Logline
A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman
Directed by Chris Fisher
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It’s very un-Star Trek for drugs to have major Hulk-like benefits with zero downside. That scene was cool, but I agree with you it would be strange if we don’t see any consequences.
Agree. That action sequence was also unusually long too. I mean, it might be cool to watch, but it didn’t really serve the plot it any way.
A bit more realistic that there’s going to be several people onboard a ship trying to oppose the heroes than just one or two, though.
There wasn’t quite zero downside. M’Benga almost killed that guy he was interrogating, which is not only counter to his usual personality but a poor decision in an interrogation, so the potion at least interferes with reasoning somewhat or amps up anger.
I wish this kind of interrogation didn’t work, it is a dangerous stereotype to convey that torture works… it ends up with people supporting torture in real life when it actually really doesn’t reliably get truthful information from people.