There is something slightly cruel about reaching the end of a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season. You spend weeks getting comfortable with these characters, settling into the rhythm of the Enterprise, and then suddenly the calendar is telling you that there is only one episode left. Season 4 has been particularly wild about that…
There’s something slightly dangerous about a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season finale when the episode is called “Tomorrow’s Enterprise.” The title alone is enough to make longtime fans start connecting dots. Anyone who remembers The Next Generation’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise” knows that an Enterprise caught in a temporal mess is rarely just dealing with a…
There are episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that feel like straightforward adventures, and then there are episodes that seem to exist because the writers looked at the franchise and thought, “What if we made this completely weird?” Season 4, Episode 9, “Once La’An a Time,” belongs firmly in the second category. And thankfully,…