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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season 1, Episode 7

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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 1 Episode 7 Review: Queer Theory and Space Pirates

'Star Trek' examines the flaws in binary thinking through a thrilling episode about space pirates.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 7, "The Serene Squall," delivers a thrilling hour of television filled with surprises, action, intimacy, and secrets. Guest-starring Queer as Folk actress Jesse James Keitel , this episode uses Spock's ( Ethan Peck ) identity as half-human half-Vulcan to explore the queer experience and where we can go when we move beyond the binary. The episode also delivers on a full range of comedic and romantic elements, making for a superb viewing experience.

Strange New Worlds continues to flesh out Spock's beloved fiancée T'Pring ( Gia Sandhu ), as the episode opens with her balancing her work duties with her relationship, striving to better understand her partner by researching human sex. She mentions a handful of books from different perspectives over the last hundred years including T r opic of Cancer by Henry Miller for a masculine point of view, Fear of Flying by Erica Jong for a feminine point of view, and Maggie Nelson 's The Argonauts . Nelson's book is a mix of memoir and philosophy through which she explores many things, including her love for her partner, Harry Dodge , who happens to be trans-masculine. The title of the book refers to the constantly changing and evolving parts of ourselves that still all fall under who we are. It's a remarkably fitting choice for T'Pring to study in order to understand Spock, who still holds a lot of internal conflict about the two most prominent parts of his identity.

Spock is clearly flustered by T'Pring's choices as his feelings about sexuality and emotions are complex, and in all honesty, confusing. Elsewhere, he unpacks the conversation with Nurse Chapel ( Jess Bush ) — whom he does not realize is harboring unrequited feelings for him. Strange New Worlds very deftly uses Spock's questions about his own identity to explore what it's like to be a queer person in a way that hasn't really been done yet on Star Trek . This episode embodies the franchise's mission statement of boldly going where no one has gone before through the vehicle of a Die Hard -style adventure.

RELATED: 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 1 Episode 6 Review: The Morality of Sacrifice

At dinner in Captain Pike's ( Anson Mount ) quarters, we meet an ex-Federation counselor who has reached out to the Enterprise for an aid mission to rescue innocent people who've been captured by pirates. As Starfleet's boy scout, Pike has no choice but to take the Enterprise into non-Federation space in the hopes that he might save a group of people from being sold. When the captured colonists turn out to be a ruse, Pike and most of the senior bridge crew are detained aboard the pirate's ship while Spock and Nurse Chapel must sneak around within the ship to keep it from falling into the hands of the enemy.

On the Serene Squall, Pike leads carefully and charmingly sows seeds of dissent among the crew of pirates. This storyline really leans into the comedy of the episode, as Pike's wordless communication with Una ( Rebecca Romijn ) leads to the whole crew getting in on inciting a mutiny. It goes quite well, and they return just in time to rescue the Enterprise. Elsewhere, Nurse Chapel also has a couple of very subtle moments of humor that reference Majel Roddenberry , who originated the role on Star Trek: The Original Series and would go on to play several other characters in the franchise, including the voice of the computer. On Star Trek: The Next Generation she played Lwaxana Troi, who was notoriously awkward with the computer as a running gag since Roddenberry played both roles. In Strange New Worlds , Chapel gets frustrated with the computer while attempting to send out an SOS and later struggles to re-route command to engineering.

When Aspen turns on Spock and reveals themselves to be Captain Angel, we learn that this entire scheme has been a trap specifically to gain Spock as a bargaining chip. Angel calls up T'Pring and demands she release one of the "prisoners" in her rehab facility. Spock, clearly frustrated over having been bested using emotions, quickly thinks up a plan to save himself and absolve T'Pring of her responsibility for his life. He makes up an affair with Nurse Chapel, and thanks to her burgeoning feelings for him, the pair are able to sell their lie with a truly spectacular kiss. T'Pring and Spock end their bond, and she's free to go. Later she arrives on the Enterprise later and explains that she understood it was a scheme and that she's impressed with how well it worked. Strange New Worlds is doing a very good job of laying out this love triangle of sorts without making it seem too fraught or adolescent. T'Pring is incredibly likable as is Chapel, and while T'Pring believes there is nothing between the two, Chapel does her best to put up walls around her own feelings. Spock, in the middle, appears to take both women at their word for how they feel about him.

While never explicitly stating the queerness of this episode it's quite obvious to anyone who understands the queer experience on a variety of levels. When we first meet Dr. Aspen/Captain Angel — played by a trans actress — we don't know that they're part of the pirates they're referring to, but they call them "outsiders" who are "fiercely loyal to each other," saying that the bond they've formed can be "more powerful than any weapon." Their statement perfectly describes the queer community and the way that we quite often build our own families out of fellow LGBTQ+ people with bonds that run deeper than blood.

Later, Spock speaks with Dr. Aspen about how much he relies on logic. He diminishes his human side because he was raised to be Vulcan, but they point out that while his human side may be "just biology" his Vulcan side is "just geography." Aspen explains that while we may act one way or another to fit into certain expectations, sometimes forcing ourselves into a box can be incredibly limiting. Spock does not have to be human or Vulcan, he can be both or something else entirely — his journey to figure that out follows that of a range of LGBTQ+ identities, particularly being non-binary or transgender, but also experiencing any non-heteronormative type of attraction.

Strange New Worlds also presents the fact that Dr. Aspen is non-binary in a very subtle way. Star Trek: Discovery introduced both a trans character and a non-binary character in Season 3, both of whom had lovely textual conversations about those identities. However, in this episode, we don't have the time, or more importantly, the necessity to have that conversation about Aspen/Angel. The characters on the Enterprise simply use they/them pronouns when referring to the counselor turned captain. Both of these representations of queer people are so important, and it's incredibly encouraging to watch a queer person simply existing on Star Trek . And even though her character gets there through subterfuge, it's so exciting to see a trans woman sitting in the captain's chair.

It's also surprisingly nuanced to how the show presents Aspen's turn into Angel. While it could come off as stereotypical to have the "villain" of the episode be queer-coded, having the character played by someone who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community feels like a reclamation of sorts — especially in the context of how their villain arc is presented. As queer people, we're often drawn to villains in fiction because of the way they've been coded and the recognition of similar traits and features that we've come to celebrate about ourselves, as well as a sense of "other." While they are decidedly morally grey and they do threaten to kill Spock, Angel doesn't actually take any lives. Their main motivation throughout the entire episode is to rescue their lover who is being held in T'Pring's rehab facility.

The lover in question is revealed in the final moments of this episode to be none other than Spock's older half-brother, Sybok. Sybok was first introduced in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as the son of Sarek and a Vulcan princess. Though we only see and hear of him in the final moments of this episode this is a remarkably fitting introduction to the classic Trek character. Sybok ultimately rejected the teachings of Vulcan, believing that it was essential to embrace emotion. He uses his abilities as a Vulcan to help people heal from their own trauma and ultimately sacrifices himself in The Final Frontier in order to save the rest of the crew. Filling out the backstory of such an iconic character is exactly the kind of storytelling that has so many fans excited about Strange New Worlds . Introducing Sybok through the lens of the people who care most about him aligns perfectly with what we know of his future — and doing so in an episode where Spock must rely on instinct and emotion — is a brilliant choice.

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RECAP | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 107 - 'The Serene Squall'

A routine mission goes awry in the latest episode.

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Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, Episode 7 to follow!

Despite the progress they appeared to make during their body swap in “ Spock Amok ,” T’Pring voices concern about her relationship with Spock and researches human sexuality in an attempt to better understand Spock’s human side. After learning this news during a long-distance video chat, Spock once again consults with Nurse Chapel, whose affection for the science officer foreshadows the feelings she will show for him in episodes of The Original Series .

The U.S.S. Enterprise welcomes Dr. Aspen (Jesse James Keitel), a former Starfleet counselor who now assists colonists at the fringes of Federation space. Assigned to help three colony ships that have been stranded without power for nearly a month, Captain Pike commits to the mission with confidence and compassion. Aspen jokingly notes that Pike is Starfleet’s ‘boy scout,’ a reference that reinforces Admiral Cornwell’s assessment of the captain in Discovery ’s second season.

Aspen cautions the Enterprise crew that pirates operate in the area they are approaching, noting that those from the Serene Squall vessel are particularly nasty. The warning is justified; Enterprise encounters debris from two of the three colonial starships. Pike valiantly opts to venture beyond Federation space to search for the third ship, but dangers abound. The Enterprise becomes temporarily trapped in a Tholian-like energy web emitted from a cluster of asteroids, narrowly escaping as the beams begin to close in.

