Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

[Stalker0]

Well, do remember that he didn't officially know she wasn't human until last episode. They are already working with the assumption that in most ways she passes for human, except when she doesn't...

Fair enough, if you can go with the notion that...in order for her to have remained undercover so long, she must be able to pass as human, and so must have been modified to accept most human treatments. I will just forget that whole "oh your immune system looks nothing like a humans, its COMPLETELY different, you don't even have antibodies"....ok, I'll just ignore that piece, and go with this as the headcannon. I'm on board!

 

[Thomas Shey]

Am I forgetting that at one time they indicated that most of the full-blown humanoids were derived from a common stock (albeit modified) by some of a Precursor race? Or has "The Chase" been pretty much ignored since?

 

[BookTenTiger]

What a fun episode! I'm really enjoying all the characters. Hemmer really won me over this week with his love of flora and pacifism.

I also like how we

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never see the gorn. I look forward to their reveal in the future!

 

[Morrus]

I’m starting to think the Enterprise is the smallest, weakest ship in the galaxy, not Starfleet’s flagship! I think it needs a hero moment.

 

[Umbran]

I’m starting to think the Enterprise is the smallest, weakest ship in the galaxy, not Starfleet’s flagship! I think it needs a hero moment.

What? It just had a hero moment!

Have you ever seen Die Hard? Did the hero sail through that, and come out clean, pristine, and unscathed? No, he spent the movie crawling through air ducts. He was barefoot, bloodied, beaten up, shot, stabbed, and limping before the movie was over. John McClain's hull integrity was definitely compromised.

It isn't a hero moment if it is easy. It is a hero moment if you got the crap beat out of you in a three-on-one fight, and you make it out alive. Just, dramatically speaking - if the win is easy, you aren't a hero.

 

[Morrus]

What? It just had a hero moment!

Have you ever seen Die Hard? Did the hero sail through that, and come out clean, pristine, and unscathed? No, he spent the movie crawling through air ducts. He was barefoot, bloodied, beaten up, shot, stabbed, and limping before the movie was over. John McClain's hull integrity was definitely compromised.

It isn't a hero moment if it is easy. It is a hero moment if you got the crap beat out of you in a three-on-one fight, and you make it out alive. Just, dramatically speaking - if the win is easy, you aren't a hero.

OK, maybe 'hero moment' wasn't quite the right phrase. It needs a chance to flex.

 

[Mallus]

Last week was Space Contagion and this week is "Balance of Terror" mixed with the nebula battle from Wrath of Khan - with a big helping of character development for Khan's descendent.

I applaud this show's commitment to obliterating the line between fan-service and art. This is all very well done. Not to take anything away from the other Trek series that openly experimented with the formula (including DISCO and Picard).

 

[Ondath]

OK, maybe 'hero moment' wasn't quite the right phrase. It needs a chance to flex.

The first episode where they revealed the full might of the Enterprise to the pre-warp civilisation was a flex IMO, but I get what you mean. So far the ship has endured great hardships, but we haven't yet seen what makes it better than the other Starfleet ships (besides having an incredibly charismatic captain who has in-universe plot armour).

 

[Hex08]

The first episode where they revealed the full might of the Enterprise to the pre-warp civilisation was a flex IMO, but I get what you mean. So far the ship has endured great hardships, but we haven't yet seen what makes it better than the other Starfleet ships (besides having an incredibly charismatic captain who has in-universe plot armour).

To be fair, we haven't really seen other Starfleet ships in SNW. Starfleet isn't primarily a "military" organization, it's an exploration organization that also fulfils the role of a military. Even so, that doesn't mean that Enterprise is a pushover. To paraphrase Captain Kirk, they were "caught with their britches down" and by a species that is far more aggressive and so with ships that are, presumably, more geared towards war. I imagine that the fight would have been different if they could have raised shields.

 

[Ryujin]

Well, do remember that he didn't officially know she wasn't human until last episode. They are already working with the assumption that in most ways she passes for human, except when she doesn't...

What you've failed to get is that the more you think about transporters, the less sense they actually make. They are perfectly fine as long as you don't think about them too much. Let Mr. Kyle handle the difficult part of making them work.

Yeah, even in TOS we had to have really short memories, where the transporters are concerned. Theoretically, based on their uses in various episodes, they could eliminate disease and aging, just as a start.