On the face of it, "Terrarium" doesn’t do anything with the classic "Enemy Mine" format that "The Enemy," ‘Daybreak’ (or "Enemy Mine," for that matter) didn’t already do with the premise. I mean, it’s a good premise: t…
"What is Starfleet?" was supposed to deliver a grand format remix: a re-interpretation of Starfleet through the lens of a documentary filmmaker, able to ask and answer questions that could never be answered during a normal episode. Considering the …
“The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail” is a backdoor pilot. It is clearly a backdoor pilot. How else do you describe an episode where James Kirk commands a ship with Uhura, Spock, Scotty, and Chapel aboard? Is that a bad thing? Not in its…
"Through the Lens of Time" is, perhaps, symptomatic of how there is something endemic affecting Strange New Worlds episodes. There is everything here that should make a good episode: strong character work, a mystery, proper TOS-style science ficti…
I will probably annoy a lot of people by saying I didn’t like this episode as much as I perhaps should have. Listen - for the sake of the record, I did enjoy the conceit of the murder mystery. I did enjoy watching our cast play pastiches of th…
“Shuttle to Kenfori” is a good episode, slightly overstuffed with plot. A mildly unnecessary homage to zombie plots obscures a reasonably interesting Klingon plot, and the best character work the show’s done since it started, in …
I know that’s a very savage title, but here’s the thing. "Wedding Bell Blues" was a fun episode. It was. It’s just that that’s…all it was. It didn’t do anything particularly new with the concept of Spock and Ch…
Strange New Worlds returns with Sound and Fury, signifying…Something? Strange New Worlds is back! After two years, two strikes and two-thirds of a corporate buyouts, Paramount’s lead Star Trek show has returned to our screens wit…
Black Ops? You'd Hardly Know... Seriously. By the time Section 31’s 100-minute runtime is up, this version of Starfleet’s shadowy espionage group has made so much noise and created such chaos that it’s no surprise the organization…