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

[Skipper]

Oh, I would've liked that! I might have actually watched the series for once!

But, seriously, I agree with your main point. When watching a series (outside Game of Thrones), it's a safe bet the main characters will survive and that doesn't hamper your enjoyment of the show.

Someone argued that Lost preceded GoT regarding deaths of its main characters, but yes. I have no idea why someone could be convinced that we watch movies/tv shows or read books only to know if someone will die. And there are genres (like light comedies) which don't involve matters of life or death. Actually, I find the concept a little morbid.

 

[tragicbackstory]

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 found the dialogue quite cringey and the science pitiful. Uhuras lines was awful in particular. The writing is low quality.
Everyone has a tragic backstory. Obviously the Utopian paradise has vanished and everyone is in trauma.

I think i will make a thread about it.

Also why would a captain have dinners as familiarity breeds contempt and dilutes authority. Also only a few were invited.

Raising shields by the comet negates Newton Laws!

Massive ship appears suddenly without being detected and as it is so advanced but it suddenly gets blasted by the Enterprise leaving it helpless.

Seems to be a remake of the paradise syndrome comet story. No originality at all.
Also stole lines from ST6! taking you out of them eipisode...

 

[tragicbackstory]

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.

Pike stole kirks corbomobite line too about a mystery resin.

 

[Tuskin38]

Everyone has a tragic backstory. Obviously the Utopian paradise has vanished and everyone is in trauma.

Of course. Go read the backstories for most of the TNG main characters. Nearly all of them have some sort of trauma or tragedy.

Even some of the DS9 and VOY cast as well.
Sisko notably, it was an entire plot point.

 

[Tuskin38]

Seems to be a remake of the paradise syndrome comet story. No originality at all.

They’re nothing alike.

 

[Mudd]

Oh, joy.

All this has happened before...

 

[Tuskin38]

If any of you see a screen cap from this episode going around with Defibrillator spelled wrong, it’s fake. Someone edited the screen cap and was purposely spreading it around as real, because reasons????

Oh, joy.

All this has happened before...

Joined today just to stir up shit. Also has a similar name to another new user who was doing the same thing in the Picard subforum.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Oh, joy.

All this has happened before...

I really wish Mr Newbie hadn’t chosen my post to prove their ‘point’. That’s about two minutes of my life wasted seeing why someone quoted me…

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Isn't that a grommler?

Star Trek has Gropplers

 

[captainmkb]

"So...does Kennedy survive the movie JFK??"

Big if true

 

[cooleddie74]

The reboot we probably needed in the 1960s.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Joined today just to stir up shit.

In the year i've been here I've noticed this happens a lot.

 

[cooleddie74]

Star Trek has Gropplers
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That deserves an apple.

 

[Noname Given]

I found the dialogue quite cringey and the science pitiful. Uhuras lines was awful in particular. The writing is low quality.
Everyone has a tragic backstory. Obviously the Utopian paradise has vanished and everyone is in trauma....

WRT needlessly tragic character backstories, that's another Star Trek staple that started with TNG as well. Picard, Riker, Troi, Data, Worf, Beverly and Wesley Crusher, and the early departed Tasha Yar AKL had an overly tragic backstories

Pike stole kirks corbomobite line too about a mystery resin.

Trilithium resin has been around in Trek technobabble since TNG. Its volatile explosive properties were a plot point in the TNG episode, "Starship Mine".

Guess you're new to Star Trek and haven't really watched a lot of it eh?

 

[cooleddie74]

The "Utopian paradise" has been gone since Roddenberry stopped being in day-to-day control of the franchise. And I'm glad it's gone. A sterile utopia where almost nothing bad happens makes for boring entertainment, and the idea that even with alien help humanity will achieve a utopia within 200 or 300 years of almost nuking ourselves off the map is a real stretch.

 

[ThreeEdgedSword]

Of course. Go read the backstories for most of the TNG main characters. Nearly all of them have some sort of trauma or tragedy.

Even some of the DS9 and VOY cast as well.
Sisko notably, it was an entire plot point.

Sisko, Odo, Kira, Bashir...

 

[Jedman67]

Also why would a captain have dinners as familiarity breeds contempt and dilutes authority. Also only a few were invited.

There is a military tradition that senior officers will eat regularly with their subordinates, to maintain crew morale. It's a "navy tradition" in David Weber's Honor Harrington series.
Helps break the ice and open unofficial communication channels with the crew

 

[Jedman67]

That deserves an apple.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

That deserves an apple.

 

[Enterpriserules]

The Saddle Up! episode is out!