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Glad to see Caleb hit paydirt on finding his mum. But... are we sure he's a genius if he never thought to try that moon's name as an encryption cypher? Maybe I'm expecting too much of people in a future burdened by a thousand years of cognitive debt from "AI" use.
I finally, completely bought the Caleb/Tarima romance when they cut the coy quippage and he simply told her she was like music to him. There was more raw, naked acting in that exchange than in their sex scene together.
You can tell a month has gone by from the length of Vance's beard. Nice touch, implying he's been too busy tracking down Braka to groom himself.
Suddenly, Ake and Kelrec seem direly unsuited for their jobs. "Oh hey, is that planet in the Federation now? You know the one, what's it called?" Come on, I'm pretty sure you expect your cadets to know that from day one!
Not sure how I feel about the Omega-47 threat. First, I'm sort of disappointed that Starfleet has been developing that kind of WMD. Boo, Science Division!
Second, it feels a bit like a retread of The Burn, at least in the way it leaves warp travel obsolete, if only locally. It's more of a threat to the franchise's premise than to the peoples inhabiting the fiction, you know?
But generally speaking, I actually liked this episode. Any last-but-one episode will be saddled with a lot of setup for the season finale, but it was pretty fun and organic how SAM, Genesis and Darem were drawn into Caleb's mad dash rescue attempt. SAM's personality changes could have used some more space to be explored, hopefully we'll see more of that next week.
It's fairly impressive that over the course of 8-9 episodes, the cadets' relationships have solidified to a degree that Caleb wanting to rejoin his mum over staying with his friends felt like a real betrayal. And his teardown of Darem and Genesis even more so. That was brutal.
I was more sorry to see Jay-Den and Tarima sidelined as this episode progressed, but I assume they're let out of Ake's office to join the action eventually. Holy shit, wait. Ake's office is in the saucer section, right?
Edited to add: I think I'm going to enjoy rewatching the scenes from the Ukeck market. I only caught a Ferengi or two at first glance, but there has to be other familiar aliens, right?
I can't believe it took Starfleet that long to figure out what Nustopher took. Do they not have inventory in the future?!?!
I'm pretty sure Caleb didn't mean the things he said to Darem and Genesis. He was trying to convince them (and himself) to leave. That's why Sam said he's full of shit.
They would have, but I guess this was so secret it took a while to cut through confidentiality and disclosure red tape? Clearly, the real processing time fact was to push the release into this episode.
For sure. But they're still true, or at least speaking to some true fears of theirs. SAM saw right through him, of course.
I assume Nus blew up a bunch of stuff at the base and took a while to figure out what was missing vs destroyed.
It whizzed by pretty fast, but they did say it's something he used to try pretty often, and eventually gave up on, and started concentrating on more complicated, "adult" searches. I kind of like that.
It did stand out, especially when the planet in question is friggin' ~~Vulcan~~ Ni'Var. I assume that's some exposition for the newbies that will become relevant in the finale, but it was definitely odd.
I'm definitely more attached to these kids than I expected. And Tatiana Maslany is talented enough that her sudden-but-inevitable betral next week is going to be a real gut punch.
All in all, I agree that it's a pretty good table-setting episode.
...but not at all for at least two years? Because that was the cache of messages from his mum. It feels odd, but it's probably best not to think too hard about it.
This ep had some rough spots, like a concert where you can hear the orchestra is still tuning their instruments before they get started for real. I'm pretty excited for the symphony.
My memory is hazy, but I think there was an, "I stopped trying after _____ happened" line. For the life of me I can't think of what it was, and it's possible that I hallucinated it.
My recollection is that he said, “I stopped trying after that one after she escaped from the penal colony.”
Doing my rewatch now, and you're correct. So it serves as an indicator that he's changed as he's grown up (and it's not actually related to Anisha breaking out of prison, since he didn't learn of that until months later), and also that she doesn't expect him to have changed.
Good point. There are repetitive signals that her expectation is that he hasn’t materially changed.
Beyond the ‘you grew up’ startlement at his physical growth and development, she expects his temperament, preferences ambitions and values are exactly the ones she saw in him at six years old.
She’s not just missed the past year as a cadet in Starfleet, they both have missed his entire adolescent experience of youth separating themselves from their parents.
Interestingly, the challenge of needing to catch up with who someone has changed into is foreshadowed by Caleb and the others’ difficulties in understanding who SAM is now - and her own struggles to reconcile who she was with who she is.
Very good points, both of you. Especially the reflection of Caleb's and SAM's experiences. One hasn't seen his mum in 16 years, the other grew up with only her dad* for 17 years. Clever juxtaposition, that.
There's a Lurian (Morn's species)!
Is it just me, or did the reuse some of the sets or set dressings from Picard season three and Discovery seasons one and three?
We hear that the production packs things up and puts them in storage as much as reasonably possible.
The market looked very familiar, I did think it might be the same place Worf carried out his Wednesday beheading!
Believable. The cadet quarters of the 32nd century are redressed sets from Strange New Worlds, and thats like 1000 years earlier.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least that "alien marketplace" is just set pieces they drag out of storage every few months.
When asked in the TrekMovie interview about the similarities to Matalas Prime in Picard, Jonathan Frakes said that most of it was the virtual set volume but they reused set pieces within it.