@Neidfyre @Twerpy @StarTrekHour
I wrote somewhere else on this site that the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds story of #ChristopherPike had a messianic quality to it, and by that I meant he was being depicted as a great influential leader who was going to sacrifice himself (and in a most punishing manner) for the good of the rest of the timeline.

If on Talos 4, Pike somehow "ascends" with the Talosians and Vina, that metaphor would be even more complete.🤔
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Now that I've typed that👆, I rather like the inherent chicken before the egg #paradox of Pike's situation.🤔👍
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I didn't think reinterpretting Shatner would be this difficult. At least Chris Pine was doing a younger version, but I happened to see #AQualityOfMercy and #BalanceOfTerror a day apart and it felt wildly discordant. Maybe I'll get used to it.🤷‍♂️
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Pike knows his fate, and because of that he's told Una, and probably altered his behavior in a bunch of slight ways that are impacting events. Are all of those decisions basically putting him on that path to the accident, or is he already changing things around him and disrupting the timeline?

Pike doesn't even have to reveal what he knows, but is his mere darker mood with, say, Captain Batel in episode 1 changing the timeline?
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@StarTrekHour
I think it was sorta poetic injustice that Spock ended up mutilated instead of Pike when Pike tried to avoid his future, but it can't be that time or fate requires SOMEONE get mutilated, that would be absurd!

I dunno where the writers are going with this. Maybe it is a straightforward as that.🤷‍♂️
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@StarTrekHour @petertrek1
We get a hint of what happens to her eventually in this episode. I am curious to see if Pike now prepared for this can stop it from happening, thus further messing with the timeline (unless she was always supposed to not get incarcerated).🤔
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@StarTrekHour
This I feel is still a real conundrum for Pike. I think he would be ok condeming himself for the greater good of the timeline or fates, but to condemn the other cadets I feel is beyond him or that episode.

I'm really curious to see how the show deals with this cuz it's not the usual Trek story of stopping some crazy scientist from messing with the timeline.
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@StarTrekHour @punkonbus1701 That uniform absolutely rocked. Loved the update, explainable as being from an alternate timeline.
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@strange_new_words
I dunno if #CaptainPike is the kind of person to condemn other people, like the cadets, to their death, which is what he's being asked to do.

As far as him messing up other #StarTrekTOS episodes like #BalanceOfTerror, the answer seems pretty simple to me, save himself and the cadets at the forseen accident, then resign.🤷‍♂️

That would probably mess up the timeline in some other way tho.😖
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@strange_new_words
I like that explanation, but I dunno man. The message in #AQualityOfMercy might be to just blow up that damn Romulan ship when he gets the chance.🤦‍♂️🤣

I think I liked Captain Pike's story a bit more when I thought he couldn't change his fate. There's a lot of stories of people who see the future and accept it, or try to change it and in so doing bring it about. That's tragic, but interesting.🤷‍♂️

However, #AQualityOfMercy has shown that Pike CAN change his fate. Now that he's been given yet another prophetic vision, he might spend the next few years attempting to play god to attain some optimal result. Ugh.🤦‍♂️
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I liked that Pike was given a vision of his tragic fate, and had to live with it. That's an interesting conundrum.👍

Most cautionary tales of time travel have someone go back in time with disastrous results, but in #AQualityOfMercy our hero is shown his future, and then told to stay the course otherwise VERY bad things!😖

As a #TrolleyProblem it feels absurd and lil messianic. What about all the other things he inadvertently changed due to his foreknowledge?🤔
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These … ?

Are my video reviews of the first series of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds.

Each has an intro: and a link to the written version: over on my blog, #NikNaksOldPeculiar

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJooO8nBBvG0jzgm8uSazIAxKfPXHJiDw

I hope you enjoy them: and like and subscribe, as a result.

I’ll be watching the last episode, #AQualityOfMercy, on #25thNovember: and have my #review of it up on the 26th.

I’d welcome your thoughts and comments