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They've been foreshadowing TOS in various ways the entire time, and this in no way felt like a series finale.

Except they're not new to us, we met them earlier in the season.

Why is this episode called New Life and New Civilisations, by the way? It's pretty much entirely about some very old and rather uncivilised life.

Sadly her role has felt rather wasted this season. With Scotty around to do the actual engineering miracle working, a lot of her scenes have just been quips and comic relief.

So, it's finale time. I enjoyed the actual story of this episode quite a bit, it felt like it built well off of events throughout the season. However, it felt like it desperately needed to have at least one more preceding episode to do some of the heavy lifting of setting things up for this...

Top Wing: Maverick.

And at no point does Lois need rescuing in the movie, in fact she rescues Superman at least once, twice if you count clearing his name.

My "favourite" iteration of the vision-impairment rules is fog cloud, where everyone is basically attacking each other blind, and the result is that you get advantage on attacks because your opponent can't see you, but disadvantage because you can't see them, which cancel out so the upshot is...

The sarlacc pit beak is a little hit-and-miss too.

I believe the movie was originally intended to be longer, and that's certainly felt here, and in the near-absence of Celine, who is presented as a major influence but barely gets any scenes.

And the great thing in the 2025 Superman is that lives are the primary thing Superman is concerned about, with much of his effort being dedicated to ensuring that nobody is caught in the crossfire or collateral of battles - not even dogs or squirrels. The only way his battles don't have wider...

Yep, first shot after the credits is the wormhole opening and the shuttle coming through, heading straight into a debris field around the gas giant. The next minute is this intercut with interior shots as Ortegas deploys the beacon and steers in for a crash-landing. We see exterior footage of...

Well, that's not true. None pre-credits, but we get plenty once she's through the wormhole and heading in to crash on the moon.

And Chekov joined the crew in season 2, so while his absence would be felt it'd make sense for him not to be there. Maybe make him an occasional drop-in, much as Kirk is in SNW.

Wow, that's later than I thought. I'd always thought of the UFO episode "Survival" as being another Enemy Mine inspired TV episode, but that aired in 1971, so if anything the inspiration would have been the other way around.

That's still a colloquialisation of the proper term, jury rigging.

I did wonder why the Jericho event was considered appropriation but the Nevermore version wasn't. Maybe just because it was less egregiously exploitative?

Just to point out, in Captain America Civil War they did revisit some of the prior movies' action scenes and show that there was a human cost to those events, using it as a driving force for that movie's plot. And Infinity War managed to make the scale of its cost in lives pretty clear, with...

That, and a "save and restore muscle memory" feature. A big part of the struggle for me is getting back into the swing of combat and game-mechanics that were second nature to me six months ago.

I did enjoy the episode, despite having some nits to pick. Ortegas is probably the best character to put into a solo situation, I liked her dialogue with herself.