This episode was just perfect. Great humor, great in-jokes, great references, fantastic acting, I can’t think of a better episode. SO MUCH FUN!
Riker!
It looks like the cross over was a bonus this week. There is a new episode available today like normal (I had assumed the crossover was this week’s episode).
Huh. I had assumed that, too. Hadn’t even checked for a new episode.
I made the same assumption, now I have something extra to look forward to.
Saw the new episode. A bit of a tonal shift from the previous one.
Note to self: do not push M’Benga too far.
Yeah, that was one of two things I was going to mention. The second is that something that should have been pink wasn’t pink.
I realized that after the first episode this season, where he revealed himself to be a Klingon War veteran with advanced MMA skills and access to a Super Soldier Hypospray.
Was that TOS alum Clint Howard as the base commander?
Yes. (Discord characters.)
I was amused to see him.
I wonder if two roles in the same franchise separated by 50+ years is some kind of record.
This episode did not have the optimistic Trek ending I crave but the acting was really good.
I think Clint Howard already held the record, he was on Discovery in 2018 as Creepy Orion.
Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott {Donna’s Grandfather) on Doctor Who was the previous record holder having played Mott as recently as 2010 and Tom Campbell in Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. 1966.
Video Link (hint, it wasn’t good)
That was a very dark episode, I think the darkest for Strange New Worlds and a bit jarring after the prior episode.
Since more people have had a chance to watch this by now, I’ll be less vague. The Klingon blood on the knife was red. But it seems like the color issue is already muddled.
Yeah at this point Star Trek 6 is the outlier when it comes to Klingon Blood.
ST:SNW takes place before the brilliant Klingon pharmaceutical company, Procter & Gamble, introduced Pepto Bismol to the galaxy.
I’ll just go with Worf’s “We do not discuss it!” bit.
On Worf’s Honor.
BTW, what was the significance of the saddle in the crossover episode?
It is just an object seen in that stateroom before. No major significance.
“Most serious riders do have their own saddles.” -Jean-Luc Picard