Hey everyone, how's it going? Today I'm doing a spoilerish look at this week's episode of Strange New Worlds, "Shuttle to Kenfori". I say spoilerish because I'm not going to talk about major spoilers but there are some callbacks to previous Star Trek episodes and movies that I want to talk about in this post. So, let's get into it.
When Captain Batel's condition worsens following the events of "Hegemony, Part II" Pike and M'Benga must take a shuttle down to a planet that is in a system in dispute between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, but isn't owned by either due to treaties signed following the Klingon War, to get the chimera blossom, a rare plant that can form the basis of a therapy for Batel. Knowing that Starfleet Command would never authorize a mission, Pike and M'Benga covertly go down to the planet. But, they discover Zombies on the planet as well as the daughter of the late Klingon ambassador, Dak'Rah, who had been killed by M'Benga during his visit to the Enterprise in "Under the Cloak of War" last season. There's also a subplot concerning Ortegas left over from the end of "Wedding Bell Blues" last week.
Aside from Dak'Rah being mentioned again, his daughter, Bytha, mentions that due to Dak'Rah, between his war crimes and subsequent defection to the Federation, his house, the House of Ra'Ul, faced discommendation, something we haven't heard about since the DS9 episode, "The House of Quark". Even when Worf was called a traitor to the Empire by Gowron in "Way of the Warrior", it seemed different from his discommendation in "Sins of the Father". And because we didn't have a Klingon main character in Enterprise or any of the modern shows, discommendation hasn't been mentioned in 30 years. The other callback was the Klingons used a Viridium tracker, which was a device used to track ships and beings. One was given to Jurati in season 1 of Star Trek: Picard. It was similar to the Viridium patch that Spock placed on Kirk in Star Trek VI.
I liked this episode. It wasn't as good as last week's episodes, but still good. I enjoyed the character stuff with M'Benga and Pike, Pike and Batel, Ortegas and Una, and Bytha and M'Benga. However, I felt the Zombies were completely unnecessary. Mainly because the episode wasn't focused on discovering what had happened on Kenfori and the Zombies didn't make for a formidable enemy the way they've done in other shows and movies I've seen that they've been used in. But all the character stuff was great this week. Overall though, it was a good episode.
Alright my friends, that's it for me for this week. I'll be back next week with lots of cool posts on all three of my blogs. So until then have a great weekend and I will talk to you all later. Live long and prosper.
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