The script details the early years of captain-to-be James T Kirk (Chris Pine) and his taciturn Vulcan sidekick Spock (Zachary Quinto) and is deceptively clever: it works both as affectionate fanboy nostalgia and as a neophyte’s introduction to the ‘Trek’-verse. It’s true that an entire planet gets blown up, but the characters swiftly recover on their way to another round of phaser-firing, evasive-manouevring, quip-trading action. How far down does this cave go, and just how many riches will be found? Join me next time as we continue our trek through ST:LD season 3.Cheerfully bucking the trend for dark, miserablist blockbusters, ‘Lost’ creator JJ Abrams has updated the ‘Star Trek’ franchise for the twenty-first century without resorting to political allegory, moral wrangling or the sadistic violence that characterised similar reinventions like ‘The Dark Knight’. It isn’t a pointless story the show does tie in Tendi’s arc with the overall resolution of the episode, but as a story in and of itself, it’s just not very gripping.Īnd that’s all I’ve got on “Mining the Mind’s Mines.” The show is finally starting to mine some of my interest. Tendi starts a mentorship with an underwhelming birdperson-type character. The side story isn’t that interesting, either. Why not drag the arc out and make them emerge from a difficult situation with a better understanding of each other? The easy way the factions settle their differences is rather lame, particularly because it happens before they even vanquish the main threats. Okay, so then why did you introduce yourselves as huge dicks? For the sake of conflict, of course. This competition between the crews of the Cerritos and the Carlsbad is toothless, since there aren’t consequence established for one or the other losing the competition, other than one of them officially taking the title of “worst ship.” Which is weird, since I thought this was something well established in the show that the Cerritos is the least important ship in Starfleet? At any rate, it doesn’t matter because later in the episode, it turns out that the Carlsbad crew actually looks up to the Cerritos.
That said, the story itself is a bit weak. “Mining The Mind’s Mines” mines some interest All to say, this episode was far more fun than the ones we’ve seen recently. I also liked some of the self-deprecating humor, with Mariner lamenting the all-too-common Star Trekoccurrence of outposts being attacked and comms getting blocked. My personal favorite is the Snakeborg with Picard’s laser eye.
It escalates nicely, with the rocks breaking open and unleashing nightmares. This raises the stakes, as the Cerritos crew is in a competition this episode with the crew from the USS Carlsbad, and so these daydreams getting in the way is a problem. The mind-reading rocks let us get some fun insight into the characters as their daydreams manifest to distract them from their work. Rocks and heads butt in “Mining the Mind’s Mines.” These peculiar green rocks bring the daydreams of those nearby to life. When feuding breaks out between Starfleet scientists and a species of rock people who really love rocks, the USS Cerritos and USS Carlsbad are charged with mediation and clean up. By Richard Urquiza 3 weeks ago Follow Tweet
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