It's insidious.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07 - "What Is Starfleet?"
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Just like the Federation.
Wait till everyone finds out you can combine it ice cream.
Just like the red notification popup saying TERMINATED when Robau is stabbed
Reminded me of this from Unification:
SAREK: No. I never knew what Spock was doing. When he was a boy, he would disappear for days into the mountains. I asked him where he had gone, what he had done, he refused to tell me. I insisted that he tell me. He would not. I forbade him to go. He ignored me. I punished him. He endured it, silently. But always he returned to the mountains. One might as well ask the river not to run. (lies down again) But secretly I admired him, the proud core of him that would not yield.
BETO: Captain Batel, I understand the Cayuga was lost on your watch. Why didn't you go down with your ship? Do you have survivor guilt? What will you do differently with your next command?
BATEL: [REDACTED]
BATEL: [REDACTED]
BATEL: [REDACTED]
BATEL: [REDACTED]
BATEL: [REDACTED]
BATEL: [REDACTED]
I'm watching it right now. I tend to agree with Sean on most downs, but not this time.
I can still get draft A&W at their restaurant about a half hour away. I'd love some right now. And they sell floats, too.
He visited it twice in Yesteryear. Once as himself and once as his cousin. That makes 4, doesn't it?
True enough.
He also would visit it properly a year after Yesteryear, making it 4.
I don't know if showed up in a previous episode, but Spock's meditation lamp is based off the one Tuvok and T'Pol had in their respective shows
Someone might have complained it said a"$+&le, (the sorry state of reading comprehension here)
I will admit, that was silly. It's like the graphics people interpreted a script instruction a bit too literally. IE, I imagine the script might have had something written like "bio monitor indicates alien patient has flatlined" which the graphics people decided rather than showing a flatline they went a head and had the word FLATLINED appear on the monitor.
I went 7. Probably a bit stingy.
I found Erica's brother a pretentious wank, but at least he figured it out by the end. Or rather Uhura figured it out for him.
The end was definitely better than the beginning.
It is very Trek at the end. The Jikaru is beautiful. It didn't hit me in the feels the way it did with some others.
I found Erica's brother a pretentious wank, but at least he figured it out by the end. Or rather Uhura figured it out for him.
The end was definitely better than the beginning.
It is very Trek at the end. The Jikaru is beautiful. It didn't hit me in the feels the way it did with some others.
This was a good episode, but I have to give it a 9 instead of a 10.
This should have aired first, before “Shuttle to Kenfori”. M’Benga’s non answer on scrubbing surveillance logs does not matter anymore.
Ortegas seems to have issues with the Klingons, the Gorn and the Lutani. Plus, the Romulans, as revealed back in S1. Is this going anywhere? Since we’ve seen that being in Starfleet offers no cover for her prejudices, regardless as to what Starfleet means to her.
Really odd that the episode was so short, when they could have tacked on another twenty minutes. There were so many people in interview and subjects to touch on.
- Chapel is present throughout the documentary, but is never interviewed once by Beto.
- Beto brings up the Cayuga, but doesn’t interview Batel who is still onboard as made evident in the episode, even though he should be familiar with who Batel is by this point. It just feels like it was only brought up to make canon that Uhura’s Academy roommate dies in every reality, and not just ST’09.
- We don’t get a few brief words from Scotty, or any archival footage from “Through the Lens of Time”, including of Pelia, Korby and Gamble, despite Beto filming then.
- There’s not even archival footage of a Klingon battle cruiser when Beto narrates while comparing the Federation and Klingon Empire in his documentary intro. And everyone would be familiar with the Klingons after the war that happened only years earlier. So, there’s no reason for that to be classified.
- Beto never interviews the Edosian bartender from “Wedding Bell Blues”, even though she accepted a job offer to work on the Enterprise.
- We also don’t see it delve into the crew's hobbies too much at all. Which would have been a way to develop the crew more and the relationships they've formed, especially Una.
- It's a largely human perspective on what Starfleet is. Even the aliens interviewed look like humans. In-universe, who’s the audience for this? Does anyone really believe that Starfleet wouldn’t emphasize the diversity of their crews? It's hard to believe that Starfleet would have approved of this, when they are the ones that allowed for classified footage to be used in the first place. And likely had a hand in editing the whole thing.
Even if the episode is actually about manufactured transparency, it could have been done a bit better. It does not even acknowledge Starfleet’s role in the war with the Klingons, or black ops like Section 31 operating in the open, or ask if Starfleet expansion is responsible for the hostility of the Gorn. Not even a "that's classified" or "no comment" response. Even with the Lutani-Kasar subplot, SNW didn’t say anything with it. They could have, since they made the case of the Lutani being associated with the Klingons, but they didn’t.
It made Beto look like a hack instead of a critical journalist.
This should have aired first, before “Shuttle to Kenfori”. M’Benga’s non answer on scrubbing surveillance logs does not matter anymore.
Ortegas seems to have issues with the Klingons, the Gorn and the Lutani. Plus, the Romulans, as revealed back in S1. Is this going anywhere? Since we’ve seen that being in Starfleet offers no cover for her prejudices, regardless as to what Starfleet means to her.
Really odd that the episode was so short, when they could have tacked on another twenty minutes. There were so many people in interview and subjects to touch on.
- Chapel is present throughout the documentary, but is never interviewed once by Beto.
- Beto brings up the Cayuga, but doesn’t interview Batel who is still onboard as made evident in the episode, even though he should be familiar with who Batel is by this point. It just feels like it was only brought up to make canon that Uhura’s Academy roommate dies in every reality, and not just ST’09.
- We don’t get a few brief words from Scotty, or any archival footage from “Through the Lens of Time”, including of Pelia, Korby and Gamble, despite Beto filming then.
- There’s not even archival footage of a Klingon battle cruiser when Beto narrates while comparing the Federation and Klingon Empire in his documentary intro. And everyone would be familiar with the Klingons after the war that happened only years earlier. So, there’s no reason for that to be classified.
- Beto never interviews the Edosian bartender from “Wedding Bell Blues”, even though she accepted a job offer to work on the Enterprise.
- We also don’t see it delve into the crew's hobbies too much at all. Which would have been a way to develop the crew more and the relationships they've formed, especially Una.
- It's a largely human perspective on what Starfleet is. Even the aliens interviewed look like humans. In-universe, who’s the audience for this? Does anyone really believe that Starfleet wouldn’t emphasize the diversity of their crews? It's hard to believe that Starfleet would have approved of this, when they are the ones that allowed for classified footage to be used in the first place. And likely had a hand in editing the whole thing.
Even if the episode is actually about manufactured transparency, it could have been done a bit better. It does not even acknowledge Starfleet’s role in the war with the Klingons, or black ops like Section 31 operating in the open, or ask if Starfleet expansion is responsible for the hostility of the Gorn. Not even a "that's classified" or "no comment" response. Even with the Lutani-Kasar subplot, SNW didn’t say anything with it. They could have, since they made the case of the Lutani being associated with the Klingons, but they didn’t.
It made Beto look like a hack instead of a critical journalist.
His shitty camera work was enough to do that.
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