🖖 #Trekkies reassemble!
Since two episodes were released last week, there are two reviews of #StrangeNewWorlds today.
This time, we go deep into the challenges of war trauma, in an episode that asks questions for which we should never expect tidy answers: not in any age, and *certainly* not with all the suffering that exists around us every day.
M'Benga's struggle is not a hypothetical - and that's the bleakest part of the quandary here.
#GlobalHumanism #TV #StarTrek https://onlysky.media/mclark/whose-justice-will-emerge-from-under-the-cloak-of-war/
Hah. That's a generous reading. I was thinking the buffer would be used again, considering its role in the flashbacks - but no!
They chose the right one, though. The frosted glass version allows for that room to be our "cloak of war".
Although... I didn't mention in this piece, but BOY do these episodes rely heavily on a lack of monitoring equipment.
(Jumping franchises now, but I swear: half the plots in Babylon 5 were caused by a lack of station-wide comms & cameras systems.)
I genuinely wonder how they didn't have more hull breaches and water contamination issues, considering how many people were wandering about in altered states of mind / destitution & despair in the Downbelow. They had one heck of an insurance nightmare among gen-pop!
@MLClark There probably were. JMS just didn't tell those stories.
Ha! Now I want a proper Lower Decks spin-off from B5!
Oh, or maybe a riff on Touched By An Angel, only with a Vorlon offering a different hard-done-by Downbelower a chance to change their life each episode.
(I think I would've been a menace if I'd ever gotten into a TV writers' room. 🙃)
@MLClark Did you know I wrote a B5 cookbook? Licensed by a U.K. publisher. WB had me write it, working with a food consultant. JMS snuck it into a fifth season episode as a prop, so it's canon.
Woo! That's fantastic.
What was your favourite recipe from the collection, and did the book have a punny name?
@MLClark Well, B5 can be explained by it being the fifth attempt at a station. It was a low-budget station.