Logline
La’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy.
Written by David Reed
Directed by Amanda Row
Note: This is a second attempt, as technical difficulties were preventing people from seeing the original discussion post. Apologies to the people who were able to comment in the original.
I must be of the silent minority or something, but I really disliked the amount of advertising was done in this episode. I don’t think I can remember this ever happening in trek before, but yeah. Not for me. Also, while I enjoyed that Kirk used chess to make money, the music choice ugh. What happened?
It’s fine, I don’t hate the show, just didn’t like this episode and really it’s a skip for me. Doesn’t add enough to anything to be a required watch as part of a rewatch.
I enjoyed the episode a lot, but I do agree about the product placement. It really was unnecessary and jarring.
@lwaxana_katana @CCatMan
Heh… I didn’t notice the product placement at all. I’ll have to watch again and see what y’all are talking about.
I’m pretty agnostic regarding brands. It just doesn’t register to me, and advertisements usually disappear as background noise. If there’s a can of Coke™ on the table, I don’t usually recognize it as a proprietary brand, and translate it to “soda”.
The mentioning of DuckDuckGo seemed weird/misplaced
And the Apple store and the framing of the Dodge Charger.
The bright red Charger did feel like a very Kirk car to steal while trying to remain subtle.
@triktrek
Perhaps. DDG is kind of a clumsy name, and it’s hard to say without throwing a bunch of rocks in the speech machine. I’ll have to watch that part again to get the exact phrasing/context. Maybe a generic “search” would have worked better, but I’m generally ok with not giving google any more mindshare.