Logline
When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers
Directed by Maja Vrvilo
When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers
Directed by Maja Vrvilo
At a minimum the script editor should have asked the writers hard questions about the Chapel and Batel subplots to justify their inclusion.
I would have dropped the two subplots and used the screen time on La’an who was strangely reduced to giving color commentary for an episode that she should have been front and center on.
Yea generally, with S2 at least, there’s been a strange amount of not using the main cast. With Pike it seems to be attributable to paternity leave. Still, it has been to the detriment of the season, with the ending scene hanging on his apparent indecisiveness being a callback to the finale of S1 and the differences between him and Kirk … and it not really landing because it’s under-developed arc.
Beyond that, a good amount of room has clearly been made for TOS prequel work (Kirk and Scotty now), which IMO is structurally problematic but also just detracts from the main cast. Ortega, La’an, Una even, have been too easily put into the background for my liking, especially for a 10 episode per season format.
I’m just sitting here biting my nails wondering if they’re going to kill Pelia now so they can make Scotty chief engineer as fast as possible.
Given Pelia took a leave (ran away) from her post at the Academy to have a bit of fun and replace her deceased student Hemmer, she may be more than happy to leave Scotty with the ship once she’s put him through her paces.
I would like to see at least one episode where she gets more of a guest star featured turn though.