Strange New Worlds S4E8: Orders of Magnitude
This week's gimmick is "let's try and write a good episode," and it mostly works. We get some back-to-basics Star Trek — the classic trouble-on-the-planet/trouble-on-the-ship formula,...
Strange New Worlds S4E7: Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass
I don't want to talk about Star Trek this week, I want to talk about Alf. For those of you whose brains contain useful information...
Strange New Worlds S4E6: Off-Hour
Everything in space wants to kill you. Recent sci-fi has focused heavily on this idea, as actual scientists (and overreaching hype men like Elon Musk)...
Strange New Worlds S4E5: Level-Five Transporter Accident
We'll be honest, we've been dreading this one. Strange New Worlds has taken big swings with gimmick episodes before and connected: the partially-animated Lower Decks...
Strange New Worlds S4E4: A Case of Chiascuro
Writing should be the easy part. Not that writing is easy. Anyone who's ever stared at a blank page or a blank screen can tell...
Strange New Worlds S4E3: Human Best Friend
This week's opening sets up a mission to a new planet, something about Pike negotiating a treaty in a civil war, tense, delicate, yadda yadda...
Strange New Worlds S4E2: The Griffin Incident
On the surface, Strange New Worlds is a light, upbeat show. Our chummy, immaculately coiffed Captain goes on an adventure with a crew of legacy...
Strange New Worlds S4E1: Valles Marineris
Star Trek is not in a good place. Since last year's terrible season finale, Paramount Plus launched Starfleet Academy and quickly cancelled it (although a...
Dancing in the Face of Disdain
Since its conception, white supremacy has been sewn into the fabric of American society, one which many white Americans have worn with a sense of...
Strange New Worlds S3E10: New Life, and New Civilizations
Ugh. We're not sure what sort of bump the Starship Enterprise hit a month ago, but we've finished out Strange New World's third season with...