Children of the Comet

Episode aired May 12, 2022
TV-PG
52m

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8.0/10

5.6K

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Anson Mount in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Children of the Comet

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Action Adventure Sci-Fi

An ancient alien relic thwarts the Enterprise crew from re-routing a comet on track to strike an inhabited planet.An ancient alien relic thwarts the Enterprise crew from re-routing a comet on track to strike an inhabited planet.An ancient alien relic thwarts the Enterprise crew from re-routing a comet on track to strike an inhabited planet.

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IMDb RATING

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5.6K

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Trivia
When Sam Kirk is stunned by a booby trap, the pose of him lying unconscious resembles his brief original appearance in Operation -- Annihilate! (1967), where William Shatner played him as a corpse for his brother Jim (also Shatner) to find.

Goofs
Spock revives Lt. Kirk using a defibrillator function in his space suit after Kirk's heart has been stopped. Defibrillators do not restart a stopped heart. Their function is actually to stop a heart so that it may naturally restart in a normal rhythm if a patient is experiencing dysrhythmia as the result of an event such as a heart attack.

Quotes
Spock: I've never understood the human inclination to laugh at others' misfortune. It feels... impolite.
Nurse Christine Chapel: That's why it's funny.
Spock: Because it breaks the social expectation?
Captain Christopher Pike: Sometimes, Mr. Spock, things go so badly, you just have to laugh.

Connections
References Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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9/10

Simply beautiful

Yes, this, about 50-th 'Star Trek ...' TV serial is most close to the original Star Trek in 60-es. In style, set ups, and can say after 2 episodes - even in stories.

I really did not like Discovery and Picard, stopped to watch after couple episodes. This is maybe old fashioned, and younger people might not liking it, but we know that new something means not better always. Hmm, actually in last 2 decades I would say that is mostly worse.

Some reviews here complained about musical way of communication. Well, there is saying that music is language what everyone gets. I found is as great idea, and it was really moving. Great first mission of young Uhura.

And that comet twist was great too. Even if there were some less realistic elements in it.

As in first episode, in this life is what is most important, and it came in best time period, probably - when on our Planet some other things are important for those in charge ...