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With his sickbay bursting due to the light pandemic, M’Benga bristles at Hemmer who is passive-aggressively doing that diagnostic, and the doctor surreptitiously denies the Aenar access to the medical transporter. “Even in death they wanted us to be aware of who they really were.” To prove him right, one last journal presents itself with a record of their initiative to renounce genetic engineering. Spock, of course, has a theory: The creatures are the former colonists who merged with the ion storm after succumbing to the light disease. But it turns out these are nice screaming plasma creatures who protect Pike and Spock from the lethal storm, then leave without even saying goodbye. That may be “fascinating,” but the storm outside is getting closer and a lot scarier, revealing spooky floating creatures that Spock figures out are related to the mysterious light disease, and they really want to get into the library. While he fails to reduce his captain’s frustration, the Vulcan is making progress, working out that the colonists wanted to join the Federation and they were attempting to “de-engineer” their genetic modifications to get into the club. It’s March 2020 on the USS Enterprise.īack on Hetemit IX, a restless Pike frets as Spock continues his research. AKELA FROM DOUBLE SHOT OF LOVE FULLBefore La’an’s backstory can get any more tragic, she succumbs to the light-obsession thing-but wait a minute, she wasn’t on the landing party! The mystery disease is spreading and nobody knows how, so Number One orders a full lockdown. But that teasing was really mean and she hates Illyrians and anyone else with genetic modifications because of it. Her friend La’an drops by to remind us her last name is Noonien Singh and that the teasing she got as a kid about being descended from an Augment was the worst thing that ever happened… until her family was used by the Gorn as egg sacks. She starts her own research into Illryians and their genetic modifications for possible answers. The chief engineer asserts the transporters couldn’t let anything dangerous through, but he will do a Level 5 Sarcastic Diagnostic if she really wants. In command, Number One looks to Hemmer, but he has no answers. AKELA FROM DOUBLE SHOT OF LOVE SKINIt’s happening to all the landing party members except Una, who seems to be able to shake it off after her skin glows-something she fails to mention to a perplexed Dr. Things are just as dire on the ship as it soon becomes clear there is something off about the members of the landing party they’re all now dangerously attracted to light, hurting themselves just to get as close as possible to light sources. Only through the self-avowed genius of Hemmer’s transporter backup boost does the landing party make it back, leaving Spock and Pike stuck in the colony library to wait out the storm. ![]() With an ion storm about to fry the planet, Pike orders Number One back to the ship while he goes to find Spock. In a classic setup, Enterprise is researching a colony abandoned by Illyrians, “outcasts” who use forbidden genetic modifications. WARNING: Spoilers below! RECAP “We have an emerging situation here.” ![]() AKELA FROM DOUBLE SHOT OF LOVE SERIESStar Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, Episode 3 – Debuted Thursday, May 19, 2022Īnother strong outing from the new series takes familiar franchise elements and puts them together in a fresh way with a Star Trek-ian message to boot. ![]()
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