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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8108943" data-attributes="member: 6684958">Well, going by this episode it sure is Star Trek crossing over to copy Star Wars, and specifically copy The Maldlorian.  It feels like a bad sign, but maybe it's just for one episode.   Book is a rogue environmentalist hero with a heart of gold?  Er, ok, but that does not sound so great.I did love seeing the Orions and Andorians again, and it's a nice twist that the two races went to 'hard life' after the fall of the Federation.  Really going back to what they were before each race joined the Federation, like we saw in Star Trek Enterprise.  And I liked the small touch of adding in the  Lurian thug (that was Morn from DS9's race).I could have done without the lame Star Wars TFW copy of the 'monster cargo eats the bad guys'.And Book has.....magic?  I see the tribal markings glow on his face and wonder if he might be connected to any 'alien god like beings'.  Star Trek, going all the way back to the OS has used the idea that many of the 'gods' of myth, were in fact aliens.  The Greek Gods and native American Sky Spirits are two good examples.  I was hopping for Book to turn and say something like "I'm from Afrontis, where the beings once known as gods to the ancient Africans of Earth lived for a time and they taught us some things."The Burn.  Well, sounds a bit odd, plot wise.  I'd guess Q or any of the other more then a dozen all powerful beings might have done it......but I'd guess it's going to be a global warming analogy and the Federation did it to it's self.  I does leave the big hole of "what about other ways of space travel?" We know for sure the Romulans don't use dlilithim, and I'd guess at least some others don't.  I think Book says his ship has a quantum slipstreem drive (so somebody watched Voyager).  I wonder why the Federation did not switch to say Soloton Waves and have ships 'surf' the galaxy.  What about sub space conduits?(the Borg ones)  Or the sub space tunnels of the Vad'Warr?  For that matter the Borg don't use dilithium, right?  And there was alien tech that could teleport ships, you'd think that might of been invented by someone by the 32nd century.</blockquote>

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