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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Logline

An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.

Written by Dana Horgan & Bill Wolkoff

Directed by Dermott Downs

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But but lotus eaters was that "she is Erica Ortegas...she drives the ship"....../s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, strangely enough, while this kind of character development doesn't make the show worse, it does make it more obvious (at least to me) that her character hasn't been given the screen time the others have that dives into her backstory.

Plus that episode is a tease because she starts off excited to do something other than fly the ship with an inner monologue and everything.

Had she gone down to the planet and somehow realized by the end of the episode that she loves flying the ship, or the other characters learning that she's so much more than just a pilot, that would have been satisfactory to me (at least for a season).