Strange New Worlds S1E10, and a season wrapup
Jude wants Pike's... cooking. We compare this episode to its source TOS episode, and the Kirk the world remembers versus the Kirk in actuality. We feint at, and then avoid, becoming an X-Men podcast, AGAIN. There's a sidetrack into Diane Duane at some point, Zathras lost track. Dreaming of Daddy Pike taking a dip in Cetacean Ops.
s2e01 The Contingency s2e02 Bad Code
Uh, thanks for the infohazard warning Justen. Also, there's a headphones moment around 13:00 to 14:20 that, if you're watching through for the first time, you might want to skip if you are a die hard spoiler avoider.
Season 2 starts out with a bang.
Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 9: All Those Who Wander
In which the gang, loopy after too many recordings, breaks the format a bit, much to Justen's distress.
We have to discuss the big death in this episode, and whether we hate it or we just hate how the show makes us have to feel things in our cold hearts.
PoI S1E22: No Good Deed, S1E23: Firewall
In which Justen murders the rest of the crew with a joke, and a lot of dirty water was cut out for your convenience.
No Good Deed: Season one denouements, some tragic Finch backstory, and secrets are revealed. Jude has doubts about Nathan's regrets.
Person of Interest Season 1, episodes 20 and 21: Matsya Nyaya and Many Happy Returns
Matsya Nyaya: Are there codified rules of Dibs in Podcasting? Similarly, no body no death. Ordos is a real place, disturbingly. Even though it's Pablo Schreiber, we care so very little about this week's number... especially compared to the flasback plot. It feels like treading water in the present while they get past elements stacked up for the end of the
SNW S1E08: The Elysian Kingdom
In yet more evidence that the Strange New Worlds writers LOVE Star Trek, bringing the author Benjamin Russell (played by Benjamin Sisko in Deep Space 9 season 6, episode 13, Far Beyond the Stars) warms our cold, vacuum-dried hearts.
There are so many character moments in this episode where this cast has an absolute
Person of Interest S1E18: Identity Crisis and S1E19: Flesh and Blood
Identity Crisis: Jude starts out the show with an EXTREMELY detailed revenge fantasy, and then expresses a complete lack of interest in Identity Crisis aside from some fun bits and one crystal clear moment of characterization for Finch and Reese. Oh, and Finch apparently invented social media. Don't talk to cops without a lawyer present.
Strange New Worlds S1E07: The Serene Squall
This episode nearly broke us. It's almost too much that we get an episode on par with Trials and Tribbilations, featuring a nonbinary pirate captain and the first trans director of a Trek.
Oh dear lord are we fighting about Muppet Treasure Island vs. Treasure Planet again...
A three-pack of episodes this time: Blue Code, Risk, and Baby Blue
Blue Code: Are you paid up with HR? Or are you running drugs for the CIA? Why aren't there shirtless police officer calendars, anyway?
Risk: Avoiding talking about the episode by discussing how to name ships is not how you win Zathras over. Canonizing the Jarold ship name... is mildly better.
S1E05: Spock Amok S1E06: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
In which we coin the verb "Gorned" and the warcrimes airhorn is repurposed to be a bodyswap airhorn. Are anxiety dreams part of the human genome?
WHO STABBED ORTEGAS WITH A LIRPA, WE DEMAND THIS INFORMATION.
Also, what would happen if Jude and Justen freaky fridayed?