PIKE's Past & Memory Loss - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Ep 4 - Review
The fourth episode of the second season of Strange New Worlds takes us back to The Cage, the first pilot for Star Trek.
We get to know more about the Kalar, a primitive humanoid species that we glimpsed in The Cage. It turns out that one of the three crewmen who were killed in the first encounter with the Kalar is alive and running the planet. And he's equipped the natives with phaser rifles.
I won't got into details -- you can watch the show -- but I'll say that it was a suspenseful episode with the away team and the ship's crew all facing imprisonment or death.
The loss of memory in this episode reminds me of This Side of Paradise from The Original Series (Spock falling in love with Jill Ireland) and Twilight, the episode of Enterprise where Archer keeps forgetting the past.
I did feel they got out of their predicament easier than I would have thought; you'd at least expect them to have to fight their way out of the palace.
This episode was partly a Christopher Pike episode and partly a Lieutenant Ortegas episode, which is a good thing. I like both.
I did like the scene near the end where Pike apologizes to his erstwhile girlfriend (Capt. Patel, the captain of another ship) and they make up. Apologizing often can be harder than fighting.
So far, I've enjoyed the last three episodes.
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