Logline
A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman
Directed by Chris Fisher
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I really enjoyed this one. It felt fun. Who doesn’t love a good “steal the Enterprise” plot?
They’re clearly gonna push the Chapel/Spock ship. I’m broadly fine with this but I do wonder how they will reconcile it with canon Spock/Chapel (or if they’ll just abandon it - which I’m also fine with).
I don’t really have an issue with the green super drug. I hope we get to hear more about their time together during the Klingon War. Guessing we will based on this. But it was a cool sequence and I’m good with it.
I’m curious if that fake Federation ship was a variant of the Crossfield or just something cobbled together by those folks. I imagine we’ll get some clarification from the design people at some point.
Loving the current Klingon design. I didn’t really mind the Disco re-imagining but this feels like a good compromise. And that Spock made peace over bloodwine. And ended up with a hangover.
And, for me, I’m fine with The Joke. I like Ortegas’ and the background that some Captain says “Zoom!” Spock’s left a bit to be desired, but I laughed.
I woulda liked “four nostrils, but otherwise the TNG design” to become the standard.
@LibraryLass The Klingons are supposed to have an empire, right? Trek never really explores this. Why should there only be one type of Klingon?
“Empire” generally implies “imperialism” which generally implies a racial hierarchy. Or at least that’s one argument.