Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Page 13 of 14)

And I am getting tired of the Gorn. The Gorn have been in every season now. Also to have the Gorn and the Metrons together again, just reeks of sloppy writing. I also agree about Uhura and the wet almost crying look. This is starting to look more like Star Trek Discovery. @paisley1 Love your spoiler and agree %100. That asteroid wasn't big enough to support an atmosphere.

if the Metrons are capable of creating a wormhole - at least that's how i understood it - they are probably also able to create the atmosphere on that moon.

Honestly, when the Gorn showed up I thought everything that was happening was in her mind. Maybe dellusional or the Metrons could've pulled something like The Ancients did in Farscape when they first tested Crichton...which would've been much better

• Why was the shuttle windows covered for 'gravimetric disturbances'?  Makes no sense. Felt like the pilot for Battlestar Galactica (1978) when Starbuck and Apollo had to clear the space minefield between the binary star system.

• Crying Uhura is the new Crying Michael.

• Really? - its that easy to fudge the data numbers that there's a slider on the UI on the PADD for it?

• @pailsey1 is right about the size of the asteroid being too small for atmosphere.

• Then we get to it having gravity to hold people down let alone drag in a shuttle.

• It it evolved the big insect life despite going through the gas giant's toxic atmosphere every orbit? So... what... its hollow with an entire biosphere underground-and all the bugs exhale O² for generations to build that up?

• Oh - And after the flare ignited the entire atmosphere and burned it away, there was still oxygen for them to breathe?  WTF?!

M'Benga did something when he was 12 years old which is now enscribed on the....nope, this makes my brain explode - what the f? This is the stupidest stuff I have heard all year - and there has been a lot.
At the absolute very least, instead of him just pulling that line out of his a$$, show a god damn flashback at the beginning of the episode or something like that. Unacceptable.

Ancient evil race, ancient good race who imprisoned them. Humans now have to fully solve the problem. Yeah, definitely Stargate
And for this to work Batel had to have been invested with Gorn, had the cure and so on....all of that so that this can happen. C.o.n.v.e.n.i.e.n.t.

On another note:
First they say that Skygowan engages in interstellar trade with the Orions and is mostly hostile towards the federation...but they have no problem with two Starfleet ships pointing a phaser on one of their temples?!
Nobody in the background even reacted to the phaser...no angry call from the local authority, no Orion ship showing up, nothing?
And they don't even try to talk to the locals to maybe get some information about the history of the portal, it's myth or anything...
This planet is filled with NPCs who's dialogue options have been turned off...

"That is the power of the earth's sun"
"A focused phaser blast of a starship could give you half of that"
What? Is a phaser really that strong?

Yes, the few minutes of "what might've been" were nicely done...but that's about it.

Other shows did the "living out an alternative life" better IMHO, like https://next-episode.net/the-magicians and (to a lesser degree IIRC) https://next-episode.net/the-wheel-of-time for example...