2/10
Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.
Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”
“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.
I watched… I have no idea what to say as I don’t have or know any pre-schoolers.
I usually dislike “back in my day” comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.
Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it’s also “for kids” but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.
Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)
the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.
I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).
That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.
I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: https://youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10
About Culber:
he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.
So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.
Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.
Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.
Good article.
The answer is capitalism and authoritarianism.
Understatement of the century
I think they are not very good at doing funny by themselves, but can do it with outside help. For example, the crossover with Lower Decks was good. In this episode, the only saving grace was Patton Oswalt (Doug), he was just hilarious!
4/10. It was 30-35 minutes too long.
Thanks! I had no idea about it. Submitting the claim was quite straightforward.
I think exploring the idea of the Federation as an imperialist power is interesting, but done very poorly here. Thinking back to DS9 and how it dealt with moral questions. Beto is such a random character, exploring this from his perspective feels so meaningless.
The plot was interesting, the format was bad, I’ll go with 5/10 for this one, so just an OK episode…
I get that they are doing a lot of “experiments” with this show, I don’t think it was a successful one. Too much focus on nonsense.
So innocent adults getting teargassed is fine?
It was good! 7/10
Overall quite a good balance of sci-fi and action, and a bit of funny with the phone shtick.
I kinda had a hunch they were human. I don’t really appreciate how our guys were mourning them at the end, these people must have killed billions, now they’re stopped. It’s not super convincing that they have planet-destroying abilities, but just one ship that’s mostly known from ghost stories. But we’ve had worse plots.
Loved seeing Paloma Nuñez (as Alvarez) known from the hilarious Baroness Von Sketch Show.
While the Star Trek franchise has been nominated for many Hugo Awards over the decades, the last win came all the way back in 1994, for the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale episode, “All Good Things.”
(it was actually 1995, the episode was aired the year prior)
Well deserved Lower Decks!! There was definitely some good Star Trek over the past 30 years, but I think the fact that LD is the first winner in so long is really telling. In my opinion it really was the best show since TNG. I think the other modern animated series, Prodigy, is not too far behind, shame it didn’t get more love.
Ridiculous. Party leaders should run as list candidates in a mixed-member proportional system, not riding representatives.
How the mighty have fallen. I got my OnePlus One in 2015 with CyanogenMod preinstalled (although I reinstalled the vanilla OS after, and rooted it easily). Enshitification indeed, no brand is safe.
You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!