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"The Griffin Incident" enters the list. Congratulations to SNW!

AI prompter:: make Trek spooky
AI: this dismal pile of trash and wasted time
No one will convince me that this drivel was written by a human.

I think the point of the call to Carol is that she isn't picking up.

Unlike the terrible first episode I found 4x02 very enjoyable. I am a fan of horror, especially supernatural horror and ghost stories, as well as X-files like mysteries and movies like Event Horizon. They really succeeded here in turning the ship (which is the same Enterpise Set) into a very unsettling ghost ship with some dark lighting, creepy sound an underlying foreboding music and weird camera angles and shots and of course some gory make-up and effects. Not fancy, but it works. Despite some known horror tropes I found myself pleasantly unsettled and sucked in.

The away team actors also do a great job of transporting their spiraling loss of reality and sanity. The later "party guests" with "surgeon" T'Prin, Una ("never liked T'Prin to begin with") and "master cook" Pike also can really let loose and show off a very creepy perversions of their normal characters and the mental challenges our heroes have to face feel fitting and engaging to me.

I like the idea of Division 12, an X-files like department within Starfleet. I also like that there is no convenient solution just when the episode must end, but that it is left open. Some mysteries remain that way for longer or even forever and that is fine and even has an appeal to it. We cannot know and learn everything about the universe, but we can and should try, but there's always gonna be some mysteries left out there. Great episode!

I often have differing opinions with you Bernd. But this time I agree wholeheartedly. That episode is not Star Trek. Its just a random body horror episode, because someone understood that appear every now and then in Star Trek. But the detail of gore was overkill. Certainly nothing I could watch with the kids.

And the absence of any explanation... Seriously. People have lost touch what Star Trek means.

That was exactly my perception as well!

Not according to some of the early reviewers.

Jessie Gender for example loathed Season 3, but she's seen the first 6 episodes of Season 4, and has said so far it's better than Season 3, other than Episode 1 which she did not like. But opinions are opinions.

Wow, I had the opposite options of you for the first 2 episodes. Hated the first, enjoyed the second.

I like that there's no explantion for the episode, I think an explanation would ruin it. The show does give enough that people can draw their on conclusions.

This episode's goofiness goes to infinity... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The tiny Starfleet Blackbird-class scout is a mere 104-meters long and dwarfed even by starships from 100-years ago. Far smaller than famous cruisers like the refit-Constitution-class USS Enterprise, these 22-man vessels scout ahead of Starfleet task groups, conduct months-long sector patrols from local Starfleet Starbases and Federation planets, and conduct anti-piracy patrols along Federation shipping lanes, responding to distress calls from any Federation craft, and performing search & rescue missions throughout the Federation to fill in the gaps left by larger and more capable Starfleet ships.

The Blackbird-class was created by Bernd Schneider in 1996 and is featured on Ex-Astris Scientia (https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/my_ships/blackbird.htm)

Exterior views by Bernd Schneider, updated by myself. Cross-sectional views and Deck plans by me.

The comet had no name yet, only a string of catalog numbers arrayed on the Astrometric LCARS. But to Lt. Alexa Wolff it felt personal, almost whimsical too. A point of light threading the dark, illuminating their way.

She leaned forward towards the console, taking all the readings in. Data points left and right, immaculate scans of the surface and ejecta. This was exactly what she imagined as a child beneath the domes of Tycho City. Peering through her first telescope, reading stories of daring captains. Batel, Kirk, Saavik, the golden years. Now she was here, at the very same forefront.

“Helm, bring us two hundred kilometers closer.” came Captain Han Lo’s voice over the comm. The visual lenses adjusted, Alexa noticing the Rooivalk was moving in closer, thrusters gliding her on. The hull catching faint reflections of the comet’s glow. The captain had not questioned her request, not even hesitated. The confidence in her expertise had startled her more than any formal commendation. Somewhere in the back of her mind, a younger version of herself smiling gleefully.

Enhanced scans blossomed with new detail. Ice and dust resolved into layers. Ancient volatiles trapped since the dawn of time, now shedding themselves in delicate arcs. Alexa adjusted the filters, isolating elements, mapping a 3d simulation, simulcast to the bridge. “It’s beautiful.” she whispered to herself. Obscure beauty indeed. The kind that required patience, curiosity and faith that meaning existed in the far corners of space.

“Careful, Lieutenant...” Captain Lo said, with a trace of amusement. “At this distance, we might inspire it. Give it a few million years and it could start its own civilization, studying us in return.”

Alexa laughed softly, though her eyes never left the display. “Then we’d better make a good impression, sir.” She paused, recording another data stream. “If they ever ask how it all began, I hope it starts like this. With someone choosing to come a little closer.”

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The Kumari Battlecruiser (2)

Content warning:#StarTrekSNW "The Griffin Incident" spoilers

I know we've had plenty of Klingon zombies in last season's #StarTrekSNW episode “Shuttle to Kenfori”, but I just love this skeletal Klingon staring at La'An in engineering on the USS Griffin in "The Griffin Incident". :-)

#StarTrekDS9's "Defiant" not only gives us a return appearance of Thomas Riker but a nice look at Kira's Bajoran rank pin and a side view of her combadge, both shaped like the Bajoran emblem. 👌 Kira is mighty confued, it seems. 😅

Content warning:#StarTrekSNW "The Griffin Incident" spoilers

#StarTrekTNG's "Night Terrors" is one of my favourite #TNG episodes ⬇️. I loved the visual similarity between the TNG shot and this shot in #StarTrekSNW's "The Griffin Incident"⬆️. "Eyes in the dark...one moon...circles!" :-)

#StarTrekTNG's "Redemption II" (1st row) features the return of a TNG-style Klingon d'k tahg, earlier seen in "Sins of the Father"⬅️↙️ and "The Bonding"➡️. In "Redemption I" (2nd row), a d'k tahg that looks more like the original prop from "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"↘️ was used.

Here are two awesome concept images of the USS Thorn that Daniel J. Burns posted on his X page:

https://x.com/djb_art/status/2083128458293760285

https://x.com/djb_art/status/2083392793721118803

Here are shots of the USS Thorn, pulling the USS Griffin with its tractor beam in #StarTrekSNW's "The Griffin Incident"↖️. After tugs in #StarTrekDS9's "A Time to Stand"➡️ and in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Brother"↙️ (both kitbashed) did the same in earlier episodes, this is the first non-kitbash tug doing so. 😊 1/2

Here are the space shots that we get of (the original) Sol V and its two moons and the cool planetary graphic with all the basic facts about the planet, as seen in last week's #StarTrekSNW episode "The Griffin Incident".

The shot of the USS Enterprise-D facing a Romulan warbird in #StarTrekTNG's "Redemption II"⬆️ was originally created for season 4's "Data's Day"⬇️. As can be seen, one warbird was removed for the re-use in the season 5 opener.

Content warning:#StarTrekSNW "The Griffin Incident" spoilers

It's rather spooky and uncanny (befitting the episode) how La'An predicts David Marcus' eventual demise in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" in this week's #StarTrekSNW's episode "The Griffin Incident" 🙈.

#StarTrekDS9's "Meridian gives us the very first #StarTrek appearance of Jeffrey Combs as Tiron and this good look at the Bajoran emblem (this version being in place since mid-season 2) located at the entrance to the Bajoran temple on the Promenade.