Logline

Uhura 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

  • ikesau@startrek.websiteEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    Zombie Hemmer was freaky! Nicely done, wardrobe/makeup.

    This clearly took a lot from TNG’s Night Terrors right? A bit of Firefly’s Bushwhacked in there too.

    I liked it overall, but my favourite Star Trek episodes are when the crew gets to use their extreme competency to overcome a difficult challenge. This episode, the crew was… not so competent.

    • Una’s team can’t identify that there’s been sabotage even though it’s just like, phaser blasts from a half-deranged man
    • The dude easily escapes from sick bay and blows up a nacelle (had the stun setting not been invented yet? What about locked doors?)
    • There’s no way the medical team could keep Uhura around and try to do some tests when she’s having an episode, they can only put on the brain scan screensaver
    • They can’t shut down the dang refinery! The lever’s stuck and they’re out of WD-40!
    • Pike blows up the quadrillion dollar infrastructure project immediately, not even just targeted laser blasts to the parts that are doing the murder. The whole thing has to blow up.

    I guess this is just trek being trek and I shouldn’t take it so seriously. Emotionally, the crew was at the top of their game: intuitive, perceptive, empathetic, trusting. good stuff.

    But yeah, I feel like I would have enjoyed this more had the problem been made more difficult instead of the crew less capable.

    • marian@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They can’t shut down the dang refinery! The lever’s stuck and they’re out of WD-40!

      I actually had the least problem with that. It’s entirely plausible that huge machines can’t just turned off in an instant. Even real life nuclear reactors need something like +12 hours even for an emergency shutdown. A city-sized space-refinery probably has so much momentum in it’s spinning parts that it is faster to just shoot that thing.