tdriley

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @JohnnyDelirious @Zoboomafoo One moment Spok is frantically trying to find Chapel on the Kayuga, but then doesn’t even mention survivors when they plan to crash it. It’s too much of a stretch. There must be some key plot here they deliberately didn’t show us. We don’t see the initial attack on the Kayuga at all. Why was the lone Gorn (stuck?) on that side of the line trying to access command codes on a destroyed ship? I think we’ll get a revealing flashback in S03E01.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @williams_482 @triktrek (It is mentioned elsewhere that human soldiers in the Eugenics Wars were given drugs to make them better fighters, and human history remembers this as a huge mistake/atrocity).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @williams_482 @triktrek Many fans react badly to the P-12 serum as a lazy plot device, but consider: In key battles, it’d make tactical sense for Klingons to draw Fed soldiers into hand to hand combat, because they’re typically experienced blade warriors. It would then be attractive to the Fed to develop something like P-12 as a counter-tactic. Then consider there is a potential sub-plot exploring the ethics of humans revisiting their Eugenics Wars-era mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @ValueSubtracted This could be the case whether or not Rah started the fight at the end, but after rewatching, it feels like M'Benga's actions were all preparing for that outcome (or preparing to protect himself?) Rah of course also has a motive to kill M'Benga - he's the only person who knows what actually happened with the Klingon commanders on J'Gal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @ValueSubtracted ...thinking he is the superior fighter, and B) test if he can get a quick, sharp attack past his guard? Was he prepping in case he wanted/needed to kill him?

  We don't see the end fight, but we believe from M'Benga looking Pike in the eyes, twice saying "I didn't start the fight" that he didn't.

  However, in M'Benga's PTSD-ridden mind, where he never "finished" the mission to kill Rah, maybe he really doesn't think he started it, because Rah "started it" on J'Gal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @ValueSubtracted
  Did anyone else wonder (spoiler warning):

  When Rah arrives on Enterprise, all the war vets hate him, but did M'Benga's damaged mind actually awaken his military instincts as a defence mechanism, compelling him to "finish" the unfinished mission to kill Rah?

  When M'Benga & Rah first spar, M'Benga says he thought about not showing up but changed his mind because "Klingon judo is good exercise". Does he then use the session in a safe environment to A) trick Rah into...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @ValueSubtracted M’Benga spin-off series, now!