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‘Ghosts of Illyria’ Sees Strange New Worlds Making Steps in the Right Direction

This discussion and review contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 3, “Ghosts of Illyria.”

“Ghosts of Illyria” is more interesting in concept than in execution.

As with both “ Strange New Worlds ” and “ Children of the Comet ” before it, “Ghosts of Illyria” is another example of Strange New Worlds hitting a familiar Star Trek standard. It is an episode that is recognizably drawn from a template that the franchise has employed repeatedly over its 50-plus-year history, and it hits all of the various beats expected along the way. It would be somewhat dismissive to describe “Ghosts of Illyria” as formulaic and predictable, but it wouldn’t be unfair.

“Ghosts of Illyria” is an episode with two parallel plot threads. The first of these threads concerns the spread of an unexplained illness on the ship that causes irrational behavior. Tying back to the franchise’s oft-overlooked psychedelic roots , “Ghosts of Illyria” is essentially built around the idea that madness can be contagious. The ship is contaminated by a virus that spreads through light, creating “light addicts” who engage in reckless behavior to satisfy their addiction.

This is a familiar Star Trek storytelling device. “ The Naked Time ” might be the most obvious and popular example, even inspiring a direct sequel in “ The Naked Now ” during the first season of The Next Generation . However, there are plenty of episodes built around a similar premise. Language broke down in “ Babel .” War became contagious in “ Dramatis Personae .” Horniness spread from person to person in “ Fascination .” Obsessive-compulsive behavior spread in “ Singularity. ”

Perhaps reflecting the influence of Gene Roddenberry, a notorious philanderer whose only feature film credit outside the franchise was the “ sex comedy ” Pretty Maids All in a Row , many of these contagions were inappropriately and uncomfortably sexual. Perhaps wisely, “Ghosts of Illyria” largely avoids this angle, although there is some sly acknowledgment of this trend; Ensign Lance (Daniel Gravelle) strips down in the corridor and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) rips her shirt open.

As with “Children of the Comet” lifting fairly directly from “ Fight or Flight ,” there are practical reasons for Strange New Worlds to fall back on this familiar Star Trek story framework so early in the first season. After all, an infectious disease storyline provides a narrative in which the entire ensemble can be used effectively. It also pushes the cast outside their comfort zone and can reveal potentially interesting or novel facets of the actors to the production team to develop later.

There is a sense that “Ghosts of Illyria” is constructed primarily as a piece of setup, using this familiar template to lay groundwork that may pay off down the line, helping the writers and producers to identify standout performers or interesting dynamics that can be explored with greater purpose in later episodes. Notably, the episode introduces a number of potential long-form story arcs, such as M’Benga’s (Babs Olusanmokun) tragic backstory, that seem likely to come into play later.

The episode’s secondary plot thread focuses on Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) stranded on Illyria and is a much more generic sort of story. The initial premise of the episode is an empty or missing world. The original Star Trek was populated with haunted and long-dead planets in stories like “ The Man Trap ” or “ The City on the Edge of Forever ” or eerily abandoned spaces like those in “ Miri ” or “ Wink of an Eye .”

That said, the plot thread focused on Pike and Spock quickly reveals itself to be a “stranded away team” story as an ion storm bears down on the facility, recalling everything from “ The Galileo Seven ” to “ The Enemy ” to “ The Ascent .” It’s a story model that isn’t quite as practical as the contagion template, in that the success or failure of the story largely depends on the chemistry of the actors and the strength of the characters involved.

It’s unclear whether the problem is with the scripts or with the performers, but Mount and Peck lack a compelling dynamic necessary to drive a story like this. Leonard Nimoy worked brilliantly with both William Shatner and DeForest Kelley on the original Star Trek , and Zachary Quinto bounced well off Chris Pine in the Star Trek reboot movies. Mount is a charismatic presence, but Strange New Worlds fails to have a particularly fresh or interesting take on the relationship between Pike and Spock.

There is something frustrating in how Strange New Worlds seems content to simply “play the hits” and recycle a model of Star Trek that is decades old. In some ways, Strange New Worlds plays as an unironic version of Lower Decks . Lower Decks couches its nostalgia in self-aware irony , which feels like a concession to the fact that this model of storytelling is perhaps better suited to modern half-hour comedies than modern hour-long drama . Strange New Worlds just plays these clichés straight.

That said, as with “Children of the Comet,” there is something to be said for the finer details of “Ghosts of Illyria.” In particular, following off the portrayal of Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) in the second season of Star Trek: Picard , it is interesting to see Strange New Worlds engaging so directly with the franchise’s longstanding anxiety over genetic engineering and transhumanism. It’s a fear that has a long history in the franchise , dating back to “ Space Seed .”

“Ghosts of Illyria” acknowledges that the franchise’s fears about genetic modification aren’t entirely rational, given both the episode’s title and Pike’s observation that even visiting a planet associated with genetic engineering is enough to put “everyone on edge.” There’s a sense that the Federation’s concerns about genetic engineering, rooted in the trauma of the Eugenics Wars, has created a reflexive emotional reaction against the concept that is at odds with the franchise’s techno-futurism.

Star Trek generally argues that technological advances will make life better and easier for people — that the replicator will eliminate hunger, that the transporter will make it possible to travel instantaneously, that the universal translator will allow people to talk more freely. As such, the franchise’s fear of genetic engineering ignores the reality that genetic modification is already making a meaningful improvement to people’s lives .

The most compelling facet of “Ghosts of Illyria” is the implication that the Federation’s attitude towards genetic engineering — and societies that employ it — is a form of prejudice. The Federation fundamentally misunderstands Illyria. “My people were never motivated by domination,” Number One explains. “Illyrians seek collaboration with nature. By bio-engineering our bodies, we adapt to naturally existing habitats. Instead of terraforming planets, we modify ourselves.”

“Ghosts of Illyria” suggests the Federation’s attitude is effectively a kind of racism, which is most obvious in the way that La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) seems to have internalized this rhetoric and allowed it to become a source of self-hatred. At the end of the episode, Pike congratulates Number One for surpassing his assumptions about Illyrians, telling her, “You defy every stereotype the Federation has about Illyrians.”

“Ghosts of Illyria” is smart enough to understand that even Pike’s praise of Number One is an expression of a deeply entrenched prejudice, something similar to futuristic “ respectability politics .” As Number One asks, “What would he do if I wasn’t a hero, one of the good ones ?” It is a very fair and a very barbed question for the show to ask of its lead character, three episodes in. She continues, “When will it be enough to just be an Illyrian?”

This is a much more nuanced approach to the episode’s central metaphor than the trite “both sides-ism” of “Strange New Worlds,” understanding that just as modern conversations about racism and prejudice have evolved , the Star Trek franchise needs to develop in step. Indeed, given the way that modern Star Trek tends to treat Starfleet and the Federation as idealized fetish objects , it’s good to see an episode built around the notion of institutionalized racism and systemic flaws in the system.

