abandon [conservative] crew members on the planet.
I think introducing conservatives to an alien ecosystem is against the Prime Directive. Better to yeet them into the nearest ion storm without a space suit.
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So that's what the de-con chamber in Enterprise was for. Silly me, I thought it meant decontamination.
It's mostly bloodworm sludge anyway.
Oh please let's not 🤣
— Hey, you know how other shows make sequels to really great, memorable episodes?
— ...yeah?
— I know how we can subvert that:
Thinking back on the elements of this episode, a story dealing with scared children's fears coming to life doesn't need to be particularly bad. People getting attacked by angry pencil scribbles in 3D? Could work.
First and foremost, I just remember it as being really unengagingly told. The sleepy suburban setting doesn't help. And then, for some reason, suddenly the Doctor is carrying the Olympic torch, which just feels like somebody switched channels.
Yes, but hear me out: what if you pull down your shirt at the speed of ligh?. I posit that for just a second your belly will show through it.
i honestly don't remember the eating aliens bit. sounds weird.
Wasn't it heavily implied that they (or at least Edward) were eating Tribbles? If I imagined it I think I might have to go to therapy.
Either way, at this point I'll be happy with any Trek based show that commits to its own premise and telling some good stories within that framework. This time last year I didn't think that was too much to ask, but now 🤷
I'm not gonna lie, that Vulcan salute oven mitt is top of my wish list now 🤩
But more generally, I feel the same way. I've enoyed most of what we've got since 2017, warts and all. It's many years ago that I was last excited about a Trek movie, though, especially if it meant there wasn't any new TV series being made.
I've never really had any illusions about the companies behind the franchise, but current Paramount... Ugh! Of course I've been aware of the anti-woke campaigning, but I'd never imagined it would actually creep into management.
It's sort of hard to imagine any future show preserving real Trek humanism if the chuds are in charge now.
I had issues with "The trouble with Edward"; specifically the part about ... eating aliens. Maybe it felt a little too much like something Earth people might actually do.
But generally speaking, Short treks had some genuinely good, fresh ideas. The one with Una and Spock stuck in a turbolift genuinely had me excited for SNW. Unfortunately, the singing peaked in the short version.
Yeah, the "interesting times" part is certainly true. More drama and intrigue on the top floor than on screen makes for unsurprisingly poor TV.
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it's ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston's season to our current mess. I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
To summarise, the last couple of seasons had a convoluted arc concerning a companion's parent issues. She was saved as a baby through time travel intervention, but not without a lot of temporal disturbance in the process. In fact, babies have been a throughline in both Ncuti Gatwa's seasons, a pattern that culminates in the Doctor rupturing the Time Vortex in order to save one child's existence. For just a probable moment there, that child is his own. Succeeding in his mission, the Doctor is then replaced by somebody looking suspiciously like Rose Tyler.
- Church.
- Baby.
- Rose.
- Temporal paradox.
- On what could be considered the Doctor's Father's Day.
Bring on the Time Reapers to sterilise the wound in time! That's why the Doctor regenerated into this face, à la 12 looking like Caecilius from "The fires of Pompeii". She needs to channel Rose as a catalyst to heal the reset 15 did to save Poppy. Besides, where Pete sacrificed himself to sort the timestream out, this time around the Reapers are attacking the Doctor and their police box. And the Doctor's current face has a very special relation to the TARDIS' living heart.
To be fair, the rest of the story doesn't really matter, this is only meant to resolve the Billie Piper twist of "The reality war". It doesn't fix fan quibbles over the Timeless Child or the Doctor being half human on their mother's side for a hot minute in 1996. Pretty much everything other than that latest regeneration cliffhanger can be ignored or picked up upon by future writers. So end this minisode on a regeneration without showing what happens next, or just leave it open ended.
Now, would I love for Susan to pop up for no other reason than to ease her "grandfather" into the credits crawl, and a future season where neither actress are seen again? Maybe an exchange to echo the Seventh's exit monologue to Ace at the end of "Survival"? Absolutely, but this could well be a one hander between Piper, some 2005 archive footage, and the janky old low-poly CGI monsters from back then.
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That was a good read, it's nice to have both her acting peers' as well as Rod Roddenberry's perspectives on her. I'm not sure I've read more than the equivalent of her Wikipedia entry before. Polite secondhand info, that is.
I've always enjoyed watching Majel whenever she's on Trek. The first Number One, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxanna... and all the while, also the voice of the Enterprise. Geez, Gene may have been the mind behind the show, but she probably embodied it more than anybody outside of the main cast(s) 🤩