Its always driven me crazy how in "And The Children shall Lead" a guy records a visual log with his own tricorder in the shot. Well, now we know. Drone cameras. That braincell can stop shorting out now.
How embarrassing is that anyway? Typos happen in news. They shouldn't, but with last minute deadlines they sometimes happen. It's the nature of the beast. There's zero excuse for them to happen in any kind of production work, though, whether it's a commercial or something like this. Those deadlines are measured in weeks or months, not hours and minutes like news, so someone really fucked up.
Agreed. With how many eyes saw that title before it was applied to the final product, and after it was applied and reviewed, there's no excuse for it.
That's one thing that always catches my attention, a typo. I know I make them on here, 99% of the time is on my phone or a tablet. With the on screen keyboard, it is much easier to make one. At first I thought t may have have been the British spelling, but I ruled that out almost immediately.
I liked it well enough. One can think of it as basically a bog-standard Trek episode in most ways but that's fine. Not every episode will be a banger, but it's good when none of them are "Spock's Brain" or whatever. The thing that's on my mind is that Trelane* refers to THIS planet as "the old homeworld" and the whole through line is a corporeal race seeking to achieve immortality. That CAN'T be a coincidence. And the showrunners confirm they'll have another ep involving the Vezda. Now, we don't have to (and probably shouldn't) assume those monster ball critters in the well are a predecessor or offshoot of the Q* - but possibly some interdimensional monsters they unleased while trying to manipulate time and space? In any case, if they don't pick up that thread next time then why throw in the "homeworld" line?
oh yeah... i did catch that in the opening act when they were listing off everyone's qualities-"Spock's Brain" got a drop.
I sometimes wonder how many Star Trek plots would be eliminated or at least radically changed if the respective ships/space stations/officers employed basic security measures that we expect today at a 7-11 or a random police department: security video feeds of all areas, BWC, GPS monitoring and the like. I'm guessing about 40 percent.
Am I the only person who watched this episode and wondered what, if any, connection that ancient race might have to the Iconians? With the whole "transporting vast distances in the blink of an eye through doorways" thing? I think it'd be fun if they started to slowly link these prehistoric civilizations like the Progenitors, the Metrons, the Iconians, the corporeal Q, and now this now this new race and the Vezna.
Quick review. Very mid and very soap opera in the beginning. It was nice seeing strange new worlds in my Strange New Worlds show. I guess they’re setting up new villains. It reminded me of the Pah Wraiths, but I guess it’s not. But I’m not a fan according to @Spaceturkey because I dared to not like last week’s episode. 5/10
funny thing... I thought this episode was fairly weak. last week's-for all your umbrage about lampooning the holy shatner-was clever at times. this one was Alien 3 and they wasted the new guy too soon. (although I can't help but wonder if they'll bring him back somehow because, space/time sneks) agreed though... 5/10
"Clever" is subversive and icky now. We gotta stomp that down. Like the whitewashed history PragerU AI bots crap out.
Some people are comparing it to Event Horizon which I didn’t think of and comparing it to Indy 3, which I did pick up on. Oh and by the way if they can regenerate eyes then why couldn’t they do that with Geordi?
meh-they cribbed the one thing from Indy 3. and yeah, it was kinda dumb even in context with the story. I think South Park described Event Horizon perfectly...
But I guess the point is that even with a lame episode, I'm not losing my shit over Trek being dead or too politicized by brown folks and girls doing stuff...
I’m not either. Though I do think that Christine should have listened to Spock, but that would have ended the episode.
I was thinking that this new enemy reminded me a lot of the Pah-Wraiths. We shall see… I hope. I thought this episode was OK. Not great, but better than last week. Speaking of which, I did some more thinking about last week’s episode and if that had been an episode of Lower Decks, I would’ve liked it a lot more. It seems like something that was more appropriate for Lower Decks, IMHO.
Well they introduced a new to me concept of theoretical physics which I haven’t heard of so I’ll allow it, but I find it ridiculous that there communicators would work in interdental space. Funnily enough, a lot of the recent UFO reports have been talking about “interdental demons”. Then they say there’s a real thing as evil, which I don’t agree with, but that suggests that God or whatever is real which is kind of weird for Star Trek. They also seem to be setting up a Q home world. Which I’m fine with because Q does say that they used to be like humans.
I don't think it has any relation to the Pah-Wraiths. This episode took place in 2261, in What Are Little Girls Made Of, Roger Korby disappeared in 2261. That episode referred to the Old Ones. And in the wedding episode, Roger Korby was on "the old homeworld". I'm guessing this is leading to an ancient race that originated on Exo III, and that it will lead to Korby going there to continue seeking immortality, which the androids there could have allowed them to, same way as in this episode.
interdental? I think you're looking for "interdimensional". Do you have a hearing issue? As that'd explain how you get things so wrong all the time.
I was definitely expecting to see caverns and a dick rock, I mean stalagmite. They did set up Korby’s obsession with immortality.
just saying "interdental" is spaces between teeth while "interdimensional" is pretty much what was going on in the episode with the overlaid realities...
typos are manual this seems to be an autofill error. it's what happens when you don't think for yourself.
I'm not getting a Pah Wraith connection other than "ancient evil beings." As for regenerating eyes, there's no real reason why the tech available in TNG's time could not have given Geordi working vision other than through the VISOR, and indeed by the time of Picard he seem to have gotten them. I figure that within universe his not getting eyes was more about political/personal obstacles rather than technological.
IIRC, in Encounter at Farpoint, it was established that the condition which caused him to go blind was intractable and that they couldn't give him cloned eyes or anything, as he'd go blind again.
