Same way Spock gambled that it would be seen by Kirk's Enterprise when he ignited the remaining shuttle fuel at the end of The Galileo Seven.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x09 - "Terrarium"
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In my second rewatch, I'm giving this an 8. La'An's itchy trigger finger hurts it more than the Metron, the unclear timetable takes it down that second point. When Ortegas figures out the moon will go through the planet's hostile upper atmosphere she says she has "a few hours" to get off the rock. Even if she meant a DAY alot happens in that time, including several games of Chess and the Gorn game, the timeline on the moon should be days or weeks of Ortegas and the Gorn bonding and trying to figure out how to contact Enterprise or get off the moon. (Just put a temporal shift between the two ends of the wormhole.)
I'm going to say that's a big plot hole, they have "hours" to get off the moon and they stop to play board games?
Still, in the end, a pretty strong episode Ortegas carries well. (Even when talking to herself which, really, is common in these types of stories.) I also really like the first scene with the simplified UT.
"Look at us, just a couple girls having a slumber party."
... Fuck it, I'll give it a 9, that was mostly a Trek episode that hasn't felt that good for a while (taking out SNW's first season, we're talking decades.)
I'm going to say that's a big plot hole, they have "hours" to get off the moon and they stop to play board games?
Still, in the end, a pretty strong episode Ortegas carries well. (Even when talking to herself which, really, is common in these types of stories.) I also really like the first scene with the simplified UT.
"Look at us, just a couple girls having a slumber party."
... Fuck it, I'll give it a 9, that was mostly a Trek episode that hasn't felt that good for a while (taking out SNW's first season, we're talking decades.)
Precisely my thought.
They do two out of the three in "Arena."
Most (if not all) Star Trek is a retelling of a retelling. As is most of fiction.
And not just the eyes,
Gorn and Kirk used translators
Precisely, it was directly stated in the episode that they were going to die if they didn't do something anyway, so why not take a shot?
She survived at least one orbit in the Gorn’s shelter thanks to her forcefield, maybe multiple “nights.”
That's kind of how I think it worked but it wasn't clear. Still feels like days and days should have passed while Enterprise was on a time crunch of hours.
This script was sooooo easy to fix if the writers would just exercise a little imagination.
The rendezvous with Constellation is the reason Enterprise has to delay the search for Ortegas, giving her some time on the asteroid where she really needs to worry about survival. Two different times in military survival training I went a week without eating- it would have taken me waaaaaay longer than a day to be hungry enough to scarf some raw alien giant centipede hurled to me by a Gorn.
Then, due to being in a different part of the universe and so close to that humongous gas giant, gravity alters time a bit, so it's more like six weeks or months for Ortegas before Enterprise returns to mount a rescue. Now she has to eat those nasty bugs, and has time to teach the Gorn chess, and learn the Gorn game.
Did not like the Castaway easter egg. "I have made water!" CRINGE.
Did not like the Metrons showing up- that just about ruined the entire ep, right there. Just utter shitty writing and MORE TOS small-universe syndrome.
Did not like Ortegas's constant flip commentary. She was in a dead serious situation, which should have been coupled with a little awe over what had happened to her, etc, but all we get is continuous Ortegas-brand snark and jokes.
And why would any starfleet shuttle not launch with some emergency rations, water, hand phasers, and so on? My corporate jet has more survival gear than her starfleet shuttle!
Given the circumstance we did get, Pike was criminally slow on the uptake when it came to search and rescue measures. And I guess Uhura was channeling her inner Hemmer here as others have point out.
Just bad, lazy, unimaginative, unoriginal writing. Any living TOS writers should be getting royalties, because they [Shat]keep....getting....ripped off....over....and OVER![/Shat].
The good: it tried to be a real episode of Star Trek where something happened, someone actually got off the ship, and Pike got to be in the captain's chair!
The rendezvous with Constellation is the reason Enterprise has to delay the search for Ortegas, giving her some time on the asteroid where she really needs to worry about survival. Two different times in military survival training I went a week without eating- it would have taken me waaaaaay longer than a day to be hungry enough to scarf some raw alien giant centipede hurled to me by a Gorn.
Then, due to being in a different part of the universe and so close to that humongous gas giant, gravity alters time a bit, so it's more like six weeks or months for Ortegas before Enterprise returns to mount a rescue. Now she has to eat those nasty bugs, and has time to teach the Gorn chess, and learn the Gorn game.
Did not like the Castaway easter egg. "I have made water!" CRINGE.
Did not like the Metrons showing up- that just about ruined the entire ep, right there. Just utter shitty writing and MORE TOS small-universe syndrome.
Did not like Ortegas's constant flip commentary. She was in a dead serious situation, which should have been coupled with a little awe over what had happened to her, etc, but all we get is continuous Ortegas-brand snark and jokes.
And why would any starfleet shuttle not launch with some emergency rations, water, hand phasers, and so on? My corporate jet has more survival gear than her starfleet shuttle!
Given the circumstance we did get, Pike was criminally slow on the uptake when it came to search and rescue measures. And I guess Uhura was channeling her inner Hemmer here as others have point out.
Just bad, lazy, unimaginative, unoriginal writing. Any living TOS writers should be getting royalties, because they [Shat]keep....getting....ripped off....over....and OVER![/Shat].
The good: it tried to be a real episode of Star Trek where something happened, someone actually got off the ship, and Pike got to be in the captain's chair!
Would solve a lot of issues if they did.
Rations were destroyed in the crash and stripped of excess weight for the mission (no phasers.)
The Metrons may also have been responsible for the time variations.
Speeding up the time between the two 'combatants' in the wormhole to see a several day outcome and slowing down time for the Enterprise once it was inside the wormhole.
They were also probably responsible for the gravimetric occurrences that encased the wormhole.
(and perhaps even the wormhole itself)
For Them the whole thing was a laboratory experiment that They would go on to repeat later on in Arena, but without any prior setup.
Remember that episode of Space, Above and Beyond where Hawkes was running around the Chig planet on his own, trying to survive and seeing visions of Vansen as an angel of death? Hardly a word spoken that episode, and it was damn near epic. A silent Erica working to survive in silence would have been far more impactful than constant chatter. The occasional computer voice or just seeing what she was doing would have filled in the blanks- the viewers are capable of connecting the dots.
Only their alpha
(Yes, that's Ortegas)
They might as well have put that Gorn in a red shirt.
They basically only erased her memory of Them.Only their alpha
They are actual phasers. What makes you think they're not?
Good. It's realistic.
But not Van Morrison.
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