It will be interesting to see how Strange New Worlds develops this theme across the rest of its first season, whether the show will remain as astute in its exploration of the finer contours of the Star Trek universe. It would be refreshing to see a modern Star Trek show that is as willing to engage with the franchise’s more complicated and contradictory elements as Deep Space Nine was . “Ghosts of Illyria” is a small step in that direction — and one that might be walked back, but a step nonetheless.

“Ghosts of Illyria” offers viewers little that they haven’t seen (many times) before. Still, it does offer some fertile ground for Strange New Worlds to explore if it ever starts to feel a bit more comfortable in its skin.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ races to its conclusion with a spot-on ‘Aliens’ riff

'all those who wander’ swerves into horror and lands a perfect hit..

The following article includes significant   spoilers for All Those Who Wander.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has never been ashamed to tip its hat to the stories it’s riffing upon , some more obviously than others. This week’s episode, All Those Who Wander, might as well just have been called “Screw it, we’re just going to do Aliens .” Thankfully, it’s so good that you won’t have time to care about the xeroxing from James Cameron’s 1986 original. This is the best episode of Strange New Worlds yet, raising the bar, and the stakes, for next week’s finale.

We start with the welcome and now familiar sight of the Enterprise crew hanging out around Pike’s captain’s table. It’s such a delight to see the crew spending time together and having fun, as the show puts in the hours to show that these people generally like each other. Ensign Duke gets a promotion, while cadets Chia and Uhura are given a send off as they end their tour of duty on the Enterprise. But the levity is punctured, first by Uhura still not sure if Starfleet is right for her, and second by an ominous message from headquarters. A Federation starship has gone missing while surveying an unstable planet, and Pike needs to go looking for it.

But the Enterprise already has an urgent mission to deliver power supplies to starbase K7, so Pike decides to handle a rescue mission with shuttlecraft. Dr. M’Benga, Chapel, La’an, Spock, Hemmer, Lt. Kirk and Duke, as well as cadets Uhura and Chia join him. Number One and Ortegas, meanwhile, take the ship on its original course, meaning this is the fifth or sixth episode this series where Number One has barely featured. Perhaps Rebecca Romijn negotiated far fewer filming days each week given her higher profile than the rest of the cast.

When the shuttles reach the planet, landing in the shadow of the crashed USS Peregrine, it’s not long before the episode switches into high horror. Corpses litter the ground, and the ship itself is covered in the sort of bloodstain made when someone’s trying in vain to cling to the ground while being dragged away. And despite the fact that this is another episode shot mostly on the standing Enterprise sets , clever lighting and direction make them feel altogether more like the sinister LV-426 from Aliens .

Then there’s Newt Oriana, a young girl who has learned to survive previous Gorn attacks by going partly feral. This episode, much more than the flat Memento Mori, is designed to rehabilitate the Gorn from the comedy rubber suit seen in the ‘60s and the awkward CG from the early '00s . Now, they’re the Trek version of the eponymous Xenomorph, complete with acid bile, quadrupedal motion and body horror reproductive process. Worth mentioning that this ain’t the sort of episode you can watch with your kids, especially not when the blue-shirted Cadet Chia succumbs to a chestburster.

It helps, too, that the Gorn are rarely glimpsed properly, despite some excellent creature design, the shadows are always a better way to experience a villain like this. The episode’s conclusion sees the crew taking an Alien3 -style chase through corridors as they lure the Gorn to a trap. Choosing to shoot from the Gorn’s perspective helps amplify the sense of dread and tension, too, since our crew is being stalked from all corners.

But the best moments are when the crew, trapped in sickbay, start to feel the screws turning on them. La’an starts berating Oriana, the child that she sees so much of herself in before Dr. M’Benga snaps at her to leave his daughter… his patient alone . Lt. Kirk, meanwhile, starts lashing out at Spock for his lack of empathy, not long before Spock lets out his own emotions in order to entrap the Gorn. And, best of all, this all feels entirely earned and in character as we’ve gotten to see how these people got these particular scars. Finally, the promise of emotional continuity comes good as we start to see the Enterprise crew almost break under pressure.

Of course, we have to offer additional praise for Hemmer, who once again gets paired with Uhura for some grace notes. The fact that even Uhura has given them a compound name (Hemura!) speaks to how delightful it is to watch the pair interact. And when Hemmer reveals that the blob of alien spit he received earlier in the episode means he’s loaded with Gorn eggs too, it’s a massive blow. I feel like Hemmer was already a figure we’d fallen in love with, and his departure hurts, even if he gets a graceful, Alien3 -esque swan dive death for a sendoff. Give Bruce Horak his own spin-off, or something, please.

(I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed that Duke, Chia and Hemmer’s death means we’ve had a Yellow, Blue and Red-shirt demise in a single episode. Hacky standups will need to look for a better punchline to their Star Trek jokes in the future.)

Also, I feel like I’ve been neglectful in not offering enough praise for this cast, and especially Jess Bush. Bush often has to sell a whole bunch of stuff in her limited screen time and does so with ease. Here, as in The Serene Squall, she shows Chapel adapting to survive against a threat, and sells it so well.

The episode ends with plenty of fallout, Uhura decides to stay on board after Hemmer’s valediction encourages her to put down roots. La’an takes a leave of absence to try and reunite Oriana with her family, and Spock’s emotional outburst has left him scarred. Pike, meanwhile, must be headed for trouble given how freely he treats his life knowing that his future is already set in stone But again, all of this feels earned in a way that prior episodes haven’t quite achieved, and I’m excited to see how we land in the finale from here.

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Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Episode 103 With New Photos And Clip From “Ghosts Of Illyria”

| May 16, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 107 comments so far

The third episode of the new series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds arrives this week and we have details, new photos, a trailer, and a clip to get you started.

“Ghosts of Illyria”

Strange New Worlds episode three is titled “Ghosts of Illyria.” The episode was written by Akela Cooper and Bill Wolkoff. It was directed by Leslie Hope. The episode debuts on Paramount+ on Thursday, May 19.

The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a contagion that ravages the ship. One by one, the entire crew is incapacitated except for Number One, Una Chin-Riley, who must now confront a secret she’s been hiding as she races to find a cure.

New photos:

Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga and Rebecca Romijn as Una of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Rebecca Romijn as Una of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Daniel Gravelle as Ensign Lance of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Anson Mount as Pike and Rebecca Romijn as Una of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Anson Mount as Pike of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Rebecca Romijn as Una and Anson Mount as Pike of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Previously released photos:

Pictured: Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Pictured: Jess Bush as Chapel of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

A trailer was released on startrek.com .

The latest episode of The Ready Room includes a clip from the episode featuring Hemmer stepping in to help beam up the landing party [at 24:25]. [Also available internationally at startrek.com ]

All photos by Marni Grossman/Paramount+ 

New episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debut on Thursdays exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Latin America, Australia and the Nordics. The series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada. In New Zealand, it is available on TVNZ , and in India on  Voot Select .  Strange New Worlds  will arrive via Paramount+ in select countries in Europe when the service launches later this year, starting with the UK and Ireland in June.

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Hey can anybody tell me exactly when these become available? I stayed up until 12:30 my time to see the first one, but it wasn’t available at midnight or even half an hour later, so I gave up and went to bed. Is it midnight Pacific time, or what?

