Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x02 - "The Griffin Incident"
"Wold in the Fold" has multiple violent deaths and lots of literal blood on hands, mostly Scotty's. The perpetrator is Jack the Ripper, or at least the noncorporeal energy being that inhabited the Ripper's body in Victorian London. It's definitely a horror episode.
I have been watching this season out of order. This was my least favorite. Not saying it was bad. Not sure what they were trying to achieve. I am not usually a horror fan but sometimes I like it. Maybe it’s reading reactions before watching it expected something much more intense. Felt very average to me. Might give it rewatch once season is over.
It's one of those season where it doesn't matter which order you watch in I think.
I have really liked that. I restarted my subscription with the Noir episode. That watched ones that most appealed to me first. Than remembered that I was having major picture and signal problems last season on my Roku. Completely freezing or unwatchable. I still had to watch about half of that too. Overall I am liking this season a lot more.
I enjoyed the episode: played to some juicy horror tropes, and ended on an unexplanation (which I loved!).
Division-12 sounds intriguing, and overall, had the episode had some good Event Horizon-ness about it.
Division-12 sounds intriguing, and overall, had the episode had some good Event Horizon-ness about it.
I like how SNW leaned into a ghost ship without attempting to explain it with technobabble.
Sometimes the best explanation is no explanation. I kinda miss when we were supposed to use our imaginations to fill in the gaps.
Now everyone wants everything explained right down to the self-sealing stembolts.
The ghost in the episode was the victim of a tragic accident involving self-sealing stem bolts.
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TOS showed us Miri's planet and explained it all as a duplicate of Earth where scientists killed off the adult population with genetic and biological experiments. No half hour of technobabble. Just straight up "another Earth where scientists accidentally killed off most of the population." Simple, and to the point.
In the moment (the episode in question)? Don't elaborate unless you have to. Later, presumably after detailed analysis has been made by both the author and the characters (of a book or comic)? Go ahead and explain it.
The Mayberry Institute for Scientific Research has a lot to answer for.
SNW to its credit uses less technobabble than most of Berman Trek. Sometimes "it's just a weird phenomenon we've never before seen" works as an explanation. The nerds in the audience who need everything written on a chalkboard can head canon their own explanations. We don't always need to hear them.
^^^ Exactly - that’s what I love about the strange in Strange New Worlds…
Everyone dislikes that they introduced Miri's planet as a duplicate Earth and never explained it though. That's one of the main issues people bring up when they talk about (along with the creepiness with Miri and Michael J. Pollard being way too old, and... there are a lot of problems with that episode).
The plague was pretty well explained though to be fair. We know why it was invented, what they were trying to do, and the effect it has on people.
I do?
No.
No.
Please stop speaking for everyone.
Having issues with something, such as wishing it had been explained further ≠ disliking it. There could be any number of explanations for it that make sense. @Christopher wrote one for one of his novels [https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Miri's_homeworld].
I liked that novel and the explanation. Long before it I figured if done by later Trek series it would be been done as parallel dimension. Though the idea certainly existed in the 60s. Look to Mirror, Mirror. Plus other Earth like planets on TOS by today’s labels might make more sense if presented as alternate Earths with different histories. Either they thought too complicated to explain to general 60s tv audience or completely unnecessary.
Which gets to the point in relation to Strange New Worlds. There are a lot of completely made up storytelling conceits we have only excepted in Star Trek due to decades of repetition and eventual expectance. The technobabble and explanations are just hand waves and distractions to hide that this is all made up. Should not be the essentials to good storytelling.
Which gets to the point in relation to Strange New Worlds. There are a lot of completely made up storytelling conceits we have only excepted in Star Trek due to decades of repetition and eventual expectance. The technobabble and explanations are just hand waves and distractions to hide that this is all made up. Should not be the essentials to good storytelling.
Yeah I could've found a better way of phrasing that. Sorry. It was not my intention to be obnoxious.
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