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lightofdayeSo I was away when 3x6 came out and given I was feeling pretty unhappy with the first half of the series it's taken me this long to get caught up. Reviews for episodes 6 and 7.
3x6 The Sehlet That Ate Its Tale
Now, I'm not sure if my on going disillusionment with SNW is causing me to underrate this or whether it didn't click with me.
But… I didn't need a Kirk episode. Sure, it's Kirk on the Farragut and the weirdness is getting the Ent crew to him rather than him going to the Enterprise.
It's a reasonably adept tale. Kirk learns about command, everyone else gets some action-adventure to play with. We learn the Enterprise has… no hardlines at all? That one was a little weird.
There's a twist, Pike and Kirk muse about morality. End credits.
It's fine. I just want SNW to be it's own thing and not a TOS prequel. This one epecially. Bascially all the TOS crew know Pike now, here Kirk's getting Captain lessons for him but in Menagerie they'll be like all 'Spock, who's this beepy chair guy and why do you care?'. Ugh.
I did like that they have Kirk muse why it should matter more to him that they're human but the whole twist does revolved around that it does.
Finally, a good point. I don't know if it was just me imagining or if there was some subtly acting between Kirk, La'An, Spock. That Kirk was close to her but that's slight awkward because she's with spock. Luckily the episode didn't make the tension explicit once again. So kudos to it for that.
What is starfleet?
Other shows have done episodes like this before but it's a new one for Trek I think. I'm not sure how I feel on it. They have Beto ask all these deep searching questions but the Enterprise is on apparently unprecedentedly dodgy mission to make it work.
A minor nitpick: Those Stats for the Connies are not the ones that used to be put about for TOS that I recall.
I just have a hard time believing it when Beto tries to say there's no difference between the Federation and the Empire. I know it's been said before and there's the whole soft power Root Beer thing in DS9 but that had at least some… subtlety to it.
The same lack of subtlety in Uhura just monologuing Beto's issues to him.
Did they think they said… *something* here? That answer… was not an answer at all. It was sentimental tripe.
3x6 The Sehlet That Ate Its Tale
Now, I'm not sure if my on going disillusionment with SNW is causing me to underrate this or whether it didn't click with me.
But… I didn't need a Kirk episode. Sure, it's Kirk on the Farragut and the weirdness is getting the Ent crew to him rather than him going to the Enterprise.
It's a reasonably adept tale. Kirk learns about command, everyone else gets some action-adventure to play with. We learn the Enterprise has… no hardlines at all? That one was a little weird.
There's a twist, Pike and Kirk muse about morality. End credits.
It's fine. I just want SNW to be it's own thing and not a TOS prequel. This one epecially. Bascially all the TOS crew know Pike now, here Kirk's getting Captain lessons for him but in Menagerie they'll be like all 'Spock, who's this beepy chair guy and why do you care?'. Ugh.
I did like that they have Kirk muse why it should matter more to him that they're human but the whole twist does revolved around that it does.
Finally, a good point. I don't know if it was just me imagining or if there was some subtly acting between Kirk, La'An, Spock. That Kirk was close to her but that's slight awkward because she's with spock. Luckily the episode didn't make the tension explicit once again. So kudos to it for that.
What is starfleet?
Other shows have done episodes like this before but it's a new one for Trek I think. I'm not sure how I feel on it. They have Beto ask all these deep searching questions but the Enterprise is on apparently unprecedentedly dodgy mission to make it work.
A minor nitpick: Those Stats for the Connies are not the ones that used to be put about for TOS that I recall.
I just have a hard time believing it when Beto tries to say there's no difference between the Federation and the Empire. I know it's been said before and there's the whole soft power Root Beer thing in DS9 but that had at least some… subtlety to it.
The same lack of subtlety in Uhura just monologuing Beto's issues to him.
Did they think they said… *something* here? That answer… was not an answer at all. It was sentimental tripe.