Yes, midnight Pacific, 3am Eastern.

Ah. That’s pretty late in Boston, so I guess I’ll have to see them later in the day. :-) Thanks for answering!

They, sometimes, are available around 2:30 AM Eastern.

That’s still a bit late for me, but I appreciate the clarification. Thanks!

Just curoius but I am wondering if you were involved in the BSTA in the 80s and 90s?

Since I don’t recognize the acronym, I guess I wasn’t. :-)

Check Wednesday night at about 11:10 pm PDT.

Wow. I’m loving the focus on separate characters each week, it feels like the olden days have come back!

Yes, exactly. At least the TNG/DS9/Voy/Ent days. The TOS episodes only focused on the main three, but mostly Kirk. I love the focus on each characters of the ensemble show. It is easier to do with the episodic nature over the serialized version. I much prefer episodic.

Oh no! I hate the soooo contemporary cut of the collars of those landing party jackets. These are not 21st Century Americans in space. They are interplanetary citizens of a future culture that on TOS used to refer to our time as “ancient.” The future should feel “foreign.” That’s part of the magic and wonder. It’s also a part of the commentary on what Kirk referred to as “primitive and paranoid culture” in Star Trek 4. You even saw it in last week’s episode when Uhura referred to the lake Pike visited being a few “miles” away from her village. The US is the only country that uses miles even today. The show takes place in a metric future. The show is filmed in Canada, a metric nation. They were referring to Kenya which even today does not use miles. It’s an absurd anachronistic inclusion that shows me the producers don’t get this subtle thread throughout the franchise that these are people from a more developed future. Details like the contemporary collars contrast with things like Picard referring to Q while wearing a 20th century military uniform, “even when humans wore costumes like that we’d already begun to make rapid progress.” Costumes. Like they were as silly a toga. Combine this with thing like Seven knowing how to drive a car and Rafi talking about needing plyers and other contemporary tools and I really think the production should hang a sign in the office that says “the future should feel foreign”. Because, after all, it’s a place we’ve never been. That’s part of the magic of trek.

I agree with everything you just said. It would be utterly ridiculous if Starfleet still uses “inches and yards” in 2257! Heck, it is pretty utterly ridiculous that the United States uses it in 2022!

You’re actually complaining about collars… Maybe you should focus more on the big picture of it, and not the minutia, because you’re always going to find something not to your liking.

Yes, the focus should be on the big picture.

Now let’s talk about those sideburns! For the last time I’m telling you to trim those sideburns, Spock, or you’re off the team!

Never mind the sideburns, what about Pike’s hair? It’s getting longer/thicker with each episode! And don’t get me started with those bridge lights!

Joking aside, I know I’ve bitched and moaned about absurd minutia in ST:Picard, too, but now in retrospect I realize it was because that show wasn’t working for me at all, big picture and everything. So I honed in on every little thing to express my frustration. Too much probably.

So far, SNW is different. I like the show. I like the characters. The stories have been pretty good. So this little stuff doesn’t matter as much.

Mount is going abstract with the hair, sort of like a new take on Christopher Walken styling.

I was thinking Conan O’Brien.

Captain of the Gumbyprise

Thaddeus, ah, classic Simpson’s line! :-)

Yeah. I’m a product designer and design language and cues are important in telling a story and setting a sense of place and time. :)

Oh well, I remember TOS going back and forth between metric and imperial, too. These mistakes are a tradition in Star Trek!

That’s not an excuse.

No, only a jest. Hence the winky face. Try to lighten up, sir.

With VERY few exceptions, I simply don’t speak emoticon; to me, it reduces the literacy and legitimacy of communication. Just ain’t buyin’ in.

One doesn’t always need to speak it to understand. But if you insist on words…

(Dearest reader, I’m writing this in regards to a winky human face meant to inject humor and levity into a perilously stuffy conversation on a Monday).

Understood … clearly sir (homage to a klingon underling dialog in TSFS)

Thanks guys for a classic Spock vs. McCoy exchange!

Nevertheless it’s canon.

Star Trek fans…..gotta love em.

While I would agree with this in theory, the simple fact is that TOS was loaded-down with 20th century anachronisms (and imperial measurements) to such an extent that I’m frankly amazed this subject comes up at all.

Any port in the nit picky storm will suffice….

As it was being produced it was lightweight sci-fi. Nobody could have imagined the degree to which it would be elevated, sanctified and scrutinized in future decades.

As Shatner said on SNL “Get a life!”

Kidding aside, I’m refreshed by the return to the “bottle” format of self-contained episodes. I’ve enjoyed some of the long form season-spanning stories as well but I am enjoying this. But having said that I’m thinking where long form sometimes stretched to make ten episodes, ten bottle type episodes may prove unsatisfying.

Kenya hasn’t used silly mile measurements since 1969. That’s hundreds of years before Uhura was born. Just smells more like 21st century Americans who are making the show and not people from the future talking. I think it’s sloppy.

Well, sorry, but Trek has *never* sounded like “people from the future talking.” Not once, not ever, even sans the anachronisms. But by all means, fixate on this all you like if it makes you happy.

Perhaps they would be happy if we retconned Robert Frost to read “and kilometers to go before I sleep.”

He lived near the Canadian border, after all.

This is exactly like the problem I’ve often had with Berman-era reliance on conventional/contemporary office chairs (and also in TUC.) They don’t disguise the wheeled bases, which would be a zero-budget fix by just fitting plastic shells over them, a solution I’d use in my Super-8 days. Half expect to see shoelaces turn up soon on officer wear …

Well, different people will inevitably be jarred by different things. I personally could live without Cadet Nyota Uhura referring to something as “cool;” on the other hand, it’s not a deal-breaker. (And why were the much more in-your-face 20th Century anachronisms in “The Orville” not an issue for you?) Again, the indisputable fact that TOS was continually awash in this sort of thing makes it an odd point of contention 55 years after the fact.

I was just talking about this with my wife when we watched the first SNW on youtube (I like the security chief and Mount’s Pike, think helm and M’Benga might be okay, not sure about whether I could take the rest of characters, or anything else on the show.) Even though she is no TREK devotee (more like a bemused onlooker of TREK, somebody who graciously ‘lets’ me watch TMP on my birthday and will even sit alongside me for certain stretches), she feels Trek has a certain built-in level of integrity to it going back to TOS in many ways, and that maybe it should be held to a higher standard.

You’ve contested that, citing plenty instances of 1966 man in the series, but I still hold that those aren’t as obnoxious or prevalent as these.

I concurred with her, but also very consciously choose to give ORVILLE a total free pass on this aspect because the very current/contemporary idiocy seems built into its DNA , and therefore you can’t even watch it w/o being aware of it constantly and having to acknowledge that for better or worse, that is the universe there.

