Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x06 "Lost In Translation"

LoglineUhura seems to be the only one who can hear a strange sound. When the noise triggers terrifying hallucinations, she enlists an unlikely assistant to help her track down the source.

Written by Onitra Johnson & David Reed

Directed by Dan Liu

ValueSubtracted OP Mod ,
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It’ll be a while before I can watch this one, but I predict that Jim Kirk was an hallucination the whole time.

I look forward to logging in and seeing just how badly I’ve been roasted for being wrong.

Frodo ,

One man’s hallucination is another’s parallel dimension.

ValueSubtracted OP Mod ,
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Well, dang it.

felixxx999 ,

Literally the only guy that wasn’t. Lol.

Electricorchestra ,

Hahaha actually very close.

Acid ,
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Overall a solid episode, a little different but ultimate felt very core Star Trek TOS with strange alien life and coming to a resolution.

Paul Wesley continues to impress me in the role of James T Kirk but his character did not need to be in this episode, they need to be careful with how they use him going forward.

triktrek ,

SNW is such a good show with strong cast and characters and storylines. They totally can stand on their own without trying to bring back legacy characters or storylines. I am not sure why the producers seem to be hell bent on trying to weave these characters back in.

Acid ,
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Agreed, I didn’t mind Kirk being in A Quality of Mercy or Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. However, him being in this episode just felt he was in it for the sake of it.

erbazzone ,

So Uhura punched Kirk under hallucinations and then years after they kissed forced by telekinesis and some guy remembered me that in the prime universe when they met she thought he was hitting on her and he got punched (unrelated). In the kelvin-verse when they met he actually was hitting on her and he got punched (related).

AuroraBorealis ,
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I liked this episode, and Uhura’s futuristic looking pillow

Makes me nervous about the…safety of the ship if one guy who I don’t think was even supposed to be posted on the enterprise (like Ramon was part of the refinery crew before Enterprise got there) was able to cut the power (no backups?) And blow up the nacelle , maybe starfleet should review their backup and security procedures there

Lockely ,
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As we all know, operational security is Starfleet’s #1 priority.

I have to imagine there’s a seedy bar in San Francisco where all the Chief Security Officers meet up to bitch about how no one ever listens to their recommendations but its their asses who get chewed out when the ship gets so easily taken over on a weekly basis.

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Annotations up at: startrek.website/post/433024

ValueSubtracted OP Mod ,
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I thought this one was…fine. I don’t think it will go down in history as one of the more logical episodes, but it told the story it was trying to tell.

I do wish they’d given Spock an actual reason to approach Kirk and Uhura in that final scene. I get that they wanted to commit that meeting to film, but it was strange for him to just sort of…wander over.

UESPA_Sputnik ,
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Spock cleaned up Sam Kirk’s mess once again. That’s why he approached the table. (and I presume that’s why that one snippet from last week was in the “previously on” segment)

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah, it was an awfully specific snippet, really just shown to setup the last scene of that episode. Bit wrird but it felt nice seeing Spock, Uhura and Kirk together. I guess just a bit of fanservice.

eva_sieve , (edited )

I was gearing up for a Gorn episode and they faked us all out!

I liked it thy gave most of the cast (sorry Ortegas) screentime and moved a lot of side plots a small amount.

Moderately bummed they retroactively made Thor (George Kirk) seem like a less good father, though.

RootBeerGuy ,
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I was gearing up for a Gorn episode and they faked us all out!

Yeah, totally. I mean building a gas station right next to Gorn space and all you got there is 2 starships, what could go wrong. Turns out its not Gorn.

goGetF1 ,

I didn’t get the impression George was a bad father. Sam certainly struggles with their relationship, but no father is perfect.

This is also the most information we’ve ever gotten on George as a father, so there’s nothing retroactive about it.

felixxx999 ,

I’m starting to get DS9 vibes among the crew. I’m liking that things are complicated. This season doesn’t feature Pike much, does it? DS9 of course handled politics and religion well and I suspect SNW is steering clear. I knew that (blank) would return but I didn’t expect him to be a decomposing corpse.

electrorocket ,

Anson Mount had a new baby just as filming this season began, so they worked around his schedule a bit so he could spend more time in Canada with his family.

Basilisk ,

Anson Mount’s wife had their first child just before the filming of the season, so he was given a few episodes off

Simon ,
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The whole season is very, very good. Really loved this episode and the characters development in it. Mayby the overall story of this episode wasn’t the best, but who cares it is real classic trek 🖖

UESPA_Sputnik ,
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An okay episode.

