Given that we have only previously seen 23rd century Rigel VII as a telepathic recreation in an unaired pilot (The Cage), but that it’s the first Strange New World in ever mentioned other than Talos IV, actually going to see it is hardly a ‘same old’ nostalgic visit.

Yes, I would like more planet visits too, but we’ve seen more in 14 episodes of SNW than we have in most seasons of Discovery or all of Picard.

Trek fans. Gotta love em.

I can’t disagree with this too much, it’s more nostalgia bait, but I’m OK with this one. Once we went back to Talos IV in DIS, I always assumed they would find a way to go back to Rigel VII too since that’s the only other Pike connection we got. But since we never actually been there before, it’s another reason to have him go back and really explore it and his past. And it’s nice this episode will be squarely about Pike since the first three weren’t.

But I’m hoping AFTER this, we can finally go someplace new and interesting this season. The first episode doesn’t really count.

Rebecca Romijn deserves a hell of a lot better than the material she’s being given for this show. 2×02 and 1×03 aside, she’s been seriously underused and reduced to issuing orders and that’s it.

Well in fairness, how many times in TOS did we actually have our characters going to a new world. Of course they were all new to us viewers, but how many were in universe previously unvisited planets? Not very many.

I think you mean “I disagree.”

Rigel VII is strange and still like new…

No.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Agreed. Originality seems to have died on this hill.

Possibly, but after the implications revealed in the last episode it would need to say, “previously on, in a timeline not affected by the Temporal Cold War, which only changes things in the upcoming episode that we find inconvenient to telling our story.” Ha! Sorry, I couldn’t resist…

Asides from a few mentions and a couple of minutes of flashbacks, we really haven’t see this world yet.

Kinda reminds me of the question, can you really say you’ve visited a city if all you did was change planes at the airport?

It’s like they forgot the premise of their own show. I gave up on them trying to be original or creative.

Uniforms in general on these new shows have been a disaster.

Yeah another fun concept and two (actually rarely) used Trek tropes in one episode, cultural contamination and memory loss! Despite any issues I might have with this show, this is why I also enjoy it so much because we’re getting trippy sci fi again. I’m not as excited as I was for the last episode, but looking forward to it.

It is directly mentioned in the title and article.

Yes. They should.

Ok I caved. I watched it. Very interesting.

Haven’t watched it. Trying to avoid it. But, thank you. :)

The reason why is in the clip. :)

They explain in the clip.

That would be cool, since they did that on DSC.