Tom Gillispie: July 2023

Saturday, July 29, 2023

DARK EPISODE 8

I've enjoyed six episodes of Strange New Worlds season 2, but episode 8, Under the Cloak of War is not one of them. In fact, it's the second Klingon episode I didn't like.

The worst thing about the episode is there there about four or five crew members who are still suffering after the Klingon war, and Captain Pike still wants them to go to a dinner for the Klingon Butcher. They did it for dramatic effect, but Pike would have not put them near the Klingon.

The episode reminds me a bit of a Deep Space Nine episode of a former Cardassian clerk who had surgery to make himself look like a famous Cardassian bad guy. Kera Nerys hates him most of the episode; then he's assassinated, and she falls to her knees and mourns. This SNW episode is attacking this from the opposite perspective.

Some people will say this is the greatest Star Trek episode ever; I won't.

I guess I like a kinder, gentler version of Star Trek; I suspect I'll skip the Gorn episode to end the season.

I will say, though, that I was impressed with Robert Wisdom, the actor who played the Klingon.

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CARTOONY EPISODE 7

I was leery going into the seventh episode of Strange New Worlds, season 2. I feared that I would hate it, and I wound up loving every minute of it. That's the first episode I can say that about since the series pilot.

I liked the way the future kids reacted to them, the way one of them had a poster of Una on his wall back in the future. And the best part may have been when the Enterprise crew wound up in cartoon form.

Actually, the best was then Pike said he'd give the Orions credit for discovering the portal. The Orion captain said: "That's all I've ever wanted." Perfect.

I just watched the lead-in again, and the portal WASN'T the Guardian of Forever.

PS: I didn't realize why they called the episode "Those Old Scientists." I assume it was their take on TOS, The Original Series.

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