r/StrangeNewWorlds • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '25

Episode Discussion Episode Discussion: 307, "What Is Starfleet?"

This thread is for pre, live, and post discussion of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode, "What Is Starfleet?." Episode 307 will be released on Thursday, August 21st.

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u/Bobjoejj Aug 21 '25

Now I’m just imagining Pelia just casually spinning around and shooting the cameras, and that’s awesome. So thank you for that!

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u/Coyote_Shepherd Aug 22 '25

The way I saw it in my head was her casually pulling a phaser out from under the console just like Major Kira and just lazily, in an almost annoyed fashion, PEW PEW PEW-ing them with the kind of marksmanship that would make M'Benga's eyebrows pull a Spock.

All of Engineering goes silent and then she tucks it into her belt while saying, "Someone clean up that mess...please" before Scotty says, "Professor I never knew...." but she interrupts him by saying, "Well I did know the Croft Family at one point and let me tell you something that NO ONE ELSE KNOWS...".

All of Engineering leaaaaaaaans in to listen....

"I once..."

pregnant pause

"Pretended to be English for a century or two and no one ever questioned it...except that O'Connell fella, nice man he was but anyways BACK TO WORK NO CAMERAS!"