Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"

THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS AS I WATCH:

• NOOO, I DON'T WANT THIS TO END!
• Previously: The various stuff happened.
• Oh, hey, Cayuga captains log.
• Nice of them to have a colony modeled after an Earth town. Saves on budget.
• "SIGNAL LOST." In space, a dropped call can mean only one thing: Invasion.
• Oh, we're doing the Independence Day thing?
• Telling a Starfleet captain to just do reconnaissance is basically telling them to go weapons free.
• Nice little tinge of one of the TOS scores at the end of the cold open. Someone more geekier than I can probably place it.
• If you ever feel like you are useless in life, just remember that there is a "skip intro" button during a "Space, the Final Frontier" monologue.
• Is the "Gorn Protocol" a hand-cannon with with a diamond?
• She flies the ship!
• I'd like to imagine there is a deleted scene where they glue every piece of junk they have onto the shuttle.
• If they're going to do a "is someone still alive in the wreckage" storyline, they probably should have flip-flopped Batel and Chapel's spots, given that we obviously know she's going to live.
• They keep giving Jenna Mitchell lines! FREE MITCHELL! Give that actreess a cast credit, cowards!
• Ah, a good old fashioned beam into the sky.
• Oh, look, a Gornzooky!
• And... vaporized.
• More Gornzookies!
• Oh my god, it's young Scotty. Hopefully this means Keenser is there. I always loved Keenser and his ability to sit on things he isn't supposed to.
• Doesn't seem like Keenser is there :(
• Of course Scotty would engineer a way to save people. He truly is a miracle worker.
• Smashing a piece of space debris is a very... brilliant idea.
• Pelia continuing to harass Una for her poor academics in engineering.
• Why do I get the feeling that whatever plan Spock has to put the rockets on the hull will also allow him to check for survivors?
• Wow, imagine that, Chapel is alive! Imagine that! Whoever would have thought! (Seriously they should have flip-flopped her and Batel if they were going to do this)
• USE THE MORSE, CHRISTINE!
• Oh, now she grabs the spacesuit. Although I guess she didn't need it yet.
• WARNING: GORNZOOKY
• COMMAND CODE INVALID'
• That looks like a bigger Gorn. An adult? Or at least like a teenager.
• So incredibly Alien.
• "GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM, YOU removed!"
• Oh shit, she's been impregnated with gornzookies. A very zombie movie trope.
• "There'll be time later." Before or after you get engaged to Dr. Korby?
• "We need to abort some Gornzookies."
• Yeah, Scotty would be a shitty student despite being brilliant.
• OH FUCK THE GORN KIDNAPPED THEM
• TO BE CONTINUED?!?!!?! Okay, who wants to drive to Hollywood and personally beat up some billionaires? I want this strike over NOW and I want a conclusion WITHIN A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF MAX!