VazScep wrote:Matthew Shute wrote::this: Almost every extraterrestrial in every far-flung solar system that the Enterprise visits turns out to be... yet another humanoid with different knobbly bits on his face or head. H. P. Lovecraft would not have been impressed.
Space. The unfathomable void. Fools on the starship Miskatonic
, its miscalculated mission to explore strange worlds, attempt to seek out beings who had mercifully not noticed us until now, will finally establish the utter irrelevance and alienness of human affairs in the cosmos.
Ha, that sounds great. In episode 1 the crew visits a world where, instead of dudes with bulbous foreheads, the local life is more reminiscent of the organisms in Stephen King's
The Mist, Dean Koontz's
The Taking, and the stuff living in The Upside Down in
Stranger Things. Some unknown entity steals all the dilthium crystals and sabotages the engine room, leaving the USS Miskatonic stranded. The Ship's computer begins acting weirdly, starts chuckling and quoting esoteric poems, and then shuts down the ship's communications. The most fortunate crew members are the ones who end up as snack food in the first episode. In episode 2, some of the crew have by now regressed mentally and begun to form a cave-dwelling cult, worshiping some of the more parasitic fauna. Others are huddled together in the Miskatonic's arboretum, sanity barely intact, awaiting a fate that they cannot imagine, with a sense of dread. The ship's power dies completely and the arboretum falls into darkness. There is no episode 3.
"Change will preserve us. It is the lifeblood of the Isles. It will move mountains! It will mount movements!" - Sheogorath