Well it at least wasn’t a minimalist Hamlet put on with stone knives and bearskins, like Kirk got.
She’s half Klingon.
I thought Episode 8 was thoughtful and done well. They seem to be 50/50 for really good episodes in this show, which isn’t that bad of a hit rate to me.
Episode 9 was pretty good - thank God for Jonathan Frakes, who directed. Still, there’s such a thing as being too apocalyptic; also, I wish writers had even the slightest grasp of how BIG space is.
I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
At least in the Star Trek Universe you can just replicate a new towel if you forgot one.
Or to quote a certain literary luminary - “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
This website is a great illustration of how mind-bogglingly big space is even within our own solar systerm, and that’s peanuts compared to the star-hopping distances they cover on Star Trek shows.
Oh, I’m not that great.
lol. I didn’t see your post.
Oh that’s not a new thing.
TOS had more than one episode where they think you can travel between stars at sublight velocities*. Ensign Ro may be one of my favorite TNG episodes, but the ridiculousness of the situation is mind boggling. The refugee planet is (from memory) 20K kilometers from the Cardassian border??!! Does the border follow the planet as it goes around its star? You can be 20K km away from me and still be on Earth! And they are being moved to another star system, in sublight ships! WTF writers?
*yes, you can. It will just take longer than your remaining lifespan.
And remember, any time you lose your FTL drive, there is always a nearby gas cloud or asteroid field you can duck into.
Considering most gas clouds large enough to get lost in the dust are at least dozens, probably hundreds, if not thousands of light years across.
“We are now entering the Mutara Nebula.”
“How can you tell?”
“Gas density has increased to 3 molecules per cubic meter.”
“OK at this rate we should be hidden in about…three years?”
“I estimate 3.1942 years, Captain. Assuming average density and gas composition.”
“You would.”
True, but this is taking things to a new level.
Let’s assume that Federation space in its degraded 32nd century state is a sphere 100 light years across - the bare minimum conceivable size of the Federation core. That means that the space-destroying mines have to cover an area of at least 30,000 square light years. Just how many mines do the bad guys have?
Self-replicating nanobots using zero-point energy fields and a re-calibrated antheum stasis generator with warp-positive chronitons.
Easy!
Has to be worse than that, right? The volume of the sphere, so half a million cubic light years give or take.
Well they are very very space fabric destroying mines …
Not thrilled with how they have so heavily hinted at mom’s critical role in the mines plan. “Oh I recognize you! You’re” [BLAST killed]
The explosions are arranged in a shell acting as a wall around Federation space, not through the whole volume.
That’s still an enormous area to cover with these mines. And how could they all be placed, more or less simultaneously?
Proximity sensors set radially very very wide.
Seriously though -Trek was never about hard science science fiction. This show a bit less than even that bar.