Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris"
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 17 hours agoI do think the away team section needed another pass, either on the writing or the direction. It had some action moments, but at the same time it didn’t feel like anything the away team actually did carried any impact,and never that they were in any real danger. The only bit that actually felt it had real energy was the archeopteryx getting punched in the face.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
My guess is the away scene was going to be a lot different. My reason for thinking this is that oddly incongruent end sequence. They had that long CGI sequence at the end, after the entire plot of the episode has finished, where the camera does an extended flyaround on the Cretaceous Earth. CGI isn’t cheap. Someone had to animate all that. That sequence really screamed, “shit. We spent all this money on these dinosaur animations. But now the script’s changed, so we can’t use even half of it. I know! Let’s add an inspiring sequence at the end!”