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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
in general this crew is pretty hawt. Spock with the Guild haircut was almost enough to make me switch sides. also I get the impression that Anson Mount is a big corny nerd in real life because he does goofy much too convincingly.
whether this episode "hit it" for you or not, the important thing is that the writers trusted you enough to understand what this was in Star Trek terms. can you imagine the showrunners of Discovery and Picard trying to do one of these? "hrrm, too much levity. our focus groups indicate that audiences only want serialized Dark Trek. let's throw in a scene with a beloved legacy character getting their eye torn out of its socket with rusty space tongs."
my only minor concern is that we're burning through Trek episode templates pretty fast. so far we've gotten
- disguised away team
- mediation between primitive warring factions
- threatening ancient powerful alien that's actually benevolent
- crew infected/mind controlled
- submarine warfare
- shore leave hijinks
- peaceful alien civilization with a dark secret
- surprise takeover of Enterprise by alien guest
- LARP
if we get a time travel/loop or mirror universe episode before the end of the season, I'll be a bit worried. but then again, maybe we just need the comfort food after years of being force fed some executive's idea of haute cuisine.
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Oh, there are still lots of Star Trek tropes left:
- robots are real people too
- trial
- time travel to present-day earth
- your gods are wrong
- your gods are just aliens
- racism is bad, okay
- thinly-veiled metaphor for present-day events (incoming planet Ukrain, Trump-like leader, or pandemic special)