[SNW] Season 1, Episode 6: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
Rating: 2
“Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” is not a bad episode at all, but it doesn’t gel to the same degree a lot of the other episodes have so far on Strange New Worlds. It’s structured around an ok mystery by Trek standards, but the crew is a little too behind the audience in terms of suspicion, particularly Pike. His romantic interest is pretty dull, and the civilization she comes from doesn’t have enough details that are required to elevate this style of Trek plot. It does, however, maintain a fun old school Trek feel, especially when the truth of the civilization is revealed.
Everyone is taking turns having Uhura be under their wing. The teacher-student ratio in starfleet must be like 50-1Number One kinda has Janice-style basket hair going on. This is the call back we’ve been waiting for.People are trying to get the first servant from completing his duties. They don’t tell us much more because they don’t like to share info with outside people. Probably nothing to worry about.A guy has a crack in his medallion,so they take him out.That one guy with the mustache makes an appearance for a few seconds.Pike has a girlfriend and he tells her about how he knows he’s gonna die. I think everyone knows at this point.I didn’t totally catch the explanation for how this prodigy kid made the hopscotch pattern but I think it’s created from farts??Even the people who are trying to stop the first servant seem reluctant to say anything.Pike makes lots of funny dumb guy faces while he’s being oblivious to the upcoming child sacrifice. Can’t he hear the ominous music?Pike catches a glimpse of the outgoing first servant and he’s starting to wonder if something bad is going to happen.Pike’s girlfriend says “long live the first servant” but I’m not sure she knows what that means.They reach the point in their relationship where she opens up with Pike, and shows her vulnerability, yet Pike isn’t very supportive. Its probably because she feeds children to the planet’s megamind robot, but idk
