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 1.10 ‘A Quality of Mercy’.
Topics Discussed:
- I really appreciate what this team of writers has done with this show. They’ve managed to give this new series its own distinct feel while playing within a very small sandbox and playing tribute to what came before
- After the season finale, it’s clear that the writers and producers are carefully curating Spock’s origin story. We saw this in Discovery season 3 when we find out that Spock’s life’s work, post-Starfleet, had a massive impact on Vulcan and Romulan relations and in by default with the Federation
- …Similarly, they put the relevance of the entire universe on the backs of Kirk and Spock
- The episode served as a bit of a character study on Pike because it also worked to distinguish Pike as a captain and they did that by bringing Kirk into the episode
- The subjective experience of Pike’s existential crisis has not been eliminated but now…
- Let’s switch gears and talk about Paul Wesley’s portrayal of Kirk…
- and more
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