Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
khaosworks@startrek.website 10 months agoIsn’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.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 months ago
All that being true, I think the discovery of a single survivor should have scuttled the entire mission.
khaosworks@startrek.website 10 months 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.