Logline
A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman
Directed by Chris Fisher
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Carol Kane seems like she’s being set up as the central mystery or resolution of this season. Too many little nods that she is more than she seems, even when what she seems is already pretty fantastical.
Have we heard of the Lanthanites before? The concept of an entire race of “nearly immortal” aliens living on earth undetected until the 22nd century (starting when??) was a pretty serious infodump. I wonder if that’s just worldbuilding or if it’ll prove important later on.
Since we know there’s going to be a time travel episode, seems like they could be setting her up to appear there like Guinan did in Time’s Arrow.
Which honestly makes you wonder why they created the Lanthanites for this season rather than just making her El-Aurian. I also didn’t love the accent, even though I can accept it as just part of “let Carol Kane do her thing”.
I think the refugees seen at the beginning of Generations might be part of the first formal contact between El-Aurians and the Federation. At least that was always my impression.
Ooh, that would be cool. I love a good pseudo-immortal character turning up in multiple times periods.
It seems to be a totally brand new “we’re going to pretend it’s been there all along and nobody every mentioned it before” race of aliens. I’m curious to see how they develop this idea.