Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

[Mallus]

I loved this one. 'Mystery contagion' is such a classic Star Trek plot, and the way Ghosts of Illyria combined it with multiple character reveals and an admission (then condemnation) of the Federation's prejudice toward the genetic modified made it feel new.

But totally agree that M'Benga and Number One should have known each others secrets. Without the Chief Medical officers help, it really strain credulity -- and of course by that I mean 'Star Trek credulity' -- for her to be posted to the flagship.

 

[Morrus]

That's a high percentage of command staff who are hiding court-martial level secrets!

Anyway, I liked this, but agree the previous two were stronger. This one felt a lot like a TNG episode (in a good way).

Sick bay still seems understaffed to me!

It's only the captain who gets the giant apartment then; most of the crew bunk up 3 to a cabin. Makes sense.

 

[Stalker0]

Sick bay still seems understaffed to me!

Meanwhile....at Starfleet Command.

Personnel Requisitions Officer: Ug, the Enterprise has put in more medical staffing requests....AGAIN. I swear, they deal with one little shipwide plague and suddenly they feel they can drain the coffers. I need some coffee.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Seems a running theme will be: These aliens aren't what you think they are.

Hence the strangeness of the new worlds.

 

[Ryujin]

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[Umbran]

The idea that a commander of the federation flagship could hide their condition, ESPECIALLY from the chief medical officer (as there would of course be routine scans and physicals)....the kindest phrase is "strains belief", but I could easily go into "now that is some b*** ****".

It has long been known that many issues in most Trek series could have been prevented with decent background checks.

Though I will say, the doctor's actions as understandable and even laudable as they are (with his "secret") are crazy bad.

This kind of behavior may give us a reason why Dr. McCoy eventually becomes Chief Medical Officer over Dr. M'Benga.

 

[Umbran]

I loved this one. 'Mystery contagion' is such a classic Star Trek plot...

Yeah. The science of it was soooo bad. It could only be a classic Trek plot.

 

[Mallus]

Yeah. The science of it was soooo bad. It could only be a classic Trek plot.

All part of the charm.

 

[Blackrat]

So, they’ve gone digging through some seriously old novels to build her background. It was in some novel from the 80’s (Vulcan’s Glory?) that established her as Illyrian. I really like them taking these old noncanon stories into consideration.

 

[Hex08]

I agree that while it was a good episode but it was the weakest of the three so far. I didn't care for it turning out that Number One was an Illyrian and an augment, it just felt forced to me. I also didn't care for the reveal that M'Benga was keeping his daughter in the pattern buffer especially since cryogenic sleep is a thing in Trek. On the other hand, I am really beginning to like La'an a lot.