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so the new Star Trek episode has some really odd choices (hexbear.net)
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I wasn't expecting much from SNW final season, but this episode just does some stuff that seemed very uncharacteristic for Star Trek in my recollection (I've not watch TOS, so maybe there's something similar in there). Anyone else seen it and had weird vibes about it?

Trying to avoid spoilers, but will probably get into spoilers in the comments if anyone else has seen it too. About to restart/watch DS9 with my partner (trying to get them into it), so I might not reply for a bit).

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was season 3 level bad, but I am a sucker for dinosaurs. If you put a dinosaur on my screen I will have at least a little bit of a good time.

The stable time loop thing was rushed and too pat. Having Pike decide to let billions die on a hunch then having that all work out was very not Trek.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    decide to let billions die on a hunch

    Yes, this was the worst part for me by far. The other stuff was just sort of in the realm of goofy ST and not too far out of the SNW playbook. But just letting a whole species get destroyed because "that's just how the timeline is supposed to go" was just bonkers from a ST show. Maybe if there hadn't been the option to do something else it wouldn't seem so ridiculously bad. I was hoping we would get to see the insect aliens at all, but they were just a prop to be destroyed. Really off-putting, and I'm going to be hypersus about the writing for the rest of the season.

    I know Jessie Gender has done some deep dives on how problematic the SNW writing has been on a number of episodes, but this was just sort of in another galaxy of bad for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It would have been so easy to just tweak it so the timing barely didn't work, they didn't get the chance to take the shot, and they got all broken up about it, but then it still turned out to preserve the timeline. Same result but without the Starfleet captain actively deciding to let a planet die.

    Jessie Gender's vid on this episode was extremely critical, but she also has a video on the first 6 episodes of the season from screeners she got and she claims the rest of them are a lot better.

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