Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I think the Doctor Who reference was more in the writing than anything else, in the sense that it really pushed the suspension of disbelief where no-one has gone before. It was kinda weird for Star Trek, but i’m also a whovian, so I accepted that. The dream sequence was cute, and i thought the overall rhythm of the episode was okay. Still, it would have made a lot of sense if Batel travelled into the past to fight the Vezda and become the Beholder in the past.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
Batel regenerated into the statue. Including glowy regeneration energy hands.
She’s the Doctor and the statue is a portal to another universe, on the other side of which Tecteun finds her. And then, MUCH later, she comes back to spend time with Pelia. That was her in the Tardis in The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail, trying to watch over Pike.
I’m going to stop headcanoning now.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 19 hours ago
I do like the idea of her being some kind of traveler better than being sacrificed as a fixed point guardian.
But then that commitment to be frozen as a perpetual guardian what makes her sacrifice meaningful.
My problem is that the episode was written from Pike’s perspective rather than Batel’s so that we heard her telling Pike what she was going to to and why rather than seeing that process of acceptance and noble sacrifice from her side.
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Don’t, i like it!