History Recap / StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E09AllThoseWhoWander

* EnfanteTerrible: The Gorn the crew fight are newborns.

* WhatTheHellHero: Sam Kirk reams Spock out for his stoic nature after everything that's happened.

La'an finds a Starfleet corpse in the snow, and more besides; the ''Peregrine'' is abandoned, having crash-landed, and most of her systems fried. Hemmer and Uhura descend to Engineering to get the ship running again, while Pike gets into the CaptainsLog: Captain Gavin reports that her crew picked up three alien refugees, a human girl, an Orion named Pasko and an alien of indeterminate race. Pasko, it turns out, was hosting Gorn ChestBurster eggs, and tried to stave off the inevitable by setting off a plasma grenade in Engineering. Pasko was unsuccessful... but the other two are still around; the girl calls herself Oriana and her companion Buckley. In Sickbay, neither M'Benga, Chapel nor Cadet Chia can find any evidence of Gorn lifesigns... which is reinforced when Buckley turns out to ''also'' be carrying ChestBurster eggs. The hatchlings eat Chia and scamper off to do the same to Duke. Meanwhile, "Team Hemhura" have gotten the ship in working order, and Pike uses the comms to order the team to regroup... but one Gorn hatchling, quite a lot larger (and played by CGI this time instead of a dude in a funky rubber suit), arrives to spit venom at Hemmer, only leaving when La'an and her phaser swing in to save the day.

With Pike, M'Benga and Oriana quarterbacking from the bridge, both La'an and Spock channel their inner ScreamingWarrior[[note]]yes, Vulcans have them; they're TheStoic precisely ''because'' they used to be a violent, warlike race, and decided that gaining control of their emotions was smarter than bombing themselves back to the Stone Age ''again''[[/note]] to draw the two remaining Gorn together so that they'll fight, and the last one to the shuttlebay where Hemmer freezes it with coolant. (La'an then [[LiterallyShatteredLives vents a lifetime of fear and rage]] on it.) The mission is complete... with only one loose end to tie up: the venom spray Hemmer got hit with was not just uncomfortable, it's how the Gorn implant new eggs in people. Citing TheNeedsOfTheMany, he walks out of the shuttlebay and out into the frozen surface of the planet ("Just like Andoria..."), ending the Gorn threat. Before he goes, he advises Uhura, who still has not decided whether to stay in Starfleet, that an IneffectualLoner afraid of pain and loss can also never find love and happiness. During the shipboard funeral, Uhura echoes these sentiments, and is shown, in the episode's final shot, standing on the bridge amidst the familiar beeps and whirs -- happy to be home. Meanwhile, La'an takes indefinite leave from Starfleet to help Oriana reunite with her family.

* BottleEpisode: A slightly more elaborate one than normal, but since the ''Sombra''-class and ''Constitution''-class look essentially the same, the show just uses all its pre-existing sets, with only the exterior of the planet itself being out of the ordinary. Additionally, Chia, Duke and Oriana are the only new characters with lines.

** Sam Kirk's WhatTheHellHero moment to Spock is rather similar to how James Kirk riled up Spock in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. His infliction even seems like he's channeling Chris Pine.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The universal translator can't parse Buckley the alien's language, and when La'an tells Uhura to do something Uhura has to reminds her that that's not how linguistics works. The crew never does work out how to communicate with Buckley before his death by Gorn ChestBurster.

* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: A missing briefing opens with Pike's cooking, and try as she might, even a reluctant La'an admits that the food is delicious.

* DueToTheDead: Ortegas and Uhura eulogize Hemmer at his funeral. (Chia and Duke go completely unmentioned, the latter being especially curious because a captain who gets a cadet killed is probably going to get in trouble.)

With Pike, M'Benga and Oriana quarterbacking from the bridge, both La'an and Spock channel their inner ScreamingWarrior[[note]]yes, Vulcans have them; they're TheStoic precisely ''because'' they used to be a violent, warlike race, and decided that gaining control of their emotions was smarter than bombing themselves back to the Stone Age ''again''[[/note]] to draw the two remaining Gorn together so that they'll fight, and the last one to the shuttlebay where Hemmer freezes it with coolant. (La'an then [[LiterallyShatteredLives vents a lifetime of fear and rage]] on it.) The mission is complete... with only one loose end to tie up: the venom spray Hemmer got hit with was not just uncomfortable, it's how the Gorn implant new eggs in people. Citing TheNeedsOfTheMany, he walks out of the shuttlebay and out into the frozen surface of the planet ("Just like Andoria..."), ending the Gorn threat. Before he goes, he advises Uhura, who still has not decided whether to stay in Starfleet, that an IneffectualLoner afraid of pain and loss can also never find love and happiness. During the shipboard funeral, Uhura echoes these sentiments, and is shown, in the episode's final shot, standing on the bridge amidst the familiar beeps and whirs -- happy to be home. Meanwhile, La'an resigns from Starfleet to help Oriana reunite with her family.

