Naveen Andrews is doing a great job with Khan sounding very charismatic.
Not to throw shade at Andrews, but I do kind of wish maybe they got Earl Boen who can do a very good sound alike to Ricardo Montalban. Boen filled in for Montalban as Señor Senior Sr. in Kim Possible, and sounded really spot on.
But if we ever see Khan on screen again, I think Andrews would be great casting.
I think we should. Any reason to talk more about Star Trek lore is great in my book.
I personally am looking forward to the inevitable crossover episode with Strange New Worlds.
That's going to be so dope. Probably very pricy too, since license Lego products are expensive and the tariffs I've heard have even effect Lego prices.
To be fair, if you look at her quarters, she does tinker with things a lot. So it's not exactly out of left field that she might have the mechanical knowledge to tinker up some jury rigged devices.
A Darmok, The Enemy and Arena episode is not what I was expacting but I was pleasantly surprised.
I don't mind retreading old stories, after all recycling plots is a Star Trek tradition.
I'd have been happier without the reveal of the Metrons. I get it, as a callout/foreshadowing of Arena, but I kind of feel that is took away from the emotional beat of the Gorn being killed by the security team. Then to also have it handwaved away with a memory wipe, so that it is only meant for us, the viewers. I don't know man... I kind of like the deepcut, but it's also distracting.
I guess it was also a bit necessary for us to understand the Gorn a bit more to have the all seeing eye narrate to us that the Gorn pilot was lonely and is the reason Ortega was spared.
Anyway, I loved this episode. We got a whole episode for Ortega. Addressed her PTSD that had been sitting in the backseat for this entire season. And I love these kind of survival episodes. Like I really enjoyed ENT's Shuttlepod One for the same reason. Just seeing characters fighting for their lives and also accepting their death in a cold and uncaring Universe. It's good compelling Star Trek.
The only thing I wish is that SNW's best episodes didn't feel like the best of TOS.
Why wouldn’t doctor m’benga challenge their decision to remain Vulcan without checking, testing, verifying their capacity?
I totally thought that too. Clearly, their judgement has been impaired and what they want is irrelevant. But you know...sometimes you just need stuff to happen to get the plot moving.
Does that imply that Romulans augmented themselves? And that’s what distinguishes them physiologically from Vulcans, and is what makes them kinda evil?
I guess it makes some sense. They never got the teachings of Surak. So to control their emotions maybe they looked in to genetic augmentation, and it turns out, they turned evil. Which to be fair, a very common theme in Star Trek (exect when it's not).
I didn’t appreciate that despite the extra long (and extra long feeling) runtime of this one they had three of the Vulcans return to human off screen.
I feel like Pike and Uhura already had external character growth on screen to explain why it wouldn't take much convincing for them to go back. I kind of wish they showed what convinced Chapel.
But I think it makes sense to also emphasis La'an because they're trying ti build up the relationship with Spock, so they do kind of need more screen time.
I'll add my comment from the other post here too.
I also did the unthinkable, I'm listening to this podcast at 1x speed. Because I wanted to really be immersed in the story telling. I usually listen to podcasts at 1.5x or 2x, whichever allows me to consume the content quicker while understanding it.
It'll be intersting to see what hell comes from this that will inform Khan's revenge for Kirk in Wrath of Khan.