Spock (Strange New Worlds) stands with his back to the camera. He is in medbay, talking to a woman wearing all black with short hair.

In a turbolift, Spock and Aspen have an intriguing conversation about Kolinahr , the Vulcan process of purging emotions that the science officer will eventually seek to undergo at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Later, in Spock’s quarters, Aspen offers a fascinating observation about the way all species try to classify things into boxes, theorizing that Spock’s quest to determine whether he is more Vulcan or human is futile… perhaps he is neither. Given that this profound wisdom is postulated by a non-binary character, it carries even more weight and presents an open-minded way of perceiving the universe.

The Enterprise locates the final colonial vessel; but when Pike beams over with an away team, a boarding party of pirates simultaneously transports to the Federation starship. Number One manages to lock out the Enterprise ’s control systems, but a fierce firefight ensues and the entire crew is taken prisoner, save for Spock, Aspen, and Chapel. The last colonial ship is actually the Serene Squall , and its Orion leader Remy interrogates Pike. In a move that amuses Number One, Pike initiates Alpha Braga IV — creating discord between Remy and his crew in a bid to stoke a mutiny.

In the Enterprise sickbay, Spock determines that he and Aspen must make their way to Engineering to override Number One’s lockout. Aspen reveals that their husband, a Vulcan involved in refugee efforts, had actually been killed by these same pirates. Upon arriving in engineering, the pair find Nurse Chapel armed with a trusty hypospray. Unlike the computer lockout that Data instituted in TNG’s “ Brothers ,” Spock manages to quickly use his authorization to assert control over the ship. At least, until Aspen transfers the controls to the Bridge and divulges that they are actually Captain Angel, the true leader of the Serene Squall !

Dr. Aspen (Jesse James Keitel) stands with two phasers aimed at Spock (Ethan Peck), who's back is to the camera.

On the Bridge, Angel explains that they deposited the real Dr. Aspen on an uninhabited planet and fabricated the entire story about the colonists in distress to prey on the crew’s emotions and lure the Enterprise into a trap. However, Angel’s actual prize is Spock — they hope to coerce T’Pring into exchanging a patient at her rehabilitation institute (who also happens to be Angel’s paramour) for Spock’s safe return. T’Pring agrees to bring the prisoner to the Enterprise’s location. We even get a brief glimpse of her colleague Stonn, of “ Amok Time ” fame, before she departs.

T’Pring soon arrives in the same type of Vulcan cruiser that Sarek traveled in throughout Discovery ’s first two seasons. Spock initiates a ruse to dissuade her from complying with the prisoner exchange. Bolstered by a passionate kiss, Spock claims he and Chapel are having an affair, prompting T’Pring to sever their mating bond. As Angel prepares to destroy T’Pring’s ship, the pirates learn that Pike’s mutiny aboard the Serene Squall succeeded, allowing the captain the opportunity to gain remote control over the Enterprise .

A defeated Captain Angel beams away to a small escape vessel that had been trailing the Enterprise , while their pirate crew surrenders to their Starfleet counterparts. T’Pring returns aboard the Enterprise to rekindle her bond with Spock, and assure him that she was aware his alleged romance with Chapel had been a ploy to deceive Angel. Following this encounter, Spock approaches Chapel to talk about their kiss, but the nurse avoids the topic. However, Spock does confide in Chapel by sharing the identity of the patient Angel sought to free — the other son of Sarek, Spock’s half-brother Sybok!

Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), and Pike (Anson Mount) stand in a prison cell.

“The Serene Squall” takes the classic Enterprise gets boarded theme and infuses it with a brilliant discussion about identity. This story utilizes Spock’s ongoing efforts to balance his Vulcan and human heritage, challenging audiences to stop perceiving all choices as binary. This continues Star Trek’s tradition of presenting forward-thinking ideas subtly embedded into its stories. The episode also continues to hint at Chapel’s feelings for Spock. Perhaps most notably, the introduction of Sybok, the antagonist from the very underrated Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, adds a new layer of intrigue to Strange New Worlds. Will we see Captain Angel again? How will Sybok play into the current narrative? Stay tuned as we continue to explore strange new worlds…

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 7 teases the return of an epic character

Along with a sitcom starring Spock and T'Pring, now we also want a Captain Pike cooking show spin-off. The possibilities are limitless.

Pike's cooking skills save the day in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1, episode 7 "The Serene Squall"

Warning: Spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1, episode 7

With news that the last episode of Season 2 of "Strange New Worlds" plus the first two episodes of Season 5 of "Discovery" have started shooting , we rejoice that more " Star Trek " is on the way, but sadly only three installments remain of this inaugural season of the best Paramount Plus Trek live-action spin-off show so far.

Following the recap — which includes a brief clip of Captain Pike ( Anson Mount ) hosting his dinner party in episode two " Children of the Comet " and for reasons that will become clear soon that's particularly entertaining — we begin this week on the Ankeshtan K'til Vulcan Criminal Rehabilitation Center on the third moon of Omicron Lyrae. And also for reasons that will become clear later, this is quite significant. This is where T'Pring (Gia Sandhu) has been based, trying to guide those who once walked a destructive path back to civilized society. Helping them purge the emotions that lead to thievery, abuse, even murder.

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In her spare time, she has been researching works from Earth history that might help her understand Spock's (Ethan Peck) human's side. Interestingly, she wants to explore a part of Spock that he himself is reluctant to examine. It's also worth noting that this Spock — in comparison to Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in the "The Original Series" — seems to be having a much smoother journey thorough his duality, which is probably more indicative of the change in the socio-cultural climate over the last 50-or-so years than anything else.

The starship Enterprise crew sits around the captain's table in episode 7 of Strange New Worlds.

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Spock asks Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) for advice and straight away we can see that this love-triangle is going to be developed further. Then we cut to the primary plot which is provide assistance for visiting counselor Dr. Aspen (Jesse James Keitel) who is running aid missions for stranded colonists, but this sector of space "is the quadrant's version of the wild, wild west." During a cordial evening dinner in the Captain's quarters with most of the command crew, we also learn that Starfleet sometimes refers to Pike as their "boy scout."

The development of Pike's character so far in this first season has been nothing short or exceptional and it feels like an inevitability that if this continues to such a high standard, he will is quickly going to climb to somewhere very near the top of the Greatest Star Trek Captains List .

Dinner is interrupted however, when the Enterprise drops out of warp and they discover a debris field made up of fragments of two of the three colonist's ships. The warp signature of a third ship, potentially pirates, is detected, but extends outside of Federation space. Nonetheless, Pike decides to give chase. Roll those gorgeous opening credits.

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The relationship between Spock and Aspen is nurtured, but the full significance won't be revealed until the end of this episode in one of the best "I Did Not See That Coming" moments in recent "Star Trek" memory. That she's a fan of industrial techno should really have been a red flag. Not since the early 2000s when hard house and techno began to crossover in Amsterdam and Berlin by the likes of Paul van Dyk and even Renato Cohen, has the genre really offered anything of worth.

She talks to him of Vulcan theology and even the Kolinahr discipline, which Spock has not yet taken as he chose instead to join Starfleet. Aspen seems incredibly knowledgeable about such things, but simply puts it down to "having worked with a few Vulcans before."

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The Enterprise enters an asteroid field where it is suddenly surrounded by giant laser net, somewhat similar in principle to what we saw in "The Original Series" episode "The Tholian Web" (S03, E09). Although this doesn't seem to be quite as advanced. It's worth mentioning that the dialogue here between Pike and Lt Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) is priceless and while we do like her character, it would be nice to see her evolve at least a little bit beyond "cheeky chappie."

Spock looks through a scanner on the Enterprise bridge.

In fact, this whole set piece is very nicely handled and Spock is forced to make a guess before the Enterprise is destroyed. Thankfully, he guesses correctly, but his anguish over the situation is noticed by Aspen, who so far, is proving to be an intriguing character. She gives Spock the "identity" talk, "sometimes we act a certain way to fit people's expectations, but that's not necessarily who we are" and so on. It's clearly layered to incorporate the gender discussion, but the more immediate meaning will become clearer as we make our way further into this episode. In addition, it's more elegantly presented in a clever, subtle manner when compared to most attempts that "Discovery" has made, for example, regarding this subject.

