Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One Episode 2: Children of the Comet

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One
Episode 2: Children of the Comet


Children of the Comet

Interesting to start out with an Uhura log entry.  Also this episode establishes the kitchen inside Pike's enormous quarters.  Pike cooking for the crew is a fun something different for trek, although I'm not sure how exactly that fits in with what we know of him from The Cage and Discovery season 2.  Also this episode buids on characters like Ortegas and establishes the character of chief engineer Commander Hemmer, an Aenar.  The Aenar were established in the eponymous season 4 episode of Enterprise as a blind, albino subspecies of Andorians.  The actor who plays Hemmer, Bruce Horak is in fact legally blind.  Uhura being young and unsure is a cool angle to take for the episode and the character.  More references to Pike's vision of his fate (the accident).  Personally I think it is best that the series does not continue to dwell on this (especially as divisive as Discovery is).  We get some good screen time for Sam Kirk.  The colored panels on the spacesuits are vaguely reminiscent to the TOS spacesuits seen in The Tholian Web.  This episode really expands on Uhura's character, both in backstory and character.  The use of music for communication establishes Uhura's singing ability as seen (heard?) in TOS.  Also: wow! Celia Rose Gooding can sing!  On the Enterprise: I like the Enterprise design ok.  I am first and foremost a TOS and TMP Enterprise fan.  This design is alright.  Not perfect.  I'm not sold on the nacelle pylons with the open slit or the lights on the front of the saucer.  Overall, and I've said this before, It is lightyears better than the Kelvinverse hotrodprise.  I like the Shuttlecraft, the design inside and out definitely calls back to the TOS "class F" shuttle craft.  This version (I'll call it "Class E" seems to be bigger and more angular).  Spock flying the shuttle into the comet tail reminds me a bit of Sisko in the Defiant shuttle from DS9 "Destiny".  The Aurora in the planets dusty atmosphere was a cool effect.   All the talk at the end about destiny and fate also feels very DS9 to me.  Overall, a satisfying story.   

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