Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

[Ryujin]

I mean... the episode was called "Lost in Translation". I was surprised by aspects of the journey, but the destination was pretty damned clear.

Admittedly, about 10 minutes into the Darmok episode of TNG I was wondering why Picard was so incredibly thick.

 

[DammitVictor]

You know. I think, five or six years from now, I would like to see Strange New Worlds end the way we all know it has to end, dark and bittersweet.

And then we get the TOS reboot that I think we all suspect is coming. But it starts with a feature film, and that feature is a slow burn adaptation of The Menagerie that allows all of us new fans of Strange New Worlds to say a proper goodbye to Mount's Pike, and show's Wesley's Kirk stepping into those big big shoes both for us, and for the crew of the Enterprise.

Torch. Passed.

I can see a future in the middle term, in the Thirties or Forties, when there's serious argument in the Star Trek fandom over whether Shatner's Kirk or Wesley's is the definitive portrayal. And we, as the fans of either or both, should all be so lucky.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Admittedly, about 10 minutes into the Darmok episode of TNG I was wondering why Picard was so incredibly thick.

Because he'd gotten to rely on universal translators his entire life.

 

[Ryujin]

Because he'd gotten to rely on universal translators his entire life.

Daniel Jackson would have figured it out in the first 5 minutes, then be talking back to them. In English, of course, because that's what all alien cultures speak.

 

[Morrus]

SNARFZODIACKILLER SEASON 2 REVIEW, EPISODE 6

NEWHURU IS HEARING THE SCREECHES OF SHREDDING GUITARS? COLOR ME INTRIGUED!

SOMETHING SOMETHING DEUTERIUM, SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING HALLUCINATIONS, SOMETHING SOMETHING MINING STATION, SOMETHING SOMETHING ... WAIT.

WHAT IS THIS? CAN IT BE?

HEMMER! FIRST TO DIE, FIRST IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER. NEWHURU IS NOT CRYING. UR NOT CRYING. IM NOT CRYING!!!!!!! I HAVE TO ADMIT, I MAY HAVE MISSED SOME PLOT IN THIS EPISODE, AS I SPENT THE ENTIRE TIME POURING OUT 40S FOR MY BELOVED BLIND WARRIOR ENGINEER.

WHAT ARE SPACEROSS AND SPACERACHEL UP TO? NOT ADVANCING THE PLOT.

AND THEN ... PRAISE BE TO RODENBERRY, ITS JAMES T KIRK. THE T STANDS FOR TOTALLY AWESOME. KIRK IS IN THE AREA, FARAGUTTING AROUND, AND GETS ON THE SHIP. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PRESENCE OF KIRK AND DREAMY PIKE SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER CAUSES THE NACELLE TO EXPLODE, AS THE ENTERPRISE CANNOT HOLD ALL OF THAT AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME. YOU CANT JUST HAVE A CONCERT WITH GNR AND METALLICA AND IRON MAIDEN AND MOTORHEAD AND BLACK SABBATH AND MEGADETH AND JUDAS PRIEST AND PANTERA AND SLAYER AND TOOL AND AND SYSTEM OF A DOWN ALL PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME AS IT WOULD CREATE A SINGULARITY OF AWESOMENESS THAT WOULD DESTORY THE UNIVERSE.

NEWHURU REALIZES THE DANGER THEY ARE IN, AND ALSO KNOWS THAT INVISIBLE SPACE BEINGS THAT COMMUNICATE BY SUCKING OUT UR BRAIN OR SOMETHING ALSO CANNOT TAKE ALL OF THAT AWESOME. SO SHE ORDERS KIRK AWAY FROM PIKE FOR A DRINK WITH HER AND SPOCK IN THE NEWLY RENOVATED TEN FORWARD WITH A CHANDALIER AND A JAZZ BAND. THE JAZZ BAND SLOWS DOWN ALL THE METAL AWESOMENESS AND SAVES THE DAY.

AT THE SAME TIME, THE LACK OF OTHER EXPLOSIONS MEANS THAT THE ENTERPRISE FIRES PHOTON TORPEDOES AT THE MINING THING. MORE 'SPLOSIONS.

FINALLY, NOTSCOTTY EXPLAINS TO THE AUDIENCE THAT WE STILL MISS HEMMER, AND WE ARE TAKING OUR SWEET TIME TO GET USED TO HER WEIRD ENERGY. WE SEE A SHOT OF HEMMER SMILING, BECAUSE HEMMER KNOWS. HEMMER WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER BE OUR ENGINEER.


LOST IN TRANSLATION RATING: 66.6 MONSTERS OF ROCK

Please stop writing in all caps.

 

[Zaukrie]

Please stop writing in all caps.

I'm not even reading this at all anymore. Not you, that.

 

[Umbran]

I want to see them introduce Gary Mitchell as a guest character.

The woman often sitting at the station next to Ortegas (the station manned by Gary Mitchell in TOS, before Checkov) is named Jenna Mitchell.

 

[Divine2021]

I know it won’t mean anything to internet strangers, but my Trek newbie wife really liked this week’s episode.

 

[Ryujin]

I know it won’t mean anything to internet strangers, but my Trek newbie wife really liked this week’s episode.

If it brings new people in while still entertaining the old fans, then that's the goal achieved

 

[Zaukrie]

How long until Scotty or some others join the crew (in canon, which I don't care about, but am curious)? Will we slowly see those characters take over in the coming 3 years?