Proceeding into the asteroid field, the Enterprise eventually detects the third colonist's ship, with enough life signs onboard to account for prisoners plus 30 or so pirates, but no immediate sign of the pirate vessel, the Serene Squall. A landing party is assembled, with Pike, Lt. Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) plus a couple of token red shirts and beams into the colonist's cargo ship ... only to get captured about 30 seconds later.

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At the same time, a boarding party simultaneously beams onto the Enterprise and begins a hostile takeover attempt. The pirates eventually make their way to the bridge — where, the crew and officers do an appalling job of defending a bottleneck situation as the pirates exit the turbolift doors. Still, despite this shocking lack of training in CQB, the set piece is well choreographed and now command crew are prisoners with the exception of Spock and Aspen who managed to escape.

Nurse Chapel climbs a ladder in the Jeffries Tube on the USS Enterprise.

We return to the pirate-held colonist's ship, where Pike — and now all the captured command crew from the Enterprise — are being held prisoner. Pike himself is receiving something of a pounding from the Orion pirate captain, Remy (Michael Hough) when…frankly, there's a moment of genius . After having thrown some gruel (it's what all young, orphaned Londoners ate during the time of Dickens) in the Captain's face, he then convinces the Orion to let him cook something nice for a change for his merry band of malnourished pirates. It's a chef's kiss moment in so many ways, on so many levels.

At the same time, Pike begins to sow the seeds of mutiny, by letting Remy believe that selling his captives (the Enterprise crewmembers) to the Klingons would be a good idea, then planting the idea to his persuadable pirates that it's a terrible idea and that their captain is untrustworthy. Apparently, it's a tried and tested method of escape, born from an as-yet-untold escapade on Alpha-Braga 4.

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Spock takes Dr. Aspen to engineering where Chapel is attempting to regain control of the ship. And then this is where, on the flip of coin, Aspen reveals her name is Angel and suddenly she's gone full Stormfront. Returning to the bridge, her persona has utterly changed from confident counselor to crackpot crook; she'd make a dynamite Minerva Mayflower in a " Hudson Hawk " reboot. And while her character has suddenly become extremely annoying ... she's meant to be, so mission accomplished.

Captain Pike makes a pirate face on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Turns out that the real doctor is probably still wandering around the uninhabited planet she was dumped on and story about the colonists was just fabricated. Slowly, Stormfront Angel reveals her bigger plan. She wasn't even after the Enterprise, she was after Spock and as such she places a sub-space call to Ankeshtan K'til, specifically to T'Pring. In exchange for the life of Spock and the crew of the Enterprise, she wants a Vulcan named Xaverius to be released. Because T'Pring and Spock are bonded by ritual engagement, she is obliged to save his life.

The only way to save the Enterprise is for Spock to use his imagination and improvise. In front of T'Pring and everyone else on the bridge, he declares his undying love for Chapel and gives her an extremely passionate kiss. T'Pring acknowledges this confession and there and then they agree to break said ritual engagement so she is no longer obligated to conform to Angel's demands. At which point the colonist's ship — now under the command of Captain Pike — appears and takes a few, very delicate shots to disable the Enterprise's engines, weapons etc as Lt Cmdr Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) is able to successfully paralyze the ship's systems remotely using "backdoor codes." Why the "prefixed code" wasn't mentioned here instead is unknown.

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Angel beams to the safety of a concealed escape ship, but not before giving Spock a lecture on logic, emotion and how who you are is far more important than what you are. And while we consider that as an axiom, her real motives still haven't been revealed. Spock and T'Pring rebond and despite claiming that they both felt no emotions whatsoever, he and Chapel clear the air. Yeah, that love triangle isn't going anywhere.

Sybok, Spock's half-brother, from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

But during that conversation, Spock admits to Chapel that he believes he has deduced the identity of the Vulcan Angel was trying to free. Are you ready to have your mind blown?! It's Sybok, Spock's half-brother from " Star Trek V: The Final Frontier " the events of which are set 28 years from now. Ambassador Sarek had a child out of wedlock who grew to reject the traditional logic-based teachings of Vulcan and joined the V'tosh ka'tur (a recently introduced concept).

As Spock explains in the movie, "There was a young student, exceptionally gifted, possessing great intelligence. It was assumed that one day he would take his place amongst the great scholars of Vulcan. But he was a revolutionary. The knowledge and experience he sought were forbidden by Vulcan belief. He rejected his logical upbringing. He embraced the animal passions of our ancestors. When he encouraged others to follow him, he was banished from Vulcan, never to return."

The extremely likable character was played by Laurence Luckinbill in the movie, but we only saw a shot from behind in this episode, so we don't know yet who has been given the honor of playing this potentially very interesting character.

Rating: 7/10

The first seven episodes of "Strange New Worlds" is now available to watch on Paramount Plus as is the entire second season of " Star Trek: Picard ." Season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" is also available on the Paramount streaming service in the US and CTV Sci-Fi or Crave TV in Canada. Countries outside of North America can watch on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. Paramount is available in the UK and Ireland both as a standalone service and as part of the Sky Cinema subscription for the UK cable provider.

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‘The Serene Squall’ is undeniably Spock’s episode but it’s also an opportunity for the rest of the Enterprise crew to shine. Jesse James Keitel quickly establishes Captain Angel as a villain to watch – we’re sure they’ll be back – but in the long term it’s the return of Spock’s black-sheep-of-the-family sibling, Sybok, that will dominate the headlines. Don’t expect this family reunion to go well…

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His mother famously hailed from Earth, but Spock has always been happiest when embracing the Vulcan side of the family tree. Over his decades on the Enterprise bridge, he’s often been found purging himself of human "weaknesses" like emotions, but this entertaining episode eloquently explores the idea that he shouldn’t have to make that choice – and that maybe it’s time to accept that simply being Mr. Spock is enough.

Seeing as he’s been a lead character in the original series/movies, J.J. Abrams ’ reboot, and now Strange New Worlds – as well as turning up as a special guest star in The Next Generation – you could be forgiven for thinking the franchise has already explored every facet of its most famous character. ‘The Serene Squall’ suggests we still haven’t reached peak Spock, however, as his efforts to reconcile conflicting aspects of his dual heritage dovetail neatly with this week’s mission into non-Federation space.

In a break with Strange New Worlds tradition, the scene-setting log entry comes from a non-crew member, as T’Pring takes a break from her duties at the Ankeshtan K’til rehabilitation center – based on the third moon of Omicron Lyrae, in case you’re wondering. Using a phrase we never thought we’d hear uttered by Vulcan lips, she talks of her plans to "spice things up" in her long-distance relationship with Spock, and her exploration of 20th-century erotic fiction leaves her fiancé looking hilariously flustered. “She appears more eager to explore my humanity than I am,” he tells his confidante/in-house relationship guru Nurse Chapel, Ethan Peck once again showing his deftness playing the lighter side of Spock. The decision not to imitate the legendary Leonard Nimoy in his performance continues to pay dividends – and makes canonical sense, considering this is a younger, less fully formed version of the Spock who’ll later serve alongside Captain Kirk.

While his science officer is distracted by matters of the heart, Captain Pike has some missing colonists to find. Visiting aid worker Dr. Aspen says the ships lost power 26 days ago, and that – trapped in what Pike describes as "the quadrant’s version of the wild, wild west" – they’re at risk from space pirates who’ll think nothing of selling them into slavery. And so, the Enterprise’s very own "boy scout" – the description is literally in Pike’s file – decides to take the ship on a rescue mission, refusing to hang around for the two days it’ll take approval to arrive from Starfleet: "I’m not waiting to be told it’s okay to keep people off the auction block," he points out.

A fake distress signal quickly lures the Enterprise into a "net… made of lasers" and to make matters worse, it’s shrinking rapidly. Spock shoots down the asteroid that’s the source of the trap, but he can’t get his logical mind around the fact he made a life and death decision based on a hunch.

Dr. Aspen (a nonbinary character, played by trans actor Jesse James Keitel of Big Sky and Queer as Folk fame) is clearly intrigued by Spock and his struggle to come to terms with two different sides of himself. "All species put things into boxes," Aspen points out. "You’re either this, or you’re that – and sometimes we act a certain way to fit people’s expectations, but that’s not necessarily who we are. And sometimes, like on the bridge just now, that can limit us." It’s a positive, inclusive message that captures what Trek’s idealistic future should be about. Indeed, with the aid of canon-shaped hindsight, it’s sad to know that Spock will continue to struggle with his identity for years to come.

