Why did they bother introducing the Athena’s bridge crew if they’re not going to use them?
Alex Kurtzman has said on a couple of occasions that this series is less expensive to produce that you might imagine, and I do think there have been a handful of moments throughout the season that seemed like cost-cutting measures. This was definitely one of them.
But… are we sure he’s a genius if he never thought to try that moon’s name as an encryption cypher?
It whizzed by pretty fast, but they did say it's something he used to try pretty often, and eventually gave up on, and started concentrating on more complicated, "adult" searches. I kind of like that.
“Oh hey, is that planet in the Federation now? You know the one, what’s it called?”
It did stand out, especially when the planet in question is friggin' ~~Vulcan~~ Ni'Var. I assume that's some exposition for the newbies that will become relevant in the finale, but it was definitely odd.
Caleb wanting to rejoin his mum over staying with his friends felt like a real betrayal. And his teardown of Darem and Genesis even more so. That was brutal.
I'm definitely more attached to these kids than I expected. And Tatiana Maslany is talented enough that her sudden-but-inevitable betral next week is going to be a real gut punch.
All in all, I agree that it's a pretty good table-setting episode.
May the rest of the galaxy have your healthy perspective.
I think they've managed to strike a balance with the new shows so far - each one of them feels unique enough that I don't necessarily feel any fatigue.
That's circular reasoning, though.
The fact that Alcubierre was inspired by Star Trek to come up with something (theoretically) workable does not mean that the warp drive as originally conceived was somehow "grounded in physics." At the end of the day, the similarities are pretty superficial.
Alcubierre’s theoretical proof of concept for warp drives was created in the mid 1990s nearly 30 years after TOS first broadcast and TNG had completed its run.
Probably the most salient point - one cannot credibly claim that the warp drive was "based on science" that hadn't yet been published, and wouldn't be for three decades.
I said nothing of the sort.
Star Trek's warp drive isn't really an Alcubierre drive at all.
they dont however operate in a separate space outside of normal reality
Well, that would be difficult to prove one way or the other.
But since we've already got the fictional construct of subspace, the notion of a mycelial species that can extend through it seems...within the realm of truthiness, all things considered.
The part I've never fully grasped is how one travels along the network, but then, I've never fully grasped how the warp coils are supposed to work, either.
Well, it's not closed closed, as far as we know. But filming on SFA is done, and there's nothing active until we hear something about a renewal.
SNW filmed at a different Toronto-area studio that CBS owns directly, but obviously there's no current Trek production there, either.
Oh neat, the cookbook! We did an AMA with Chelsea Monroe-Cassel back in the Reddit days. She seemed cool.
I vaguely remember owning Best Destiny when I was a kid - that sucker was first published in 1992.
I found The Enterprise War tough to get in to, but once I did, I enjoyed it.
My memory is hazy, but I think there was an, "I stopped trying after _____ happened" line. For the life of me I can't think of what it was, and it's possible that I hallucinated it.