Strange New Worlds season 2

[whisky]

Certainly the oldest when originally cast.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Happy 71st birthday to Carol Kane. I guess it's not impressive after Picard stuck all those old folks in season 3, but ignoring that (as I like to do!) she must be the oldest regular cast member in a Stark Trek.

She's not a regular though, just a guest star.

 

[CaptainWacky]

WELL THAT RUINS THAT THEN.

 

[Volpone]

There's coffee in that nebula!

This exchange made me realize that the algae/seaweed coffee from nuBSG was almost certainly yet another Star Trek in-joke.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Ron Moore ftw.

 

[The Question]

She's not a regular though, just a guest star.

She'll be killed off and it'll be a heartwarming moment when the immortal gets to experience death and is happy about it.

Or something.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Ron Moore ftw.

He's under a Disney contract now (but doesn't seem to have actually produced anything.)

I have "why don't they get all the DS9 writers back together!" thoughts from time to time but it's probably best left in the past...

 

[Volpone]

Voyager is so incredibly forgettable. That's the reason I missed the coffee joke: I'd totally forgotten the Janeway coffee obsession. Just now...I don't even know how it popped into my head, but I'm thinking "Vulcan is a very hot planet. You'd think there'd be some black Vulcans. But I can't think of a single black Vulcan in the entire history of the franchise." :/

 

[whisky]

There was the baseball douchbag from DS9

 

[The Question]

There was the baseball douchbag from DS9

I don't think he was black. But there might have been a black Vulcan on his team, though. Hm. Good time for a rewatch, not that there's ever a bad time to rewatch DS9.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

I love Star Trek.

The La'an, M'benga, Spock scene was so much fun??

There was a very subtle metaphor in today's ep.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Ortegas/M'benga/Spock don't @ me

 

[whisky]

If say someone had been away would you recommend watching this before secret invasion?

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Well I haven't seen Secret Invasion but I expect this is a better episode of television.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It was very good and Yetide Badaki was a great guest star. So good to have such a long scene of just characters talking about ideals and stuff and trust the audience will stay interested.

 

[Mentalist]

This was decent. It's a breath of fresh air to not have some looming EPIC plot that has to be moved a set amount and instead have a more standalone story (which of course still ties in to the earlier plot, but you get my point) like this. The good ol' courtroom drama. Star Trek has done these before, of course, and this one did have some notable elements from Measure of a Man in it, and it's good to explore genetic engineering and how Starfleet has zero tolerance on the subject and how the paranoia from the Eugenics Wars has lost them some of their objectivity. There are obviously some very nice tie-ins with Bashir's genetically modified story arc in DS9 as well.

You don't need explosions and space battles every week. Sometimes you can tell a simple, self-contained story, and this was that. It wasn't really anything we haven't seen before, though.
I did get a brief moment of second-hand embarrassment with the OTT fawning over Una, which reached a particularly cringey moment during one of the court scenes, but otherwise I enjoyed this well enough. The defense lawyer put in a good performance.

 

[The Tomtrek]

It's good when Star Trek is good and About Things.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Loved this one. A good old fashioned courtroom thing, like in the old days. The defense lawyer was fantastic.

 

[Cassie]

I love the episodes of ST when they deliver good speeches about justice and stuff. The actress playing the lawyer was really good.

 

[StarMan™]

Woah, it's the Queen herself (Yetide Badaki from American Gods). Fantastic performance.

"Admiral, it would seem the rules of Starfleet only apply when a Captain deems that they do." - yep!

This one unexpectedly got me in the feels at the end. Best episode of SNW so far in my book, at least.