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Star Trek Strange New Worlds 2.08 "Under the Cloak of War" REVIEW (Patreon)

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2023-07-27 13:01:02
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2023-07

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Doctor M'Benga finally gets an episode... and its full of TRAUMA! KLINGON TRAUMA!

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds 2.08 "Under the Cloak of War" REVIEW

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frogsmore

I think this is an awful episode… one of the worst Star Treks I’ve seen. The whole episode is labored and feels super heavy handed throughout: “Why are we here?” “You know why… the captain needs us.” Um? Pike clearly stated he didn’t, actually, right up-front. He was simply grateful for support. But it wasn’t forthcoming. M’Benga and Chapel whispering and flouncing in the background of the dinner would have been totally obvious and embarrassing in a small dinner party. Thanks for your help dudes :/ And the exchange: “Like someone squeezed my heart with their fingers” “Someone did.” Oh dear! And “I prefer saving lives to taking them.” Wow… what a guy! So that explains how he went from butcher to CMO. But by far the worst thing, in my opinion, is the underlying perpetuation of War Myth pervading the episode, which practically comes from the mouth of M’Benga. Despite his preference, noted above, I find it difficult to reconcile a Star Fleet CMO who says things like “But if we don’t fight, we don’t win.” Ghandhi clearly got that bit wrong. And it was so obvious… so obvious :/ It continues: “I just wish we could stop this, without all this dying.” “We have to fight, so the people we love can have a chance to live in peace.” You have got to be kidding. This episode is shameful in my opinion. But apparently: “That’s Star Fleet”

frogsmore

In this episode I lost all respect for M’Benga as a character, and Babs Olusanmokun as an actor. Quite something from a Star Trek devotee of, some, 40 years

Anonymous

I have major gripes with this episode that I’ve articulated elsewhere. I think it’s a good hour of television but not a good episode of Star Trek.

Anonymous

Loved it. *Spoilers* As for the ending, I think there's a malevolent read being given to M'Benga by folks. 1) Dak'rah was the guy giving the order to massacre the kids. His lie about killing his officers was to cover up that fact. 2) M'Benga just told him that *M'Benga Knows* he was lying. That he knows Dak'Rah didn't have some come to Come to Kahless moment realizing that killing kids was too far. In fact he was the guy *doing* the genocide-ing. Put those together and I find it hard to believe M'Benga just murdered this guy in cold blood. Equally as likely the guy tried to kill M'Benga -OR- un-alived himself (M'Benga yells "don't!"). People seem to take Dak'Rah's kindly old man with a cane act at face value. But just because he used his defector status to keep himself out of trouble doesn't erase the genocide stuff (or the lengths he might go to keep the life/respect he had). I also find it odd people jump right to M'Benga lying when it was *purposefully* left up to interpretation.