Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Stalker0]

I enjoyed the "dnd dungeon" episode.

hehe the only thing that was ridiculously out of left field was the whole "effect than cause thing". Not that there couldn't be some crazy dimension where that was possible. But rather Spock after one little possible application of that, and considering all of them are still cause and effecting just fine (they are all walking and talking and breathing just like normal), and they don't take any effort to put their hand out to check for a walkway or search the room some more, or try to study the control panel that clearly does stuff.....nope none of that Spock is perfectly comfortable letting both Christine and La'an fall to their deaths based on the tiniest sliver of evidence.

I knew Spock was confident...but DAMN.

I also love how Spock was like "we all have to do this together"....but only Christine and La'an actually walk out, everyone else stays nice and safe on the platform. I thought that was funny.


But of course, the scene of the episode was the chief engineer doing that crazy over the top monologue. And you know she speaks a bit odd but its way more over the top than normal and your going "um what the heck is going on"....and then you find out she is doing it for the camera. That was hilarious.

 

[James Gasik]

Yeah I was getting both vibes of the Tesseract dungeon from Dragon Magazine (issue 17? 25? I think it was in Best of Dragon vol. 1) and of course, the Great Machine of the Krell from "Forbidden Planet".

I do wonder if that hourglass relic was a trap or actually did something...

With all the talk about the evolution of life and languages from different cultures being found in the prison? Palace? Temple? Research facility?, I was reminded of The Progenitors from TNG "The Chase" and The Preservers (TOS, "The Paradise Syndrome). An ur-civilization that came before everything else and a species that visits other worlds and takes native peoples to preserve their culture on other worlds.

Though lots of aliens have visited Earth pre-warp. Not including time travel shenanigans, we have Gary Seven's masters from TOS ("Assignment: Earth"), Pelia's people, and of course, Guinan (first revealed in TNG: "Time's Arrow").