Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters"
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters"
Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez
Directed by Eduardo Sanchez
Logline
Returning to a planet that dredges up tragic memories, Captain Pike and his landing party find themselves forgetting everything, including their own identities as he confronts a ghost from his past.
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Ok, at the risk of sounding like a filthy casual, it's only now when I'm digging into Memory Alpha that I realized we're finally getting visualization of what Pike was so miserable about in TOS the Cage. I was like, why does Rigel VII sound so familiar...
This is the kind of retcon I live for!!
I've been watching Trek since I was basically a baby but don't have anywhere near the depth of knowledge of most people posting here. We are still valid!
I like that the original away mission failing wasn't some weird magical thing - it was just a mission that went bad in a fairly mundane way.