WHAT A WASTE - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review [Episode 9]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review, Episode 9 “All Those Who Wander” is a waste of good #StarTrek Characters #StrangeNewWorlds episode 9 will be devisive in the #StarTrekSNW fandom

Is this "REAL" Star Trek AT LAST? - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review
Reacting to Fan Reactions - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[FrakkinGaiusBaltar]

I really can't get behind what they are doing with the Gorn. Painting them as Xenomorph level of brutality.
And I agree the episode was just an homage to Alien(s), if we're willing to be charitable, a flat out rip-off, if we're willing to be honest.


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Also, let's mourn together the loss of our beautiful grouchy Engineer. He really didn't deserve it.
#bringbackhemmer

[WINTERMUTE_AI]

The only thing missing in this episode is, Kirk saying, 'GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!'

[DarrinBell]

I agree with much of this, except how could they have put Hemmer in a transporter buffer or suspended animation when the ship they were on was barely working, the Enterprise was far away, the shuttles of that era didn’t have transporters, and the eggs were about to hatch at any second?

[w.camera]

Didn't like Hemmer's death. Waste of a potentially great character. Would've been much more impactful if he was featured more in Season 2 and they ended that season with a sacrifice like this. Oh well. Way better than Tasha Yar's death at least lol.

[sandracraft]

Audience: we don't get enough Hemmer. Star Trek: solution - kill Hemmer. Honestly, I just hope the actor left the show because he got a better offer elsewhere.

[Majik]

I hope they don't keep using the Gorn like TNG did the Borg.

[Pidalin]

This is the first episode I have some major problems with. First - Gorns were not Alien-like parasites in TOS, second, why they copy Alien that obvious? Third: Why Hemmer, why??? I like him! I don't want Kirk and Scotty already in season 2, this is Pike show for me.
BTW, you can definitely enjoy a horor movie, but problem is that most of today movies copy few basic horor stories, one of them is obviously Alien, which was really fresh in 1979 and I still like it, but I don't like how everyone copy that. Problem with horor is that what we know as horor now, is not actually a horor, I don't know how to call that in English, but in Czech we have special name for that which is "vyvražďovačka" which means that you have some group of people and they are supposed to die in tons of blood and that's all. Classic horors are not like that, but unfortunately, such movies are very rare today. Old horor movies were very often about murderers, not about some monsters and good horor can scares you just from what people are saying, not by stupid jumpscares. In classic horor, you can have psycho murderer there all the time and you don't know about that and when you realize that (by something he said) it can be very scary, that's how classic horors work, today "horors" are just jump scares. Problem with jump scares is that you will get used to it and it's not scary anymore. More scary is when that monster or murderer is there all the time, but you don't see it obviously, but when you find it, you are really scared even without jumpscare with scary music.

[SzymonAdamus]

Turning the lights of, framing the shot in a particular way etc. are the ways to make horror work. The fact that it’s simple technic, does note make it bad. It is a tool used for a specific purpose.

I think the episode was absolutely fantastic! One of my favorites from this season. It felt like a entire movie made in 51 minutes. Not only story and the gravitas of it, but production wise also. Maybe a 5 or 6 dutch angles too much, but besides that - fantastic homage to Alien and yet another excellent episode trying to be something different and succeeding.

What is strange is the fact that there is one more episode left. The 9th one felt like a last one in the season.

[aaronmorse]

I believe I asked for MORE Andorians (and Aenar) not LESS :(

[MoonjumperReviews]

I read an interview with actor Bruce Horak (Hemmer). He said that he was told immediately how Hemmer’s story arc would end. What story arc? (That said, I’m not convinced he’s dead.)

How is Kirk and crew completely unfamiliar with the Gorn in “Arena” when Spock, Uhura, and Kirk’s own brother were in the landing party? Not a great episode unfortunately.

[brachiator]

I was sad to see Hemmer go, and note that we were able to get a sense of how noble a being he was even though he had not been burdened with a pointless dark secret or tragic back story. And I enjoyed his rapport with Uhura. It made dramatic sense because she is a cadet and part of his job as a senior officer was to mentor her. I agree that the episode was not very compelling, but my main complaint was that all of this came about too soon. We seem to be losing La'an and Uhura at least temporarily. And Hemmer was allowed his noble sacrifice. Ten episodes a season is not enough time to do justice to what could be a really great Star Trek series and a very good ensemble cast.

[countroshculla]

A lot of what you said about Hemmer is beause of this shortened season in the era of streaming. 10 episodes is nothing. Had it been like before, we'd have a lot of time to flesh the characters over 22-24 episodes.

[kev]

Very honest and accurate review. This episode wasn't that good. I can forgive a homage if you do it creatively like the Orville did, with their alien, Borg episode.
Strange new worlds just stole it and pasted it in without really altering it. The predator vision copy was equally awful. That took me out of the storytelling.
And I was bored with the rest of the show. Hemmer was a waste and his character had potential.

[deanzaZZR]

What a waste getting rid of one of the most compelling characters in Hemmer. My question is why so much uninspired Noonien-Singh and overused security threat storylines? The Enterprise is a vessel designed for exploration, science and discovery. Let's do more of that, please.

[freshofbreathair]

Next episode: the search for Hemmer. Surprise he’s fine. They didn’t even put his body in a giant glasses case.

[mart]

Could someone get Sam kirk off the ship, not a starfleet officer

[baronOdaighre]

I don't like the decision to kill off Hemmer, but I have to begrudgingly accept that it was an effective character death. It's not like some of the character deaths in Discovery where, try as that show might, it couldn't get me to care about the death because I didn't care or even know the character being killed - in this case, what little I'd seen of Hemmer set me up to feel sad that he was dying, which in the strictest sense, means the creators of SNW succeeded in what they were trying to do. I still think they've shot themselves in the foot by doing so! Hemmer was the character I was most excited to see more of and learn more about, and it's a shame there won't be anything more with him. Barring of course any sci-fi chicanery to resurrect him, which I hope they don't do. Much as I'd like Hemmer to still be on the show, cheap resurrections just dilute the dramatic stakes.

[normancarter]

Too soon for Scotty and Kirk, they should come in the 3rd season or later, need to flesh out the stories of all these cast members in the first two seasons.

[northernlightevah]

Haunted house in space, things that go bump in the night, Alien rip off and too many scenes of characters expressing feeling and fears. I skim through the boring scenes on the Kindle Fire.

[jamiefitzpatrick]

I’d have loved the episode to have gone with the Tolkien poem rather than whatever this attempted.

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost”

That is the first paragraph of Tolkien’s poem, I think there is philosophy to be explored there that would have been more interested than this episode.