There’s little time for further reflection, however, because those space pirates aren’t playing games. A clever piece of transporter room sleight of hand leaves Pike, La’an, and their away team trapped on what they believe to be a colonist ship, while a bunch of heavily armed hijackers sneak on board to take over the Enterprise. Only a conveniently placed Jefferies Tube and some cleverly placed Vulcan neck pinches keep Spock, Aspen, and Chapel out of harm’s way when the rest of the crew end up banged up on the eponymous Serene Squall.

Given the efficiency of their Enterprise hijack, the pirates are a remarkably ill-disciplined bunch, seemingly more interested in embracing their over-familiar brand of Mad Max-style apocalypse chic than following any chain of command. Their leader, an Orion named Remy, is suitably impressed with Pike’s jawline – disappointingly, his efforts to rough up the captain display rather less respect for that gravity-defying quiff – but he has such a weak hold over his subordinates that Pike simply has to cook a nice meal to sow the seeds of mutiny.

But Remy was never the real brains of the operation, a fact that becomes clear as soon as Dr. Aspen lets slip that there was always more to their presence on the Enterprise than being Spock’s counselor. In fact, it turns out they’ve been playing games the whole time and the Aspen identity was just a front for the infamous Captain Angel, who – having cleverly manipulated Spock from the start – is now in a prime position to take over the Enterprise.

It’s not the most surprising of twists, but it’s made entirely worthwhile by Keitel’s wonderfully OTT performance. Angel looks totally at home in the captain’s chair, and it’s instantly clear that this is someone who leads by sheer force of charisma while taking no small amount of pleasure in their day job. They’re the character Discovery season 3 baddie Osyraa should have been before she regressed into a pantomime villain.

The solution comes in a fun twist on the hackneyed old "love conquers all" trope. After T’Pring responds to the subspace ransom note Angel’s put on her boyfriend’s head, Spock uses the medium of an extremely passionate kiss to convince everyone on the bridge that he’s having an affair with Chapel. T’Pring subsequently claims she never bought the deception for a second but – as this season has shown on several occasions – Vulcans are rather better at lying than they traditionally claim.

Pike and co. taking control of the Serene Squall – and "gently" firing at the Enterprise’s impulse engines to disable the ship – is a little too easy to be believable. Even so, that’s a small complaint in an episode that repeatedly plays to Strange New Worlds’ strengths. There’s now little doubt that this is the best Star Trek ensemble since The Next Generation, whether it’s Ortegas using dating analogies on the bridge – surely she’s due her own episode soon – or Pike acting as if it’s "International Talk Like a Pirate Day". Special mention should also go to Jess Bush’s turn as Christine Chapel. In the original series, the character was often unfairly reduced to standing around while the men did the talking, but this new, prequel incarnation is now one of the show’s most three-dimensional characters. Her scenes with Spock are a mix of obvious chemistry, and painfully inevitable heartbreak.

The episode saves its biggest moment until last, however, when Spock realizes that Angel’s wayward Vulcan husband is actually a character with significant Trek history. While many have tried to forget the William Shatner-directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Spock’s half-brother, Sybok, should be familiar as the pain-absorbing mystic who took the Enterprise on a frequently mocked mission to find God. Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds have never been scared to mine past Trek lore, but heading back to Star Trek V really is going where no one has gone before.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently airing now in the US on Paramount Plus. The streaming service launches in the UK on June 22. For more, check out our guide to the Star Trek timeline .

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The latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a rollicking adventure involving space pirates, hidden identities, a casual mutiny, and more.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7

Truth be told, I keep waiting for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to disappoint me. Because while certain aspects of both Star Trek: Discovery ( Saru and T’Rina’s romance , the general existence of Grudge, cool giant glow cloud aliens) and Star Trek: Picard (Patrick Stewart existing, John de Lancie returning) have been wonderful, both shows have had their fair share of rough patches in recent seasons, moments where watching them felt a whole lot more like an obligation than it did a joy.

But we’re seven episodes into this season of Strange New Worlds , two-thirds of the way through its inaugural run, and it’s still incredible. In fact, I’d probably argue that this show is that rare series that is actually getting stronger with each episode it releases, as we get to know these characters better and watch their relationships grow. This is a lot to say that “The Serene Squall” is another fantastic and deeply enjoyable hour: a rollicking space adventure with serious emotional underpinnings and a story that shows us why this crew is so darn good together even as it pulls off a complicated bait and switch plot.

Ostensibly, the story follows the Enterprise on what first appears to be a humanitarian mission, summoned by a Dr. Aspen to resupply some in-need colonists on the edge of Federation space that no one else seems inclined to help. (Translation: Christopher Pike catnip.) Dr. Aspen warns them of the presence of some dangerous space pirates and their supposedly fear-inducing Black Pearl -esque ship The Serene Squall . For those of you playing along at home that immediately guessed this story was going to lead to a large portion of the Enterprise crew getting kidnapped by those same space pirates after a dramatic chase, well, gold star for you.

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Pike, Una, La’an, Ortegas, and a handful of other crew members beam aboard the supposedly hijacked colonists’ ship only to learn that it’s an ambush and they’ve walked into a trap. The pirates plan to take over the Enterprise , sell the crew into slavery, and hand the ship off to the highest bidder among the lawless entities that crawl the edges of Federation territory. That this all actually turns out to be a rather hilarious interlude in which Pike withstands getting tortured (they messed up his hair!!) long enough to incite a casual mutiny among the pirate crew by way of the age-old combination of good Southern cooking and catty gossip.

Every week, Anson Mount is great, but there’s something kind of magical about the way he depicts the deployment of Pike’s good old boy charm to ferment unrest among the pirate crew. (He encourages them to sell the Starfleet crew to the Klingons, and maybe start an intergalactic incident in the process. The man is unstoppable.)

We’ve only known this cast for seven episodes, but the chemistry between this group of actors is so darn good, from the easy way they all play off of one another while lamenting the poor quality of the Remy the Orion’’s cooking to their quick-thinking collaboration on the bridge as they brainstorm ideas to get themselves out of a life or death trap. As a character, PIke is always going on about collaboration and listening to others and encouraging out-of-the-box thinking—it’s really nice to see this is not just a line he uses but a legitimate leadership philosophy that he implements on the regular. I love all of them, is what I’m saying.

Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise , Spock, Chapel, and Dr. Aspen are doing their best to secure the ship, with the help of some Vulcan nerve pinches, the nurse’s handy sedative injector, and a whole lot of luck. But Dr. Aspen, as it turns out, isn’t exactly who they say they are and betrays them both at the perfect moment (in a twist that somehow isn’t telegraphed until roughly 30 seconds before it happens so kudos for that, show.) Turns out they are actually Captain Angel of the Serene Squall and they’ve stolen Dr. Aspen’s identity and concocted this elaborate ruse all so that they might get a chance to take over the Enterprise , kidnap Spock and trade him for the Vulcan prisoner that is apparentlytheir lover.

For all that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is built on its weekly space adventures—and this one does have literal pirates, after all—the show deserves applause for the way it is deftly weaving long-term emotional arcs and characters throughout each installment in ways that are increasingly rewarding to watch. This season we’ve seen Spock question his identity , both in terms of how best to reconcile his human and Vulcan halves and how that impacts what kind of man he ultimately wants to become. Part of the reason that Aspen/Angel’s betrayal hits so hard emotionally is that the character spends half the episode giving what is honestly fairly decent advice to Spock about his ongoing internal struggles—-that he’s the only one forcing himself to make a binary choice between the two halves that make him whole, that he can forge a new path that embraces both sides of who he is.

Perhaps we should have guessed from the moment that “The Serene Squall” gave the episode opening voiceover to Spock’s fiancee T’Pring that the Vulcan Angel was trying to rescue would be a familiar face (or at least a known quantity.). But the fact that it’s Spock’s half-brother Sybok adds another emotional wrinkle to proceedings, as does the fact that T’Pring knows her intended well enough now to understand that his last-minute confession of an affair with Chapel was a ruse.

Look, I know Spock and T’Pring are canonically doomed by the time Star Trek: The Original Series rolls around and all, but they are truly such fabulous partners together. (And to be honest, Stonn looks like a doormat.) Their relationship is being given so much depth and treated with such respect and care that you can’t help but hope that maybe somehow these two crazy kids are going to work it out. (I was genuinely heartbroken when I thought T’Pring was buying the lie.)

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Then again, the chemistry between Ethan Peck and Jess Bush is also outstanding so maybe I’m just being spoiled for choice on the Spock romance front, I don’t know. At any rate, this is certainly not the last we’ll see of these characters or these subplots, so this is me trying to trust that this story is going somewhere great. (It hasn’t let me down yet, after all.)

