Uhura commands to shut down the station | Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 6

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[@captainexistence]

Uhura finally getting closure and coming to terms with losing Hemmer. Their connection on screen was undeniable. Such a bittersweet goodbye when Hemmer smiles to her 🥹

[@danieldickson8591]

Now that was a respectable volley of photon torpedoes. 👍

[@FrakkinGaiusBaltar]

Aw man I want Hemmer back

[@Mandelbrotmat]

you and AMERICA, buddy

[@captainr800]

His dead Jim! on a serious note his character was interesting and well done.

[@gabelogan5877]

This episode was definitely an apology for the way Hemmer was abruptly killed last season

[@andytay5507]

Yes, please!

[@snakeeyes20a]

@@andytay5507..?........?....?

[@tomwheeler2012]

Pike is the best Captain because he always says that it was done on his orders and he will take responsibility for blowback from starfleet (star trek doesnt focus on bureaucracy but you know its there and you know even in the future destroying something of value especially since senior starfleet admirals are worried about war with Romulans. Destroying a refinery as war approaches wouldnt go over with a slap on the wrist).

[@suzygirl1843]

Like Nelson Mandela says, "A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."

[@captainr800]

It’s not the Romulans, it’s the Gorn who are near by and starting to attack federation colonies.

[@Ares99999]

Huh. Kirk, Sisko, Picard, they also take responsibility.

[@astralclub5964]

I was in the US Air Force as an officer. Any good leader knows the responsibility for all decisions are theirs. All praise goes to your subordinates. You take any necessary flack as the officer.

[@randomrazr]

man love the TOS torpedo sound

[@andytay5507]

'Captain' Ohura to the rescue!

[@kev30631]

Carol Kane was a standout in this. She stole this. Shes got a ton of charm , charisma, likability She becoming one of my favorite characters in the show.

[@randomrazr]

still prefer the uhura from kelvin ;)

[@suzygirl1843]

@@randomrazr Who is Carol Kane, and what is Kelvin?

[@MrKDW1]

@@suzygirl1843 Carol Kane is the actress who plays Pelia (chief engineer) who was introduced in the season 2 premiere of SNW. Kelvin is the alternate timeline used for the last 3 movies (Star Trek, Into Darkness, Beyond).

[@danieldickson8591]

Honestly, I miss Hemmer. Really interesting alien with a ton of potential, gone too soon. And I get irritated with so many alien species who look so much like Humans they can just blend in.

[@suzygirl1843]

@@danieldickson8591 It's expensive to do his makeup everyday. Saru makes sense because that actor basically plays in prosthetics ALL the time. It's the main reason he gets hired.

[@van76]

So this is in line when Kirk stated that he and Pike met when Pike was promoted to Fleet Captain. I thought they’d meet when Kirk becomes Enterprise captain and that Pike gets promoted to Fleet Captain at the same time.

[@ZJBorg]

It’s never specifically stated in that TOS episode that it happened that way. Heck the way Kirk talks to him in Menagerie, on first name basis, you get the feeling they’d had some relationship/casual friendship. And Pike likely wouldn’t have handed command of his ship over to someone he didn’t know or trust. Now we know after the season 1 finale that Pike knows Kirk will likely succeed him.

[@Icybubba]

This way makes more since, let Pike and Kirk have a relationship so Pike can be the one to select or at least recommend Kirk for the job as his replacement

[@kehreazerith3016]

I feel like they should have given us an explanation or a scene with him talking to command about blowing up the station, I felt that it was a bit too rushed near the end. I'm sure blowing up a super project would result in some phone calls from the guys at the top

[@andyt2k]

Not if there's an imminent risk to life

[@aironwhite6533]

@@andyt2k Very true. So far the aliens were trying to communicate the danger to them selves and what was happening to them. The death caused in the receiving of the message was unintentional and not offensive. No telling what offensive options they could have turned to if after the message was understood that the crew knowingly continued to kill them. They were holding back the offensive options trying to communicate peacefully first.

[@danieldickson8591]

This is from the era in Trek when "subspace radio" transmissions across known space can take a while. There probably wasn't time for a consultation with higher authority.

[@aironwhite6533]

@@danieldickson8591 Joathan archer was able to communicate over subspace. also Laan was able to send a message in episode 2 this season.

