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Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x01 “The Broken Circle” (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Strange New Worlds 2x01 The Broken Circle.

Now that we've had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's really fertile ground for storytelling. TNG's The Wounded with Captain Maxwell and O'Brien was fantastic, but we've never really had any Starfleet main characters really grapple with the aftermath of a war. DS9 certainly showed us the toll it takes during a conflict, but not so much the years afterwards.

How far will Starfleet officers go to avert a war now that they've had to suffer through one?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We saw O’Brien’s anger and resentment towards the ‘Cardis’ in TNG, but that wa more to establish the Cardassians as a longer standing threat.