I had thought about that. The very opening of the episode made it clear that this was a legit, official Federation project, yet he was portayed like a reporter for his high school newspaper.
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I would have changed the character to an older or experienced, famous, in the Trek universe, filmmaker; the Steven Spielberg of their time or someone similar. The character could still flirt with Uhura.
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I am watching Ups and Downs now, after having watched Trek Culture ' round table, and I am agreeing on most points. Actually, I think Sean is being to kind. The episode wants to have its cake and eat it too. The internal storyline about Enterprise's mission and Beto realizing how he is wrong. However, the story we get is the documentary in Beto's voice, 90% of which we get a story based Beto's activism, full of prejudgements and presuppositions. 90% is Beto telling us how little snippets of found footage reveal the ulterior motives of Starfleet, and in his activist framework, an instrument of colonization.
Sean points out, somewhat clumsily, that the filming style makes this no different than a normal episode of Star Trek. Beto even has access to the composer of Strange New Worlds' music!
Sean points out, somewhat clumsily, that the filming style makes this no different than a normal episode of Star Trek. Beto even has access to the composer of Strange New Worlds' music!
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The only one that comes to mind would be John Gill, but he's quite a bit older and, if I'm not mistaken, is causing trouble on Ekos at that time.
He was a historian not a filmmaker, unless its easy to do, due to sophisticated 23rd century equipment
8/10
I liked the space story of the week. Very Star Trek. The visuals were top notch. Not a fan of episodes filmed in documentary style in any series. Also, how many frickin security cameras does the Enterprise have? No one should ever be able to steal a shuttle craft with that many cameras online ever again. I certainly would not enjoy having a camera staring up my nose every second of my shift. I get the general overview cams but the station cams seem a bit overboard.
I liked the space story of the week. Very Star Trek. The visuals were top notch. Not a fan of episodes filmed in documentary style in any series. Also, how many frickin security cameras does the Enterprise have? No one should ever be able to steal a shuttle craft with that many cameras online ever again. I certainly would not enjoy having a camera staring up my nose every second of my shift. I get the general overview cams but the station cams seem a bit overboard.
Probably enough to cover nearly every m² of floor plan on the ship.
Short of the BathRoom, nearly every area on the ship should have security camera's.
Yet it will still happen again.
There will be any number of ways to steal a shuttle craft.
That would ruin the point.
No he didn't.
RIKER: We were able to open the probe and examine it. Apparently,whatever had locked onto you must have been self terminating. It's not functioning any longer. We found this inside.
Yes? That's kind of the point.
He was a know nothing young 20 something year old who barely knew what he was doing but got onto the Enterprise because he had family in Starfleet.
The show doesn't say that. You're making an assumption.
The more I think about it, I’m revising my score of this episode from a 9/10 to a 5/10. I just realized that this episode could have been a good season finale, if Beto had been killed or incapacitated mid-season while filming and Erica decided to complete it in his honour.
I feel those that think this episode represents everything wrong with S3 have a point. It does not have the gravitas it should.
I feel those that think this episode represents everything wrong with S3 have a point. It does not have the gravitas it should.
Didn't they imply that the cameras activate during an alert?
As for stealing shuttlecraft, surely simple 21st century security measures like an access code to open the shuttle doors, a specific authorisation code for launches, and clearance codes to open the shuttle bay doors would be better than cameras?
Yes, but then The Mamas & The Poppas don't get to steal a shuttlecraft in Season Three.
Good! That was dumb.
Although, in fairness, they had a few rebel geniuses. I suppose they could have cobbled together an override device as McGuffin.
They had already stolen one ship at the beginning of the episode.
True! That should have been a red flag right there.
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