlight of her being in command than Pike has gotten, anyway.)

No one's stopping you from rewatching Discovery if you want an "All Captain Burnham, all the time" show. I'm glad SNW isn't like that.

 

[Tuskin38]

There's a B'Rel in the debris

Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49.bsky.social)

Also seen inside the Scavenger ship in #StarTrekSNW's "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" are various bits and pieces of a very familiar starship: A Klingon Bird-of-Prey! Not the one introduced in season 1 of #StarTrekDiscovery but the one (with slight alterations) from "Star Trek III" and onwards! 😁

bsky.app

 

[Tuskin38]

Pike abd number one are drifting further and further into the background.

Pike was still central to the episode.

 

[Noname Given]

I guess I missed that they didn't contribute to the ker-pow.

Anyway, planets can't blow up like that. The gravitational binding energy is too strong. But, hey, Star Trek rarely gets the science stuff right.

The planet Krypton has entered the chat.

 

[Jayson1]

Effectively creepy crowds, I might add. That episode is a real dud, but the visuals and ambient sound effects were just first rate atmospheric spicing.

Nope. Their is no such thing as a bad TOS episode.

 

[cooleddie74]

I will airlock you to the sounds of Kenny G.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Pike was still central to the episode.

A bit but not a lot. His character is getting further back into the shadows while the TOS crew already is taking over. Of the new fresh characters only La'an is getting any good screen time. But cage characters like Pike and Number One are fading fast. No we are in a transitional period now.

 

[Farscape One]

No one's stopping you from rewatching Discovery if you want an "All Captain Burnham, all the time" show. I'm glad SNW isn't like that.

I never said I want it 'all the time'. (And frankly, DISCO's writing was mediocre, at best, so a rewatch of that show is just a rather torturing prospect. I'm also glad SNW doesn't do this, as well.)

But on the occasions Pike is around, he's hardly being a mentor or leader as often as he was in season 1. He's not being who we know him to be. Even in DISCO season 2, Pike was shown as more of a mentor and leader there than all of SNW season 2 and the first half of season 3.

I like ensembles, and SNW does a good job there, with the notable exception of Ortegas, but at least she's getting some kind of storyline now. But when Pike does appear, it's more a shadow of the man we know.

The scene at the end with him and Kirk was one of those times where Pike was being that leader, mentor, and captain that has been established. It's been missing from his scenes for a while, and I'm glad we got it again.