For contrariness’ sake, I will also add that when I watched the new trailer for ORVILLE s3, I found the constant anachronisms much more obnoxious than I remembered (maybe I’m getting more allergic to this stuff?) Then again, I’ve also lost all interest in ORVILLE during the long lapse between seasons, so I have no idea if/when I’ll see the show again (new eps or reruns.) I think the show is maybe losing its soul in favor of spectacle, either that or just that the at-best modest thrill is gone for me (genre-wise with TV programming, I have been rewatching a lot of TOS, DS9, CARNIVALE, THE PRISONER and nuBSG in recent years, all of which I still find largely compelling viewing, so ORVILLE is obviously going to suffer by comparison. And that’s just the genre stuff.)

I showed my wife this video just now and while she does find it all to be too much, she gave them big props for color choices, specifically how PICARD folks have aquat-teal and peach/orange color combos on the displays.

Well, none of this stuff’s perfect, including nuBSG, which during its first two seasons was as good on a consistent basis as anything on television, but took something of a hit in its third and completely went off the rails in its fourth, when the producers forgot that the show’s SF framework was actually the last thing that people like me were watching it for, and when, like the producers of LOST, they failed to convincingly answer questions and start tying things up, as opposed to throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick. My real regret is that so much of it DID stick, but not the landing, which the show will be remembered for as much as the great stuff.

The anachronisms in TOS may be more forgivable simply because the series concept itself was so ahead of its time, and given the production pressures such things were bound to creep in now and again. You can argue that modern Trek should be held to a higher standard (especially given the increased budgets and leeway of only having to produce ten shows per year), or you can maintain that they’re a Trek staple by now and thus part of its wacky charm. I did watch the SNW pilot on YouTube and thought it was okay, which places it more-or-less at the center pf the pack of Trek pilots, which with the exception of those for TOS and DS9 function more as primers on the new show and characters as opposed to being anything like memorable on their own. But I do mostly like the PD and characters, and think it has potential.

I tend to watch nuBSG in small blocs, mostly from season 2, though I liked the very start of s3. I think I’d be more forgiving of it if the show wasn’t so damned hard on my eyes. It must take real work to produce images that are both under and overexposed at the same time, with very little properly exposed. And the interiors on the Cylon base star still look like Bigfoot’s alien ship lair in SIX MILLIION DOLLAR MAN to me.

Those office chairs have always bugged me. I used to fantasize in the TNG days that they would mask/greenscreen the bottoms so they’d appear to float — expensive and impractical — to hide the darned 1986 wheeled bases.

That’s so funny. When I first saw the NEMESIS trailer, I was certain they would matte out the wheels on the jeep and turn it into a hover vehicle, but clearly I was way off the mark with that prediction.

Don’t get me started on that moronic scene…argh!

Right? Those dumb wheels. Why would Starfleet run over small animals, insects and vegetation to get from A to B?! Absurd.

Because wheels are more cost-effective than complicated anti-gravity units? Because they’re less technologically complex and won’t give out in an emergency?

If you’ll pardon my saying, that’s a wrong-headed argument, given that TNG is supposed to be taking place in a time of technology unchained/unleashed from most practical concerns.

And what would be less complicated than a system without moving/jostling parts, anyway? What would be more likely to fail, a system being impacted heavily on every turn and bump, or a vehicle maintaining its ground-effects through a long-established system of conveyance? Plus, do we just assume it runs on the same power source as a ship, or is this retro-vehicle also reliant on some gasoline-equivalent, meaning you have to refuel?

I wasn’t even going to respond to this post, but I was just looking at a Syd Mead book of film art, and in once instance for an unmade project, he basically covered the wheel wells of a vehicle with half-shells oriented downward to provide vertical thrust, essentially retrofitting a tired vehicle into a hover type craft. It would have been an ideal NEM solution, even in post, if there had been anybody (like tech advisor?) really on their game.

Which is EXACTLY what the production design team for Discovery is doing with both legs of the chairs and tables.

So we know that the show is just sticking with canon continuity with TOS and the 90s series.

My take away is that people are complaining because the EPs and PDs didn’t have the same priorities in updating as they did. As has already been said “any port in the storm.”

Of all the stupid things to complain about: chairs?

Star Trek has always been exceptional as to its use of contemporary furniture, going right back to the 1960s. It has used noteworthy chair designers such as Michael Ospvik (who designed Worf’s chair on TNG) on multiple occasions. There’s even an interior design website out there that tracks the use of designer chairs on Star Trek.

I own a Zuo Unico office chair. The model was subsequently repurposed for use in the conference room set for Discovery. I’ve also had my eye on Captain Lorca’s ready room table, with its V-shaped base.

The only television show I can think of that better showcases contemporary furniture is OCCUPIED.

By all means, complain about designer chairs but have an orgasm over the appearance of a Tom Paris plate in an animated series. I’m seriously starting to think the SNL skit about Kirk’s safe combination was a documentary.

This has been a point brought forth many times before, however I must disagree. Wheels work. They’re efficient, simple, durable and inexpensive. There’s therefore no reason to improve on them or replace them. What alternative would you suggest? Why spend time/money to over-complicate chairs by making them hover… Same goes for shoelaces, zippers, buttons and whatever else we still see in the 24th century. It works. Leave it alone. Isn’t that the fundamental principle of evolution? Also “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

It’s stultifyingly ordinary, and in a way that shouts cheapness in a Roger Corman fashion. It did in 87 on TNG, and that just seems magnified enormously to me now.

As to how functional the solution is, I can’t speak to advances that will occur between now and then, but it wouldn’t be out of place to have a chair that adapts to the surface it is on, would it? I’m not asking for floating chairs (they’d just fall when the power cut out unless you stuck batteries in them, and who needs starship whiplash?)

Biggest offenders for me are still the brewery engineering in 09. The floor is just a crappy contemporary floor.

Even assuming they weren’t allowed to paint it, production could have stretched black garbage liner over the floor to give it a slight suggestion of metal or plastic decking, just anything to avoid the ‘we snuck in during off-hours and stole these shots’ cheapness that it screams out to me. It produces the same level of eye-roll with me that THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME produced decades back, when the cheap-o made-in-Canada film used a couple of pieces from a K7 model and called it a spaceship. Difference is that this cheat is on a 160 mil film that should have been able to apportion resources more intelligently, so there’s no excuse then, and I think no excuse

Well, yeah. I don’t fixate on chairs, but that brewery was just an abomination, especially for such an expensive film. Were I Paramount, I’d have conducted an audit on Bad Robot to see where all that money went.

Agreed. Kirk’s jacket in Star Trek II looked more futuristic, and that was released 40 years ago.

And then there’s Scotty’s bomber jacket from 3 and 4, and Sulu’s casual lounge wear.

There was interesting casual wear Rodis designed for TFF but it got passed over in favor of stuff that I think production got for free from Levi’s.

The jackets in The Cage looked very much like 80s fashion.

In fact, I believe I had a grey designer jacket that I picked up then precisely because it looked like the ones in The Cage.

I would have enjoyed seeing Gersha Phillips take on those, but I sense she was going for something practical and that fit with the lines of the rest of the uniforms.

Just glad the bomber jackets have not made a reappearance.

Exactly. Even the away jackets at the end of TMP looked more futuristic.

