This a really good and intersting take.

To take this a step further, replicators can’t make everything but can make most things. “Latinum” may be of value because it is truely a rare and cannot be faked - so gold pressed latinum becomes a currency because the Ferengi have faith in it’s value as a fiat currency. It could also be that the method of gold pressing the latinum makes it near impossible to reproduce and fake, or that the latinum (some kind of alloy?) can only persist and be “stable” when it is pressed.

Ah thanks! I didn’t seem to clock the spelling!

I was disappointed in the season opener. The story was silly and incoherent, and to be honest it reminds me of the worst elements of Discovery.

I don’t begrudge them deferring dealing with the Una situation as that is likely (hopefully) going to be strongly character driven episode.

But the Embenga/Chapel subplot was by far the worst part of the whole episode. Exploring the trauma of the Klingon War is actually an intriguing idea, and even the idea of Starfleet medical being weaponised is intriguing but instead we got Embenga and Chapel injecting up and becoming rediculous super soldiers which has zero link to anything we’ve ever had from their backstories. Then we had 10 minutes of tedious kung fu fighting which is a common trope of Discovery; it’s lazy writing and just fills screen time with pointless violence. It is exactly the opposite of what makes SNW so refreshing. I hope to god this stupidity is a one off. If you are going to shoehorn in a pointless action sequence, why on earth would you pick Embenga and Chapel for that? And then the crazy space walk? It was ludicrous.

Other elements were ok but the overall episode felt out of place with what SNW did in series 1. I really hope they have not decided the show needs more “action” because they will be making the same mistakes as Discovery if they do that. SNW series 1 was extremely well recieved because it was character and plot driven; each episode was stand alone but the characters plots extended across the season.

I’d give this episode 5/10 to be honest.