Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

[Maxperson]

I went to the bookstore today and as I was looking through the sci-fi/fantasy section I noticed the Star Trek portion. Then I thought to my myself, "I can't wait until the Star Trek Strange New Worlds books that are probably already in the works arrive." I'd read those in a heartbeat.

 

[Janx]

How does a band of maybe 20 pirates take over a big ship with like 400 crew who were already on alert?

This is the largest most sparsely populated ship in starfleet.

Fun episode otherwise, but weird plot hole to have. Surely some other "we stashed the crew in the hold or mess halls" or something statement to cover everybody not on camera. Like Hemmer.

 

[Janx]

Also, this is yet another time modern ST writers have ignored travel times. We're at the edge of Federation space, and poof, T'Pring just pops out of warp with a prisoner. Like Vulcan is conveniently close by.

 

[Arilyn]

Also, this is yet another time modern ST writers have ignored travel times. We're at the edge of Federation space, and poof, T'Pring just pops out of warp with a prisoner. Like Vulcan is conveniently close by.

To be fair, ships in Star Trek stories have always travelled at the speed of plot.

 

[Stalker0]

How does a band of maybe 20 pirates take over a big ship with like 400 crew who were already on alert?

I just go with, "We didn't see most of the crew, and we didn't see most of the pirates".

 

[Ryujin]

To be fair, ships in Star Trek stories have always travelled at the speed of plot.

And when you have less than an hour to play out a complete story, start to finish, you tend to gloss over things like, "We're traveling for 5 days to get where we're going and it's completely uneventful."

 

[Umbran]

Also was it me or was the engineer AWOL again? He seems to vanish for entire episodes. Or did I just miss him?

I don't expect they made him get into all those prosthetics when he wasn't going to play a notable role in the episode.

 

[Umbran]

Also, this is yet another time modern ST writers have ignored travel times. We're at the edge of Federation space, and poof, T'Pring just pops out of warp with a prisoner. Like Vulcan is conveniently close by.

Or. like time passed and nothing interesting happened in it, so they didn't focus on it.

 

[Maxperson]

Or. like time passed and nothing interesting happened in it, so they didn't focus on it.

Yeah, but it didn't feel like that. And a lot of people aren't going to think of that possibility. A short throw-away line from the sarcastic pirate leader like, "It's about time you got here. I've been waiting for days. Did you crawl here at warp one or something?" would have gone a long way there.

 

[Morrus]

I don't expect they made him get into all those prosthetics when he wasn't going to play a notable role in the episode.

They don't film the episodes one at a time though. They do it in blocks -- so he'd spend a day doing all his engineering scenes for the first half of the season, for example. And there would be a week just filming bridge scenes.