Let’s face it: For a U.S. based production, and within a U.S. based series, the U.S. won in the measurement standards race. Metrics be damned. /s

Considering they’re filming in Toronto, Canada…don’t count metrics out yet.

But all the Star Trek shows and films uses the metric system. Maybe they switched back and forth but it was the standard.

I do admit to missing the Bill Thesis designs.

Only the United States —and Myanmar….😂

This doesn’t apply to use or non-use of the metric system, but in general the viewers need something they can “recognize” or identify with. Or just identify. Supposedly the TOS propmasters made these really futuristic medical device for McCoy (and Sistine Chapel) to use, but visually they didn’t give any indication of their function. Again supposedly, that’s when they started using contemporary salt shakers as sickbay’s gizmos.

Only Americans who don’t travel abroad would be confused by kilometers. The entire planet uses the metric system :/

You’ve apparently missed the whole Brexit debate.

Counterpoint: Those jackets look badass, cool as fuck, and I want one.

This reminds me of that old Vulcan proverb: “Only Nixon could go to China.”

They tried that in TMP and the vast majority of fans (NOT ME!) hated it, hence we got throw-back heavy uniforms in WOK that were regressive and not futuristic looking. And the uniforms for 24th century Starfleet in TNG that started out looking reasonably futurist, gradually got watered down by the time we got to TNG movies so that they weren’t really all that futuristic looking.

It’s a nice thought, but it’s not realistic to expect it happen. Most fans like to say this kind of thing, but then bitch about what they end up seeing, so the costume designers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

To this day, I personally think TMP uniforms were the most futuristic ever in Trek.

PS: Who cares if it’s metric or inches given every week all Aliens speak English which is a much bigger problem if you are gong to really insist on that sort of minutiae.

I 100% agree that the TMP uniforms look the most future-forward, followed by season 1 and 2 TNG… Both Roddenberry heavy involvement Treks :)

I know it puts me in the minority but I hate the bulky, impractical and militaristic TWOK outfits, for all their dash and color. (The most unintentionally funny scene in that movie is when the landing party beams up from the Genesis cave and the ensigns rush forward with the uniform jackets, as if that took priority during a crisis.). Not all that fond of the TMP uniforms, either, excepting some of the variants Shatner got to wear. For me the best are still the TOS originals (pre-third season) and TNG third season, which still strike me as attractive, practical, and comfortable.

To be fair I don’t expect real 23rd century human English speakers will sound much like us, units of measurement aside. I can see why they’ve made the decision (if they have) to favour the contemporary English of the US audience which is their largest. Plus it is presumably dubbed/subbed in some markets and they’ll change it.

I would assume that in-universe they might be speaking different languages so the dialogue we get is just for our benefit as the audience. I remember was that episode of Discovery where the translator failed and people weren’t able to talk to each other or even got their languages swapped so I choose to see it like that.

Wait, so this episode is a sequel to Star Trek: Enterprise’s “Damage?” Intriguing.

Maybe, but maybe not.

I’m not trying to start a canon debate, but the tie-in novel The Enterprise War describes Una as having been raised on an Illyrian colony. Some novels have also kept her being an Illyrian even before this.

The writers have show they are borrowing from the Trek Extended Universe for some things. Even her name, Una, is from the novel…

I’m hoping that this is going to be integrated into onscreen canon.

It would bring in her background in math, physics and computer science, and will lay the foundation for her to redesign the Federation’s computers in the future and become the “voice” of Starfleet’s computers.

She’s presumably not actually Illyrian unless they’re going to ignore the look from Enterprise, though of course it wouldn’t be the first time a species has been re-designed.

If they keep The Enterprise War components she’s Human, but was raised on one of their colony planets.

It’s a way to explain her chill demeanour while making her fully human.

Given that SNW is a few years after The Cage, and Pike isn’t in personal jeopardy, an evolution to a more expressive Una as she matures into her role as First Officer on a Starfleet ship with quite reasonable.

The return of field jackets! (Look quite different from those in The Cage , but still!)

TMP’s field jackets made me think somebody barfed up a giant peach pie. (I’m colorblind but that’s my read.)

Why does it have to match the cage? Its years later

And the ones in The Cage look like 1980s high fashion…

Which was fine as a view of the future in the mid-60s but we don’t need to be bound by that.

I don’t mean that they HAVE to look like in The Cage . (Quite frankly, I think the Cage jackets look like large pieces of felt.) The new jackets are perfectly OK, it’s just that some allusion to the Cage jacket in their cut or something would’ve been nice too.

I don’t like that Ensigns’ chances. Look at the colour of his shirt.

My thought precisely.

Now that the trope was inverted last episode and it was a science specialist who got zapped, I guess a red shirt getting infected is fair.

Feels very Naked Time and Naked Now-ish

Yaaay, weird trippy Star Trek is BACK!!! We haven’t had a crazy virus infects the crew story line probably since Voyager? Yes, vibes of Naked Time/Now. They are finally getting back to classic Star Trek on this show.

Just me at home. LOL

Want to bet that the analogy is: addicted to screens?

LOL, yep! Not going to lie, that’s an analogy we can all get on board with these days. I went to work last week and left my phone at home. I was surprised I could function like a normal human being without it for a few hours…but it wasn’t easy. ;)

Actually leaving your place without a phone has become a luxury. One of my older neighbors did it, got lunch, and his caregiver was up and down the block looking for him, quite upset. Going somewhere without internet – a good way to “get away from it all” — now seems like a big lie.

LOL! That sounds about right.

And to be clear, I left it home by accident. You would have to be crazy to leave your phone at home longer than an hour this day and age! And how I can leave my meandering nonsensical rambling thoughts on Trekmovie whenever I want?

My spouse and I rewatched the Prodigy episode Kobayashi yesterday.

I reflected afterwards about the addictive “disc and funnel game” and it made me wonder how the TNG writers were so prescient on that one.

It never occurred to me until now, but yes you may be right. Although the irony being it’s the younger kids who fight the addiction. ;)

Enterprise had one.

Really, which one? I can’t seem to recall it.

And thinking about it now, I’m not even sure if Voyager actually had one lol. I kind assumed they did since that show did every nutty thing out there. But I can’t specifically recall one now.

I hoping that she’s also related to Khan, just so I can watch Tiger II totally flip out…lol ;-)

Yeah, I don’t think I would be the only one on the internet doing that lol. And what’s with the weird call out? Let’s not do that anymore, please. I know you didn’t mean anything by it, but I don’t like that kind of attention drawn to me here unless someone just reply to me directly of course.

Just having fun given our conversation last week on this topic. I actually thought this would give you a laugh. But you didn’t like the call-out, so I respect that and will not do that again. No worries.

OK sorry to be such a stick in the mud. And I’m just going to be honest and say it as round about as possible, but I used to get quite a few call out posts in the past; especially when I have supposedly upset someone specifically and felt like they were just looking for a fight…and I always ignored it because that’s not what I come here for. I didn’t think this was quite that, but honestly wasn’t sure either. Again I know things are different and more civil now (and why I responded) but a little war weary given the past. But sorry for that assumption and coming off a little strong over it. I see you were just having some fun!