[@al28854]

interesting to know that the 'weapons station console is located at the 7/8 o'clock position of the bridge for the P. Torpedo's. I just assumed it was stationed with a 'natural' full peripheral of the main forward view screen.

[@AlternicityBlogspot]

In Wrath of Khan Chekhov controls them from one of the forward consoles.

[@davidkaminski615]

If I remember right, most of the TOS fire control was done by the helmsman (complete with little pop-up scanner). La'an is the security officer, so it would make sense that she also has a control for weapons. A targeting scanner would have a separate display than the main viewer, so seeing "out" is not necessary.

[@rossroys]

Stefan made it to space 😂

[@AndyCutright]

I love how the emergency shutdown procedures don't work on a newly commissioned mining station.

[@tomwheeler2012]

more bad writing

[@stars9084]

Considering that the whole reason they were there was that the station had been sabotaged and things kept breaking down as a result, it makes sense

[@TherealTexasghosthunters]

It was sabotaged

[@victorpradha9946]

@@tomwheeler2012 More lame nitpicking...the station was repeatedly experiencing inexplicable (and later explained as sabotage) breakdowns and equipment failures. It's no giant leap that the operations systems would experience catastrophic failures as a result of these repeated instances of sabotage.

[@captainr800]

@tomwheeler2012 Ramon sabotage the station which got reported to Una by the chief engineer of the Enterprise and than later he blow up the nacelle of the enterprise.

[@bradsmith9526]

What is the use of a chain of ciommand

[@tinman3586]

She's not "commanding" anything as she doesn't have that authority. "Pleading" is the correct word here.

[@easyalpha1]

Nice to see Laan on the trigger....

[@LeePresson]

Where are the triangular sideburns?! This can't be Trek without triangular sideburns.

[@EngPheniks]

I've always been a devout fan of Star Trek TOS and apart from it, I'm not interested in other series such as TNG, DS9, Voyager, the Kelvin Timeline etc. But SNW is something.

[@frakmaster69master11]

When did Pike start wearing the badge with the black circle?

[@josephbarkemeyer3277]

He started wearing it this episode he was promoted to fleet captain

[@gabelogan5877]

The writers are trying (in this instant only) to remain faithful to canon. Kirk said he met Pike when he was Fleet Captain. the insignia denotes that rank. I'm assuming he'll go back to his regular rank since the station is destroyed

[@CaptainPositron]

They couldn't just manually turn the thing off? It doesn't have an off switch to flip, or a plug to pull of any kind? As Deadpool would say: "That's just lazy writing."

[@gabelogan5877]

I dont know how i feel about Pike taking the word of a possible psychotic Ensign to destroy an expensive and invaluable fuel station. Either he's insane or he's a great leader that knows when to trust his subordinates.

[@prashank]

there was plenty of evidence of something weird going on and not just a psychotic ensign

[@wendyheatherwood]

If she's wrong and they destroy the station, all that's lost is equipment. If she's right and they do nothing, they're committing genocide.

[@gabelogan5877]

@@wendyheatherwood 🙄

[@JOESMITH-qs8ue]

it's bad writing of nu trek. Goes with modern message that the mentally ill should be believed and trusted.

[@gabelogan5877]

@@JOESMITH-qs8ue you need help dude. blocked and muted

[@Texasjim2007]

"They laughed at Edison...they laughed at Einstein...but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan. The complete lack of any skepticism by not only Pike but James T. Kirk about Uhuru's idea they needed to blow up the refinery because the voices in her head said that's what they need to do... which actually if you look at her visions was a bit of logical stretch as an interpretation to be honest because it could also be just Uhuru having a hallucination caused by a similar brain malfunction to Crazy Ramon that staying in the nebula was going to drive some people with unexplained vulnerability to it to go insane and become violent suicidal ecoterrorists... is something I would think any rational person would want some sort of evidence for beyond just somebody having personal visions of invisible beings like Tituba in the Salem Witch Trials which even if they existed there was no real evidence of anything but hostility from before destroying a strategically important refueling station needed to protect them from the very real Gorn threat. The very similar episode about the silicon creature Horta was done much better with Spock mind melding with the very real creature to understand its concerns well enough to negotiate a mutually acceptable solution for everybody. Pike's blind acceptance of whatever Uhuru said makes him look like an idiot and Kirk blindly accepting whatever she said is just totally out of character for him. James T. "Why does God need a starship?" Kirk? No. I don't see it. Gullibility is not Jim Kirk.

