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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That space jump sequence was the best part of the episode. I felt that.
I kind of wished they had made more of an effort to wrap their faces and hands first, just to drive home the peril they were in.
I guess I just have to accept that in this version of Star Trek, science is magic, and so they didn’t worry about the possibility they might survive but be horribly disfigured by frostbite. I have to remind myself that this is a franchise where people can change their appearance into a completely different species and then revert back without any apparent scarring.
To be fair, despite what sci-fi will tell you frostbite is not a concern if you’re jumping into space without a suit, so the fact that they were frozen at all is artistic license. You’ll die from hypoxia long before you even begin to get chilly.
Normally I’d agree with you wholeheartedly, but didn’t the episode explicitly state and show that the ships were amidst a gargantuan field of interstellar ice?
The problem is mainly that there’s no atmosphere to actually conduct heat away from your body. There being an ice field doesn’t change that much.