Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony" - eviltoast
Logline

When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.

Written by Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Maja Vrvilo

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    THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS AS I WATCH:

    • NOOO, I DON’T WANT THIS TO END!

    • Previously: The various stuff happened.

    • Oh, hey, Cayuga captains log.

    • Nice of them to have a colony modeled after an Earth town. Saves on budget.

    • “SIGNAL LOST.” In space, a dropped call can mean only one thing: Invasion.

    • Oh, we’re doing the Independence Day thing?

    • Telling a Starfleet captain to just do reconnaissance is basically telling them to go weapons free.

    • Nice little tinge of one of the TOS scores at the end of the cold open. Someone more geekier than I can probably place it.

    • If you ever feel like you are useless in life, just remember that there is a “skip intro” button during a “Space, the Final Frontier” monologue.

    • Is the “Gorn Protocol” a hand-cannon with with a diamond?

    • She flies the ship!

    • I’d like to imagine there is a deleted scene where they glue every piece of junk they have onto the shuttle.

    • If they’re going to do a “is someone still alive in the wreckage” storyline, they probably should have flip-flopped Batel and Chapel’s spots, given that we obviously know she’s going to live.

    • They keep giving Jenna Mitchell lines! FREE MITCHELL! Give that actreess a cast credit, cowards!

    • Ah, a good old fashioned beam into the sky.

    • Oh, look, a Gornzooky!

    • And… vaporized.

    • More Gornzookies!

    • Oh my god, it’s young Scotty. Hopefully this means Keenser is there. I always loved Keenser and his ability to sit on things he isn’t supposed to.

    • Doesn’t seem like Keenser is there :(

    • Of course Scotty would engineer a way to save people. He truly is a miracle worker.

    • Smashing a piece of space debris is a very… brilliant idea.

    • Pelia continuing to harass Una for her poor academics in engineering.

    • Why do I get the feeling that whatever plan Spock has to put the rockets on the hull will also allow him to check for survivors?

    • Wow, imagine that, Chapel is alive! Imagine that! Whoever would have thought! (Seriously they should have flip-flopped her and Batel if they were going to do this)

    • USE THE MORSE, CHRISTINE!

    • Oh, now she grabs the spacesuit. Although I guess she didn’t need it yet.

    • WARNING: GORNZOOKY

    • COMMAND CODE INVALID’

    • That looks like a bigger Gorn. An adult? Or at least like a teenager.

    • So incredibly Alien.

    • “GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM, YOU BITCH!”

    • Oh shit, she’s been impregnated with gornzookies. A very zombie movie trope.

    • “There’ll be time later.” Before or after you get engaged to Dr. Korby?

    • “We need to abort some Gornzookies.”

    • Yeah, Scotty would be a shitty student despite being brilliant.

    • OH FUCK THE GORN KIDNAPPED THEM

    • TO BE CONTINUED?!?!!?! Okay, who wants to drive to Hollywood and personally beat up some billionaires? I want this strike over NOW and I want a conclusion WITHIN A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF MAX!