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"It appears hijinks are the most logical course of action."
IS THIS THE GREATEST LINE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FRANCHISE???
Yup. Still accurate.Yup. This is some good Star Tracks.
La'an is fine. Great, even! She's fun. She's basically just a female, human version of Worf. Stern and hardened by her past and her duties, but she's a big softie on the inside and can't quite express that to others just yet. That includes her being 'callous and mean' to Uhura. It reminded me a lot of the S7 TNG episode "Lower Decks" where Worf was on the surface being mean to his Lower Decker, but was really just looking out for her and helped her be a better officer. Asian representation on Star Trek has also been historically pretty lacking, especially in Berman-Trek, so I'm always going to be happy about positive representation for us.Didn't enjoy this one so much as the previous episodes. It's still fine but like another reviewer said elsewhere all the parts were good but joined together a bit oddly. The confidence of Alora who had a ahem, history with Pike was quite well played. I liked how he was the doof and they eventually consummate the heavy and effective! flirtation. Plus her taking down the rogue guard. My partial dislike of La'an continues, specifically her callous and frankly mean leadership "style" of so-called teaching cadet Uhura this time around. She does good later on but ugh. Personally I don't mind her attitude but levied upon those below her, nope. Interesting to watch I'll give.
It was nice to see Pike fail to see where this ended, and his inability to fix the problem.
I mean, it is very nakedly just a Star Trek take of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelias with a dash of Laputa/Gulliver's Travels sprinkled on top for sci-fi flavoring. Which I quite enjoyed, as it's in fine Star Trek tradition to be doing this kind of thing. For me personally, I really like these kinds of episodes because they:My first reaction to the most recent episode was that I’m pretty sure I read this plot in several novellas from the 70s and 80s already
There were good themes being tied in with other characters too, like Dr M'Benga. Dr M'Benga here, cast suspicions onto this fellow doctor who he has to work with. But as it turns out, this other Doctor's real deal was that he was just trying desperately to save the life of his son. And he was doing so by hiding his son away through transporter trickery, and there were even grave consequences for his community for doing so. Like, this man it turns out, was a mirror for him. It thematically rhymed like pottery, and it was just so interesting to watch Babs Olusanmokun's acting as he rode the rollercoaster of emotions this episode and embodied a character who had a mirror put up against his own soul in such a way. And they did it in a way as to let the action speak for itself, without anyone having to tell the audience in a corny/direct way like having M'Benga tell the man "you're just like me." I just really love and appreciate how good the writing and acting has been in this show to date. Every script has hit it out of the park, and every actor has just done a freaking incredible job.I do appreciate what Wist pointed out about it tying together themes for Pike though.
I mean, it is very nakedly just a Star Trek take of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelias with a dash of Laputa/Gulliver's Travels sprinkled on top for sci-fi flavoring.
It thematically rhymed like pottery
I haven't watched but i looked at your spoilers. WOWOk, so I'm still processing what happened in this week's episode. But the zinger at the end for Sybok has me completely in shambles in the best kind of way. Sybok! YES!!!!! I can't wait. It's like a life long dream come true.
I haven't watched but i looked at your spoilers. WOW
Indeed. But with Starfleet competency on full display. It’s kind of fun in that respect. I thought it was awesome. See what would happen in those kinds of movies if you had Star Trek characters handling the scenario instead of a bunch of incompetent schlubs.This episode is just Aliens.