User Reviews

I much preferred 'Strange Energies' to 'Second Contact'. It took three or four episodes to warm up to STLD during the first season, but I just had a better vibe with this one.

While I didn't enjoy the "mother-daughter" theme here, I'm glad they are past that and we can move on. That said, they needed to address it after the season 1 closer.

While the "god-like" powers were overdone, there were snippets during the show that cracked me up. Ransom's disciples lifting weights, the bolder... it wasn't too bad. It did seem to drag on.

Mariner's holodeck stuff was pretty cool. I liked this line from Boimler: "they keep showing me lights!" ... lol

Tendi zapping Rutherford was pretty funny. I like everything these two are in, and while a little over the top for Tendi - I can see her seriously worrying about losing Rutherford as a friend.

Mariner resolving this whole Gary Mitchell thing by repeatedly kicking Ransom in the nuts was not required IMO and a little tasteless. I would expect that on The Orville, not here.

Off to the Titan next week... I can't wait. We need to get Boimler back onboard the Cerritos!

Not horrible, but not up to the level the last season ended with.

After "No Small Parts" I expected season 2 to follow Mariner and the captain as they team up (as an unstoppable mommy-daughter team) to address Starfleet's problems that have been brought to light. However just after the intro, it is revealed that Mariner and the captain have already been doing just that in between season 1 and 2, and they both have grown tired of each others behaviours (the captain is too strict, and Mariner doesn't follow orders). The episode ends with both of them deciding that it was nice working together, but they work better apart. So half of what was setup in season 1's finale was for nothing.

Two things that I cannot understate though, is just how many Easter eggs there are, and just how funny this episode was, despite its lack of story. This episode also sees the return of the Miranda class cruiser, for the first (barring the ridiculous Short Trek episode) time since Voyager: Endgame.

I'm looking forward to episode 2.

Maybe my standards are a bit high because the second half of the first season was just magnificent. It was an okay story and the Gary Mitchell callbacks were great; it honestly isn't the same without Boimler full time though. Mariner and the Captain working together just didn't work (at least the way they were here). I know what this show is capable of so I'm gonna keep watching of course, but this one was just mediocre at best. The parts that made this show great weren't there, otherwise this could have been great.

This show seems to be only able to throw lightning fast references at people, and thinks it equals good writing and humor. Yes, I remember David Warner torturing Picard and the "There are four lights!" line, yes I remember Gary Mitchell... you proved you can use Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) resourcefully, writers, that does not mean you are fit to write a good show.

For starters, we begin with Mariner being awesome as ever, escaping from a Cardassian prison - this is all a holo-play she is doing as exercise, because she is so badass, prison escapes relax her. And while she got what she wanted all last season, acceptance by her mother, now she finds her TOO doting and wants her to dial it back. I swear she is the most insufferable character in Star Trek... and I endured 4 seasons of Archer.

Commander Ransom gets randomly zapped with "strange energy" (ha-ha, great joke, but that's not how Starfleet talks) and immediately gets a god complex declaring everyone else puny mortals, yet just using his powers to flex his muscles. Again, Gary Mitchell, whom they keep mentioning... he did not turn into some godlike being feeling himself over mere human morals in a heartbeat. It took half an episode and we saw how ultimate power ultimately corrupted him. But Ransom gets no such character development, no, we are here for spoiled brat Mariner who is more worried about resolving the boring mission than a potential god being born, and then defeats Ransom by... repeatedly kicking him in the balls. Yes, you heard it right. This is the show's level of humor.

In the secondary plot, we have T'endi again break all barriers of personal space, and obsess over Rutherford dating another crewman. This woman supposedly graduated Starfleet Academy - yet she cannot handle that she is in love with her teammate, and also breaks any and all medical rules when she subjects him to ridiculously stupid experimental treatments without even consulting with a real doctor. She is needy and possessive and is willing to tamper with the brain of another Starfleet member for selfish reasons. HOW did she not get expelled long ago?

The show continues its Teen Titans Go levels of "comedy" while not having the characters evolve at all - Mariner is back where she started in season 1, again, because these writers fear change.

Mariner kicks man 8x times in a balls, than drops boulder on his head ! And that for all trouble she is personally responsible ! It's Star Trek woman and man should be threatened as equals !

But Mariner will not bare any consequences for anything cause she is Marry Sue - Best'es ever !

No morale lesson, no real consequences and humor not even funny !

I want to see more of Riker and his starship Titan !