Logline

Starfleet commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original orders.

Written by: Alan B. McElroy

Directed by: Sharon Lewis

  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteOPMEnglish
    5·
    29 days ago

    I’m guessing this episode drawing from old war films, in particular I am getting flavours of submarine hunts, chasing after wakes, and handling big questions of WMDs, the sanity of the chain of command.

    Maybe it’s just because the writers of the (alleged) next Trek film have been talking about it, but I did think of “Crimson Tide” several times during this one.

    A’Sha leaving is fine, I guess, she didn’t feel very present throughout the season anyway.

    I can’t help but think there’s still more to come with her - they haven’t dropped her off yet, after all. Something about it seems unfinished, somehow.

    • SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      29 days ago

      Maybe she was an undercover romulan, sent to report if enterprise go too close to finding the cloaked ship, and now that Reeger is likely no longer a threat, and enterprise probably isn’t going to want to follow up, her job’s done so she’s off.

    • kabutor@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      I enter the discussion post after watching the episode, did a Ctrl+F to Crimson Tide and I see I’m not the only one thinking about it.

      As soon in the episode as the Admiral says, “Here there is only one voice, mine” or something like that I knew they were ripping off the plot of Crimson Tide, and I was not wrong.

      • ValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteOPMEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        I think an important difference is the characters’ motivations, though - for Reeger, it’s personal, while Ramsey in “Crimson Tide” is merely hawkish and reckless.