Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

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Spoiler

Yeah, the "other" cadet - 100% she was getting offed as soon as she was introduced, the newly promoted lieutenant - suspected he wasn't long for this world. But Hemmer was a shock (though I started to wonder when he got spit on). Really liked the character, it's too bad!

This episode has me wondering if the writers/producers just decided not to worry about cannon/continuity at this point?

Spoiler

Because 3 of the people who participated on this mission AND were on the ship during Arena (ST: TOS) are now VERY familiar with the Gorn, what they are, what they can do AND their particular weaknesses (eg. cold, aggression etc.).

Not that that's a bad thing, but it's something to know.

Well, Trek has always been a bit wonky when it comes to canon. It really only gets paid attention to when it serves the plot. Remember when warp drive was causing subspace rifts in the TNG episode Force of Nature so the Federation instituted a rule that the maximum speed a starship could use was warp 5? I'm pretty sure it was never mentioned again.

I'm also not convinced that the P+ Star Trek shows are part of the original timeline (official statements aside). There are just too many differences. Sometimes I feel like we have the original timeline (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager & Enterprise), the Abramsverse and the Paramount+ timeline. The only P+ show I feel is solidly set in the original timeline is Lower Decks. Overall though, I don't worry about it and just enjoy it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

SNARFZODIACKILLER IS BACK BABY! I TRIED TO WAIT BEFORE WATCHING ANOTHER STRANGE NEW WORLDS, BUT THAT WOULD BE LIKE STOPPING OZZYS CRAZY TRAIN BEFORE THE KILLER GUITAR SHREDDING.

ALL ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP OF THE ENTERPRISE HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
AY AY AY AY AY AY AY

OH I FORGOT THE RATING FOR THE LAST EPISODE.
EPISODE SEVEN WAS 13 AND 3/8 CHRIS CORNELL ROCK SCREAMS.

SNK EPISODE 8 REVIEW:

OH. SO THAT HAPPENED. WRITERS HAD A PROBLEM WITH FITTING IN TELEPORTER GIRL. SO LETS JUST RIGHT HER OFF ALREADY. DEUS EX MACHINA SOLVED BY DEUS EX STUPIDA.

DONT THINK THAT SNK HASNT NOTICED THAT WE ARE NOW THREE/THREE IN A ROW. E6? LADY FRIEND INTO CHILD KILLING. E7? LADY FRIEND INTO KILLING ABND PIRACY AND LOOKING REALLY HOT IN BLACK (COUNSELOR SERVALAN, I SALUTE YOU). E8? LADY PROBLEM SOLVED BY WRITING OFF SHOW.

LOOK, I GET IT. ITS HARD. WRITING. KEEPING TRACK OF THINGS. THE DOCTORS DAUGHTER WAS GETTING TO CHIEF KYLE STATUS- A SURPRISE WHEN YOU SHOW UP. MAYBE ITS THE TRANSPORTERS ON THE FLAGSHIP? EVERYTHING THAT TOUCHES THEM BEGINS TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE PLOT OF THE SHOW.

THE EPISODE ITSELF WAS GOOD. ACTORS GOTTA ACT. AND THERE IS NOTHING AS METAL AS SOME REN FAIRE ACTION. A FEW SWORDS AND WIZARDS AND ARCHERS? GET THE LED OUT BABY, WE ARE GOING TO RAMBLE ON TO THE DARKEST DEPTHS OF MORDOR.

DOCTOR "I HAVE NO PERSONALITY TRAITS DEVELOPED YET" OPENS THE EPISODE BY TAKING IN SOME MAJOR COCAINE. HE WAS ALL INTO THAT MEDICAL EXPERIMENT LIKE SCARFACE. HE GOT SO HIGH HE BECAME KING. AND ITS GOOD TO BE THE KING.

OF COURSE, THERE WERE PROBLEMS IN THE KINGDOM. PROBLEMS THAT CAN ONLY BE SOLVED BY #FREEHEMMER. KINGDOC AND #FREEHEMMER ROCKED AND ROLLED AND EVENTUALLY LEARNED THAT ALL OF THE Q CONTINUUM WAS BOOKED OUT AND THEY HAD TO PARLAY WITH A NEBULA PRESENCE THAT WAS SPONTANEOUSLY CREATED BY THE BASS LINE FROM ACE OF SPADES.

PARLAY SUCCESSFUL, EVERYONE GOES BACK TO NORMAL. NOT A GREAT EPISODE, BUT A SOLID CHOICE.

STAR TREK IS LIKE DEF LEPPARD. ENTERPRISE WAS LIKE THE DRUMMER LOSING HIS ARM. WILL STAR TREK EVERY ROCK AGAIN? AND STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 1 IS TOTALLY HYSTERIA. PROOF THAT STAR TREK CAN, AND WILL, ROCK. EVERY EPISODE SLAMS. THIS EPISODE IS GODS OF WAR. IT MIGHT NOT BE ONE OF THE SEVEN CHARTING SINGLES, BUT UR NOT SKIPPING IT.

FINAL RATING: 87 TROUT MASK REPLICAS.

 

[Morrus]

Guess they need a new engineer!

 

[Mallus]

Damn, I liked that character… also, this is going to go down as the best first season of Star Trek after S01 of the original, isn’t it?

 

[Horwath]

Guess they need a new engineer!

Beam me up, ......

 

[Umbran]

This episode has me wondering if the writers/producers just decided not to worry about cannon/continuity at this point?

Well, so far, there's nothing we've seen that would change the outcome of that TOS episode. Remember that in The Arena, the crew could not communicate with Kirk.

Also, they seem to have established that gorn development is, at least in some manner, dependent on the host they hatch in, and that they seem to have life stages around molting. The gorn we have seen have been fast. The gorn in The Arena was slow, but nigh invulnerable in hand-to-hand combat. Different hatching or a different life stage might render much of what the crew experienced here irrelevant in that episode.

 

[Umbran]

Guess they need a new engineer!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2 - Enter the Scotsman!

 

[Umbran]

Damn, I liked that character…

Yeah. They had something they could really develop there, but... didn't.

Word is that, while the character is gone, the actor's not done with Trek just yet. It isn't clear in what capacity or what show he'll be continuing on with, but they didn't just hire their first blind actor, and kill him off in one season and leave him out to dry.

 

[Mallus]

Word is that, while the character is gone, the actor's not done with Trek just yet. It isn't clear in what capacity or what show he'll be continuing on with, but they didn't just hire their first blind actor, and kill him off in one season and leave him out to dry.

Interesting.

Did M’Benga catch him in the transporter? I’m trying to recall where the doc was in that scene.

Wait, you said the character’s gone. What other shows are planned for that era?

 

[Umbran]

Interesting.

Did M’Benga catch him in the transporter? I’m trying to recall where the doc was in that scene.

1) They made huge notes that communications and transporters would not function on the surface.
2) If Dr. M'Benga or Mr. Kyle caught him in a transporter, they'd not be having a funeral for him.

Wait, you said the character’s gone. What other shows are planned for that era?

Well, he could come back to SNW, without the makeup. They did that for Sara Mitch, the original actress for Airam on ST: Disco, after she developed reactions to the prosthetic makeup.

I think the only other show planned for that era is Section 31. But really, the actor isn't attached to an era - they could use him anywhere = Picard, Season 3, more Discovery, he could be a voice actor for either Lower Decks or Prodigy...