It was Chekov who won, but his guts were beamed into space.
Ah yes, details!
But then that pie that is beamed out is then turned back into pie, creating a never ending cycle. Like a one man vulcan centipede.
“Captain, this man is exhibiting signs of Recursive Pie Syndrome.”
Damnit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a baker!
Yummy!
Yes! SUBMARINE EPISODE!!
I swear to God, this series is turning into “Star Trek: Greatest Hits” and I am perfectly fine with that. Great episode.
Yeah. Balance of Terror. Arena. A Galileo Seven nod. A little bit of Wrath of Khan. Good episode. I can’t decide if Ortegas is a little too flippant on the bridge or not. But I laughed at “Space is really trying to kill us.”
This series is the best Trek since TOS. Great crew, great storytelling. The actor playing Spock is so much better than the actor in the Jar Jar Abrams Trek movies.
And TNG’s Disaster.
Well, I think primo TNG remains the best Trek ever.
It’s getting quite good though. Still a LITTLE too much over the top emotion - just a little, they’re squeezing it out. It’s a benefit of a true episodic Star Trek; if you have to tell a complete story in 40-45 minutes you don’t have a lot of time to waste. A single story told over 10-12 episodes allows for lazy writing.
The Gorn are an interesting choice for an adversary, but welcome; I am so sick of Kurtzman’s obsession with Romulans.
Yes. Not everything has to be one season-long arc.
Prime TNG would be? (Season 3-6?)
For me it’s Season 3-6, TWOK and First Contact.
I was a bit annoyed with the “Waiting to see if Uhura survived” scene in the Gorn episode. Come on guys, we know she doesn’t die, she’s got absolute Plot Armor for this entire series.
Now, if they decide to start having everyone else around her die, that might be interesting.
Virtually every action or suspense series has episodes where it looks like a major character will die but you know they won’t - because it’s the middle of the season, or because it’s too minor a bad guy, or because their character arc isn’t over, or because they’re star of the show. How is this any different?
Because I can think of examples of shows that have killed characters in all of those situations, because we don’t know their ultimate fate yet. This is similar, but just even more than the usual Plot Armor. Killing Uhura would be a fundamental change to the established Trek timelines, and so it won’t happen, unless the creative team makes a deliberate decision to piss off a majority of their fans.
If Spock can die and then anyone can come back.
And if this is a throwback Enterprise that pays homage to TOS then why aren’t the women showing more leg and skin? My young eyes in 1968 thought the future was going to be sexy! 
Because, these days it’s looks weird? As if the actress forgot to wear her trousers before shooting the scene?
Honestly, my shirt tails reach further down than some of the “dresses” on TOS.
I guess? The show definitely started getting really good in Season 2, but I’m not blessed with that solid a memory. Certainly the last season had some major highlights as well.
TNG is an example of how you do characters without shit tons of melodrama. There were no Burnham-style teary speeches every episode, and few of the “visions of a lost relative” things, and yet you knew who these characters were, their strengths and weaknesses, and their emotional connections.
This episode reminded me DS9: “Starship Down” with some TNG: “Disaster” mixed in. “Starship Down” is the one in which they engage, and hide from, the Jem’Hadar inside a gas giant.