Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[harshness]

Today's episode was an interesting twist on "A Piece of the Action" and a holodeck Noir episode.

I half expected someone to yell "fizzbin!" when they slapped their cards on the table.

There's a point where borrowing looks more like laziness rather than homage.

They did an exceedingly poor job of justifying (scientifically) the B/W treatment. Breaking Science is much harder for me to suspend than breaking canon; both do a lot of damage.

 

[Foxbat]

Breaking Science is much harder for me to suspend than breaking canon; both do a lot of damage.

I think we've already used the Scotty "I canna break the Laws of Physics" meme this month.

Inverse apparently liked the episode, as well:

84 Years Later, Star Trek Just Remade A Perfect Movie Into A Sci-Fi Parable

The latest 'Strange New Worlds' episode is fully in black-and-white and homages 'Casablanca.' Here's why it feels so refreshing.

www.inverse.com

 

[long_time_Dish]

I think we've already used the Scotty "I canna break the Laws of Physics" meme this month.

Inverse apparently liked the episode, as well:

84 Years Later, Star Trek Just Remade A Perfect Movie Into A Sci-Fi Parable

The latest 'Strange New Worlds' episode is fully in black-and-white and homages 'Casablanca.' Here's why it feels so refreshing.

www.inverse.com

I agree with some of what they said, but not all...

The Enterprise should've been in color, if for no other reason than just to offset the planetside effect. Just sayin'...

 

[primestar31]

Today's episode was an interesting twist on "A Piece of the Action" and a holodeck Noir episode. It didn't make sense that the story on the Enterprise was likewise "Noir" since they should have been outside the Star system causing the interference with color receptors (maybe a region of space?)

Anyway, I enjoyed the episode, which gave Una a chance to think on her feet. Just don't be too critical or you might ask too many questions about mission assignment and why certain crew are doing what they did.

And, next week is supposed to be the transporter accident with "muppets", so be prepared to be amused/disappointed.

I found the trailer for the show, lol:


View: https://youtu.be/z7S_l92wIJM?si=-cjNcvDuHABzOuEl

 

[harshness]

Inverse apparently liked the episode, as well:

They seem to be enamored with what a grand ripoff it was.

I was a little put off by the heavy reliance on live narration by M'Benga as someone who is again offered up as omniscient about everything Klingon.

 

[Foxbat]

Someone else pointed out that this is supposed to be the same Commander Kor who met with Kirk on Organia in "An Errand of Mercy". Unexplained is why Kor has the Klingon forehead ridges in this episode but loses them in seven years. Maybe the "plague virus" that was introduced in "Enterprise" as an explanation, but then Kor must have avoided it until after this incident.

Not like they couldn't have used a different Klingon Commander and avoided a whole lot of grief.

 

[KAB]

I thought it was a highly forgettable episode.

 

[long_time_Dish]

I thought it was a highly forgettable episode.

Nah. Out of the 4 we've seen thusfar, I'd watch it again, even over the first episode of this season...

 

[primestar31]

Someone else pointed out that this is supposed to be the same Commander Kor who met with Kirk on Organia in "An Errand of Mercy". Unexplained is why Kor has the Klingon forehead ridges in this episode but loses them in seven years. Maybe the "plague virus" that was introduced in "Enterprise" as an explanation, but then Kor must have avoided it until after this incident.

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Not like they couldn't have used a different Klingon Commander and avoided a whole lot of grief.

 

[KAB]

Funny...no one wants to talk about the puppets!

 

[N5XZS]

Makes you wonder why?

Why the puppets, maybe start a PLM groups!!

 

[MikeD-C05]

Funny...no one wants to talk about the puppets!

It was like the old Muppets show but without the green Kermit the frog. This was a throwaway episode.

 

[long_time_Dish]

Watched it. Got a couple of chuckles here and there. Loved the exaggeration of Pike's hair on the puppet.

Agreed, it was a throwaway episode. 1.5 out of 5 stars. Hope the remaining 5 aren't further wastes...

 

[TheKrell]

Strange New Worlds is going to end up being a dream of events played out in Pikes mind when returned to the Cage/Menagerie.

I was not mad at you or your post: just the ending of Enterprise which sucked beyond belief. Or did you really mean Pikes beautiful dream on Talos IV?

 

[osu1991]

I was not mad at you or your post: just the ending of Enterprise which sucked beyond belief. Or did you really mean Pikes beautiful dream on Talos IV?

Just thought it might be how it ends with Pike being on Talos IV and these are his memories

 

[long_time_Dish]

I was not mad at you or your post: just the ending of Enterprise which sucked beyond belief. Or did you really mean Pikes beautiful dream on Talos IV?

Yeah, don't get me started on how Enterprise ended...

 

[Foxbat]

I figured that the whole "hand not recognized" control system snafu was going to be the spark that Pike used to eliminate all the capacitive devices on Enterprise, bringing back physical switches and knobs. But nope, all a dream, so unless Spock can convince the rest of the crew that they need to convert to physical controls based on his nightmare, this isn't the trigger.

 

[long_time_Dish]

I figured that the whole "hand not recognized" control system snafu was going to be the spark that Pike used to eliminate all the capacitive devices on Enterprise, bringing back physical switches and knobs. But nope, all a dream, so unless Spock can convince the rest of the crew that they need to convert to physical controls based on his nightmare, this isn't the trigger.

Since they're evidently not going into Kirk's "Enterprise", they likely decided there was no point in doing that, but I like your angle on it.

 

[Foxbat]

I saw two YouTube videos about the "Level 5 Transporter Accident" that were made. One was a channel I hadn't watched before, but he approached it from the Craft angle and says that this wasn't done because they wanted a silly episode, it was the best way to have Spock get past the chaos of working with Humans and moving back towards his Vulcan logical side.

The second was from Paramount as a "How it was Made" look at the episode.

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[long_time_Dish]

I really enjoyed E6. Considering that they are ending the series next season, there is one thing I think they should've done differently with one character, but other than that, I honestly enjoyed it. I'll give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars.