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LoglineA time ripple damages the Enterprise, forcing young and old Uhura to cooperate and fix the timeline.

Written by: Henry Alonso Myers & Robbie Thompson

Directed by: Chris Fisher

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[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 14 points 3 days ago

This was a really good finale. It was well paced, the stakes for the crew felt strong, and it was a great timey wimey time travel sci fi story.

Regarding the stakes, one of my criticisms of prequels was that, as fans, the future is fixed, but here it felt a lot more tense. Even though we know scotty doesn't die, I was half expecting one of the Uhuras to have to sacrifice themselves to save the other, which felt a substantial risk, and it really helped sell the episode.

CRG did great acting here, and did justice to "the same character but at different points in their life" - the confidence in future!uhura stood out.

I was very confused about the black hole / white hole's scale - I was suprised at the final act when they're basically right up against it, and the holes turn out to be roughly the same size as the enterprise itself. I think it could have been established a little better at the beginning, but that's a minor annoyance.

The midwife aliens are the same being as DS9 prophets, I guess, they spoke to Uhura in song because they would know she can interpret that, where they knew to speak to bajorans in poetry and scripture.

I liked the little preview of future!enterprise's looks, especially seeing a few background characters from different species.

Overall, great finale to an okay season. I hope the final season has loads of episodes just like this one.

[-] endofline@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I was super confused when both the drones and Uhura disappeared into that barrier only five feet off of the ship.

It’s only an idea, but I told myself that it possibly only looks like a white and black hole on the outside as some type of self defense mechanism for the baby.

Outside of that minor(hah!) gripe, I loved this episode. Past Uhura helping future Uhura was a neat idea. I found Scotty and Uhura as a couple to be cute, and felt that Scotty’s actor portrayed his attraction to Uhura very sincerely.

I loved the TAS crew members that were present the shuttle bay while they were getting ready for the mission into the black hole.

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