Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt does feel very quick, given how long they spent teasing the two of them together. This was one of my problems with s1 as well, starting off character arcs and then wrapping them up way too soon (M’Benga’s daughter, for example).
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The main thing that bugged me with M’Benga’s daughter is that they’ve basically just retconned how many people understand the way they can use the transporter buffer that was seemingly novel to the TNG folk when they came across Scotty inside of one during Relics. Geordi was all like “what is going on with this transporter” but this season you have Chapel and M’Benga using it as an active stasis system for triage purposes.
Just kind of seems like it would either be more widespread of a use-case in medical scenarios or have some kind of super major drawback in addition to storage capacity like general degradation. Then it would make sense that Scotty pulled another miracle and kept himself from degrading for 100 years.
TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m fairly certain there was a throwaway line from Scotty about how he tweaked something to keep the buffer running for so long
lowvisnitpicker@startrek.website 1 year ago
Yeah, the part that puzzled Geordi was the transporter was able to hold a pattern for nearly 80 years. SNW shows M’Benga had to pull his daughter out periodically to keep her pattern from degrading.
LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 year ago
It does though. As the others said, Scotty did have to jury-rig some modifications for long-term storage and even then he wasn’t able to save the other survivor long-term.