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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

In season 1, I thought it was actually a good surprise.
Now I'm wondering what will start the war with the Klingons that goes throughout TOS, since the empire has kind of taken a back seat this season.
I kind of like that his human side has "taken over" the personality, but I'm not really certain of his alignment one way or another.

You're right, Ash being embedded with the flesh and psyche of the Klingon prophet was way over the top interesting and creative. Seems rather far-fetched, I mean, how much of Ash's flesh was replaced? But Ash's brain wasn't replaced, right? How does this work? It's pretty darn complicated.

I think the Red Angel is a worthy season arch. But I wouldn't be surprised if they rap this up, for the most part, in the next couple eps.

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

So latest ep.
I thought the funeral/send off scene was nice. Quite heartfelt.
...don't know about replacing the character with another one played by the same chick...but ok...

We barely knew ye... I think it's kind of funny. They totally ignored the most interesting cast member, the heavy duty cyborg, for the entirety of two seasons, besides the last two eps, and then kill her. So tough to really miss her.

Throughout the 1st season I didn't know if she was a part of a robot race or what. Now she's dead. I guess she was human, and her brain was transferred into a robot, or maybe just 50% is human flesh... they didn't really get into it. Could have been very interesting character! But I guess the writing staff was like, we haven't used her yet, let's kill her.

They're ignoring a lot of the Command Deck crew. Which is really rather odd for a Star Trek series. TOS we got to know them pretty quick. And NG they were into them day one.

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

I think Pike has been the best part of the show by far...and is one of my favourite Captains after this. It's too bad he's leaving in season 3 but I guess it was only meant to be a temporary assignment.
Wonder if Saru would be up to the job when he's gone?
Though I believe they'll likely get a new captain/acting captain that's not yet part of the cast.

Digging Cap Pike. I always thought the TOS Pike looked like Chuck Woolery (Love Connection). He's the temp Cpt, but could be made perm. I wish he was a bit more... I don't know, he seems a bit small of a character, I think they need to let him be more Pike or something. It's way too reserved. It's not like we knew the old Pike so much from one pilot ep.

Saru would be the first alien Star Trek Cap. I'd dig that. I'm feeling him. He's got strong moral inclinations -- and that's been the traditional umpf of the ST Caps. But I kind of assumed it was going to be Michael????