Logline
During the cadets’ first training mission on an abandoned ship, they encounter a dangerous new enemy. As our cadets fight for survival, Nahla must risk everything to save them by seeking help from an unexpected, untrustworthy, source.
Written by: Kenneth Lin & Kiley Rosseter
Directed by: Larry Teng
I’m not sure what type of episode I was expecting this week but it certainly wasn’t this. What a fantastic episode. Every scene with Ake and Braka was perfect. Holly Hunter did most of the acting this week with her facial expressions instead of words, but you can hear every moment.
Though I wish we would have saw her, Discovery name drop!
Oh yeah, Intrepid Class sighting! If only it hadn’t gotten its ass kicked.
I thought this was 90210 in space, according to all the haters. Can anyone tell me in which episode of 90210 the cannibals try to eat everyone?
Thought this was a fantastic episode, the setup was good with the practice mission. Not the biggest fan of another sudden ambush after the pilot episode, but I think it worked well enough. Crazy that they actually killed someone from the main supporting cast, but at least it wasn’t Kyle.
My biggest complaint were probably the action scenes. It’s just a fast blurry mess of dark to me.
Oh and I thought B’avi was called Bobby.
Personally I’d compare it to The O.C. (there are a lot of Trek connections).
Does O.C. have an episode with cannibals?
That’s why Marissa isn’t in season four.
Directly: no. By association: yes.
Malinda Clark was on a episode of Firefly, which did have cannibals.
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I loved this episode a lot. Paul Giamatti & Holly Hunter really played off of each other very well. Seeing the Vulcan B’avi (I think that’s the name it said in the show) die and also mention Spock’s famous quote was heartbreaking but well done.
I think spoiler is ok in these threads, but in any case it should be stated on the OP message to avoid confusion
spoiler is ok in these threads
This is correct - honestly, spoiler protection in the community in general is minimal, but there is none at all in these threads. I can try to add that to the post body moving forward.
I was thinking about the promotional picture for the show with all the people smiling. That was a scam to make us think that it was gonna be a cozy show, and they strike with characters death and betrayals left and right. They played us like a violin
Man, those scenes with Braka and Ake were really something. Wasn’t sure how I was going to like Giamatti in this series but I’m kinda digging him.
I think Braka and the Venari Ral are an interesting contrast to Osyraa and the Emerald Chain, which was an entirely different flavour of tyranny.
I’m starting to like the Venari Ral quite a bit actually. They seem to be more like actual mustache twirling pirates rather than a tyranical government masquerading as pirates like the chain was. I’m waiting for Calebs mom to be re-introduced as his right hand in the finale.
I am a lot more annoyed at an official Trek production using AI slop comic book art that I probably should be.
That aside, this episode didn’t do much for me. I like SFA when it’s about Academy cadets doing school stuff. I really could not care less about Captain Ake’s tragic backstory, or Nus Braka.
The comic is not “AI generated”. One of my friends reached out to the VFX supervisor for the show on Mastodon and they said the art department drew and colored it.
I think it’s also important for us to fact check things before assuming. I know “AI generated content” is being used a lot but there are designers and artists that are very much against its use.
Annotations of 1x06 are up at: https://startrek.website/post/35489042
That opening scene will be talked about a lot. But damn, that was a bleak episode.
Also, will IDW be publishing a one-shot or graphic novel of that comic?
It did look like a fun read.
Definitely a darker episode. I thought it was a bit of a mixed bag, but I enjoyed the Ake/Braka development.
I have to admit, I didn’t expect them to kill off a (guest star) cadet. Earlier in the episode, I’d been thinking about how nice it’s been that they’ve kept the supporting cast of cadets so consistent, but now we’re down one. At least we still have the Delta Swallower.
I didn’t love the basic setup - using a derelict ship that people died on as a training ground didn’t really sit well with me - but it was a decent story in that setting.
I think using a real ship with experimental tech for the drill was certainly a response to how cadets should be trained in the time of post-Burn. However the Miyazaki was a contemporary ship; why did the comic book depict TOS era uniforms? Or did I miss a detail there?
I thought about that, and concluded that the comic book probably took a lot of liberties with reality. Caleb did dismiss it as propaganda, after all.
