Last night's episode kind of fell flat for me, with an alien who basically roofies people with his hormones when he gets into heat.
It wasn't bad it wasn't great.
Ed suddenly having a gay relationship was actually well done and funny, and beating out his wife for the affections of the alien that she cheated on him with was well done, especially the scene where he's in bed with the alien, and she's in her cabin listening to sad music and eating chocolate.
the Yaphit finally getting the doctor was kind of awkward.
But it worked in terms of using the pheromone to make the ambassadors from the warring races fall in love and prevent a war.
Alira had a huge part in this episode as well.
We finally saw a continuation between Bortas and his mate.
I loved the Karaoke scene at the beginning and Bortas knocked it out of the park, and then didn't get to sing.
It wasn't terrible, but it didn't measure up to the previous episodes.
I loved that Rob Lowe who had a 10 second scene with no lines in the pilot got to continue as the unrecognizable alien.
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I also loved when Alara was working things out in the holo suite and right in the middle of this series discussion between her and Kelly and the Doctor, Gordon and the navigator show up with pistols and then grumble about people not respecting appointments, and then 2 minutes later Bortas shows up with a dueling pistol.
The Eulogy was nice as well when the engineer who was Payne's best friend says "Its ironic that his name was Payne because he probably felt a great deal of it before he died". And then says "If you knew him he'd find that line hilarious before everyone gets mad at me"
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They're really investing in Alara as a character, its not like they dropped the Bortas domestic problems but its been firmly pushed to the background.
I was hoping that they would get deeper into John and Gordon, but those two are mainly there for comedy, but they had a nice little moment last night between Alara and Gordon . . . before he was eaten.
Isaac is probably the most pervasive character on the show, he doesn't do a whole lot but he's pretty prevalent in every episode in the back ground. But I'm still waiting for him to say something incredibly racist beyond offering to disintegrate the doctors kid.
The doctor from Voyager last night was pretty good in a small cameo.
They are so above and beyond on the effects in this show, just everything looks good and functional.
Last night the Staircase was a major star, I just don't get that design.
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That was a blatant rip off of the Wesley crusher warp bubble episode.
Better get used to it. While its finding its feet as its own show its still a 'spoof' at its core, its going to take stories from Star Trek, if you're going to be offended by that then I dont know what to tell you.
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Better get used to it. While its finding its feet as its own show its still a 'spoof' at its core, its going to take stories from Star Trek, if you're going to be offended by that then I dont know what to tell you.
The hook of that episode is that you don't know they are in the bubble. But with this one you new when the clown appeared that is was a total copy. They didn't put their own spin on it. Since it relies on the surprise hook that was blatantly obvious it was a bad episode.
It's really a spoof only when in points out the absurdity of the Star Trek universe. I would argue it's more of a stand alone sci-fi morality comedy. It was sold as a spoof but really it's an homage. So if lifting a plot it needs to provide commentary are the Star trek universe about why it's absurd. Like the Data stranded with kids episode was great.
So my complaint is that this was a blatant rip off without adding anything or skewering any star trekisms.
