Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year agoI’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 1 year 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 1 year ago
The anti-Gorn tricorders seemed to cut through the interference on the surface well enough.
khaosworks@startrek.website 1 year 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.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
All that being true, I think the discovery of a single survivor should have scuttled the entire mission.