Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x02 - "Children of The Comet"

The man had an amazing career. I just miss him.

 

I was more responding to the post *he* was quoting and didn't catch the double quote in there.

 

Don't worry about it. Just doing my [self-appointed] job.

 

How do you build tension when you know the ship can't be destroyed?

And that something like 40% of the hero's can't die?

 

They can, and sometimes do. Sure, they're usually safe, but they're not invincible in-story.

Also, it's "heroes".

 

The same way that TV shows with continuing characters have been doing it for 80+ years.

Deaths of protagonists are the rare exception, not the rule, in television. Remember that.

 

Protagonists have other stakes to gain or lose, after all...

 

You must've hated Star Trek syndication reruns. Never re-watched an episode I take it? I mean you KNOW the ship and crew are going to survive.

 

Is this a serious question?

 

Maybe “can’t die” is something the ship’s computer tracks?

“Captain, our can’t die is down to 40%!!!”
“We need more red shirts!”

 

It WAS weird that they hyped up that alien ship as super duper powerful, and yet they only needed a single phaser shot to disable it for a while. Ah, classic Trek.

IMO the episode wouldn't have lost anything by making the shown ship equal or less powerful than the big-E. Even a weaker enemy can give tons of damage, and then it's a classic "risking your own life" vs. a whole planet dilemma. But whatever - the way it was was perfectly fine.

 

Because there's more to stakes than death.

 

I don't think they disabled it, just forced to reposition itself. It was right back on the Enterprise's tail moments later.

 

It felt to me like the alien ship was very powerful, but also larger, bulkier, and slower than the E. So our heroes were able to out-maneuver the enemy and land a precision shot. Admittedly it was a stretch, but still well within the norm for Trek.

 

Exactly.. La'Khan says as much, they only had a moment to come up with a plan before they'd be back on their tail.

 

I think you need to re-watch that sequence. They didn't disable the ship, they just disabled one of its weapons platforms. They were attempting to lessen its firepower so their Shields would hold until Spock was able to do his thing with the shuttlecraft.

 

Warp it. Warp it real good!

 

Kelvin Kirk '
"kick it!"