Lupine wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:35 pm
Overall the series left me with the same impression the pilot episode gave me. Namely that this would have worked better as a post-TNG series rather than a prequel.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This would have made a great Captain Rios series, bringing back the aesthetics of classic Trek to the 25th century-- and they could have created an accurate Pike series at the same time with chump change. That would have made pretty much everybody happy.
The light hazing she gets from the other crew doesn’t help.
I kind of like the way they handle the crew interactions. Nice and casual and friendly, so the drama has more impact when they get to it.
In all this handled the question over the treatment of Augments better than DS9 or ENT did- both of which seemed to justify the rather un-egalitarian views that the Federation and Starfleet hold.
Unfortunately, they're pretty much stuck with that, otherwise everybody would be an Augment-- they would have been better off ignoring it.
Making Number 1 an alien was a questionable choice considering her role in “The Cage” (the Talosians wouldn’t have picked her to breed with Pike if she wasn’t human).
Good point. I didn't even think about that. Although all humanoids in Trek can seemingly interbreed anyway.
I almost skipped this one as the one thing I don’t like about SNW is how the reimagined the Gorn.
Same here, but since this is an alternate universe it doesn't bother me much. Also, we can always imagine that the Gorn that Kirk fought was elderly and senile.
Basically a filler episode with a rather silly body-swap plot.
This one emphasized one of the biggest weaknesses of SNW-- they write Vulcans really badly.
Perhaps the most like TOS if they had the budget.
Yeah, this was a good one that really showed the depth of Pike's character.
The appearance (sort of) of Sybok was an interesting twist, but I fear that if he turns up again he’ll be just another bad guy rather than the generally good but misguided character we’d seen in ST:5.
Hard to say, given how they write Vulcans. But, again, it's an alternate universe so I'm keeping an open mind.
A fun episode that the cast was clearly having a blast with.
Talk about a crazy-ass TOS-style episode.
I would have preferred the ultimate resolution to Dr. M’binga’s daughter’s illness to have come via a different route as this seemed a little rushed. I also thought that M’binga agreed to the Bozeman Brain’s offer too quickly- even if it were completely well-intentioned.
I thought the same thing, but it is the kind of thing that would happen in TOS.
Killing off Hemmer was also not a good idea as it wasted a season’s worth of character development.
Yes, killing off Hemmer was definitely the low point of the season. Especially since, as you say, they didn't think it through. Hemmer thrives in the cold that kills the Gorn-- all he had to do was stay outside for a while. He didn't have to jump.
I don’t buy that Pike’s future is un-avoidable despite what he’s shown about the future.
The whole idea of Pike being shown his future was monumentally stupid. Unless it's not. My thought-- and maybe I'm giving them too much credit-- is that they are leading up to a series finale that shows us what happened to Pike after "The Menagerie." His vision only showed him that he would be crippled, but nothing about being brought back to Talos. Also, the Talosians were obviously lying about not being able to restore Vina in the pilot, so they were probably also lying about not being able to cure Pike. My hope is that the Talosians have some grand design in mind for Pike, as befits a hero of his stature, and that we'll get a glimpse of it in the finale. Also, it occurred to me at some point after I wrote my own review of this episode that the Admiral Pike from the future might actually have been like Commodore Mendez in "The Menagerie," an illusion sent by the Talosians to keep Pike on the path that they need him on.