Finally Una got to do something instead of being completely on the sidelines. The whole ensemble got something to do, except Ortegas who slowly turns into SNW’s Travis Mayweather: that one cast member that is just there physically but doesn’t get anything to do.

My personal highlight was the scene were Spock and Chapel play chess, and he passive-aggressively pushes her to play faster. Very Vulcan.

What irked me: everyone and their mother immediately started calling the First Officer of another Starfleet ship by his first name. That was weird.

The Canon defenders will complain that Kirk and Pike met face to face, although there was that throwaways line in The Menagerie that they’ve never met. But it was kinda inevitable that it would happen sooner or later. At least we got that out of the way.

CCatMan ,

I forget, but where is Uhura from?

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    CCatMan ,

    This will be the thing we need mentioned at least once every season.

    End0fLine ,
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    I feel it was appropriate in the context of how it was used. She was trying to humanize herself to a man who thought everything around him was fake.

    CCatMan ,

    I do agree, but I feel like we need this every season.

    felixxx999 ,

    Nurse Chapel fiddling with a butt plug while playing with Spock. I will show myself out.

    larchy ,

    They 100% knew

    electrorocket ,

    Ribbed for his pleasure.

    UESPA_Sputnik ,
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    An okay episode.

    Finally Una got to do something instead of being completely on the sidelines. The whole ensemble got something to do, except Ortegas who slowly turns into SNW’s Travis Mayweather: that one cast member that is just there physically but doesn’t get anything to do.

    My personal highlight was the scene were Spock and Chapel play chess, and he passive-aggressively pushes her to play faster. Very Vulcan.

    What irked me: everyone and their mother immediately started calling the First Officer of another Starfleet ship by his first name. That was weird.

    Another weird thing was Pike’s promotion to Fleet Captain. We’ve never seen this in Star Trek, particularly not when it’s just two ships on a mission. So I checked the transcript of The Menagerie were Kirk speaks about the one time he met Captain Pike. And there it is:

    MENDEZ: You ever met Chris Pike?
    KIRK: When he was promoted to Fleet Captain.

    SNW’s producers were sneaky with that one. I’m both annoyed and impressed.

    theinspectorst ,
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    My personal highlight was the scene were Spock and Chapel play chess, and he passive-aggressively pushes her to play faster. Very Vulcan.

    My favourite scene too. I am glad they only got one scene together this episode to avoid it veering too hard into the soapy relationshipy aspects after last week. But damn those are two well-written, well-acted characters with insane chemistry - they gave them one scene together, playing chess no less, and it stole the whole episode.

    Hogger85b ,

    From the "previously on SNW" showing pretty much Soapy relationship drama of half the crew I had worries for the episode but was not realised

    angstrom ,

    The whole ensemble got something to do, except Ortegas who slowly turns into SNW’s Travis Mayweather: that one cast member that is just there physically but doesn’t get anything to do.

    I get the feeling the writers don’t really know what to do with Ortegas beyond that she “flies the ship”.

    Hogger85b ,

    "I fly the ship"

    triktrek ,

    She also delivers the many one-line commentaries on dire situations. It’s funny at first, but it does get old pretty quickly.

    r2vq ,
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    So I checked the transcript of The Menagerie were Kirk speaks about the one time he met Captain Pike.

    Well caught!

    PIKE: Lieutenant Kirk.

    KIRK: That’s right! It’s an honour to meet you, sir. Congratulations on your promotion to Fleet Captain.

    I was so focused on Pike’s face since he has met Kirk before. But this is the first time Kirk has met Pike and this is the first thing he says to him. So of course that stands out in his memory in The Menagerie.

    Electricorchestra ,

    Does anyone know if these are new Hemmer shots and if the Hemmet actor was also the zombie?

    Hogger85b ,

    I remember seeing articles that Bruce Horak was acting in season 2 so think he was back for hemmer shots, I assume zombie shots too as why not.

    reddig33 ,

    Still pissed they killed him off.

    knotthatone ,

    I’d really like to see them bring Bruce Hemmer back as a new character. That’s what I hoped for when I first heard we’d see him again in Season 2.

    reddig33 ,

    I’m hoping they just bring back the old character. I mean if Bobby Ewing can come back on Dallas, surely a sci fi show can find a way.

    Hogger85b ,

    Pull a shax from lower decks. Not sure exactly which old trek that story line was based on but shows it is well troped.

    (Senior Bridge officer "dies" on away mission andin next ep just returns with no explanation to rank and file)

    GummySquirrel ,
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    New life goals - get uhura’s linen and pillow sets and start life as a space hippy 🙃

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