ericnhall
Joined May 2015
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This is essentially the retelling of "The Arena" from TOS. It's a poor retelling.
There are so many problems with this episode. The writers clearly do not understand what Star Trek is, who the characters are, and what the original was all about.
First, they have setup the Gorn as an impossible culture of voracious alpha fighters who dominate all who they come across. It's over done. But the writers set them up that way. There is zero chance that a "good" or "compassionate" Gorn could survive past birth. Their culture and instincts simply do not allow it. Now, of course, that kind of culture could not exist in reality because not everyone can be a vicious killer and have the society survive.
Regardless, that is what the Gorn are.
In this Episode, Erica must face her fear of Gorn -- as if it's an irrational fear -- to survive after a crash landing. The Gorn is immediately nice and accommodating and it only takes Erica about ten seconds to accept the Gorn is a nice one. Seriously? That's the entirety of the conflict?
Even if we are willing to accept that there are kind Gorn, one who was obviously a warrior since she was a pilot, the amount of story development it took for Erica to overcome her fears and rational hatred of the Gorn is completely lacking. The viewer is expected to accept that Erica is such a wise person that she immediately intuits the Gorn's intentions. That's ridiculous. That's NOT Erica. She's emotional and reactive. She's not a deep thinker or particularly compassionate.
Then we have the poorly done drama of Uhura being overwrought and emotional and having the Captain put up with it. Uhura's childish behavior on the bridge should have gotten her a rebuke and dismissal from the bridge. This was so very poorly done.
In the end, the idiotically androgynous Metron shows up to explain that it setup the whole thing - except in this case, it's Deus Ex Machina since none of that was setup prior to the crash.
This is an extremely poor adaptation of "The Arena".
It's obvious that the writers do not understand nor like Star Trek. They keep rehashing old stories in poor ways, like "The Squire of Gothos", but doing it poorly. It's really sad to see. SNW is the closest thing we have to real Star Trek and the writers and producers are ruining it.
There are so many problems with this episode. The writers clearly do not understand what Star Trek is, who the characters are, and what the original was all about.
First, they have setup the Gorn as an impossible culture of voracious alpha fighters who dominate all who they come across. It's over done. But the writers set them up that way. There is zero chance that a "good" or "compassionate" Gorn could survive past birth. Their culture and instincts simply do not allow it. Now, of course, that kind of culture could not exist in reality because not everyone can be a vicious killer and have the society survive.
Regardless, that is what the Gorn are.
In this Episode, Erica must face her fear of Gorn -- as if it's an irrational fear -- to survive after a crash landing. The Gorn is immediately nice and accommodating and it only takes Erica about ten seconds to accept the Gorn is a nice one. Seriously? That's the entirety of the conflict?
Even if we are willing to accept that there are kind Gorn, one who was obviously a warrior since she was a pilot, the amount of story development it took for Erica to overcome her fears and rational hatred of the Gorn is completely lacking. The viewer is expected to accept that Erica is such a wise person that she immediately intuits the Gorn's intentions. That's ridiculous. That's NOT Erica. She's emotional and reactive. She's not a deep thinker or particularly compassionate.
Then we have the poorly done drama of Uhura being overwrought and emotional and having the Captain put up with it. Uhura's childish behavior on the bridge should have gotten her a rebuke and dismissal from the bridge. This was so very poorly done.
In the end, the idiotically androgynous Metron shows up to explain that it setup the whole thing - except in this case, it's Deus Ex Machina since none of that was setup prior to the crash.
This is an extremely poor adaptation of "The Arena".
It's obvious that the writers do not understand nor like Star Trek. They keep rehashing old stories in poor ways, like "The Squire of Gothos", but doing it poorly. It's really sad to see. SNW is the closest thing we have to real Star Trek and the writers and producers are ruining it.
