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

[cooleddie74]

Robau: (*Glares at ship*)

 

[indranee]

FWIW, my two cents: excellent episode. More cohesive and tightly written than Ep1. Celia Rose Gooding is a marvelous Uhura.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It was good, in the way that SNW is good. I feel Pike could dial back the humour, just a touch, as sometimes it falls flat as with ‘let’s find common ground’. I’d prefer him to be more of an authority, but it’s a very small bit to pick.

Good episode of Star Trek. Bring on next week.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

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?

I think in Star Trek we’ve seen a hero ship truly destroyed… four times? In nearly 60 years?

People need to get over this kind of thing. The point of Star Trek is not destroying the shows’ ship or killing off main characters and it never has been. The drama usually comes from different places.

 

[Gov Kodos]

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.

Balance of Terror, the Romulan Warbird was a less advanced ship than Enterprise in many ways but the cloak and torpedo gave it a tremendous surprise factor. Being a less advanced ship does not equate to ineffective nor does advancement equal auto-win.

 

[cooleddie74]

A D-12 Klingon Bird-of-Prey that was more than a decade older than the Enterprise-D destroyed the Federation flagship...so, yeah.

 

[Belz...]

Warp it. Warp it real good!

Isn't captain Freeman's catchphrase "Warp me"?

Kelvin Kirk '
"kick it!"

TOS Kirk: "Chop it!"

 

[Mudd]

The "can't we find common ground" moment was one of my favorite. Mount manages to make it sound good-humored but also slightly... perfunctory.

Book says I'm supposed to negotiate with these assholes. Brass'll ask "Dud you try talking?" Fine. This'll end well. Here goes...

 

[Trekker4747]

A D-12 Klingon Bird-of-Prey that was more than a decade older than the Enterprise-D destroyed the Federation flagship...so, yeah.

Don't remind us.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It was good, in the way that SNW is good. I feel Pike could dial back the humour, just a touch, as sometimes it falls flat as with ‘let’s find common ground’. I’d prefer him to be more of an authority, but it’s a very small bit to pick.

Good episode of Star Trek. Bring on next week.

I was reminded, just a tiny bit, of President Dale in Mars Attacks. "Why can't we all just...get along?"

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[cooleddie74]

Don't remind us.

(*Growls in Duras sister*)

 

[137th Gebirg]

Isn't captain Freeman's catchphrase "Warp me"?

One of them. That's where the whole focus on catchphrases actually came from originally - it was a satirical joke from LDS poking fun at other Treks for the more serious "need" for the captains to say something profound before going into warp. Then Burnham hung an additional lampshade on it by ruminating over her own catchphrase upon getting command of Discovery and the shit was out of the horse at that point, as it were.

It started off as a joke... And it kind of still is, but unintentionally so.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

One of them. That's where the whole focus on catchphrases actually came from originally - it was a satirical joke from LDS poking fun at other Treks for the more serious "need" for the captains to say something profound before going into warp. Then Burnham hung an additional lampshade on it by ruminating over her own catchphrase upon getting command of Discovery and the shit was out of the horse at that point, as it were.

It started off as a joke... And it kind of still is, but unintentionally so.

One person's Deconstruction is another persons' Distraction I guess?

 

[AresB]

One more nitpick:
I loved that the Enterprise fired a classic phaser "beam"! And not one of those generic energy "bolts".
It was nice that it was red (blue is more iconic for TOS, but I think red actually happened more often - fine with both).

The very first time the Enterprise fired her phasers in TOS: Corbomite Maneuver, they were red bolts.
Though they were changed to blue beams in the digitally remastered version.

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[UssGlenn]

One of them. That's where the whole focus on catchphrases actually came from originally - it was a satirical joke from LDS poking fun at other Treks for the more serious "need" for the captains to say something profound before going into warp. Then Burnham hung an additional lampshade on it by ruminating over her own catchphrase upon getting command of Discovery and the shit was out of the horse at that point, as it were.

It started off as a joke... And it kind of still is, but unintentionally so.

I think Discovery was actually first in production order, and Lower Decks was directly joking about Discovery, and was originally going to air afterwards, but they got shuffled around.

 

[jackoverfull]

Good point. No idea if the LDS writers knew what Discovery was doing so much in detail, though.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Interesting - I didn't know that. Maybe they were poking fun directly at DSC. Entirely possible.

 

[jackoverfull]

Also, wasn’t Michael’s line in season 4?

 

[Skipper]

And how do you "build tension" when the hero ship is the most powerful? Doesn't the tension come from our heroes being in danger?

"I wonder if Magnum, the titular characters on the series Magnum P.I. is gonna to survive this episode this week too! The suspense is killing me!"

Said by: none in the 80s

 

[Mr Awe]

Magnum actually wasn't going to survive one episode to end the series, but they brought him back anyway!