So does Chapel, who takes out two baddies ( Die Hard with a Hypospray!), but leaves the gun behind when she has the opportunity to arm herself. With the bridge compromised but the computer locked out from the pirates, Spock and Aspen have to sneak around without being captured in order to attempt to retake the ship. cooking?Īlso, when Pike's team beams over to the alien ship, a team of pirates stealthily beams over to the Enterprise, and attempts to take over the ship in what is the series' first Enterprise Takeover Plot™. And really - the pirate crew's power struggle here revolves around. What's strange here is how absolutely certain Pike is that his plan to subvert the pirates will succeed he and Una chuckle knowingly in their cell about the chaos they're about to unleash, and none of this feels dangerous nor comical enough to be worth the time. Pike has a plan to drive a wedge between Remy and his crew, in an effort to start a mutiny and make a grand escape. The away team is locked in a cell, but the supposed captain of the pirates, named Remy (Michael Hough), agrees to let Pike cook for them in order to gain a better standing with his crew (Remy is a terrible cook, see). Meanwhile, Pike and an away team board what they believe is the colonists' ship, only to find the pirate crew is there to ambush them.
T'Pring's role in all this also feels like too much of something we've already had this season. But unfortunately, coming so close after " Spock Amok," this exploration of Spock's dual nature feels like another retread of plentifully-well-trodden ground. You're either this or you're that." The dialogue provides an intriguing subtext coming from a non-binary-gendered actor. Aspen notes, of Spock's plight, "All species put things into boxes. Aspen takes to Spock, intrigued by his contradictions and personal struggle - as when he's forced to make a random "hunch" guess to escape a web of lasers, which to him flies in the face of logic. There's a character core to "Serene Squall," and it centers on Spock and his ever-questioning sense of split self. "Gambit" was middling, but it was a lot better than this. There haven't been a lot of pirate episodes on Star Trek (they were long forbidden by Gene Roddenberry in the TNG days), with " Gambit" being the only notable exception. Still, this one stands out in its boring mediocrity compared to the last two. "The Serene Squall" is easily the worst outing for SNW this season, and it's a bit of a deflation to see this promising show on the decline for the third straight episode. The Enterprise enters the region, which puts them out of contact with Starfleet and on their own, in a mission to find the Serene Squall and rescue the prisoners. Their ship is called the Serene Squall, and Aspen says the pirates will likely sell the colonists into slavery to the Klingons if they aren't rescued. Aspen (Jesse James Keitel), the Enterprise ventures into a "wild west" area of space to rescue missing colonists who have apparently been kidnapped by a band of pirates known to actively pillage this area. Under the guidance of ex-Starfleet humanitarian worker Dr. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "The Serene Squall"