Star Trek: Strange new worlds‘Third season had a somewhat awkward tonal thing. Across four episodes already, we have changed episode-to-episode from beautiful rough circumstances (Gorn -attack here, a zombie explosion there) to a slight carelessness (an encounter with Trelane here, a Holodeck Murder Mystery there). Even because these individual episodes did not work at all in various degrees, this back and forth only really helped make the show a little pointless. So during this week’s episode there is another darkening of light to darkness, the way it handles that darkness feels as a much more keen reminder for this season: that there may be a real cost for what the crew of the Enterprise does.
Initially, “Through the Lens of Time” sets itself up almost as if it went to the episode tonal switch of the season – taking some jump from last week’s sudden flower between the romance between Spock and La’an, the initial premise seems mature for an awkward meeting. The Enterprise Offered his services to Dr. Korby with the help of his newest archaeological discovery: a series of artifacts that led him to the place of ancient ruin, which he believes it holds the key to unlock immortality. With a nurse chapel naturally coming to help her partner, along with a young medical Ensign Gamble (irregular season 3 guest star Chris Myers) eager to go on her very first off mission–Hey, does anyone hear an alarming bell ringing into his head? -The clumsy comes in the fact that, of course, a security boss La’an and Senior Science Officer Spock will advise the landing party, which also includes the potentially closed Uhura and Beto Ortegas, officially assigned to start recording Starfleet’s propaganda propaganda propaganda.
Initially, our main quartet is in a state of “this is fine, this is okay, we are all well”, as they try to dance around the fact that Christine, La’an and Spock hardly talked to each other, as these -last two were involved. Spock makes a very specific point he holds away from the mission of Chapel and Korby, managing it from shore Enterprise With La’an while they, along with Gamble, Uhura, and Beto descend to the dam, and while it is clear, there is awkward tension in the air, it again mostly plays lightly. All participants know this is clumsy and strange, they just don’t want Say It, especially while Korby rides a lot on his mission (especially so, as he makes a point talk to Chapel about being willing to ask Starfleet for help).
Although not so wide hijinks-based as a “wedding bell blues” and “space adventure hour”, everything feels, even with the wider seriousness of the mission here-here-Star Trek Do you love it an ancient ruin of old civilization with potentially wildly advanced technology even beyond what the federation has – we are for an episode that is about Spock, Chapel, Korby, and La’an, and the first two especially, learning to work with each other professionally despite what happens between them all personally.
“Through the lens of the time” twists the knife into something almost at the moment when the landing party enters the ancient ruins, when Ensign Gamble goes over to a strange group of desert corpses in the otherwise untouched ruins (is that alarming bell) for the rest of the group, and no longer has its own, and no longer has its own, no more, and no longer has its affairs, no longer, and have no more, and have no matter, and have no more, and have no matter. still has its belonging), holds it … and it Explodessmashing and violently bursting Gamble’s eyes with it.
It is an immediate horror. The cries of poor Gamble, the white of his medical uniform stained with his own blood. They are not only burned or blinded or damaged; His eyes are LeftAnd we see the nasty scope of the holes left in his head. Suddenly, whatever frustrations or rubbing occurs with the novels involved in the remote team are through the window: Everyone inserts a step to transport a game back to Sickbay, and La’an and Spock come to the planet to at least pause, if not putting a wrap, in Korby’s mission because of the sudden danger. Everything is sidelined: these are Starfleet officers, dealing with a situation that went aside quickly.
Well … Mostly. Things naturally immediately go from bad to worse: the rest of the landing party, now with Spock and La’an together, are locked in the ancient ruins, a defensive system by force removing anyone who tries to leave as they learn when their alien guide is vaporized. On board Enterprise, It also quickly becomes clear that this will not happen to replicate to play a new pair of eyes and treat a traumatic wound: something fainted in his body, and whether or not playing even lives to be saved by it is a completely different question that has found itself, and the rest of the rest of the crime. Enterprise For her ongoing treatment – more about it later).
Very quickly, this becomes an episode that does not ask, “Oh, will it be awkward among all these characters because of them who date each other?” And suddenly it becomes one who asks, “Can these characters put this aside to get out of this alive?” The answer to that is yes, of course, because two -thirds of the characters involved all need to appear in the original Star Trek. But that doesn’t stop “through the lens of time” from having some remarkably delicate tension, as things continue to damage both and outside the planet. In the ruins, the declined party is further separated thanks to some planned planning protections, forcing the and chapel to stand each other, Spock and Korby set aside Starfleet’s last distrust and their own people with each other, and then cannot be on their own.
On and outside the EnterpriseEveryone turns on. The remote team enigm its way back to each other and discovers the reason behind the existence of the ruins in the first place, on the ship, while dealing with the spirit – an ancient non -sinister species called Vezda – explaining that it is the body of Puppeting Gamble to try and take the business, and to take the corpse and take off the company. the business of the leg. And Suddenly Feral Batel, which appears to be given a latent gorn wheel by her experimental treatment. Dr. M’Benga manages to spread the situation with the Vezda (with some shooting from Pelia), releasing Gamble’s body and containing the evil spirit. It’s all stressful, even like the episode ping-pongs between the ruins and the Enterprisebut it is arguably Star Trek Making the competent porn, it makes it best: a group of people who can, at one point, be friendly and awkwardly navigating the social fault pass of a workplace relationship, and the very next, when they confront an indescribable danger, set aside it to do their work and do them best.
It speaks, as Spock tells a chapel as they find out she’s their key to get out of the ruins by Last Crusade-iana invisible bridge walk of faith, about confidence going two ways between people. All of these Starfleet officers know, implicitly, regardless of what happens in their lives and even between them, that at the end of the day, when their backs are opposed to the envelope of their starship, they can rely on each other to face a problem and deal with it. Who in itself is a nice message to remind viewers of when it comes to this universe and a much better alternative to this episode consumed by drama between Korby, Chapel, Spock and La’an.
It is also a secondary point to the true heart of “Through the Lens of the Time”: That whatever locked in our Starfleet heroes are in these crisis moments, there is a cost for what they do daily, and even with the Shenanigans as common as they were in Strange new worlds Lately, they are living incredibly dangerous lives. Lives that can, as Gamble learned too early, be brutally taken out at once.
How much the death of the young Ensign influences you to a personal reaction – he has only surrounded a few episodes, and if there is a major weakness to “through the time lens”, is that it is awkwardly suspended from indicating something extremely bad It will happen to this character of almost the second that it opens on him by recording a personal log. Strange new worlds It is not particularly trying to minimize his death because of dramatic ways or have the characters act as they have known him for years and years – part of the shock of his death, beyond the posthumous ghost puppet of everything, is that he is still so relatively new member of the crew, and now he is not very violently.
But his death is important for a series, which so far this season has supported perhaps a little too far into a tone flippan, where, even in rough situations, the Enterprise came out of things mostly undamaged. Gamble’s death is a necessary punctuation Star TrekThere is a love of wonderful people doing their work very well: sometimes even doing so will not be enough when faced with the dangers of boldly going and pushing the limits of your understanding. Sometimes you may discover wonders unlike anything seen in millennia; Other times you may delight your face of an explicitly evil spirit. That they continue regardless of that potential is what makes Star Trek The series it is.
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