joshEH
Senior HTF Member
...Sybok!!
I kinda want that.
Followup with question / speculation...
When Dr. Aspen / Angel was transported from the bridge of the Enterprise I was wondering about the mechanism. My recollection (which may be mistaken) was that personal transporters weren't introduced into the universe of Star Trek until season three of ST: Discovery nearly one millennium in the future. I suppose it could have been a signal to a confederate or an automated system aboard her craft requesting transport. (?)
- Walter.
I kind of want a captain's "Iron Chef"-style cook off between Sisko and Pike now.Pike and his away team are taken prisoner and Pike formulates a plan of action involving amongst other things food preparation.
A bold choice to lean so heavily into Star Trek V.Spock reveals to Chapel that he believes Xaverius' real name is Sybok and that Sarek is his father.
Part of why the twist worked for me is because the other Kurtzman-era Trek shows have been so earnest with their efforts at inclusion that the characters reflecting underrepresented groups of people have been pretty unfailingly decent and noble. The non-binary Dr. Aspen seems to be another character along those lines, so when the twist comes and Angel goes full-on bitchy queen, it's this fun double-take. And Jesse James Keitel, who has a drag background, knows just how to flaunt that sort of exaggerated confident swagger.I found this episode to be just a bit predictable, but there are some solid character moments in the episode (especially for Spock, T'Pring, and Chapel) and a bit of skewed sense of fun that still made it an entertaining episode.
It was also a different transporter visual effect than the one used for Federation transporters in this show, so I think we're supposed to infer that it is not Federation technology, but rather something Angel seized pirating out beyond the Federation's borders.When Dr. Aspen / Angel was transported from the bridge of the Enterprise I was wondering about the mechanism. My recollection (which may be mistaken) was that personal transporters weren't introduced into the universe of Star Trek until season three of ST: Discovery nearly one millennium in the future. I suppose it could have been a signal to a confederate or an automated system aboard her craft requesting transport. (?)
Jess Bush is really good at selling Nurse Chapel's unrequited feelings for Spock, but it does seem a strange choice to have them essentially in the same place as TOS this early in the show's run.
A bold choice to lean so heavily into Star Trek V.
It was also a different transporter visual effect than the one used for Federation transporters in this show, so I think we're supposed to infer that it is not Federation technology, but rather something Angel seized pirating out beyond the Federation's borders.
She had the same character traits.
It will be a long wait for the next collection
This was a fun episode, but I have to wonder how much of this will continue. I know Roddenberry put the brakes on Gene Coon for going into comedy too much during the second season of TOS. it is fun to see them lighten up every now and then. The Top Gun sequence of “She’s Got That Loving feeling” to get the pirates to mutany against the leader was also pretty goofy for Pike and Una.
Go ahead and call me the spoil sport here, but “The Serene Squall” is meh for one big reason: one second Pike and crew are all locked up (though the mutiny seeds have been planted) and the next they have control. There’s some connective tissue missing there that’s completely jarring for me.
Otherwise, it’s a fine episode that continues some season-long stories. Nothing more for me.
I am much more pessimistic. They needed a child because the mind was less formed and developed and could interact with the command chair interface better. That and as it uses the operator up, it gets more time out of a younger (less worn) body.I think their hope was that using a child was so ghastly that it would force the society to reckon with their sins quickly and devise a new way to live, and that they never imagined or intended that sacrificing a child regularly would become the new way of life.
I have never had the fruit, but a half dozen Thanksgivings ago (no home plans) I went on a eating hop with a bunch of local chefs and others to several places to order house specialties at each. These were all in the "Chinatown" part of Houston.Haha! Shout-out to South East Asia's "King of Fruit", infamously so noxious even Andrew Zimmer couldn't eat it. Although Anthony Bourdain loved it...
I agree, to a point. We all want these new versions of Star Trek to succeed, and I believe it's important to include younger people in the fan base. Ergo we get a cadet as Number One on Star Trek Discovery and Ortega and others being flippant.Caught the preview of ep 7 and I think the character of Ortega needs to go she exists to spout snarky one liners, that’s it that’s her character. It is not believable that someone would act unprofessional all the time. Would Kirk allow sulu to ask him if getting closer to v’ger is getting First base close or second date. Of course he wouldn’t say Blind date close like pike does. I’m enjoying SNW but make the dialog souls like something an officer of a starship might say in the 23rd century. They are not guardians of the galaxy