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"the serene squall" went in on three s's: spock, sex.. and space-pirates. shush, it's hyphenated, it works..

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After last week’s attempts at more moral complexity didn’t quite hit the mark , this week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds re-centered on what’s worked for it in the past: a camp, tropey bit of action hung around a central member of the Enterprise crew. This time, Ethan Peck’s Spock took the limelight again—and although this was a little more self-serious on the surface than the last time that happened , we still had a lot of fun along the way.

In ‘The Serene Squall,’ Strange New Worlds Discovers the Limits of Allegory

This discussion and review contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 7, “The Serene Squall.”

There is an interesting allegory at the heart of “The Serene Squall,” but it ends up muddled by a clumsy and thoughtless execution.

The actual plot of “The Serene Squall” is standard Strange New Worlds stuff, a grab bag of familiar Star Trek tropes assembled in a fairly unimaginative manner to fill around 50 minutes of television. Ironically for a series that many claim is returning the franchise to its roots, it is a “space pirate” episode built around one of the most tired of space opera clichés — and one that Gene Roddenberry expressly forbade on The Next Generation , according to Jeri Taylor .

Of course, that never actually stopped the franchise. Space pirate adventures became a staple of the later series following Roddenberry’s death, with examples like “ Gambit ” on The Next Generation or the mirror universe episodes on Deep Space Nine . “The Serene Squall” blends that template with a familiar hijacking narrative, recalling episodes like “ Starship Mine ,” “ Basics ,” “ The Killing Game ,” “ One Little Ship ,” and “ Shockwave, Part II .”

Even smaller moments feel ripped from other episodes. Early in the adventure, the ship is trapped within “a net, except made with lasers” that “appears to be growing smaller,” evoking the central premise of “ The Tholian Web .” The climax of the episode, in which Spock (Ethan Peck) has to stage a theatrical declaration of love, recalls a similar sequence at the climax of “ Ménage à Troi ” in which Picard (Patrick Stewart) has to espouse his love for Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett Roddenberry).

It’s all standard stuff. At best, it allows Anson Mount to be charming in an underwritten subplot. At worst, it encourages Irish guest actor Michael Hough to present the franchise’s most cringeworthy take on Irishness this side of “ Spirit Folk ,” if not “ Up the Long Ladder .” There is very little of particular note here. Like the previous six episodes, it consists of familiar elements arranged in familiar patterns, better than some earlier examples from the franchise’s history and worse than others.

The most interesting stuff in “The Serene Squall” is all happening in subtext, in the way in which the episode is built around the character of Spock. Building off the character’s long history as “ a child of two words ,” “The Serene Squall” returns to the classic tension within the science officer’s character. As somebody who is half-human and half-Vulcan, which path does he walk? This arc was a source of fantastic character drama for both Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto.

It is to the credit of Strange New Worlds in general and “The Serene Squall” in particular that the episode finds a fresh new angle on this question, by suggesting that the answer might be “neither.” As Captain Angel (Jesse James Keitel) advises Spock before abandoning the Enterprise, “That is and always has been a false choice. The question isn’t what you are; it’s who you are.” Spock doesn’t need to define himself by the false binary of being either human or Vulcan. He is Spock.

It’s a genuinely thoughtful angle on a familiar character arc. More than that, it works as an effective metaphor for evolving understandings of gender, specifically the idea that one’s gender need not be biologically determined or strictly binary. “The Serene Squall” reinforces this subtext by casting Keitel in the role of Angel, the character confronting Spock with these ideas. Keitel was famously the first openly trans and non-binary series regular on primetime American network television .

This is a logical evolution for Spock as a character. Spock has been a queer icon since the original Star Trek . Kirk and Spock were the original “slash” pairing . Gene Roddenberry would famously write in his novelization that Spock thought of Kirk as his “ t’hy’la ,” a term that can mean “friend,” “brother,” and “lover.” Spock’s status as an outsider, the challenges that he faced in presenting himself to the outside world, and his difficult relationship with his own identity all resonated with queer fans .

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“The Serene Squall” layers this subtext into its teleplay. When Pike (Mount) instructs Ortegas (Melissa Navia) to get the ship closer to a distress signal, she couches scales of distance in overtly sexual terms, asking, “First date or third date?” He replies, “Blind date.” The episode finds the Enterprise venturing into “non-Federation space,” which Pike describes as “this quadrant’s wild, wild west” and that appears to be outside of Klingon influence as well, rejecting its own rigid binaries.

For decades, this was how Star Trek dealt with issues around sexuality. Producer David Livingston ran down to the set of “ The Offspring ” to prevent a shot of two same-sex extras holding hands . In his exit interview following his departure from the franchise in 1999 , writer Ronald D. Moore made it clear that the “ people in charge don’t want gay characters ” in the franchise. Deep Space Nine had to deal with homosexuality through allegory in episodes like “ Rejoined ” or “ Chimera .”

Whatever problems one might have with Star Trek: Discovery , the show has at least been more courageous than its predecessors in portraying characters with these sorts of sexual identities. Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Culber (Wilson Cruz) were the franchise’s first openly gay couple , allowing for the implication of such a coupling in Star Trek Beyond . Adira (Blu del Barrio) and Gray Tal (Ian Alexander) were a couple composed of a non-binary human and a transgender Trill .

With this in mind, it feels disappointing that Strange New Worlds is effectively pushing Spock back into what film historians have described as “ the celluloid closet ,” dealing with queerness through allegory and metaphor rather than simply accepting it as a reality of life. Surely, it would be more interesting and more organic to have a member of the cast actually explore their sexual identity, rather than couching it in metaphor. Indeed, it would be interesting to see Spock himself explore it.

This is illustrative of how Strange New Worlds feels regressive in its nostalgic yearning to recapture the spirit of older Star Trek . There are any number of valid criticisms of modern Star Trek , but the franchise’s recent history has done a much better job tackling issues around sex and sexuality than the era that Strange New Worlds so heavily evokes. Even “Chimera” understood that the franchise’s inability to confront these themes directly represented a failure of the franchise’s utopian idealism .

Strange New Worlds reduces this theme of sexual identity to metaphor and, in doing so, muddles a fairly straightforward theme. After all, Spock receives these lectures on being true to himself from a character who spends most of the episode pretending to be someone they are not. “I must point out the irony of you questioning my identity,” Spock states, and he is not wrong. Keitel is great in the role of Angel, particularly vamping it up after the turn, but it undermines the story’s core theme.

While the episode certainly doesn’t intend this reading, it is unfortunate that “The Serene Squall” arrives in a culture where trans people are often ( incorrectly ) framed as predators lying about their identity for nefarious purposes . It is similar to the big problem with “ Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach ,” which has been read by some reviewers as a parable that argues that the death of innocent children is a small price to pay for the Second Amendment . Metaphor must be used carefully.

Befitting a Star Trek show that draws so heavily from Voyager , there is a curious reactionary streak to “The Serene Squall.” Early in the episode, it is revealed that “entering non-Federation space requires Starfleet approval.” This seems unusually isolationist and paranoid for the Federation, given both the title of the show and Pike’s promise in the opening monologue to “go where no one has gone before.” It is hard to explore any new worlds without leaving familiar territory.

The problem is compounded by the revelation that the entire mission was a ruse concocted by Angel. Pike is lured into the darkness because he believes that people outside Federation space need his help. He is motivated by humanism and concern. Indeed, the decision to imply that the crew is dealing with human rights abuses “on the border” has particularly pointed connotations given the well-documented events occurring on the border between the United States and Mexico .

Outside of the premiere , Strange New Worlds has been reluctant to engage with contemporary politics, but that is an interesting hook. After all, allowing for some issues in its first season, Picard has been quite explicit in its commentary on the contemporary immigration crisis . However, it is all a ruse. “I told a nice little story that I knew would bring you out here, and you believed me,” Angel confesses. “Frankly, that’s on you.” They state, “I’ve been using emotion to sway you all day.”

Again, it is a horrifically muddled metaphor. Recalling Voyager episodes like “ Displaced ” or “ Day of Honor ,” suddenly “The Serene Squall” becomes a paranoid conspiracy theory about how the humanitarian crisis on the border is really just a sinister ploy being played on gullible idiots to allow criminal gangs to infiltrate and take over existing structures . It is the most cynical and reactionary take on the premise imaginable. Then again, maybe Strange New Worlds is evoking Voyager .

