05-01-2021, 09:31 AM
Morning after note on e7 - this was a pivotal ep because it solved one of the primary missions of s4 but it was a little anticlimactic. There were numerous plot points orchestrated to give trekkers the feels but none of them hit home for me personally, although I appreciated the attempt from a detached point of view. The Vulcan/Romulan ritual might have been better served, more Amok Time-esque beyond just the gong and torches. It was a great opportunity for some deep dive Easter eggs. Maybe I just missed them.
I had coffee late in the day so I was up late and wound up watching 'The Cage' ST: TOS. That is truly a brilliantly written episode, and the redux as 'The Menagerie' was an even more brilliant bit of recycling. The new digital Enterprise graphics don't mesh with the early sets, phasers and communicators. Given the arc of Pike now with Strange New Worlds on the (event) horizon, that Captain has had the weirdest career in Starfleet ever. Thanks to Disco, Pike knows what no Captain has known before...how it ends. And Pike's ending is poignant.
I had coffee late in the day so I was up late and wound up watching 'The Cage' ST: TOS. That is truly a brilliantly written episode, and the redux as 'The Menagerie' was an even more brilliant bit of recycling. The new digital Enterprise graphics don't mesh with the early sets, phasers and communicators. Given the arc of Pike now with Strange New Worlds on the (event) horizon, that Captain has had the weirdest career in Starfleet ever. Thanks to Disco, Pike knows what no Captain has known before...how it ends. And Pike's ending is poignant.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse