This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Strange New Worlds 2x05 Charades.

Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

  • Klanky
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    1 year ago

    The spatial geography on this one seems a little wonky. It’s all ‘in the Vulcan’ system but then the moon is ‘at the edge of the sector’. I mean, that could make sense but just seemed a little weird to me. Also weird: if this moon is in the Vulcan system, then you would think the Vulcans would have already surveyed it themselves, seeing as they have been spacefaring for hundreds (thousands?) of years. I just can’t see them leaving it alone when it seems to be common knowledge that there are the remains of an advanced civilization on it.

    • williams_482@startrek.websiteOPM
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      1 year ago

      This also struck me as being pretty strange, but I think everything here can be weaseled around:

      ‘at the edge of the sector’: The Vulcan system happens to be at the edge of the sector it is contained within, sectors being vaguely defined chunks of space laid out fairly arbitrarily.

      Surveying the moon: The ruins are well known and well explored (our heroes seem familiar with them already, for instance) but this weird energy vortex is new, strange, and merits a starship crew to investigate it. It’s not the first time they’ve sent Pike specifically to investigate a weird energy source popping up somewhere.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah that is what I thought regarding the first point.

        For the second one, I love this explanation and I think it makes perfect sense!