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Hegemony, Part II

Episode aired Jul 17, 2025
48m

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7.9/10

1.7K

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

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Pike risks it all, taking the Enterprise on a daring rescue mission behind enemy lines, while the landing party attempts an escape from a deadly enemy.Pike risks it all, taking the Enterprise on a daring rescue mission behind enemy lines, while the landing party attempts an escape from a deadly enemy.Pike risks it all, taking the Enterprise on a daring rescue mission behind enemy lines, while the landing party attempts an escape from a deadly enemy.

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7Valcoren

Strong start but finished weak.

We pick up after a 2-year cliffhanger, and come out swinging, only to be given a weak solution to end the episode, and sadly, Strange New Worlds is continuing down the path of disregarding what came before them, in TOS Prime Canon Trek. Further placing this show in an alternative parallel timeline to the original.

The A Team of Spock, Pike, and Una all work on trying to solve the issue with the infected Captain Batel and save the Enterprise from being overwhelmed by the Gone attack force. The B team, composed of La'an, Ortegas, and Dr. M'Benga. Are trying to self-rescue after being captured by the Gorn's portable lunch-mobile. Good thing Ortegas can fly anything on the spot.

5alex-322029310

Cheap Cliffhanger Resolution

After all the tension buildup in the last episode, unfortunately this has been slightly on the disappointing end.

As someone else posted here, there were too many parallel problems cramped into a single episode, leading to a rushed resolution that sounded like lazy pretense even for a Sci-Fi world like Star Trek.

And just as an example: beaming people from an alien ship using alien transporter codes? What was that? And just using transporter codes, how did they avoid beaming the already digested folk?

Of course there were some references to other Star Trek tropes, like shield modulation frequency etc., but not executed elegantly.

It's a weak start for the season, but let's see what comes next.

6pavlomir

The worst "BOSS" enemy so far.

Star Trek Strange New Words had plenty of other popular culture enemies. All started with "The Thing" and fail apart with this conclusion.

The enemies lack complexity while they are showed as the ultimate enemy. Sort of like the hive of Borgs that have very obvious flaw that by logic you can defeat. The episode had a lot of nonsense wording and "make it work" moments that even La Forge would start having a PTSD.

8rrtiverton

Good conclusion!

Aside from the nearly two years between the cliff hanger and this episode, I think the producers did a great job of wrapping up story to a point that the could move the plot arcs forward. The writing was tight, the humor subtle and very much on point. It felt... organic. Where "Discovery" relied heavily on McGuffin's (invented objects strictly for the sake of pushing the plot along), this we true. Everything has a purpose; a necessity

I watched the episode twice (so far) in case in missed anything. It was just superb Science Fiction and certainly everything that has made Star Trek, Star Trek for the past 60+ years.

8machrf

They should have asked Harper...

How to get rid of the magog eggs. Oh wait, these are not the Magog. I don't know if I mind the crossover or not. I do think they could have come up with something better. I also think they could have done far better with Andromeda than they did and they could have continued with other series and moives. But we get to enjoy Star Trek even if they shift quality and dedication to what Star Trek is in each series. I have grown to like this series more and more even with its mistakes. And they did make this work without a tesseracting machine which is a plus. I would have to rate this series up there either as the second or third best. How they are doing such a better job over the Crying Burnham show is beyond me. How can there be two recent series that are polar opposites in the same universe?

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One of the treatment methods Spock suggests for Captain Batel is microscopic debulking, which is a real life surgical procedure used in treating cancer and other malignant growths, the Mohs surgery being an example. First chemotherapy and radiation are used to shrink the tumor as small as possible. Then a surgeon removes the remaining macroscopically visible tumorous tissue, then focuses on removing any remaining microscopic cancer cells that could cause the tumor to regrow. This process involves removing thin layers of tissue under where the visible tumor was removed, examining them under a microscope, and repeating the process until all cancerous cells are removed. This greatly decreases the chances of recurrence, and is especially useful in treating aggressive types of cancer that reoccur like basal cell carcinomas or squamous cell carcinomas.