Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

[Ryujin]

Memory Alpha notes that in original scripts it was used to refer to the species, but through revisions how it was presented became more ambiguous about whether it referred to the species or an individual.

Pronouns and verbs used were singular so yes, ambiguous as to whether naming a single creature, or a single member of a group. My take had always been a singular creature.

 

[Stalker0]

SNARFZODIACKILLER SEASON 2 REVIEW, EPISODE 1-4

For those who don't speak Snarfeese I will translate.

They think the season is "cool" so far

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

For those who don't speak Snarfeese I will translate.

They think the season is "cool" so far

COOL?

SEASON 1 WAS LIKE KILL 'EM ALL. CAN YOU GET ANY MORE METAL?

ANY YOU THINK ... NO. NONE CAN BE MORE METAL THAN THIS. AND SO YOU PUT ON SEASON 2 PREPARING FOR DISAPPOINTMENT, EXPECTING SOME KIND OF WEAK-AZZ CHRISTOPHER CROSS NONSENSE, AND NO... INSTEAD, FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE STARTS BOOMING WHEN YOU DROP THE NEEDLE DOWN ON RIDE THE LIGHTNING, AND YOU REALIZE .... MEIN GOTT. THEY HAVE TAKEN THE THRASH AND MADE IT BOTH MORE SOHPHISTICATED AND MORE BRUTAL.

IT CAN GET MORE METAL. BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE RIDE.

 

[Ryujin]

COOL?

SEASON 1 WAS LIKE KILL 'EM ALL. CAN YOU GET ANY MORE METAL?

ANY YOU THINK ... NO. NONE CAN BE MORE METAL THAN THIS. AND SO YOU PUT ON SEASON 2 PREPARING FOR DISAPPOINTMENT, EXPECTING SOME KIND OF WEAK-AZZ CHRISTOPHER CROSS NONSENSE, AND NO... INSTEAD, FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE STARTS BOOMING WHEN YOU DROP THE NEEDLE DOWN ON RIDE THE LIGHTNING, AND YOU REALIZE .... MEIN GOTT. THEY HAVE TAKEN THE THRASH AND MADE IT BOTH MORE SOHPHISTICATED AND MORE BRUTAL.

IT CAN GET MORE METAL. BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE RIDE.

S2E4 was more Triumph "Hold On", circa 1979.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

then even had someone managing to make a situation worse by a seemingly reasonable decision

Lucky Bones wasn't there, we would never hear the end of it!

 

[Stalker0]

COOL?

SEASON 1 WAS LIKE KILL 'EM ALL. CAN YOU GET ANY MORE METAL?

ANY YOU THINK ... NO. NONE CAN BE MORE METAL THAN THIS. AND SO YOU PUT ON SEASON 2 PREPARING FOR DISAPPOINTMENT, EXPECTING SOME KIND OF WEAK-AZZ CHRISTOPHER CROSS NONSENSE, AND NO... INSTEAD, FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE STARTS BOOMING WHEN YOU DROP THE NEEDLE DOWN ON RIDE THE LIGHTNING, AND YOU REALIZE .... MEIN GOTT. THEY HAVE TAKEN THE THRASH AND MADE IT BOTH MORE SOHPHISTICATED AND MORE BRUTAL.

IT CAN GET MORE METAL. BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE RIDE.

my apologies.... "very cool"

 

[Umbran]

Pronouns and verbs used were singular so yes, ambiguous as to whether naming a single creature, or a single member of a group. My take had always been a singular creature.

Well, the original script concept was that it was the name of the species. Make of that what you will.

 

[Umbran]

..... they both suffered from being wells (trial episode and time travel episode) the franchise goes to too often....

Across 5 series, there are 15 courtroom episodes - and that's including Q's court in "Encounter at Farpoint", which seems a debatable call. That's three per series, on average, or about one every other season.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Across 5 series, there are 15 courtroom episodes - and that's including Q's court in "Encounter at Farpoint", which seems a debatable call. That's three per series, on average, or about one every other season.

Interesting, but "going to a well too often", which is the accusation I made, is not a matter of the absolute number of times gone but rather of the number of times gone compared to what the well supplies. The well of courtroom episodes provides Trek with opportunities to do a lot of dramatic speechifying and moralizing in a preposterous legal setting based on things the writers have seen on TV. Generally they make for great episodes for one or two characters and their actors, but they are also fundamentally a little boring, not just from a lack of action but from the fact that we not only know (as we basically always do with Trek) that it will all work out in the end, but we further know that it will almost certainly be resolved through one of the relatively limited set of ways in which a legal proceeding can be resolved. I just don't think that bears exploiting on even a "once every other season" basis.

Which is not to say their aren't some classic episodes of the type, but rather just to say it seems to be accepted at this point as one of the types of episodes that every episodic Trek should try its hand at at some point. I liked Strange New Worlds' go at it well enough for the most part, but I'm glad to see that obligatory episode type in the rearview for the series. I have similar feelings about the time travel of episode 3 (except whereas I can reasonably hope they won't feel the need for another trial episode, Trek can't stay away from time travel for long). It was good to see the series get back to its bread and butter of going to a weird planet with a weird sci-fi thing going on.

 

[Rabulias]

I liked Strange New Worlds' go at it well enough for the most part, but I'm glad to see that obligatory episode type in the rearview for the series. I have similar feelings about the time travel of episode 3 (except whereas I can reasonably hope they won't feel the need for another trial episode, Trek can't stay away from time travel for long).

Barring holograms, shapeshifters, dreams, or hallucinations, based on the previews (and news articles) there should be at least one more episode with an element of time travel this season.