[@kabobawsome]

​Like Pike says, at the end of the day, they can build a new refueling station. You can't unkill something, even in Star Trek (most of the time), and this would be genocide on a scale unimaginable, if true. It makes perfect sense that Starfleet's (intended to be a peaceful exploration initiative) first action would be to prevent the potential death FIRST and then investigate further to confirm their findings.

[@Texasjim2007]

​@@kabobawsome Blowing up the station was not necessary. I could buy shutting it down based on less evidence than a couple people (one of whom was a suicidal terrorist) claiming a Planned Parenthood facility was committing genocide against future Black people until Star Fleet could use its super science to investigate the claim in more detail to determine its validity but since not having a strategically close refueling station to support the defense of a whole planet full of human beings from becoming victims of genocide by the Gorn Hegemony seems to be why they can't get enough starships to stop the season cliff hanger from happening the issue is not really that clear cut. It's basically increasing the risk of a far more probable genocide in order to further study a possible genocide that realistically might just be the mental illness of a couple people just having hallucinations... even if one of them is Uhuru whom we want to believe as fans.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

Someone needs to do a 15-6 Investigation on this . . . .

[@MbisonBalrog]

They ripped this off an episode of VOY starring Bosch (Titus Welliver)

[@hippusmaximus9319]

You could also say this was a rip off of the TNG episode "Home Soil" when we were called "UgLy bAgS oF mOsTlY waTer" by tiny crystals. I wonder if they were related to the Crystalline Entity (lol).

[@AzguardMike]

@@hippusmaximus9319 and Doctor Who, Voyager, Farscape .....

[@bradsmith9526]

Give uhura a field commision to captain, you cant write stories like these.

[@AlternicityBlogspot]

Well written character in this but such a let down after Saldana.

[@astrofan1993]

I don't know if anyone else made the connection, but the idea of stellar material being a sentient lifeform--and harvesting it caused the lifeform pain--was already done in an episode of Doctor Who (the Series 3 episode "42," starring the Tenth Doctor). Did anyone else notice that, or was it just me?

[@AzguardMike]

And Voyager did it too in Season 1

[@astrofan1993]

@@AzguardMike Honestly, I haven't watched much of VOY. My preferred series is DS9. I might have to go back and watch the rest of VOY when I get the chance.

[@Steve-gc5nt]

But it's Dr Who so nobody cares.

[@johnnelson7192]

Ya sorry but no way its that big. Look at how little it make the farrogett

[@purefoldnz3070]

new trek is all flash and no substance

[@CoolsBreeze]

There's way too much of Kirk in this series. It's supposed to be about Pike and his time.

[@ZJBorg]

He will have been in three of the 20 episodes by seasons end and he’s never been the specific focus of those episodes (Pike, La’an and Uhura were). This series is about Pike but it’s also building toward the moment he transfers command. They’re inevitably going to introduce more TOS characters (McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, etc). But with Kirk in particular it makes sense that he starts to show up and develop a relationship with people because it’s highly unlikely Pike would let command of his ship be given to someone he didn’t know or trust and sign off on.

[@CoolsBreeze]

​@@ZJBorg It's a show about Pike. Not about Kirk's relationship with TOS crew. We've only had one season where it was solely about Pike and his adventures. If this is going to be a show about Kirk's relationship with the TOS crew that's fine but then don't call it Strange New Worlds anymore, call it a new show. And the episodes with Kirk in this season have barely had any scenes with Pike so I don't know where you think Pike is a focus.