“The Serene Squall” also leans heavily on established continuity, (re-)introducing both the character of Stonn (Roderick McNeill) and acknowledging Spock’s half-brother Sybok, who is played by an extra so the role could be recast with a more famous actor. All this serves to make the Star Trek universe seem small and incestuous. “The Serene Squall” becomes a story about Angel hijacking Spock’s ship to convince Spock’s fiancée to release Spock’s half-brother. It’s all frustratingly insular.

Then again, that is perhaps Strange New Worlds in a nutshell. It often feels like a Star Trek show too enthusiastically heading backwards to boldly go anywhere new.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Recap: Strange Visitors From Another Dimension

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“Those Old Scientists” is now available to stream now via Paramount+ after an advance screening at San Diego Comic Con.

First, it’s probably worth taking a moment to appreciate the level of difficulty at work in this episode. That Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome bear more than a passing resemblance to their Star Trek: Lower Decks characters certainly helps make their transition from animation to live-action believable. But Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are shows with extremely different tones and performance styles. The difference should be so jarring to make any merging of universes impossible.

The solution: “Those Old Scientists” leans into the clash. That Boimler (Quaid) and Mariner (Newsome) don’t fit in on the Enterprise is the gag that undergirds the entire episode. They talk too loud. They make, as Una points out, weirdly specific references to Star Trek lore. Quaid runs like a cartoon character. Newsome even keeps Mariner’s mischievous grin as her character’s default facial expression in this new environment. It’s undoubtedly hard to make all the pieces fit together, but “Those Old Scientists” makes it look pretty effortless.

Anyone who doesn’t know what’s coming might at first think they’ve tuned into the wrong show. The episode’s animated opening is set on the USS Cerritos , the underachieving California-class starship the Lower Decks characters call home. It also opens in familiar Lower Decks fashion, with Boimler nerding out over a mundane assignment for reasons tied to Federation history, and Mariner making fun of him for it as Tendi (Noël Wells) and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) get excited over the mission’s scientific potential. And, also in Lower Decks tradition, things quickly start to spin out of control. After Boimler and Tendi disagree as to whether the portal was discovered by the Enterprise or Orion scientists (“They weren’t all pirates,” you know, Tendi reminds him) and Boimler expresses a desire to live in the past, the portal activates and grants his wish.

This, naturally, comes as a surprise to the (long-ago, from Boimler’s perspective) members of the Enterprise who greet him on the other side. Though they quickly figure out Boimler’s a harmless (and wildly enthusiastic to be among his heroes) traveler from the future, his presence is a real problem. Like any visitor from another time, he could screw up history. And as a student of Federation history with a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge about the Enterprise and its crew, he could screw it up in one specific way: by letting them know what’s coming. To prevent this from happening, he’s handed over to La’an, who briefs him on “temporal protocols,” including an admonition not to form any attachments. It’s La’an’s own addition and one she understands all too well.

Then again, history isn’t always right. Mariner knows Uhura for her ability to enjoy life and not be on duty all the time. That doesn’t quite square with the Uhura we know from TOS or the movies (who can relax, but not to the point where it’s her defining trait), and it really doesn’t square with the Ensign Uhura of Strange New Worlds who works all the time, to the point it worries those around her. Boimler discovers this firsthand when he meets her for himself and gets a brush-off that suggests she’s too busy for his nonsense.

But it’s Boimler’s encounter with Spock that really weirds him out. Returning to the portal with Spock and M’Benga, Boimler makes Spock laugh, then barely has time to process this moment before an Orion ship shows up (though it will haunt him later). Are they pirates? Pike assumes they are before Boimler tips him off that this Orion vessel might be peaceful. But the line between science and piracy gets a little blurry when they steal the portal and take off, seemingly stranding Boimler in the past forever.

At least he’s making friends. After some ribbing from Chapel and Ortegas, he gets an invitation to join them for movie night, then accidentally lets slip that (a) Pike’s birthday is coming up, and (b) it’s a holiday in his era. A party strikes Chapel and Ortegas as a good idea, even if Boimler worries it could change the future. Then he really puts his foot in it. Following Chapel to the turbolift, he expresses his concern that his joke may have broken Spock, whom he knows as an unsmiling, joke-averse historical hero. He goes on to tell her he’s read every book about Spock available to him, and they don’t mention this. And that, Chapel realizes, means they don’t mention her.

The note of melancholy La’an sounds when she warns Boimler about forming attachments sets the stage for other such moments to come. Pike has spent the entire series coping with the knowledge that he’ll meet his end in less than a decade, and nothing Boimler tells him suggests otherwise. But Boimler knows what awaits other characters too, just as we do. As fun as it is to watch their relationship and as much as they seem to be enjoying it, whatever’s going on between Spock and Chapel won’t last without some disruption of the continuity. “I never assumed that I would get to influence him forever,” Chapel says through tears. Sometimes it’s best not to know where you’re going.

After using some future tech to put the Enterprise on the trail of the Orions (with the ship’s crew looking the other way lest they learn something they shouldn’t), Boimler urges Pike (and his “really great hair”) to find a peaceful solution. They do, though it means giving up some grain badly needed by some hungry colonists. And with that, they gain the ability to send Boimler back to his own time. The end.

Or it would be if the attempt didn’t result in Mariner traveling through the portal and joining them. For Mariner, this is no problem at all (especially if she gets to meet Uhura). But for Pike and the others, it means their troubles have doubled. Pike decides to put the new arrivals to work, sending Boimler off with Spock and letting Mariner hang out with (and fan out over) Uhura. But Mariner’s admiration for Uhura and her future accomplishments only stresses Uhura out more. Mariner’s suggestion, perfectly in keeping in character, is to slack off. Joined by Ortegas, they kick back with some improvised Orion Hurricanes, and, in the process, they figure out how to decipher the symbols that surround the portal.

Meanwhile, Boimler discovers that Spock has figured out what’s troubling him, having spoken to an upset Chapel. Even though she didn’t go into details, Spock correctly deduces that it’s his displays of human emotion that trouble Boimler because these moments don’t match up to history. But logic also suggests to Spock that he just needs to roll with it. If he tries to be less human after speaking to Boimler, that itself will alter history. Whatever will end his relationship with Chapel, it’s not this.

One pep talk from Pelia later, Boimler joins Mariner on a shuttle with the intention of reclaiming the grain Pike previously traded away. It’s a short-lived plan, thanks to La’an discovering them before they can take off. Busted, they’re taken to Pike’s quarters, who’s mad but softens when he hears that Boimler once dressed as him for Halloween. (“He had to contour the hell out of the jawline,” Mariner notes.) But what’s really annoying him is the rumor that Boimler has encouraged the crew to throw him a birthday party, not so much because he doesn’t think he has many birthdays left but because this is the year when he outlives the father with whom he had a difficult relationship and, frankly, he’d planned to spend it drinking alone. But ticked off as he was when the conversation began, Pike comes around to Boimler’s way of thinking when the time traveler suggests that if his years are more limited than he’d like, Pike might want to spend some quality time with his friends.

With the mention of Captain Archer’s original Enterprise , Boimler hits on a plan that will allow them to reactivate the portal using the alloy they need to fire it up again, which can be found on a piece of the older ship encased in the new one. One “Live long and prosper”’ from Spock later, they’re on their way home. Or they would be if there weren’t Orions in the way. Fortunately, they arrive at a compromise by letting the Orion scientists take credit for the discovery. (Tendi was right after all! Sort of.) After stepping through the portal and back into Lower Decks ’ animated world, they’ve left some of it behind on the Enterprise . Pike’s party is fueled by genuine Orion Hurricanes, which seem to have the ability to alter reality, temporarily rendering them two-dimensional (and weirding them out as the episode cuts to the credits).

This was a fun one, and fun in the same self-aware-but-not-too-self-aware style of Deep Space Nine ’s “Trials and Tribble-ations.” And while it’s a lark of an episode, it also takes the ongoing story arcs of several characters quite seriously. Chapel’s moment in the turbolift is heartbreaking, made even more so by the way she steels herself after she absorbs the implications of what Boimler tells her. This is a character who has learned not to expect too much but who’d begun to believe that maybe she’d get what she wants anyway. But mostly it keeps it light, even more in the second half, which plays at times more like a Lower Decks episode than Strange New Worlds . Here’s hoping this becomes a tradition, no matter how tricky it is to pull off.

• The animated credits are a nice, unexpected touch.

