On retrospective, I really like the development of Ortega. We've seen her rebuild a motorcycle in her quarters. We've seen her jury rig a universal translator in Terrarium. So her revealing she's mad that she didn't become an engineer makes a lot of sense, and taking it out on Scotty.
That's solid character development that has been building over multiple episodes. I appreciate the slow burn and foreshadowing.
We got horror last week, now we got stoner comedy this week. And kicked us off with a Jurassic Park episode. They really are running the gambit with film genres.
I love that they're experimenting, but I also would really appreciate some traditional Star Trek of seeing professionals being professional. I just want some of that Andy Weir style competence porn!
After reading some of the comments, I'm now going to watch the Hangover. As I had compared this episode to Dude, Where's my Car, but that movie jumps the shark and goes in to absurdity. Which, to be fair, is very appropriate for the genre. They didn't get that extreme with this episode, but I also wouldn't have been surprised if they did.
I don't know if I liked this episode, which makes me believe I'll like it a lot more later after I let it sink in a bit and think about what they were trying to do.
It was good horror, but I don't think I liked this episode very much.
I feel my biggest problem is the lack of resolution. I know that's kind of the hallmark of horror, the "The End...?" but I actually kind of like the technobabble explanations.
I don't want them to not take risks with Star Trek, so I welcome experimental episodes, but I still feel a bit let down.
I think this is suppose to reset Spock back to status quo for when the series ends next season. I don't think we're suppose to see him align his human/vulcan self.
I love me a good causality loop, but I don't feel like this was good example of one.
The diplomacy stuff on the Enterprise was fun. But oddly the dinosaur planet plot actually didn't feel as impactful.
Like it honestly feels like not a lot happened on planet. Which is a shame, because there were dinosaurs!
I feel like more of the dinosaurs should have had feathers, to keep up with contemporary understanding of dinosaurs. But I understand the pop culture short hand to help establish the cliche and not confuse the audience.
Ah, I didn't make that connection that Pilia and Ake are the same race. I should have paid a bit more close attention. I guess that seems like a proper racial characterization.
Almost wish they'd give her that weird Pilia accent.
I didn't realize this was releasing, so I binged and got all caught up.
Where is Sylvia Tilly? I thought the whole point of her being an instructor at the Academy was so she'd be here.
Also, what's up with Captain Ake being...extremely unprofessional? Not to say I need my captains to always be stoic. But I feel there is some hypocrisy with how she acts and also dressed down Mir for not standing at attention, when she's lazying around the captain's chair or running around barefoot.
I can understand cadets being unprofessional, and needing to be broken in, but when the ranking officer is too... something don't feel right.
The entire premise of high school/college drama and tropes, I'm not against this. It's not as artificial as I sometimes feel it can be in media target at young adults, but it also is a little bit... Which is slightly bothersome, but I feel they're also handling it well because it does appear to come with some character growth, but my fear is that that growth is coming too quick and they'll just reset some character growth back to give themselves room to have character drama.
I don't know where I stand on this series just yet. It's not bad though.
I enjoy good graphics, but I can look past them if the gameplay is fun and the story is good. With that said, I'm not clear if this will have any of the good qualities.
I do feel this game looks very conceptually interesting. I do very much enjoy VR games and really do feel like there aren't enough really pushing the medium. So I am cautiously optimistic.
Not as dramatic of an ending as I'd expect. But still a pretty fun listen.
I wonder is Lear ever tried to meet up with her Noonien Singh relatives?
I actually feel like La'an really reduces some of the drama of the daughter of Khan trying to find her place and understand where and who she is. She's not technically all alone because she has estranged family who already understands the prejudice of augments in Star Fleet.
I feel it is actually fitting for Khan to stay with his people to lead them. This is a noble trait, but it's also a bit more of an ego thing that does fit his character more than being selfish enough to save himself.
Elborians dying seems like a cop out. But I guess we need a reason the augments never got rescued, and Delmonda would have definitely sent for help.
This is a bit of fiction I never thought needed expanding. But it wasn't so bad. I hope they do some more interesting little side stories or expanded lore on something that might need more exploring. Say what happened to Prime Lorca, or how the events that led to Unification Part 3. You know, something a bit more meaty.
I actually didn't expect Khan to just abandon his people...but he does seem a bit self serving, so I guess it's not exactly out of character.
Also, we get some idea of when everything happens.
Also, interesting reasoning for Ceti Alpha VI's destruction being from the Elboreans' nonstandard warp drive. I'm really happy they explained it. I don't understand it though. What kind of FTL drive blows up planets? That sounds more like a horrible weapon putting the Deathstar to shame.
Sounds like rehabilitating Ivan didn't go very well.
Well, one episode left. I have to say, this has been a pretty enjoyable listen to on my mondays.
What a twist. That'd make sense. I guess the age would be about right. Space Seed in about 2267, and this audio drama is set after Generations' death of Kirk in 2293. Kali/Lear could be in their mid 20's or 30's which would fit.
I feel really conflicted about this season. I like they're experimenting and trying new stuff, but like, i don't know if it's landing.
However, I do believe in like 10 years I'm going to look back and think, this is good Star Trek. But similar to...honestly all Star Trek, I find it hard to really enjoy it in the moment for some reason.
I guess Star Trek is a fine wine. You got to let it age a bit first.