Among the Lotus Eaters

This was another solid episode from what is turning out to be a really good season of Trek. The plot is engaging and the characters are fun to watch.

The one thing that absolutely drove me insane was the high pitched whine that happened every time one of the crew experienced the effects of the planet. I understand the point was to show their disorientation but they could have found a far less annoying way to do it. I was watching on my tablet using head phones and I had to take them off every single time that noise started up. Am otherwise solid episode nearly ruined by a poor choice in sound editing.

This episode was pitch-perfect TOS Trek. I honestly had to go back to make sure they didn't just recycle an old TOS episode. It hits all of the TOS tropes: the crew up against a seemingly impossible situation, the captain escapes through some brute force tactic, the episode's central problem resolves neatly and quickly. The captain is virtuous throughout despite all indications it might resolve otherwise.

This episode was a perfect chicken noodle soup for those of us who really loved TOS, which, I think, was the target for this series. To be a classic reimagining of the "problem of the week" series.

I think I agree with most everyone on here...it could have been very very good with another half hour to age correctly. The premise was a great one, and most of the execution was great, but it did wrap up a little too easily.

A great look at memories and what remains when you lose them. It was about as good as NuTrek has gotten...but the downfall of the eventual "baddie" wasnt fleshed out enough.

It surprised me how low this episode got...but it more than lived up to the name Strange New Worlds.

Oh, and yes, the tinnitus sound was too on the nose. But it does give non-sufferers an idea what its like to have it. But they could have dialed it back a little.

One of the best SNW episodes by far, this is what Star Trek should be, this is the kind of episode that always carried the show: sci-fi scenarios on other planets, with other races, holding up a mirror and having us ask the deepest questions about the human condition.

Sure, the tinnitus-like ringing was horrible for those of us who already have the real thing - we had to watch the whole episode with our finger stuck to the mute/unmute button, but that inconvenience was not enough for me to lower the score for what this type of episode represents: Star Trek with a Brain, the essence that always gave Star Trek shows their greatness.

This episode, 'Among the Lotus Eaters', is currently the lowest rated episode of season 2 of 'Strange New Worlds'. It's ranked lower than the first episode of this season, 'The Broken Circle', which is easily the worst episode of this season, and frankly, one of the worst episodes of all of 'Star Trek'.

In my review for 'The Broken Circle', I noted the conspicuous absence of 'strange new worlds' in a TV show that contains the phrase in the title, nor am I the only reviewer to point this out. Well, 'Among the Lotus Eaters' finally gives us a strange new world, and an interesting science-fiction story with our characters stuck on a planet which causes perpetual memory loss, and features good performances that stretch the range of our trio of main actors to top it all off and... it's the lowest rated episode of the season.

Some of you are your own worst enemies. Enjoy the next Star Trek reboot from Paramount with Khan and the Borg getting trotted back out for the millionth time, only now they'll be angsty teenagers challenging each other to starship Tokyo Drift races as they fly around shooting lasers at each other to 'Rage Against the Machine' songs, Fast & Furious-style... and that's if your LUCKY.

I'm not saying "love this show". SNW is not a great Star Trek show, overall. But this episode, specifically, is interesting science-fiction. I fell in love with 'Star Trek' because it had interesting, humanist science-fiction like 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', 'Return of the Archons', or 'The Motion Picture'. You should commend these rare wins. You can still criticize stuff like the lack of discipline/decorum of the bridge crew, the grating use of modern lingo and other stuff this series gets wrong, while at the same time acknowledging the positives. You're sending mixed signals to the writers by dumping on the most 'Star Trek'-like thing they've ever done in the entire run of this show.

Anyway, this is a good episode and it's the closest thing to actual 'Star Trek' this show has offered thus far. Rant over.