• Memorable lines: “But flipping it open’s the best part.” “Funny captain. What’s happening?” “I was thoroughly unprepared for how hot Young Spock was going to be.”

• The running, and developing, gag about Boimler’s reverence for Una and the poster he has pinned up (but which is not a pinup) was fun and touching, and having Ransom (voiced by Rebecca Romijn’s real-life husband, Jerry O’Connell) admire it was the perfect button for it in this self-referential episode.

• Pelia’s quote — “I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be until finally I became that someone, or he became me” — comes from none other than Cary Grant. Now there’s a potentially fun time-travel episode.

• “Thanks for going back to the TOS era.” It’s a clever title in a couple of ways, isn’t it?

• This episode was written by Kathryn Lyn, who has previously written for both Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks , and Bill Wolkoff, who’s been with Strange New Worlds since its first season. In an additional behind-the-scenes crossover, it’s directed by Jonathan Frakes.

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‘Queer as Folk’ Star Jesse James Keitel to Appear on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ as Nonbinary Character (EXCLUSIVE)

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“Queer as Folk” and “Big Sky” star Jesse James Keitel is boarding “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ,” for a guest star role as a nonbinary character.

Keitel, who is a trans woman, will appear on the June 16 episode of the show’s first season, currently streaming on Paramount+. Keitel will play Dr. Aspen, who once worked as a Starfleet counselor, but whose experiences on the Federation border prompted them to shift careers and work as a humanitarian aid worker. During the episode, which was directed by trans filmmaker Sydney Freeland (“Reservation Dogs”), Dr. Aspen will develop a surprising connection with Spock (Ethan Peck).

Casting Keitel as Dr. Aspen continues recent efforts to expand LGBTQ representation on “Star Trek.” When “Star Trek: Discovery” launched in 2017, the series included the franchise’s first same-sex couple in Lt. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz). In 2020, “Discovery” introduced Blu Del Barrio as Adira and Ian Alexander as Grey, the first explicitly nonbinary and transgender characters, respectively, in “Trek” history. On “Star Trek: Picard,” Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) are in a relationship, and on the most recent episode of “Strange New Worlds,” Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) references dating men and women.

Keitel also made history on ABC’s “Big Sky” as the first openly trans series regular on a primetime network TV series. She is starring on Peacock’s revival of “Queer as Folk,” which debuts on June 9, and she’s appeared on Netflix’s “Alex Strangelove” and TV Land’s “Younger” in 2018.

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Work on the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to move swiftly in Toronto and looks to be set to wrap up next month. We have some fun bits from the set shared by the cast and a couple of directors, as well as some details on the production.

2 more episodes to go

First up, a selfie from director Jordan Canning, who previously directed the season 2 episode “Charades.” The image posted earlier this week shows the director with Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn and has the message, “Always happy to be the redshirt between these two.”

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jordan Canning (@jjhcanning)

TrekMovie has confirmed that Canning directed episode 8, which has wrapped. Filming for episode 9 has already begun, with Andrew Coutts directing. This will be the directorial debut for Coutts, a co-producer and editor on the show. The 10th and final episode of the season will be directed by Maja Vrvilo, a Paramount+ Trek veteran who has directed episodes of Discovery , Picard , and Strange New Worlds . Earlier this week, she posted an image of her office door, indicated prep work for her episode had already begun.

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Anson has a challenge for cosplayers

There have also been a couple of fun recent social media updates from the cast. First up, Anson Mount posted on Twitter/X that season 3 will require cosplayers to bring their “A-game” as he shared some creative fan costumes.

I will say this about season 3 of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds : Cos-players, you better be ready to bring your A-game. #Cosplay @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus pic.twitter.com/mZ9gMmIhsL — Anson Mount 🖖 (@ansonmount) April 16, 2024

One new look for cosplayers to try is an armed Nurse Chapel, as seen in this short video from Jess Bush showing off her phaser holster.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jess Bush (@onejessa)

Finally, on the day of the big eclipse, some of the Strange New Worlds team took a moment to check it out. Bush shared an Instagram story with herself and co-star Melissa Navia rocking their eclipse glasses. (They had 90% totality in Toronto.)

Last week brought big news for Strange New Worlds: It’s been renewed for a fourth season. Paramount+ recently confirmed season 3 will debut in 2025.

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I LOVE holodeck dude in cosplay!

I’m curious how long their entire season shooting period actually is.

Usually 5 to 6 months. This one started just before Christmas.

I know I’ll end up watching it, but I’m just not excited for the next season. Season 2 was all over the place, in my opinion. For every episode like Those Old Scientists or Ad Astra Per Aspera, there was rubbish like The Broken Circle and Under the Cloak of War and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I like the cast, but the quality isn’t there- and for all the talk of “big swings” and pushing the envelope- Season 2 was almost painfully generic.

Same here. I’ll be tuning in, but it’s not up there on my ‘must-see right away’ list. I feel like overall, the storytelling floundered during S2, legacy characters written badly, and a distinct corny popcorn feel to it. Both Spock and Pike were reduced to bumbling sidekicks. Hoping S3 has a bit more gravitas to it. Like you said, not the fault of the cast. All blame goes back to the writer’s room. I’m more than happy to consider this show as existing in its own separate timeline, as has been confirmed.

I still can’t get over how *boring* the finale was. It felt like it went on for hours and yet nothing actually happened besides a super-quick and appallingly shot fight in zero-g. Season Two really dropped the ball.

I agree. I don’t even remember what happened in the finale, except Pike at the end hesitating like a scared junior officer when the situation called for fast decisive action. As for the season in general, it feels empty, like nothing really happens in the episodes. I hate the way they turned Spock into a moron. There are better ways if the writers wanted to put some humor in… I’m sure the 12 year olds found it funny but adults are watching too…

They seem to be testing the water for the Academy show with teen romances also. Spock, Chapel / La’an, Kirk and Pike, Batel were all shallow romances and just really boring that took up way too much time in the season. They seriously need to get back to writing some good sci fi stories or this show will go down as one of the worse Star Trek series for me. It seems more of a comedy starship show than the Orville at times. And season 1 had so much promise as well.

The SNW writers room has a chalk board titled Gimmick Board only they misspelt it Big Swing Board. Hopefully they can’t destroy Spock’s character anymore as they have already scraped the bottom of the barrel with their writing of his character.

So relieved I’m not the only one who felt this way. I hear “game changer” and “big swing” and I think “great, they’re effing with my show again to bring in the non-Trek fans”!

Yes, to them “big swing” means having the characters do things completely out of character and turning Star Trek into a Broadway play. Sure the musical was original and unexpected, but really out of place, and I will never be able to get the K-Pop Klingons out of my head.

I didn’t mind the musical episode (probably because I love musicals!) but on the whole, the season felt soulless and devoid of anything interesting to say (outside of Ad Astra Per Aspera). It’s as though the entire season was written by committee and was deathly afraid of offending the fandom by doing anything even slightly controversial.

I’ve had this feeling since the first season. Anson Mount is a wonderful lead, but they’ve completed destroyed the character that we got to know in Season 2 of Discovery. And they need to do something with Spock besides him being a complete and utter pig to women.

I’m absolutely giddy for this next season. Season two was fantastic and I cannot wait for this next season.

I really wish studios would get it together. They used to be able to turn out twice the number of eps or sometimes more every year without year-long pauses between seasons.

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Star Trek Discovery Cancellation Ruins Strange New Worlds Crossover?

Posted: April 29, 2024 | Last updated: April 29, 2024

<p>The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery has been filled with fan service, including the entire season’s mystery arc being based on the beloved TNG episode “The Chase.” We’ve gotten callbacks to the Dominion War and a cameo by a Soong-type android. But one of the most ambitious bits of fan service was Discovery encountering the abandoned hulk of the Mirror Universe vessel ISS Enterprise. </p><p>We later found out its crew rebelled from the Terran Empire and escaped into the Prime Universe, but it’s my belief this episode was meant to set up a Strange New Worlds crossover we will never get.</p>

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery has been filled with fan service, including the entire season’s mystery arc being based on the beloved TNG episode “The Chase.” We’ve gotten callbacks to the Dominion War and a cameo by a Soong-type android. But one of the most ambitious bits of fan service was Discovery encountering the abandoned hulk of the Mirror Universe vessel ISS Enterprise.

We later found out its crew rebelled from the Terran Empire and escaped into the Prime Universe, but it’s my belief this episode was meant to set up a Strange New Worlds crossover we will never get.

