Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (May 05, 2022) (Page 4 of 5)

Ep8 had a cute framing mechanism which reminds me of some of the absolute worst Eps of Trek like when Tasha Yar had to fight for her right not to marry a man on Ligon II, or that time when everyone on DS9 were forced to Move Along Home and let's not forget Michael Mckean just going for it in the second season of Voyager.

But this terrible Ep, it ended with [nothing borderline about it] child abuse... this was, at the same time, both the dumbest and most offensive Ep of Trek I've seen in what seems like forever [and I am counting Discovery's time crystal nonsense]. It retroactively turned one of my favorite lowkey players on TOS into a criminal but also got rid of his dumb edgy unneeded complication... so honestly I will try to view this as a glitch and take a cue from the crew to forget any of this ever happened.

Why am I so angry, you may ask?! Well it's not cause this Ep followed in the grand tradition of corny genre moments, no...

I agree a waste of 45 minutes a big let down after the previous episodes.

eps 9 still that damn hair other wise "Aliens" any one?

for me that is 2  dud eps in a row. when I realised the above I stopped watching, some thing I do not normally do!

I had high hopes for him too, such an interesting character. A strange decision to kill him off for sure.

My "Even though" was...

Anyway Ep 10 [A Quality of Mercy] was pretty good stuff (despite more dreaded time crystal nonsense)... what I can't believe though, is the season is over already. Feels like I barely got to know the show, maybe that's the thing about the classic Trek series: They just threw so many Eps at you that you really got to know the characters and began to feel comfortable in that universe... whereas these new Trek series are so focused [even here] on some tight serialized story telling. As a result we don't really spend all that much time just watching the crew just be.

Because as much as this was not Discovery it was also not TOS but more something in the middle... and there is something to be said for an SF series without that dramatic push forward of towards an overall arc which started back in Voyager and [somehow, more so] in ENT days, sure, but continues on here... even with the finale twist at the end of the Ep.

It's not that I dislike a Epic, DS9 is my favorite Trek, but sometime it's more interesting to just splash around in Trek waters... Even if it's with Eps that have little to now stakes like that time on DS9 when Morn died or when Bashir dealt with The Quickening (sorry Highlander) but then there's also "DAX" and "Whispers" and what of TNG's "The Naked Now" or "Disaster" and  VOY "The Cloud" or "Memorial." Heck even TOS' had all sorts of filler Eps like "The Trouble with Tribbles" or "Shore Leave" which made those crews more textured and thereby more interesting... so, yeah-uh, lament with me

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UPDATE: I rewatched "Balance of Terror" and find it interesting that a repercussion of Pike not getting hurt would be personnel assignment in the Romulan Star Empire... because, what happened to Centurion T'Auethn, the Commander's confidant and ally from the classic Ep?

Umm no one had a gun to your head, you didn't "need" to watch it, if you didn't like it lol.
If I don't like a show after 2 episodes then I drop it.

S1x10 ,,  Well, overall, great Season 1.  Glad to see Uhara didn't leave after all. 
Paul Wesley as "James Kirk" fit pretty good in to the original characters shoes.
So far, no word on whether Scotty will make his debut for season 2.

10/10 PAWS

But Hemmer ,, [tears] ,,  WHYyyyy? 
(you nailed the accent, by the way)
Articles about season 2, say that Star Trek canon doesn't stipulate Scotty's debut on the Enterprise.  But atleast now we know it's under Pike's command.  Seems to be perfectly set up for next season.
NOW ,, who could possibly fill those shoes??  Scottish actors ?
- Sean Connerery ? , nah , dead
- Gerald Butler ?  , nah , too dam good looking
- Ewan McGregor ? , nah , Star Wars strumpet
- Oh! , JAMES McAVOY ,  oh yeah.. According to IMDb, currently unemployed. Hmmm, that is very odd [wink]

Or , they just choose someone that can fake a really good Scottish accent.

He looks much older - he should get a job in that other dud show "Space Force" - any one bother with that one also?

some can get away with it just not this guy who looks like he is trying too  hard to look cool.