I hope Ensign Lance has a first name.

“Ensign”

There seems to be a lot of hypo spray injections performed in this series

There were a lot in TOS as well.

It was a cool new thing then. Not so much now.

This is one of the risks of maintaining continuity.

Hmmm, in TOS the crew got infected and acted wacky in episode 4 of the first season. In TNG the crew got infected and acted wacky in episode 3 of the first season. In SNW the crew get infected and act wacky in episode 3 of the first season. What, is this a tradition?

Red shirt alert. Nice knowing you Ensign Lance (or one of the other guys).

I was just about to mentiom the same! 😂 Ensign redshirt? Never seen before? And with a name? I have a veeeeeeery bad feeling about him… Ooooooor… maybe the producers want to fool us again this time like they did with Kirk! 😉

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 3 builds up backstories for Number One, M'Benga

Are short seasons stunting the growth of "Star Trek"? Lest we forget that "The Original Series" was made up of 29 episodes.

Warning: Spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1, episode 3

For the first time in a very long time it seems, fans of "Star Trek" are actually agreeing on something and that is how good " Strange New Worlds " is. So much so, that The Wrap reports that "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” garnered a 92% increase in demand for the week ending Friday, and became the top new series in the U.S. with 35.1 times the average series demand, according to Parrot Analytics‘ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other consumer engagement."

And while we're only three episodes into the new Paramount Plus series (and making our way through lots of new backstories), there's no denying that this incarnation of " Star Trek " looks utterly gorgeous . The USS Enterprise has never looked better and the pseudo-retro style of the J.J. Abrams' 2009 movie has been seamlessly blended with both the vintage style of "The Original Series" and the new interpretation of that vintage style. Oh, and did you see those away mission jackets this week?! Mmmm .

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In episode 3, entitled "Ghosts of Illyria," we join our super-slim Starfleet crew on an away mission to Hetemit IX and an abandoned colony of the Illyrians, a humanoid race considered outcasts by the Federation due to their use of genetic engineering. And one thing's for sure, William Shatner 's stomach would never have survived these new Starfleet uniforms.

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Unfortunately, the area is frequently bombarded with ion storms and a particularly bad one is fast approaching their position. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it-moment, one unsuspecting red shirt takes a quick peek into what looks like a storage cupboard with lots of empty glass jars, beakers and flasks ... and the fate of the Enterprise crew is sealed. With the exception of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and Mr Spock (Ethan Peck), the away team, led by Lt. Cmdr. Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) makes it back safely after some frantic power re-routing by Cmdr. Hemmer (Bruce Horak). Oh, and did you see those engineering graphics this week?! Mmmm .

Following that amazing opening credit sequence, members of the away team seem to start exhibiting strange behavior that can only be described as an addiction to bright light. Even Chin-Riley is not immune, only she kinda is. Turns out that a virus has been brought back aboard the ship — we're looking at you Ensign Lance — that wasn't picked up by the transporter filters (more on that later) and is proving to be something of a pickle to detect ... because it's transmitted on light waves and/or particles. (Science check: light is a wave and a particle as proven by the double-slit experiment .)

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And this is where the producers of "Strange New Worlds" have taken an almighty leap ... of faith in their own ability. To begin with, and especially upon first viewing, you'd be forgiven for thinking the writers are taking us down the ol' we-think-she-has-it-but-is-hiding-it path, but it turns out Chin-Riley has extremis. No, not the Belgian-designed furniture , but an advanced form of genetic manipulation, or something close to it. 

As she admits much later in the episode, she is an Illyrian herself. And while the primary pretext of tonight's episode focuses on discrimination and revealing hidden, potentially problematic personal details, wrapping it in the tasty tortilla of a contamination crisis, this also sets a precarious new precedent for this character, since being Illyrian includes having super-strength and super-immunity.

Much like the whole Picard-is-now-an-android thing, if this is not handled properly, we could be left asking ourselves on every away mission that falls foul, why didn't Chin-Riley carry them, or hold the door, or support that pillar, or throw that car at them. Granted she's reluctant to reveal her true ancestry, but quite a few people witnessed her carrying the 180-pound-plus of Hemmer on her shoulder through the corridors of the Enterprise like he was a medium-sized, rolled Moroccan rug. We'll wager a hundred quatloos that there's an episode coming some time in our future where she reveals her strength in a dire emergency and is forced to trust someone to keep it quiet.

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Regardless, Chin-Riley is very much the focus in this episode to the extent that she even gets to indulge in some classic Kirk action , like ripping her tunic, doing the long stare into her mirror in her quarters and even a full-on fistfight with Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) as more crewmembers begin to exhibit addiction-like behavior to light.

Nerd Note: T he Illyrians are the same race that Captain Archer was forced to commit piracy against during the Xindi War in the epic "Enterprise" episode "Damage" (S03, E19). They were portrayed then with cranial ridges, which obviously are not present on Lt Cmdr Chin-Riley. However, the photographs she scans through in her quarters do show some Illyrians still with visible cranial ridges, so one assume they've been phased out through genetic manipulation.

Meanwhile, back on Hetemit IX, Pike and Spock have to deal with creatures that look they've come straight out of the Ark of the Convenient. However, unlike those spiritual servants of God that melt your face, incinerate your heart, or cause your head to explode, these ones thankfully shield the stranded Starfleet officers from the ion storm and thus save their lives.

Through the convenient application of some medical black magic, Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) is able to create an antidote from Chin-Riley after she shielded Noonien-Singh from a bad dose of radiation and "her proximity to the commander created chimeric antibodies in her system," which you know, could be replicated. Phew. So with everyone more or less out of trouble — and no word on the condition of poor Ensign Lance — we circle round to why the transporters didn't pick up this particular pesky pathogen.

Following the moral lesson of today's story, which is all about acceptance, surviving prejudice and forgiveness we learn that Dr. malpractice M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) didn't let Starfleet upgrade the medical transporter when the Enterprise was in spacedock. Hemmer's level five ship-wide diagnostic revealed the good doctor was in fact keeping something stored inside the transporter's pattern buffer, which would've been discovered during the scheduled biofilter enhancement. Turns out that his daughter, Rukiya, was diagnosed with cygnokemia a year ago and so he took it upon himself to store inside the pattern buffer until a cure could be found. As long as she's taken out of storage, so to speak, every now and again, she'll be fine. Apparently.

Nerd Note: The creators of "Star Trek" have never officially confirmed that transporters kill you. However, solely based on the science, transporters do kill you. In simple terms, these teleportation devices scan every molecule in your body and briefly store them in the pattern buffer, while at the same time, the original body is to all intents and purposes, disintegrated. The transporter then converts the scanned copy into energy and beams the data stream to the desired location, where the body is rebuilt, from a sub-atomic level, using technology similar to a replicator. It's comparable in principle to a fax, except this fax machine destroys the original, to prevent duplication, although that has been known to happen.

The issue is essentially an existential one. Since our bodies are made up of identifiable matter, why won't transference of consciousness occur? What makes our consciousness so unique? What's the difference between an identical copy and you? If you were to put your copy into a different room that you hadn't been into, would you be able to see it? No. It's a perfect copy, but it's not you. There is a good article  on Ars Technica  that really goes into detail on this.

