Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"

• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The anti-Gorn tricorders seemed to cut through the interference on the surface well enough.

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  • 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: I detect a counter-frequency emanating from the planet. It appears to be negating all scans, communications, and transporter signals between here and there.

    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.

    UNA: Still trying to scan for life signs?

    SPOCK: I theorized I might be able to find a frequency gap through the interference field, but I have not managed to discover one yet.

    UNA: Spock, I don’t think anyone’s alive over there.

    SPOCK: Spectrometric analysis suggests there are still pockets of oxygen on board. It is possible someone could have survived.

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    • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All that being true, I think the discovery of a single survivor should have scuttled the entire mission.

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      • khaosworks@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was just trying to answer the technological criticisms about why Spock didn’t search.

        I see where the criticism is coming from, but I can also see there are all sorts of extenuating circumstances around it (not to mention lack of time) and to take the plot there for a search would kind of kill the story momentum.

        It’s not invalid as a criticism, just saying that tech reasons are covered.

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