The Broken CircleAnd I'm back to SNW (and Trek!) after a nice little break. I'm hoping this new season is at least as good as the first season, hopefully better!
A decent enough opening episode but nothing too mind blowing. Weird that
Pike was absent for most of it, part of the storyline or was the actor busy on other projects? Spock was excellent here, nice to see that
the crew were stealing the Enterprise long before Kirk became captain! Ad Astra per Aspera"The Federation's race laws are draconian". I strawberry floating knew the Federation was just a bunch of Nazis.
I'm assuming this will be the obligatory Trek courtroom episode. Hopefully it's as good as they usually are.
20 years?!!! The Federation really are a bunch of Nazis Cracking episode. They should make a whole series based on legal trials in the Federation. Even if the Federation is full of fascist bastards.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowAfter the obligatory Trek courtroom episode, it's time for the obligatory Trek time travel episode.
Why is the
name Khan Noonien Singh infamous at the time of SNW? I don't remember original Kirk knowing too much about Khan (he certainly wasn't infamous!) and that's at least a decade or two into the future for these characters. Another noticeable lack of Pike. Weird.
A very very good episode. I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this was a very good one, even if (as always) there were plenty of the usual time travel plot holes.
Among the Lotus EatersHmm. While this wasn't bad, it was certainly a drop in quality. And lots of Pike this time!
The
memory loss (and recovery) explanation was bollocks. The radiation can cause memory loss to a crew in orbit of the planet, but a castle made of special material is fine. But it was far from terrible, the SNW crew is so likeable that they can get away with the odd average episode every so often.
CharadesMuch like the previous episode, this should have been pretty gooseberry fool, but the crew are so likeable and play it so well that you forgive the plot holes and the overall ridiculousness of the situation.
There's not much to add really, a daft episode that was very entertaining.
Lost in TranslationWe seem to be in a run of "bloody ridiculous, but bloody enjoyable" episodes. The story here was daft when you think about it. But Kirk and Uhura were both so fantastic that it didn't even really need a plot.
I really like how they haven't bothered trying to make the actors look, sound or act like the famous characters from TOS. Kirk and Uhura are nothing like their 1960s versions. Which is good, it shows confidence in this show and stops anything looking like a terrible impression. Spock does feel like he's doing an impression of Nimoy's version, but I think that's just an inevitable consequence of being an emotionless Vulcan.
I think the next episode is the Lower Decks crossover. Urgh, I am not looking forward to this.
Those Old ScientistsI've just decided to start posting episode thoughts in the thread after watching them. So for the first time in ages, this my thoughts will be posted very soon after actually watching an episode of Trek.
My hatred of Lower Decks is probably well known and so I was not looking forward to this at all.
But I strawberry floating loved it. It was funny, it had a decent story, great performances and made me want more!
I'm shocked!