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The first transporter accident occurred in "The Original Series" episode "The Enemy Within" (Season 1, Episode 4) when Captain Kirk was accidentally duplicated in the transporter and something similar happened to Will Riker in "The Next Generation" episode "Second Chances" (Season 6, Episode 24). But it's the TNG episode "Relics" (Season 6, Episode 4) when Captain Montgomery Scott was discovered to be stored inside the pattern buffer of a ship that crashed on a Dyson sphere more than 75 years prior, that's perhaps more relevant.

So it's highly likely we'll be seeing more of young Rukiya M'Benga (Sage Arrindell) in future episodes. 

On a side note, we do so very much hope that Harcourt Fenton Mudd makes an appearance in the not too distant future. Mudd is magnetic. Mudd is mesmerizing. He is enigmatic, charismatic and just plain mischievous, plus Rainn Wilson's portrayal of this epic, underrated character was magnificent. Tragically, his appearance was only limited to two episodes in the first season of "Discovery" and then a " Short Trek " not long after. Those were set around the second half of 2250 and he won't meet Captain Kirk until 2266, with this current season of "Strange New Worlds" being set in 2259, so theoretically it's possible.

For the first time since "Nu-Trek" started, we are genuinely excited about how this spin-off show is unfolding and we still have seven more episodes left ... which raises an interesting question; the first season of "The Original Series" had in comparison, a seemingly staggering 29 episodes. And it's not just limited to "Star Trek." Vanity Fair recently ran an interesting article where it considered how despite there being more shows on offer, those same shows have significantly fewer episodes — and fewer seasons to prove themselves and to allow us to be more invested in the characters. Suffice to say that in today's climate, "The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine," "Voyager" and "Enterprise" would've each been a surprisingly different experience. It's food for thought at the very least.

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It's a huge sigh of relief when a spinoff of a classic like the original Star Trek (which ran from 1966 to 1969) is well done, polished, and gripping. Especially when that show stands out in a franchise with twelve - yes, you read that right - twelve corresponding series. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , which serves as a prequel to the original (and iconic) Star Trek series, follows Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) as he leads his crew through the galaxy aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The show, which premiered in 2022, was met with high critical acclaim from the beginning and continues to find fans with each new season - an impressive feat in a time when so many shows get lost in the streaming shuffle. Now renewed for a third season right after its Season 2 finale, here's everything we know so far about the next chapter in the epic space adventure.

With Season 2's finale leaving fans wanting more, it's only natural to be itching for Season 3 to come as soon as possible. While episodes are expected to return in 2024, the production window was from December 2023 to June 2024 for Season 3 , so we may have to wait a bit before we get the answers we're craving .

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.

While Strange New Worlds premiered its first two episodes on CBS in 2022, all episodes are now streaming on Paramount+. It can be assumed that the third season of the show will also premiere on the CBS-affiliated streaming service. Subscriptions to Paramount+ are available in two tiers: Paramount+ Essential (with commercials, $5.99/month) and Paramount+ with SHOWTIME (commercial-free, $11.99/month).

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With production recently ending, there is still no official footage from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3. That said, we hope to get our first look at the new season sometime later this year. Stay tuned to Collider as we await more info.

Leading the charge is fan-favorite Captain Pike , played by Anson Mount. Mount is no stranger to the Star Trek world, as he also appeared in Star Trek: Discovery in 2019. His other credits include films like Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and the Britney Spears -led 2002 drama Crossroads . Ethan Peck 's Spock is another character who appeared in Discovery alongside Mount. Peck also worked on shows like Madam Secretary and 10 Things I Hate About You . The astute La'an is played by Christina Chong , whose credits include Johnny English Reborn and Tom and Jerry .

Erica Ortegas is played by Melissa Navia , whose guest roles include Bull , Homeland , and Billions . Rebecca Romjin plays Una-Chin Riley, Pike's Number One. While Romjin is known for films like X-Men and Austin Powers , perhaps her most unforgettable role was as Cheryl, the gorgeous girl with the disgusting apartment in Season 4 of Friends . Rounding out Pike's crew are Babs Olusanmokun ( Dune ) as Dr. M'Benga, Celia Rose Gooding ( Foul Play ) as Nyota Uhura, and Jess Bush ( Playing For Keeps ) as Nurse Christine Chapel. Arguably, one of the best parts of the Season 2 finale was the appearance of Lieutenant Montgomery Scott ( Martin Quinn ), of the infamous - and incorrect - quote from the OG series: "Beam me up, Scotty!"

Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios , Secret Hideout, and Roddenberry Entertainment, and distributed by Paramount+. The show was created by Akiva Goldsman , Alex Kurtzman , and Jenny Lumet , with Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serving as co-showrunners . Kurtzman, Goldsman, Lumet, and Myers are executive producers on the series, alongside Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin , Frank Siracusa , John Weber , Rod Roddenberry , and Trevor Roth .

The series was originally set to film early in 2023 but due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the series was delayed by several months. Thankfully, they recently wrapped up filming in Canada earlier this year. Anson Mount took to Instagram to celebrate the conclusion of filming.

Mount also wrote a heartfelt message to fans after concluding production, saying:

“So that’s it guys, that is a wrap on season 3, at least from me, there’s still a little bit of work to be done. I feel like I could sleep for a week, but I still have many travels and many things ahead of me to do, and I’m trying to keep spoilers out of the shots here. Thank you for your patience, especially during the strikes, it wasn’t anyone’s intention for us to be delayed to that extent. Thank you for sticking with us, thank you to our lifelong Star Trek fans, I am one of you and it’s because of people like you that I get to live out my dreams like this and I’ll never stop thanking you for having me in your house.”

With many unanswered questions in the Season 2 finale, there are lots of possibilities for where Season 3 could take Captain Pike and his crew. After the fun and games of the previous musical episode , things switched back to danger mode very quickly, and viewers were ultimately left with a cliffhanger. With the re-appearance of the Gorn (the reptilian-humanoid extraterrestrials first seen in Star Trek in the 1960s), Pike was faced with a decision: heed the commands of the Enterprise not to engage with the Gorn, or do whatever he can to save his people. Pike, being the always-optimistic hero that he is, decides he must try and save his crew. And, when he sees young Gorn working together, his hunch that the species may be able to communicate leads him to want to try and save his crew without violence. While it's unclear how big a role the Gorn will play in Season 3, perhaps Pike's interest in their ability to communicate will be an important factor in not having this happen again.

To add (gross) insult to injury, it is revealed that Gorn eggs have been planted in Pike's love interest, Captain Batel, and she may have to sacrifice herself in order to save everyone else. This is also not resolved in the finale, adding another layer to what Season 3 might bring. Will she survive? And if so, what happens to the Gorn eggs? Additionally, diehard Star Trek fans were no doubt thrilled to see Montgomery Scott appear in the Season 2 finale. While the character first appeared in the 1960s, as portrayed by James Doohan , this is his first time on Strange New Worlds. The re-introduction of this iconic character leaves a lot of potential for Season 3.