* FamousLastWords: "Just like Andoria..."

* BottleEpisode: A slightly more elaborate one than normal, but since the ''Sombra''-class and ''Constitution''-class look essentially the same, the show just uses all its pre-existing sets, with only the exterior of the planet itself being out of the ordinary. Additionally, Chia and Duke are the only new characters with lines.

** Before the end, Hemmer gives a Vulcan salute to Spock and telss him to "live long and prosper," much like Spock will do about [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 26 years later]] after making his own sacrifice to save the ''Enterprise'' crew. Also, much like Spock would himself do just prior to his first death, he asks his friends not to weep for him.

* DownerEnding: Probably the roughest ending of the season. Three crew members including Hemmer die, La’an has gone on indefinite leave, Uhura is ending her cadet tour on a low note and Spock is horrified at the fact that he let his emotions run rampant.

* BottleEpisode: a slightly more elaborate one than normal, but since the ''Sombra''-class and ''Constitution''-class look essentially the same, the show just uses all its pre-existing sets, with only the exterior of the planet itself being out of the ordinary. Additionally, Chia and Duke are the only new characters with lines.

** The ''Enterprise'' was heading to Deep Space Station K-7, which featured prominently in ''[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble With Tribbles]]'' and ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials And Tribbleations]]''.
** Before the end Hemmer gave a Vulcan salute to Spock and told him to "live long and prosper" much like Spock would do about [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 26 years later]] after making his own sacrifice to save the ''Enterprise'' crew. Also, much like Spock would himself do just prior to his first death, he asks his friends not to weep for him.

* DownerEnding: Probably the roughest ending of the season as they have lost three crew members, one of them Hemmer, La’an has gone on indefinite leave, Uhura is ending her cadet tour on a low note and Spock is horrified at the fact that he let his emotions run rampant.

* XenomorphXerox: The Gorn as seen in this episode take quite a few cues from the classic xenomorphs. They reproduce by infesting others with their offspring, who then explode out of the host in classic ChestBurster fashion. The hatchlings then go through a period of molting and rapid growth, during which they hunt each other and potential prey by traveling through vents and skittering along walls and ceilings. They also have prehensile tails, MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, and can spit acid that infests the unfortunate target with more eggs.

** Before the end Hemmer gave a Vulcan salute to Spock and told him to "live long and prosper" much like Spock would do about [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 26 years later]] after making his own sacrifice to save the ''Enterprise'' crew.

* RedShirt: Of the three ''Enterprise'' crewmembers who die, Hemmer is the only one who's had any prior screentime or characterization; the other two are onscreen just long enough to get bullseyes painted on them. Ironically, Hemmer is the only one of the three wearing a red uniform.

Investigating a downed Starfleet vessel, Pike and the crew of the ''Enterprise'' come face-to-face with the Gorn.

* DueToTheDead: Ortegas and Uhura eulogize Hemmer at his funeral.

* XenomorphXerox: The Gorn as seen in this episode take quite a few cues from the classic xenomorphs. They reproduce by infesting others with their offspring, who then explode out of the host in classic ChestBurster fashion. The hatchlings then go through a period of molting and rapid growth, during which they hunt each other and potential prey by traveling through vents and skittering along walls and ceilings. They also have prehensile tails, MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, and can spit acid that ingests the unfortunate target with more eggs.

* ShoutOut: The events on the ''Peregrine'' are basically a pastiche of ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', bordering on a WholePlotReference.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: La’an ends up quitting at the end of the episode, rattled by the events of the episode.
* WhatTheHellHero: Sam Kirk reams Spock out for his stoic nature after everything that's happened.

** Before the end Hemmer gave a Vulcan salute to Spock and told him to "live long and prosper" much like Spock would do about [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan about 26 years later]] after making his own sacrifice to save the ''Enterprise'' crew.

* RedShirt: Of the three ''Enterprise'' crewmembers who die, Hemmer is the only one who's had any prior screentime or characterization; the other two are onscreen just long enough to get bullseyes painted on them.

* CallForward: The ''Enterprise'' was heading to Deep Space Station K-7, which featured prominently in ''[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble With Tribbles]]'' and ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials And Tribbleations]]''.

Investigating a downed Starfleet vessel, Pike and the crew of the ''Enterprise'' come face to face with the Gorn.

* KilledOffForReal: Hemmer is killed by the Gorn.

* WhatTheHellHero: Sam Kirk reams Spock out for his stoic nature after everything.