It’s Antimatter Pod, but we’re in black and white! We’re discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 4, episode 4, “A Case of Chiaroscuro”. Did Anika include a pronunciation guide in the show notes? She sure did!
- This episode scales the giddy heights of “it’s fine, I guess”
- “It’s interested in the aesthetics of resistance without actually exploring what it is we’re resisting.”
- Imagine if this episode spent less time having characters tell each other stuff they already know, and more time exploring those characters
- Don’t learn anti-fascist opsec from a Star Trek podcast, but definitely don’t follow the example of this fake resistance whose leader keeps photos and a database in her office
- This week we are TEAM LA’AN and also SPOCK STOP UNDERMINING HER
- Christine is a better boyfriend to La’an than Spock
- She has to be sidelined this season or else she would be TOO AWESOME A CHARACTER
- Maybe La’an deserves to stab Spock a little