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Uhura seems to be the only one who can hear a strange sound. When the noise triggers terrifying hallucinations, she enlists an unlikely assistant to help her track down the source.

Written by Onitra Johnson & David Reed

Directed by Dan Liu

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    1 year ago

    Ramon froze pretty quickly out there in space. Wasn’t it only a couple of weeks ago this show was trying to convince us people could survive in space without a suit for two whole minutes?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah star trek right now really can’t seem to decide whether “space is cold” or not.

      Of course, that’s because the truth has just alittle bit of nuance to it, and nuance is hard for writers.
      Space can be cold, depending on where you are, but its also barely even there. No atmosphere means no convection, and that means you’re gonna be losing heat much too slowly for it to be your number one problem if you’ve just been spaced without a suit.

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        Maybe because they’re in the stellar nursery. The deuterium was like having an atmosphere.

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          1 year ago

          Convective heat transfer in a cold dense gaseous nebula would be a lot faster than radiative heat transfer in empty space.

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    1 year ago

    An okay episode.

    Finally Una got to do something instead of being completely on the sidelines. The whole ensemble got something to do, except Ortegas who slowly turns into SNW’s Travis Mayweather: that one cast member that is just there physically but doesn’t get anything to do.

    My personal highlight was the scene were Spock and Chapel play chess, and he passive-aggressively pushes her to play faster. Very Vulcan.

    What irked me: everyone and their mother immediately started calling the First Officer of another Starfleet ship by his first name. That was weird.

    Another weird thing was Pike’s promotion to Fleet Captain. We’ve never seen this in Star Trek, particularly not when it’s just two ships on a mission. So I checked the transcript of The Menagerie were Kirk speaks about the one time he met Captain Pike. And there it is:

    MENDEZ: You ever met Chris Pike?
    KIRK: When he was promoted to Fleet Captain.

    SNW’s producers were sneaky with that one. I’m both annoyed and impressed.

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      The whole ensemble got something to do, except Ortegas who slowly turns into SNW’s Travis Mayweather: that one cast member that is just there physically but doesn’t get anything to do.

      I get the feeling the writers don’t really know what to do with Ortegas beyond that she “flies the ship”.

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        1 year ago

        She also delivers the many one-line commentaries on dire situations. It’s funny at first, but it does get old pretty quickly.

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    1 year ago

    The whole season is very, very good. Really loved this episode and the characters development in it. Mayby the overall story of this episode wasn’t the best, but who cares it is real classic trek 🖖

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    1 year ago

    Alright, one of the weaker episodes.

    Not a fan of this Kirk, he reminds me more of Carrey than Shatner. Neither he, nor the Farragut needed to be in this episode.

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    1 year ago

    I’m starting to get DS9 vibes among the crew. I’m liking that things are complicated. This season doesn’t feature Pike much, does it? DS9 of course handled politics and religion well and I suspect SNW is steering clear. I knew that (blank) would return but I didn’t expect him to be a decomposing corpse.

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    1 year ago

    Zombie Hemmer was freaky! Nicely done, wardrobe/makeup.

    This clearly took a lot from TNG’s Night Terrors right? A bit of Firefly’s Bushwhacked in there too.

    I liked it overall, but my favourite Star Trek episodes are when the crew gets to use their extreme competency to overcome a difficult challenge. This episode, the crew was… not so competent.

    • Una’s team can’t identify that there’s been sabotage even though it’s just like, phaser blasts from a half-deranged man
    • The dude easily escapes from sick bay and blows up a nacelle (had the stun setting not been invented yet? What about locked doors?)
    • There’s no way the medical team could keep Uhura around and try to do some tests when she’s having an episode, they can only put on the brain scan screensaver
    • They can’t shut down the dang refinery! The lever’s stuck and they’re out of WD-40!
    • Pike blows up the quadrillion dollar infrastructure project immediately, not even just targeted laser blasts to the parts that are doing the murder. The whole thing has to blow up.

    I guess this is just trek being trek and I shouldn’t take it so seriously. Emotionally, the crew was at the top of their game: intuitive, perceptive, empathetic, trusting. good stuff.

    But yeah, I feel like I would have enjoyed this more had the problem been made more difficult instead of the crew less capable.

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    1 year ago

    It was a good episode, but there are a few things I didn’t like:

    • Blowing up a space refinery on a whim.
    • Too much romance/interpersonal stuff, still.
    • Pike needs to grow a spine and be more assertive.

    I give it a 6/10; not bad, not great. I’m looking forward to the new episode.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t know if it was intentional as to be a call back to TOS, but I loved the absolutely senseless way nobody secures potentially dangerous actors that are in sick bay.

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    1 year ago

    Overall a solid episode, a little different but ultimate felt very core Star Trek TOS with strange alien life and coming to a resolution.

    Paul Wesley continues to impress me in the role of James T Kirk but his character did not need to be in this episode, they need to be careful with how they use him going forward.

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      1 year ago

      SNW is such a good show with strong cast and characters and storylines. They totally can stand on their own without trying to bring back legacy characters or storylines. I am not sure why the producers seem to be hell bent on trying to weave these characters back in.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed, I didn’t mind Kirk being in A Quality of Mercy or Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. However, him being in this episode just felt he was in it for the sake of it.

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    This /r/Daystrom thread from last year is kinda funny, the OP correctly predicts how Pike and Kirk meet, but then he and most of the commenters dismiss it as “unlikely”.

    This leads us to three possibilities

    1. Pike was promoted to Fleet Captain and Kirk took over Command from him as a result, which is where they met. Traditionally, especially in many of the novels, thats when the met before.
    2. Kirk met him on two distinct occasions, firstly when Pike became Fleet Captain and secondly, when he took over Command (its possible that the order was reversed).
    3. Kirk met him on at least two notable occasions, which he mentions.

    With James T being confirmed for Season 2 and Sam being on the ship and friendly with Pike, enough to call him “Chris”, no 3 seems to be the most likely answer

    It’s a fun thread to scroll through now that we know this episode.