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

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I didn’t get that feeling at all.
The dialogue of the episode doesn’t support this at all.
Yeah, that's why I wrote, "I overlayed a subtext," based on the, "the times we live in," and not just, "I picked up a subtext from the episode," cuz it's not really a subtext.

Although, it is a very strange twist of fate for the astronauts.
 
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It was a reference to the XCV-330
why thank you.


Anyway I give this a 9. Almost a perfect episode. I'm just tired of Pelia. The telephone thing was dumb. She just happened to have a box of perfectly working 400 year old telephones.
The creatures aren't absorbing light so they could have used fiber optic binary signalling, or anything but the hokey telephone thing.

That's a small nitpick on an otherwise awesome episode. The creepiness of imagining what these suited humans have been like for 400 years is .. yeesh.


So what we know of humankind's early interstellar attempts so far:

  • Nomad: merged with alien. Went Bad.

  • Voyager 6: Accidentally went interstellar and pulled a Nomad. Stopped killing humanity to watch a VM it created get it on with a human. Then probably went back in time to make the borg or something.

  • Friendship 1: Nearly killed all the Otrin and their planet.

  • Botany Bay: well.. they didn't die. Be nice if they did, though.

  • XCV-100: BAD.. but they didn't die

  • SS Conestoga: Successfully landed colonists, then all hell occurred. But TECHNICALLY successful

  • SS Valiant: went to galactic barrier somehow, and everyone got ESPery and murderful.

  • XCV-330: no idea.. but let's be real for a moment. It got replaced so quickly by another Enterprise AND no one's mentioned it being a museum.. I'm just going to assume the worst.
I'm not even including the Franklin.

(I was painstakingly forcing my army of trained typist cetaceans to research and write this while @cooleddie74 beat me to it)
 
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Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher's manned mission to Saturn around, oh, 2025 was a success. So there's that. Not interstellar, but hey, I'll take what I can get.
 
I had to google and saw someone already asked on reddit:

that one dead guy among the salvagers: was that Steven Strait? The dead guy looked a lot like James Holden from The Expanse.
 
Again there's absolutely no dialogue in TOS (any episode), nor any Star Trek series that states Spock was the first Vulcan to attend Starfleet Academy.
It's fanlore that comes from an old Lincoln Enterprises profile of Spock, IIRC. It definitely seeped into some tie-in material but doesn't fit with the all-Vulcan Intrepid crew and doubly so for any modern Trek.
 
Anyone else not notice that the TARDIS was floating in the debris in the world eater ship? I had to re-watch after I saw this on Facebook.
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I had to google and saw someone already asked on reddit:

that one dead guy among the salvagers: was that Steven Strait? The dead guy looked a lot like James Holden from The Expanse.
It wasn't Steven Strait, who according to IMDB his most recent acting role was a recurring role on Chicago Fire. (That's where our memes come from!)
 
So I wanted to be able to confirm that the XCV-100 is the same model as the XCV-300 series, and it seems like they aren't the same at all. It seems like the XCV-100 "Scavenger" was actually about 2-3x the size of the concept XCV-330 Enterprise series. So basically what I'm seeing is that the XCV is the series of class of models, and that the number designations at the time determine whether its the older larger classes, or the smaller newer classes, if UESPA was a thing prior to Cochrane's Starfleet. One way to determine is with the front of the hull we saw: The XCV-100 had what looked like rows of decks with TINY windows, like windows you'd see on a Starbase small. This XCV-100 albeit similar, is NOT the same ship: XCV-100
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XCV-330:
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Scavenger suit concept art

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