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LoglineWhen the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.


Written by Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Maja Vrvilo

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[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Idk, it was pretty predictable and it's still not clear to me why writers who seemingly can't do better than blatantly rip off Alien deserve to be at the helm.

Get Stephen Baxter and IDK Arkady Martine on the writing team as consultants ASAP because this show needs help. People deserve more interesting sci fi than this. Arkady Martine wrote a more interesting and thought provoking Star Trek style story than whatever this Gorn arc is shaping up to be.

[–] angstrom@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At a minimum the script editor should have asked the writers hard questions about the Chapel and Batel subplots to justify their inclusion.

I would have dropped the two subplots and used the screen time on La’an who was strangely reduced to giving color commentary for an episode that she should have been front and center on.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yea generally, with S2 at least, there’s been a strange amount of not using the main cast. With Pike it seems to be attributable to paternity leave. Still, it has been to the detriment of the season, with the ending scene hanging on his apparent indecisiveness being a callback to the finale of S1 and the differences between him and Kirk … and it not really landing because it’s under-developed arc.

Beyond that, a good amount of room has clearly been made for TOS prequel work (Kirk and Scotty now), which IMO is structurally problematic but also just detracts from the main cast. Ortega, La’an, Una even, have been too easily put into the background for my liking, especially for a 10 episode per season format.

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just sitting here biting my nails wondering if they're going to kill Pelia now so they can make Scotty chief engineer as fast as possible.

Given Pelia took a leave (ran away) from her post at the Academy to have a bit of fun and replace her deceased student Hemmer, she may be more than happy to leave Scotty with the ship once she’s put him through her paces.

I would like to see at least one episode where she gets more of a guest star featured turn though.

[–] AuroraBorealis@pawb.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man it wasn't even an arc, they didn't mention the gorn at all this season except for this episode right?

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've been building up an impending Gorn conflict since early in season 1 and this is like the third or so episode that has centered on them. It's an arc, unless we think the story gets reset to zero every season?