Submitted 1 year ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers
Directed by Maja Vrvilo
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Idk, it was pretty predictable and it’s still not clear to me why writers who seemingly can’t do better than blatantly rip off Alien deserve to be at the helm.
Get Stephen Baxter and IDK Arkady Martine on the writing team as consultants ASAP because this show needs help. People deserve more interesting sci fi than this.
At a minimum the script editor should have asked the writers hard questions about the Chapel and Batel subplots to justify.
I would have dropped the two subplots and used the screen time on La’an who was strangely reduced to giving color commentary for an episode that she should have been front and center on.
Man it wasn’t even an arc, they didn’t mention the gorn at all this season except for this episode right?
They’ve been building up the Gorn conflict since early in season 1, did you literally just start watching? Can you remind me how Hemmer died?
khaosworks@startrek.website 1 year ago
As to how they’ll resolve the cliffhanger, it’s probably going to be Scotty’s Gorn transponder that will confuse the Gorn ships long enough for Enterprise to get in close and somehow beam the abductees back.
UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de 1 year ago
Or maybe Batel becomes their version of Locutus, to somehow communicate with them.
To be honest I’m still undecided whether I want the Gorn to stay this unstoppable force of horror, or to find a Trek-style form of coming to some sort of peace agreement. In that aspect I liked how Admiral April tried to keep Pike in check at the beginning of the epispde.
jaelisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I was concerned that any Trek-like resolution that the series’s tone demands would utterly undermine Arena. But I think we’re past that already so I’ll just accept it out the window and enjoy the ride. But I do wish they’d done this as a new species instead.