Strange New Worlds 1x06 - 'Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

I must sat great start to this episode.

There is something I have a problem with do.

I do not think the Enterprise would have cadets assigned to communication or engineering or security because it is the flagship of the fleet.

I know the Enterprise -D had Wesley but he was a child genius.

I actually thought it was pretty good - Interesting for sure

The fact the Prime Directive wasnt mentioned (or general order one) is interesting - although the more i think of it, perhaps it was correct to leave it out

It was decent - im gonna have to rewatch it - i think it still qualifies as a good episode IMHO - by my reckoning SNW is knocking it out of the park now - 6/6

Needs a rewatch though

The music in it was spot on almost movie like. In fact I think this whole episode would have made a great movie.

I liked this one. I’d say it’s ranked lowest out of the 6 so far but only cause the others were so good.

Some Thoughts…

• Pike getting some sexy time with an alien is good. He really is a throwback Captain.

• Not much for the crew to do on this one. Very centred on the Captain and M’Benga.

• I want to see his daughter cured by the end of the season, if not the next. I fear that she won’t be cured though.

• It felt like a TNG storyline but with a cruel ending that didn’t save the child. I think that helped the episode.

Echoes of some Babylon 5 technology, where we saw a lot of instances of technology merged with a sentient being.

Did they say how long each kid is hooked up for?

I was thinking it strange that for such an advanced race, their ships seemed pretty crap.

Oh and I had double dose of Lindy Booth tonight (not a bad thing), watching the new episode of The Flash before this.

Yeah i noticed that not so subtle dig. I think you could reference a lot of things too. Sending young men to war would be another analogy. If you could achieve peace and prosperity by sacrificing one child would you do that over the alternative of disease and war and social problems killing thousands of kids.

PS. Boards bouncing the screen halfway up the page while I’m trying to post something is ridiculous. Every 20-15 seconds it happens.

Weakest episode so far for me too.... But that does not mean it was a weak episode.

The kid was great. Not annoying or all "Billy-Barry 'Actually it's like this' punchable", (Actually all the actors were great). His interactions to the crew was great.

It is a classic Sci-Fi trope: The utopia based on some (functional or superstitious) sacrifice of the innocent. But again, this is not a criticism. All genre shows use the same tropes from time to time (We have already had the body-swap and possessed tropes).

They are definitely going down the line of Uhura being an all-round genius as opposed to being just a linguistic one. And that makes sense. It's 2022. Can't have her just answering the phone. (I think I may have stolen that from Galaxy Quest).

So, for me, what I mean by the "weakest" in that it wasn't a barrel of delightful laughs. But that is actually OK. This is Trek. Not a comedy show. It is great, solid old-school Trek. Again, another ball hit out of the park.

They have NAILED this show. More. More. MORE!!!!!!!

'Blunty' compares it to above episode of SG-1, in his review. At first I thought he was referring to Cassandra but that has a different plot.

Strong episode IMO More great Star Trek 🙂

My only gripe would be if the father was that set on protecting his son at all costs then telling Pike the truth earlier would surely have been the way to go?

He would have been entitled to seek asylum I would imagine.

Pike is literally in bed with the enemy though so the father probably assumed Pike would sell him out.

Only just got around to watching this now - love Ursula Le Guin, been my favorite author for 20 years, so quite happy to see a direct tribute to her here.

And another sign that there are some real sci fi fans on board the writing staff - that’s tributes to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Silent Running, and Le Guin now so far.

I think a huge part of the storytelling was keeping it to be a more faithful adaptation of Le Guin’s own story - where the nature of the paradise is irrelevant, and it’s left up to you to imagine your own version of that paradise. Whatever you imagine to be the perfect society, that’s what this place was. Was clever to use the element of ‘free from all illness’ as a way to further two other storylines too.

id have liked a greater emphasis on those who walked away though, and seeing it as a more continuous thing, or a thing that happens around each ‘ascension’. Like seeing a little scattering of ships leave the planet to go to Prospect 7, and then learning why at the same time as Pike is learning from the woman.

Yes me too. I was very dissapointed when he did not.