Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"
Sertou@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoTo be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Sure, but “Relics” had a built-in caveat (which I think was an intentional piece of writing): it had a 50% mortality rate.
Sertou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a fair caveat.
SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.