Came here to say this. I’d much prefer to see the Seven/Raffi/Jack Next-Next-Gen on the TitanEnterprise G than yet another prequel.

Definitely straining plausibility. Also straining canon, which I don’t mind so much, but I think the combination makes it worse.

No, sorry. Very bad. Only Rose-Gooding and Chong could sing, the autotune was obvious and jarring for all the others. The songs weren’t memorable (I confess I really dislike the modern US showtune style, but it can at least be catchy — this wasn’t), the choreography and even the editing was shoddy. The first episode of Trek, other than Enterprise, that I’ve wanted to switch off.

I think that might’ve been the best SNW episode so far. Great guest role, all-round incredible performances from the regulars. Babs absolutely smashed it, obviously. Not going to go all out and say it’s one of the top Trek episodes full stop till I’ve had time to think, but right now I can’t think of many better ones!

I like that they did the Kirk/Spock meet as an almost throwaway thing, rather than trying to make it a big deal. We already know it’s a big deal, so any attempt to increase the drama would’ve made it cheesy, IMO. Plus, we’ve had lots of media about their friendship, already: we know it inside out. Instead, we got to focus on Kirk’s relationship with a different legacy character, one that hasn’t already been explored to anywhere near the same extent.

Although, on that note… was anyone else hoping the ‘doctor on the Farragut’ Kirk referred to was going to lead to a cameo from Bones? I don’t remember if they served together pre-Enterprise, so it might not have been strictly canon!

I thought she said to release the deuterium from the nacelles (of the Enterprise), but to destroy the mining station (as @cybervseas@lemmy.world points out, Pike confirmed the latter order).

I assume that they didn’t always speak that way, but as their language evolved it became gradually more dense with allusions, until they took over entirely.

I’ve been saying Spappel. I hope this helps but I know it doesn’t.

Given what we’ve heard about Illyrian society in SNW it doesn’t seem particularly enlightened! Honestly feels like they should just have had Pike have that conversation with someone else, but stuck with Una just because they didn’t have anyone who had spoken to Batel onscreen.

Yeah, I assumed that quite some time had elapsed and that was why Pike didn’t have an answer for Batel when she put him on the (imaginary) stand.

”I like her,” Number One says of Batel, the woman who arrested her in “A Quality of Mercy”, and prosecuted criminal charges against her based solely on her species in “Ad Astra per Aspera”.

Yeah, Una’s attitude towards Starfleet in general and Batel in particular does seem a bit unrealistic. Does she respect duty above everything? Can’t be that, because then she’d never have let Pike cover for her!