Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Discussion / Review
Star Trek: From the Holodeck is a fan broadcast dedicated to breaking down, analyzing and discussing all things Star Trek.
This week Mike and Dave discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.06 ‘Life Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach’.
Topics Discussed:
- This episode explores the nuances of moral relativism vs moral objectivism
- Also, the idea of “The Needs of the Many, outweigh the needs of the few; or the one”, is somewhat based on the idea of utilitarianism
- This theory can be applied to justify the fate of the Majalan children that are plugged into a machine that keeps their planet habitable
- This episode revolves around Pike and uses his existential crisis as a way to shape the narrative
- and more
- The parallels between SNW’s episode and the TNG episode titled ‘Half a Life’
- The visuals of this episode were some of the best thus far — the VFX team on this show is really capitalizing on the technology available
- And more
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