I thought the obvious thing to say would have been “Oh you’re right, they’re Jiliacs. Well, no need to trouble yourselves, we have prison facilities on our ship”.
Also, when you land in the first place surely you have some kind of protection from attack (although I can handwave it; maybe they let their guard down after a time because the Rigorians seemed so hospitable).
But overall, as SenorBeef said: a TNG episode played straight. 2 ways diverged slightly:
How excited everyone got about first contact. Even if it was a bit silly, it was cute.
Bortus and Kelly capping punks was not something that would have happened on TNG. Even if Picard killed plenty of mooks they rarely (ever?) used regular guns because it just seems too real to 21st century humans.
Just watched this episode. As soon as the Krill ships showed up, I guessed it half-way (maybe 3/4 way, didn’t predict the throwback, mostly because I didn’t remember).
I so much want to like this show, but the crew is just so unprofessional that it breaks my suspension of disbelief. I’m trying, but I don’t know if I’ll last all season.
That mirror was placed awfully close to the planet. Ground-based telescopes would be able to easily tell that it wasn’t near as far away as it should be.
I so want to like this series, injecting some humor into a starship is a refreshing change from the norm. I must aggree that the lack of professionalism is off-putting.
It will be interesting to see how the captain avoids a court martial for allowing his girlfriend to escape. In a real world I suspect such a move would, at a minimum, result in him being relieved of command.
Anyone else notice that Peter Macon (LCDR Bortus) played a submarine’s COB on “SEAL Team” last night?
Apparently that’s how he speaks; my wife and I were watching, and looked at each other, and commented that he sounded really familiar and has a unique pattern of speaking and diction.
It finally dawned on me that it was Bortus I was hearing about five minutes later.
I guess I’m still stuck on Prime Directive. No reason to make contact after just a transmission. Wait until they’ve established faster than light travel.
I found the prison break surprising. They killed many guards and managed to time it when the sail was deployed? Which was another Prime Directive violation, which doesn’t exist, so I’m having problems disassociating that.
The episode was directed by Lt. Paris. Anyone catch that?
So does the new security chief get the gravity treatment they designed for Alara? And how many pregnancies are artificially extended in order for the child to be born under the lucky sign?
I thought replacing Alara with a very similar Xelayan seemed like kind of a weird choice. We’ve already established that Alara is very unusual for her race - being interested in security, being interested in exploring space, and being mentally retarded by her race’s standards. So, then, this new brunette young Xalayan girl either also has to be retarded by Xalayan standards, or she has to be the smartest one of the biological bridge crew and generate her own ideas and plans, and either way is a weird fit. If she does, it’s obviously it’s just an exact 1:1 swap of actors without really changing the character (even though the character does change), or it’s a continuous plothole.
Feels like they should’ve gone in another direction, but I guess they have a million “girl lifts a shuttle over her head” gags they feel the need to push forward through.
I don’t think it’s meant to be controversial or unclear that she’s dumb by Xalayan standards. Her mom also tried to pitch coming home to her gently and basically disapproved of her out there trying to do her own thing. I think other characters also made reference to how much smarter Xalayans are.
I suspect they’ll just sort of forget about that whole thing and let the new security officer be of normal average human level of intelligence with no explanation.
That was my problem with Star Trek.
Things should have gone this way:
Picard: “Wesley is an obnoxious little shit, and we will pay for the things he broke; but if you execute him, we will phaser your planet into a cinder. Observe your moon. Mr. Worf, fire.”
Yes, I know, the Prime Directive.
“Those people are killing and eating each other down there, and all we can do is watch it on the view screen. 256 channels, and there is nothing on!”