[@ZJBorg]

@@CoolsBreeze Pike was the focus of the first Kirk episode, Quality of Mercy. This past episode was clearly focused on Uhura and the time travel episode focused on La’an. In none of these episodes is Kirk the lead protagonist. He’s a supporting character. That’s the way they should be approaching it now. I understand what you’re getting at in wanting this to be a Pike only show but the moment they included Uhura, Chapel and M’Benga and even Sam Kirk, characters from TOS who weren’t in the Cage as Spock was, they also started to establish the roots for that series. It is a prequel after all. They do have to start moving the chess pieces around a bit so to speak. We know the series will end with Pike handing command off to Kirk and moving on to meet his fate. I the shows timeline that’s about six years away. It makes little sense that, practically or in the story, that Pike would give command of his old ship to someone he didn’t know and have trust in. Kirk was bound to show up in this series and frankly there’s a chance to develop his character more since his history prior to becoming Captain was never really touched on.

[@CoolsBreeze]

@@ZJBorg Having him as a supporting character in a show about Pike is still too much. We're still close to ten years away from when Kirk takes over on a show about Pike and his crew. IF this is a show about Kirk coming onto the Enterprise then it's not Strange New Worlds. I'll agree to disagree on this issue with you. Because we're not going to see eye to eye on this. You seem to be okay with the amount of Kirk in a show about Pike and his crew and I'm not.

[@thomasmohr6743]

Canon be damned

[@TherealTexasghosthunters]

It’s a alternate timeline

[@mcrvids6860]

Canon seems to have been upheld.

[@mattb6369]

There's a technicality at play here. The Original Series established Kirk met Pike when the latter was promoted to Fleet Captain, this happens in this episode, canon is fine. Clearly the writers decided for this not to happen later when Chris hands off command to Jim, that way we don't have to awkwardly avoid them meeting for several seasons like Anakin and Grievous in The Clone Wars.

[@1bulma1]

uhura is miscast. uhura is meant to be a very beautiful and physically attractive woman.

[@arlipscomb]

Yea you can just blow up something that cost a fortune to build because you are the captain of a ship and someone is seeing ghosts. It is sad that the writers cannot find a decent story to tell.

[@forrestpenrod2294]

He had the authority to decide. Since we know Uhura was telling the truth it, as the episode repeatedly proved the patterns of what she supposed was happening, it was obviously the right call. Pike says he's going to tank the blowback, presumably until the alien lifeforms are better observed.

[@lionsjourney29]

​@forrestpenrod2294 in the Tribble episode they make it clear starfleet gives captains alot of authority over federation matters in deep space. Yeeeea star fleet is weird. A political, diplomatic, sheriff space exploring quasi militaristic ill go ape shit if you invade force

[@timbrown6599]

Ghosts? You mean like worrying about a show that isn't even real?

[@hippusmaximus9319]

Maybe Pike DGAF since he'll end up in a wheezing wheelchair in about six years.

[@jordanreed3675]

@@lionsjourney29I think because subspace communication isn’t that great over long distances yet so it would be hours or been days sometimes for Starfleet command to send a reply like in the TOS episode “A Balance of Terror” it took Starfleet until the end of the episode to respond to Kirk’s communiqué’s

[@excalibor2201]

6 episodes, 6 chick flicks - who are the writers here - do they hate men. Too much emotional drama, the show(captain) needs a testosterone shot.

[@tomv5988]

I guess the writers wanted to give the actresses equal footing?

[@AzguardMike]

episodes of La'an listing after Kirk, of the trans nurse Chambers whoring itself out (and if its a real woman, yikes!), buzcut feminist and la'an flirting, and now letting someone who looks and is acting like a mentally ill schizo blow up a space station "because the voices in my head told me to!" Bad. VERY bad.

[@will12972]

That thing is not uhura

[@AzguardMike]

so in 5 years she is going to grow 2ft, loose about 80 pounds, grow hair since this ones a slap head, and her skin tone will lighten in places.

[@NantesdeAbreu]

NewTrek and their boring 'running trough the corridor' scene.

[@Scipio488]

LMAO, right, there are certainly none of THOSE in TOS!

[@NantesdeAbreu]

@@Scipio488 Pike's room is bigger than the entire bridge of the original series.

[@rl-cx6kf]

In every version of Trek since TOS, there has ALWAYS been running through corridors. Relax, Canon Boy. Yeah, it all looks different, we know. Fans know how to sit back & enjoy strong writing & not sweat the size of a ready room.

[@HepCatJack]

@@rl-cx6kf the original design of the Enterprise was entirely without corridors because they could just beam to where they needed to be, then Roddenbery decided scenes with people running through corridors were needed.