Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
eva_sieve@startrek.website 10 months agoGotta agree, it seems like an unforced error. A good chunk of the audience knows she shows up in TOS, which robs the whole idea of any tension it might have, and on top of that it feels plot armor-y to have one person survive and then not check for anyone else.
They could’ve just contrived to have Spock and Chapel be the best persons for the saucer deorbiting-- Spock as the precise vulcan/science officer to place the thrusters, Chapel as medbay’s lead in case they could bring anyone back from the Cayuga.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 months ago
I’m fine with Chapel being stuck there - I think the tension comes from the overall Spock/Chapel emotional arc, rather than wondering whether she will survive - but the sequence practically demands a second scan with the newfangled tricorders to verify that there are no other life signs on the ship.
khaosworks@startrek.website 10 months ago
Isn’t the point though that the Gorn interference field was preventing any scans, comms or transport? The tricorder wouldn’t have worked there. And sending rescue teams would have been dangerous given Gorn belligerence, demarcation line or not.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 months ago
The anti-Gorn tricorders seemed to cut through the interference on the surface well enough.
khaosworks@startrek.website 10 months ago
True, but that’s on the ground and short range. There’s specific dialogue to show that it’s interfering with signals between space and ground.
Spock can’t even scan for life signs on Cayuga - he says he’s trying to find a frequency gap but has not been successful so they had to do a visual confirmation and discovered Cayuga’s sickbay had been blown away. At best they could do passive scans like spectrography.