Logline

A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.

Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman

Directed by Chris Fisher

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  • l4sgc@startrek.website
    5·
    2 years ago

    If they had super-soldier drugs the whole time why didn’t they use them against the gorn or any other combat that occurred in season 1?

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
      7·
      2 years ago

      Presumably they have nasty side effects and the only reason they resorted to them here was because the only other option was oblivion.

      I’d like to see them going through some bad consequences of using that stuff.

    • FormerGameDev@midwest.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      my presumption is that M’Benga has it, and it’s his personal supply, that would be at best frowned upon, at worst, illegal for him to have.

    • scarecrw@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years ago

      Maybe its use is prohibited in the federation and they only had access due to being on the extremists’ ship?

    • angstrom@startrek.website
      3·
      2 years ago

      Way back in ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ Q when dressed as a soldier of one of the armies of World War III was shown using a retractable stimulant dispenser. Not sure if the green stuff was intended as a nod towards that.

      To be honest when I was watching the scene I thought I had missed something from last season. Threw me off balance for the rest of the episode.

      • l4sgc@startrek.website
        21·
        2 years ago

        I also thought I forgot something from last season, it’s literally why I checked reddit and wound up here. Regardless of if prior lore established the existence of these stimulants, the fact that there was basically no discussion of what they are or the fact the doctor carries them around before they use them was very jarring.