The Enterprise crew discovers that warp-travel causes rifts in the fabric of space.
This is a strange episode that takes a very important topic and presents it in a way that feels slightly ill conceived.
The initial concept of environmental sustainability is a perfect topic to address in a progressive show like Star Trek, but it feels to have been tackled with little effort in what feels like a tick box exercise by the showrunners.
It begins quite whimsical before veering in the direction of the main plot, which is presented by guest characters who are relatively bland. There is an attempt at making it exciting with the 'surfing' scenes, but this simply consists of the bridge shaking a few times as the characters exchange technobabble. Then it is nicely wrapped up by the speed limit solution and aside from the odd reference to the limit, it is never properly addressed again in the show.
There are some scenes I enjoyed. Randomly, the Spot scenes with Data and Geordie are quite amusing. Also the presentation in the final scene and discussion works well.
The main cast do a good job with the material they have, but for such a big topic this for me is largely forgettable.
This is a strange episode that takes a very important topic and presents it in a way that feels slightly ill conceived.
The initial concept of environmental sustainability is a perfect topic to address in a progressive show like Star Trek, but it feels to have been tackled with little effort in what feels like a tick box exercise by the showrunners.
It begins quite whimsical before veering in the direction of the main plot, which is presented by guest characters who are relatively bland. There is an attempt at making it exciting with the 'surfing' scenes, but this simply consists of the bridge shaking a few times as the characters exchange technobabble. Then it is nicely wrapped up by the speed limit solution and aside from the odd reference to the limit, it is never properly addressed again in the show.
There are some scenes I enjoyed. Randomly, the Spot scenes with Data and Geordie are quite amusing. Also the presentation in the final scene and discussion works well.
The main cast do a good job with the material they have, but for such a big topic this for me is largely forgettable.