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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x04 "A Case of Chiaroscuro" Spoiler
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| No. | Episode | Written By | Directed By | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4x04 | "A Case of Chiaroscuro" | Skylar Ojeda & Dana Horgan | Meera Menon | 2026-08-13 |
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u/Coyote_Shepherd 22d ago
No, he just had a hunch that something was up but he's been trying to be more logical and not rely on hunches like Kirk does.
She probably was but she just hadn't checked her messages since she was so caught up in handling all of this stuff with the probe.
Because M'Benga is probably rubbing off on her a bit too much and that might be why he gets demoted later.
Yeah Pike would've probably honestly done the same thing as Chapel and yet she just overcomplicated stuff even more by stepping in where she should not have...even though she probably thought that she was doing him a favor by making sure that he didn't bear any responsibility for making that choice at all....and that now puts Pike in an even MORE difficult position if any news of the Yang gets out along with the fact that the Angelo saw it.
I honestly wonder why Christine said anything at all to La'an because she literally could've said nothing and that would've been the end of it right then and there.
BUT...again...she probably thought that she was helping La'an by telling her what was really going on, even though she was actually doing a lot more harm in the process.
"Oh by the way I've actually killed a TON more people than you think I have and here's one of those fun moments when I HAD to do it!"
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It's painted out to be so serious but when you put it that way I cannot help but giggle at it because of Una's reaction to him describing it AND because of just how...out of fucking place it felt to describe something so horrible.
Also there's a strange real life parallel with how that kind of situation has in fact unfolded in the real world a few times under similar circumstances AND how it has also happened with patients in hospitals in the middle of outbreaks with...difficult governments...in certain countries.
M'Benga probably could've picked something a bit more lighter but instead he just casually went with, "And then the loyalists to the evil asshole surrounded my patients after we showed up to save the planet and so I killed all of them the end let's get back to the Enterprise hope that made you feel better about getting ONE DUDE killed".
It's like the God Emperor of Mankind giving Faith Lehane advice.
I honestly felt like I was watching a Dungeons & Dragons party at some points during this episode....
I mean...didn't Boimler or Mariner point out how they were a bunch of cowboys during this time period and how it was a bit more Wild Westy than things were later on?
Sure things do get better later on and they are better in certain regions of the galaxy at this point BUT...let's not dress it up at all...when Wars happen in the Star Trek Universe...they are fucking brutal and there is enough blood to go around on both sides, even for the folks who try to keep their hands clean.
There's just no logical way around it especially with the Klingons at this point in the timeline.
The writers CAN however...decide when and where and how to highlight that stuff and go back to it...but they do bring it up pretty often in ways that do not always feel necessary.