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Star Trek: Strange new worlds“The third season had a bit of your annoying. Through four episodes already, we have changed episode to episode of fairly dark circumstances (an attack from Gorn here, an epidemic of zombies) with light stupidity (a meeting with Trelane here, a mystery of murder Holodeck there). Even if these individual episodes have not all worked entirely on various degrees, this back and forth has really helped to make the spectacle a little aimless. Thus, while the episode of this week is indeed another rhythm of light in the dark, the way in which it manages that the darkness resembles a much more empty reminder for this season: that there can be a real cost to what the crew of the Business do.

Initially, “Through the Lens of Time” is almost preparing as if he was going to juke of the episodic Tonal switch of the season – making a little jump compared to the sudden romance flocation last week between Spock and La’an, the initial premise seems ripe for a cute clumsy meeting. THE Business Offered his services to Doctor Korby for the benefit of his last archaeological discovery: a series of artefacts which led him to the site of an old ruin which, according to him, holds the key to unlock immortality. With a chapel nurse who comes naturally to help her partner, alongside Young Medical Ensign Gamble (the star of the irregular season 3 Chris Myers) First of all mission–Hey, does anyone hear an alarm ringtone relaxing in the head? – The clumsiness comes that, of course, the head of security La’an and the senior scientific officer Spock will advise landing, which also includes the documentary of Uhura and Beto Ortegas potentially attributed to the propaganda of Starfleet on life to life, to life, to the ship.

Initially, our main quartet is in a perpetual state of “it’s good, it’s good, we are all good” because they try to dance around the fact that Christine, La’an and Spock have all been barely spoken since these last two have become with casualness. Spock argues a very specific point which he is away from the mission of Chapel and Korby, the manager on board Business With La’an while they, alongside Gamble, Uhura and Beto, descend to the Digsite, and although it is clear that there is an awkward tension in the air, it is again widely played lightly. All the people involved know that it is awkward and weird, they just don’t want to say This, above all, while Korby has a lot to drive on his mission (especially, because he is talking to Chapel to be willing to ask for help from Starfleet).

Although it is not as largely based on Hijinks as “Wedding Bell Blues” and “A Space Adventure Hour”, everything looks like, even with the wider seriousness of the mission at hand here –Star Trek Does he like an ancient ruin of an old civilization with potentially extremely advanced technology even beyond what the federation has at hand-we are in an episode that about Spock, Chapel, Korby and La’an, and the first two in particular, learning to work with each other professionally despite what is happening between them personally.

But “through the objective of time” twists the knife in something almost when the landing party enters the interior of old ruins, when the Gamble brand passes to a strange group of dried up corpses in otherwise intact ruins (there is this alarm that sounds again) while the rest of the group investigates on their environment, do not forget their effects (it is). explodeBrewing and violently exploding Gamble’s eyes with it.

It is an immediate horror. Poor Gamble shouts, the white of his medical uniform stained with his own blood. They are not only burned or blinded or damaged; His eyes are disappearedAnd we can see the horrible extent of the holes left in his head. Suddenly, whatever the frustrations or frictions with the novels involved in the outside team are through the window: everyone is blocking in step to transport Gamble to Sickbay, and La’an and Spock go to the planet to at least take a break, if not to put an envelopment, on the mission of Korby because of the sudden danger. Everything is put aside: these are Starfleet officers, dealing with a situation that took place on the side.

GOOD… Above all. Things go naturally from bad to worse: the rest of the landing, now with Spock and La’an, find themselves locked up inside ancient ruins, a defense system violently eliminating anyone who tries to leave when their extraterrestrial guide is vaporized. On board Business, It also quickly becomes clear that this will not be a case of game reproduction a new pair of eyes and to face a traumatic injury: something has slipped inside his body, and if Gamble is even alive to be saved from his crew which is a completely different question, M’Benga, Pike, and the rest of the team Business For its current treatment – more on this subject later).

Very quickly, it becomes an episode that does not ask: “Oh Ho, will it be embarrassing between all these characters because they go out with each other?” And suddenly becomes the one who asks: “Can these characters put this aside to get out alive?” The answer to this is yes, of course, because two thirds of the characters involved must all appear in the original Star Trek. But that does not prevent “through the objective of time” from having a remarkably delicious tension because things are constantly deteriorating on and out of the planet. In the ruins, the decreased party is separated more thanks to certain flat time protections, forced to La’an and the chapel, to stabilize, to Spock and Korby to put aside the distrust of the latter towards Starfleet and their own personal clashes with each other, then Uhura trying to guarantee the beto – does not make the media disappear.

On and outside the BusinessEveryone locks himself. The outdoor team is going up and discovers the reason for the existence of the ruins in the first place, aboard the ship, while dealing with the mind – an old non -bodily entity of a sinister species called Vezda – clearly indicating that its corps of Gamble Puppet to try to take the company And A suddenly wild skatel, which seems to have received a latent gull in its experimental treatment. Doctor M’Benga manages to disseminate the situation with the Vezda (with a small game of canons of Pelia), releasing the body of Gamble and containing the malicious spirit. Everything is tense, even if the ping-pong episode between the ruins and the BusinessBut it’s probably Star Trek Doing the skill porn is best: a group of people who can, at one point, be friendly and awkwardly navigating in the social misstep of the repercussions on working relationships, and the next, confronted with an unspeakable danger, put this aside to do their job and do them at best their capacities.

It speaks, as Spock says in the chapel that she discovers it is their key to getting out of the ruins by a Last crusade-Ian invisible Bridge Walk of Faith, on the confidence in two ways between people. All these Starfleet officers know, implicitly, regardless of what is happening in their lives and even between them, in the end, when their back is against the hull of their ship, they can trust to face a problem and face it. Which in itself is a beautiful message to remind viewers when it comes to this universe and a much better alternative to what this episode was consumed by the theater between Korby, Chapel, Spock and La’an.

But it is also a secondary point to the true heart of “through the objective of time”: that no matter how much our Starfleet heroes are locked in these moments of crisis, there is a cost to what they do every day, and even with the mangances as frequent as they were on Strange new worlds Lately, they live incredibly dangerous lives. Lives that can, as Gamble learned it too early, be brutally suffocated in an instant.

To what extent the death of the young brand has an impact extremely bad will arrive at this character from almost the second where he opens on him registering a personal newspaper. Strange new worlds Do not particularly try to exploit his death for a dramatic pathos or to make the characters act as if they had known him for years and years – in part of the shock of his death, beyond the posthumous ghost puppet of all this, it is that he is still a relatively new member of the crew, and now he is, very violently, not.

But his death is important for a series which, so far, has been leaning maybe a little too far in a tonal casualness where, even in difficult situations, Business has come out of things largely unscathed. Gamble’s death is a punctuation point necessary to Star TrekThe love of amazing people who interpret their work very well: sometimes even doing this will not be enough in the face of the dangers of going daring and pushing the boundaries of your understanding. Sometimes you can discover wonders unlike all that is seen in millennia; Other times, you could have your shit shout by an explicitly bad spirit. That they continue whatever this potential, this is what makes Star Trek The series is.

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