Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 Ep10 A Quality of Mercy Review - Beyond Expectations
7Strange New Worlds took my fears and expectations of a serialized finale and masterfully exploited them to deliver a surprise episodic finale that does not just everything it needed to but things I didn't even realize needed doing! But it also tripped up with a few things and muddied some waters. So let's take a look at the modern Trials and Tribble-ations!
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Previous Episode: https://youtu.be/fkdH9Sm1Ddc
Next Episode (SNW S2 Ep01): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE7hyl8g3Os
Next Episode (Lower Decks S3 Ep01): https://youtu.be/cUAisypZovY
Strange New Worlds on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-strange-new-worlds/?intcid=PPI-16-10aaj5c
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
09:47 Freema- I Mean Una's Arrest
10:54 General Thoughts
12:55 Validating Kirk's Legacy Next to Pike
14:54 Setting Up for TOS Events
17:02 Yet Another Timeline Contradiction
20:13 M'Benga Gets Demoted... for No Reason?
22:22 Ortegas is an Aggressive Racist Now I Guess
23:09 Spock's Romulan Dad
24:39 The Romulan Point of View
26:42 The Moral Message
27:23 Kirk's New Actor
28:27 So SNW can do Spock, They Just Chose Not Too
30:42 More General Thoughts
32:42 Pike Can Still Easily Avoid His Fate
35:46 More General Thoughts
36:55 Scene-by-Scene Analysis
42:19 The VFX vs Plot
46:51 Scene-by-Scene Continues
52:27 Conclusions
55:22 Outro
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