Among the Lotus Eaters
#Star Trek SNW s2e04
sudden briar
Wait a minute! Women can't be captains! [This is an actual Star Trek fact...]
exotic cliff
god I'd really like if filmmakers could stop with the ringing sound, my tinnitus is acting up because of it
exotic cliff
Spock's face during the flying sequence was 
Great acting
junior shuttle
I just now realized that Captain Batel is Mrs. McMurray from Letterkenny
exotic cliff
yuuuup 😄
lunar verge
And it's hillarious because they couldn't be more different
lunar verge
Wait a minute! Women can't be captains! [This is an actual Star Trek fact...]
One that has been thankfully retconned into oblivion
grizzled rampart
I forget how instense Anson Mount can be then I remember Hell on Wheels
vital trellis
Hey, that was actually a Strange New World!
lost basin
vital trellis
You could say it was... Second contact
junior shuttle
It was at the same time a Strange New World and also the oldest world in the Star Trek canon.
sudden briar
So while they remember basic things like how to walk and pilot a starship, they don't remember how to read...
exotic cliff
if you look at how she pilots it's all muscle memory and feeling
junior shuttle
She flies the ship
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reading is very much not that
vital trellis
I also imagine that Spock might have been able to read if it was in Vulcan script
worthy gull
Spock also has Vulcan-super-dyslexia, according to Disco.
exotic cliff
oh man... that's why I feel so close to spock, autistic, dyslexic, now if you tell me he has vulcan ADHD that'll just be the cherry on top :p
hushed bone
Very solid episode. Enjoyed it a bunch. Few thoughts:
- Peck continues to just kill it as Spock
- Anson Mount continues to dominate the screen and HOLY CRAP is Angry Pike terrifying.
- Fun to see another take on classic trek stories in “society is altered by a rogue Starfleet officer”
- REALLY REALLY cool to see the Rigel VII incident gone into. We knew about vaguely it from the Cage and that the loss of the officers hit Pike so hard, he considered resigning for a time, but we really knew very little about it
vital trellis
oh man... that's why I feel so close to spock, autistic, dyslexic, now if you te...
That's probably just called being half human and therefore having poorer executive function/impulse control than full vulcans?
If you were dyspraxic rather than dyslexic we'd basically be brain buddies 😝
karmic tinsel
yeah that was a solid episode of Trek. Not a standout one in terms of plot, perhaps, and I felt like the conclusion of the old dude's storyline was a bit too "message of the episode"-y, but solid effort all around, good use of angry pike, hope to see Ortegas actually taking lead in one of these episodes instead of being the B plot
nitpicks: well that's Una completely sidelined again?
dark heart
Shout out to the character actor Reed Berney (Luq) really selling his Buddhist pov on the situation. I dunno if any other performance would've had me halfway convinced.
short kiln
Fun episode, the scene with the phasers at the end, while badass, was a little weird with Pike just deflecting it with a plate but otherwise the episode was fun
frosty pendant
Ortegas continues being my favorite character
OTOH they lifted that meteorite from the surface and then just yeeted it into the field, so because Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space that rock is gonna ruin someone's day again
foggy path
