Strange New Worlds 2x04- 'Among the Lotus Eaters' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

Ye at last a full crew episode. Actually in some ways you coukd say it was an Ortegas centric episode. OK it was not perfect. It was quite slow to start off and I think the acting in it was not great. I think William Shatner as Kirk done forgetting who he was better but from about 38 minutes on it gets so much better and it's a good ending.

Issues I have is when Ortagas left her post who was flying the ship? There was just Spock left on the Bridge and he did not or could not remember how to fly it. Its a miracle more damage was not done.

Enjoyable episode.

Is it becoming a pattern (or troupe) this season that episodes midway through seem like they could continue for longer, for them only to resolve everything in the final 5/10 minutes.

Ah, that was a good episode. Proper old school Star Trek. Into the unknown through memory loss. Cool shout-out to The Cage too!

Two things which were only given a small amount of time but came across well done were:

• The captains love story
• The old Kalar man played by Reed Birney.

I swear I had to go lookup Birney's imdb to check if he'd ever played an admiral on Star Trek before but he hasn't. I think I was confusing him with Ronny Cox (Jellico)

The one point in the episode where it dawned on me that they could've done things differently is bring the audience in on the unknown feeling by starting the story after the memory loss has taken hold.

Ya that really annoyed me in the way only unimportant details can.

It was an okay episode. Similar to the weaker ones last season it was a decent watch but won't live long in the memory 😁. I think people are using "old school Trek" to gloss over a lot.

It was okay. Bit disappointed as I was expecting more. Especially as this was supposed to be the main "Ortegas episode" for the season and she had **** all to do other than pretend to fly the ship like she's on a go karting off-site again. She's better fleshed out that most of Discovery's characters, we can easily remember her name and function. But in a show that has the best focus on character development in a Trek show since DS9 imo, she stands out as the one who's had the least attention.

Yeah, she is just not that interesting compared to the rest of them at the moment.

I also want more of the Chief Engineer

Ye me either but she is new so I will give her a chance. I think a new young engineer would have been better for the Enterprise one who maybe finds the workload to stressful and eventually goes to another shop when Scotty takes over.

I was looking at it. I was getting excited. I was like.. "ooh, they're gonna do the thing" but then they didn't do the thing and I was like.. oh.

Thinking about it now, like why wouldn't anyone grab the handholds.. especially in a disorientated state like that. Bit of a missed opportunity.

Ortega's: "abso-friggin'-lutely" FTW

That would be really good too.

I've definitely seen other medics walking around in the background on the show.

As for Ortegas, "I fly the ship" is literally her entire character to the point of parody so I imagine she just doesn't sleep.

"We've never needed a crew before".

Shifts come up quite a bit but rarely more than a throwaway line

The same could be said for a ship or sub at war.

The only Enterprise to be months away from help was the NX. But it's about crew efficiency, having multiple doctors doing nothing for days or weeks on end is a waste. As it is M'Benga and Chapel don't seem to be very busy most of the time outside of their pet projects.