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.

  • 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.

    • Klanky@sopuli.xyz
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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!