There are still many more stories to be told and strange new worlds to explore. In a surprise to no one, Paramount+ has already renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for a fourth season. Mount took to Instagram , saying:

"We’ll see you again in the spring when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes back into production for Season 4!"

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Strange New Worlds Season 3 Can Set Up A Star Trek Movie Romance That Deserved Better

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds can set up a romance that deserved better in Star Trek: The Original Series ' movies. Strange New Worlds season 3 will pick up from season 2's finale cliffhanger, resolving the crisis Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise face with the Gorn. But as seen in a first-look clip of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 that premiered at San Diego Comic-Con , life goes back to 'normal' aboard the Starship Enterprise, which has Lt. Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn), AKA Scotty, joining the crew.

Scotty made a surprise debut in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale . An engineer aboard the USS Stardiver, Scotty was the lone survivor after his starship was attacked by the Gorn. Scotty crash-landed on Parnassus Beta, the next target of a Gorn occupation, where he met Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise's Away team. Scotty joined Pike and Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) aboard the Enterprise, and the Scottish engineer might have a way to get the edge over the Gorn. But another interesting aspect of Scotty joining the Enterprise is that he can now meet Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) in Star Trek' s Prime Universe canon.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Could Set Up Scotty & Uhuras Movie Romance

Scotty and uhura started to have a thing in star trek v.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could set up the relationship between Scotty and Uhura that led to a sweet flirtation between them in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Over 35 years after the events of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Scotty (James Doohan) remain part of the USS Enterprise's bridge crew under Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). In Star Trek V , Scotty and Uhura's decades of friendship began to blossom into feelings between them. Scotty and Uhura even planned to take shore leave together. There's a palpable chemistry between the Communications Officer and the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise .

Ensign Uhura and Lt. Scott could begin to spark their future relationship in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . After all, both Scotty and Uhura are young and attractive, and they could begin working together closely on the Enterprise. Uhura has begun to move past her trauma and become more assertive, and Nyota could help Scotty start to fit in among the Enterprise's crew. Uhura has yet to have a canonical romance in Star Trek 's Prime timeline , and Scotty's love life also has big question marks. Uhura and Scotty could start to be a 'thing' in Strange New Worlds.

Lt. Uhura (Zoe Saldana) had a romance with Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto) in the alternate Kelvin Timeline of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies.

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Scotty and Uhura's flirtation in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier didn't manifest into anything more in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , the final time Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan played their iconic Star Trek characters opposite each other. Sadly, the bits of repartee between Scotty and Uhura were all of what could have been a fun Star Trek romance on Captain Kirk's bridge. Star Trek: The Original Series' movies were primarily focused on Kirk, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), leaving characters like Scotty, Uhura, Sulu (George Takei), and Chekov (Walter Koenig) firmly in the background.

Scotty and Uhura could start to establish the chemistry that will last them decades.

However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gives credence to every major character aboard Captain Pike's Starship Enterprise, and their stories and relationships. Multiple love stories are occurring simultaneously in Strange New Worlds , and Pike's starship has room for one more between Scotty and Uhura. And if not a full-blown romance on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, at the very least, Scotty and Uhura could start to establish the chemistry that will last them decades into Star Trek: The Original Series.

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I don't care if modern star trek breaks established canon, star trek's new warp drive breaks the prime directive in a way no-one expected.

I'm doubtful that Star Trek: Legacy will actually happen — at least, as long as one other particular Star Trek series is still airing. Like many other fans, I was excited by the prospective new Star Trek series Star Trek: Picard season 3 set up that would follow the adventures of Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd), and Ensign Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), aboard the newly rechristened USS Enterprise-G. Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas proposed the title Star Trek: Legacy , and fan campaigns to get Legacy off the ground were started, but there's been no word from Paramount about Legacy actually happening.

Instead, the next two new Star Trek series have been announced, and neither of them are Star Trek: Legacy . First up is the 32nd-century-set Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , starring Holly Hunter, Paul Giamatti, several legacy Star Trek characters, and a new crop of fresh faces for the Star Trek franchise. We knew Starfleet Academy was coming for a while, so that wasn't much of a surprise. Paramount's slate of San Diego Comic-Con announcements also included a brand-new, untitled Star Trek live-action comedy by writers Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien. Why would Star Trek: Legacy remain so suspiciously absent when Paramount knows fans want it?

Star Trek: Picard may have come to an end, but the potential adventures of Starfleet in the 25th century could still continue in Star Trek: Legacy.

Paramount+ Will Have Only One Star Trek Show About The USS Enterprise At A Time

Star trek's new shows don't replace star trek: legacy.

The most likely answer is that Paramount+ will only have one Star Trek show about the USS Enterprise at a time, regardless of which Enterprise it is. As long as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is telling stories about Captain Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) Starship Enterprise, Star Trek: Legacy won't be recounting the voyages of the USS Enterprise-G with Captain Seven of Nine . This makes sense, since Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Legacy would follow the classic Star Trek format of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation , with episodic, self-contained stories about exploring the galaxy and morality plays.

Strange New Worlds and Legacy would have similar functions as flagship series.

Instead of being considered replacements for Star Trek: Legacy , Star Trek 's new shows fill different niches that some recently canceled Star Trek series leave open. Lieutenant Beckett Mariner actress Tawny Newsome's Star Trek workplace sitcom will carry on Star Trek: Lower Decks ' comedy mission. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is likely to pick up where Star Trek: Discovery left off in Star Trek 's 32nd century, and could continue Discovery 's tradition of pushing Star Trek 's boundaries with experimental storytelling formats. Strange New Worlds and Legacy would have similar functions as flagship series for the Star Trek franchise, so it makes sense to space them out.

A Possible 5 Seasons For Strange New Worlds Could Open The Door For Star Trek: Legacy

There's still new star trek to look forward to before star trek: legacy.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might last for only 5 seasons, at which point the door could open for Star Trek: Legacy to take its place as Star Trek 's flagship series. Because Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins in 2259, and the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series takes place in 2265, it might seem like there's a 5-year time limit on Strange New Worlds , but the timing of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is purposely ambiguous. Instead, the 5-year projection comes from Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks ' 5-year runs , which suggest Star Trek series lasting 5 seasons might be the new franchise normal.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas is attached to Disney+'s Vision series for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Vision series is likely to be just a single season, like most other MCU TV shows, but it still ties up Matalas for some time before he could feasibly commit to Star Trek: Legacy .

Even if Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends with season 5, that's still another potential 3–5 years before Star Trek: Legacy. That may feel like a long time, but it's nothing compared to the drought between the end of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005 and Star Trek: Discovery 's 2017 premiere — and we still have tons of new Star Trek to look forward to in the meantime. As my favorite of the new Star Trek series, I hate the idea of sacrificing Strange New Worlds to get Star Trek: Legacy , but that might be how it has to be if there's only room for one USS Enterprise show at a time.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2 Spiral Notebook

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• Covers with soft-touch coating
• Metal wire-o binding
• 140 dotted pages
• Size: 5.5? × 8.5?

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