Here’s a place to discuss the recent Strange New Worlds episode. Spoiler warning of course!

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    29 days ago

    Typical Star Trek episode with brutally against Red Shirts. j/k

    From the moment Gamble tried to touch the M’Kroon and chat him up I knew he was going to be a problem on the away team.

    The ancient text overlaying in Sick Bay was very reminiscent of the Sphere taking over Discovery. I do not think this is the last we will be seeing the Vezda.

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      29 days ago

      I told my wife when we first saw Gamble introduced that he was like one of those characters on the older shows that the entire crew suddenly knows really well, even though it’s their first episode. They’re as doomed as a detective one week from retirement!

      I don’t think we’ll be seeing the last of them either. I’m guessing probably the season finale, but we’ll see.

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        28 days ago

        I could not remember if we had seen Gamble prior to when we met him. But I did think it was odd how well the entire crew seemed to know him immediately.

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          28 days ago

          He appeared on episodes 2 through 5 this season, but the way they were especially playing up M’Benga’s relationship with him in episode 2 made me immediately suspect he wasn’t going to survive long. I was honestly surprised it took that long, I had figured it would be the zombie episode.

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            28 days ago

            I thought we would lose M’Benga to make way for McCoy in that episode. I know Bones is in s1e1 of TOS, but I have never looked further into his past to see if he ever served with Pike.

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              28 days ago

              M’Benga actually appears on two episodes of TOS if I remember right, so he’s got some plot armor! On the episode A Private Little War, he’s the doctor that is slapping Spock to help bring him out of his Vulcan healing coma.

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                28 days ago

                M’Benga actually appears on two episodes of TOS if I remember right, so he’s got some plot armor!

                I had no idea! S2E19 and S3E17. Those are moving up on our watch list!

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                  28 days ago

                  He’s not a main character in those episodes by any stretch, but it’s interesting to see him outside of SNW!