<p>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise as they carry out exploration missions on new worlds. The series stars Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn. While there’s no release date for the third season yet, you can stream the first two seasons on the Paramount+ streaming service.</p>

Star Trek: Discovery Setting Up Strange New Worlds?

How, exactly, could Star Trek: Discovery have been setting up a crossover with Strange New Worlds? It may seem unlikely, especially with SNW taking place in the 23rd century and DSC now taking place in the 32nd century.

However, there are various ways for the show to explain how a vessel could time-travel to the future (something that the Discovery crew knows all about) or just get stuck in a timey-wimey space phenomenon.

<p>In the Star Trek: Discovery episode “Mirrors,” Captain Burnham and Booker board the ISS Enterprise in search of the criminals Moll and L’ak as well as clues about the Progenitors. These ancient aliens who created many major races in the galaxy and whose technology could be used as a superweapon.</p><p>Our heroes eventually discover that this ship fled the Mirror Universe after Spock became the Terran Emperor and was executed for trying to usher progressive reforms into a regressive empire. We later find out they safely made it into the Prime universe despite the ISS Enterprise getting stuck in the wormhole.</p>

Star Trek: Discovery “Mirrors”

In the Star Trek: Discovery episode “Mirrors,” Captain Burnham and Booker board the ISS Enterprise in search of the criminals Moll and L’ak as well as clues about the Progenitors. These ancient aliens who created many major races in the galaxy and whose technology could be used as a superweapon.

Our heroes eventually discover that this ship fled the Mirror Universe after Spock became the Terran Emperor and was executed for trying to usher progressive reforms into a regressive empire. We later find out they safely made it into the Prime universe despite the ISS Enterprise getting stuck in the wormhole.

<p>We don’t know exactly when Starfleet made the change, but it could be relatively recent because Discovery traveled to a time when the Burn had diminished Starfleet and severely dwindled its resources. Either way, as funny as it was to see Osyrra’s reaction to what Vance said, it would have been funnier to see more of this Star Trek show’s regular crew get used to this aspect of 32nd-century life. How would someone as bright as bubbly as Tilly, for example, react to the fact that her replicator burritos now have a very different protein inside of them?</p>

Didn’t Know Fifth Was Last

Here’s my speculation: we know that the Star Trek: Discovery cast and crew did not originally know the fifth season would be their last. After the show’s surprise cancellation, however, Paramount allowed new scenes to be shot to help wrap the season up and make it feel more like a finale.

Many fans (myself included) assumed these new scenes would mostly be added to the season finale to help wrap up the series. However, seeing the ISS Enterprise makes me think the show had an ambitious Strange New Worlds crossover planned for a future season and a new scene was added to quickly resolve things.

<p>In Star Trek: Discovery, we learn that the ISS Enterprise crew rebelled against the Terran Empire and fled to the Prime Universe, with the ship getting stuck in a wormhole.</p><p>At first, what happened to the Mirror crew was a mystery. Later, though, Captain Burnham happily reveals that everyone safely made it to the Prime Universe in the 23rd century. The one fleeing Terran, Dr. Cho, became a Starfleet branch admiral who researched the Progenitors and left the clue Burnham and Book are trying to find.</p>

Trying To Find Clues

In Star Trek: Discovery, we learn that the ISS Enterprise crew rebelled against the Terran Empire and fled to the Prime Universe, with the ship getting stuck in a wormhole.

At first, what happened to the Mirror crew was a mystery. Later, though, Captain Burnham happily reveals that everyone safely made it to the Prime Universe in the 23rd century. The one fleeing Terran, Dr. Cho, became a Starfleet branch admiral who researched the Progenitors and left the clue Burnham and Book are trying to find.

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Strange New Worlds Mirror Universe?

My theory is that Star Trek: Discovery was originally going to leave the fate of that crew as a mystery so that in future seasons, we could find out they escaped into the future and get cameos from Mirror Universe versions of Strange New Worlds characters.

Mirror Pike, for example, could basically be an anti-Lorca: a captain from the evil universe who is actually a good guy and not just putting on an act. The crossover between Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks proved very popular, and this would have been a chance for Paramount to engage in more of that sweet, sweet brand synergy.

<p>Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Discovery couldn’t be any more tonally different if they tried. The former is an animated show offering a humorous look at what happens in the titular decks while the bridge officers are acting out adventures reminiscent of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Meanwhile, Discovery is a live-action show that has been very serious in exploring both the past and future of the franchise (its original setting was about a decade before The Original Series before a time jump sent the show into the 32nd century).</p>

Adding New Scenes?

Furthermore, I believe that after Star Trek: Discovery was canceled, the conversation where Burnham tells Booker the crew all survived and settled in the Prime Universe was later added as a new scene.

Think about it: that scene is just two characters talking on a very small set. That’s not exactly a smoking phaser when it comes to my theory, but this would have been a lot easier to add as a new scene compared to something like a major ensemble scene on the Discovery’s bridge.

<p>The most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery has been a real blast from the past, with the latest episode (“Jinaal”) showing us a Trill ritual we haven’t seen since Deep Space Nine. This ritual put the mind of a Trill from the 24th century into the body of willing 32nd-century resident Dr. Culber. The ancient alien’s primary function was to reveal details about the research he once conducted into Progenitor technology. The episode found time for comedy, though, when the possessed Culber said, “wow, this guy really works out,” which is an homage to fans’ reaction to Wilson Cruz with his shirt off.</p>

Future Crossovers Could Still Happen?

We may never definitively know if Star Trek: Discovery was setting up a Strange New Worlds crossover, but I’m trying to embody what Burnham said about the rebel Enterprise crew. “They had hope…despite impossible odds.”

In my case, I hope that Paramount hasn’t fully given up on ambitious plans like crossovers in favor of just playing it safe with Starfleet Academy, an upcoming show aimed at teens so aggressively that it might as well be called Stardate 90210.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is confirmed and the best chance to see Star Trek: Lower Decks when the animated show ends with season 5.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 needs to have another crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks.
More opportunities for the casts to meet include Lt. Spock meeting fellow Vulcan Lt. T'Lyn.
Strange New Worlds season 4 is the best chance to see the Lower Decks cast again in a further mix of animation and live-action.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 needs another crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks . Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7, “Those Old Scientists, ” saw Lower Deckers Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) time travel to encounter Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise crew in the 23rd century. The exciting and emotionally resonant Star Trek crossover was lauded by fans of both shows and provided important character and narrative development.

The renewal of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for season 4, alongside the news that Star Trek: Lower Decks will not be renewed after season 5, is a bittersweet reality check for fans but may also present an opportunity to capitalize on the success of the first crossover between these two shows with another one in Strange New Worlds ’ season 4. The growing prominence and influence of Tawny Newsome over Star Trek’ s modern shows and Strange New Worlds showrunners’ interest in further collaboration suggests that another crossover may be a possibility .

Tawny Newsome is a writer on Paramount+'s upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series as well as voicing Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Tawny Newsome says there's no crossover episode in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, but the possibility of reuniting the USS Enterprise and USS Cerritos casts remains open. Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler visited the Starship Enterprise in Strange New Worlds season 2's crossover, but a sequel could see additional USS Cerritos officers’ involvement or even fully bring the live-action USS Enterprise crew into the world of animation, allowing fan-favorite characters like Lt. D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Lt Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) to interact with other Star Trek characters .

Imagine Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) meeting Star Trek: Lower Decks ’ Vulcan Lieutenant T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz).

Imagine Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) meeting Star Trek: Lower Decks ’ Vulcan Lieutenant T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) or a live-action Dr. Migleemo (Paul F. Tompkins) showing Dr. Joseph M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) the finer points of food-metaphor psychiatry. The dynamic between characters like Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Lt. Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore), and Dr. T’Ana (Gillian Vigman) could also create engaging storylines, allowing options for additional animation. With the success of the first Strange New Worlds crossover and both shows’ strong fan base, another joint-venture episode in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ’ season 4 seems a natural progression , continues important character developments, and, most importantly, allows for a continuation of Star Trek: Lower Decks .

Strange New Worlds Season 4 Is The Best Chance To See Lower Decks Again

Strange new worlds can bring the enterprise and cerritos crews back together..

When Star Trek: Prodigy was canceled by Paramount+, an online fan campaign successfully saved the show, with Netflix acquiring it for a second season. This suggests a similar option exists for Star Trek: Lower Decks to continue with a new streaming provider. However, with Lower Decks having already completed a five-season run and fans not responding with the same umbrage and passion that saved Star Trek: Prodigy from cancelation, the likelihood of this happening remains uncertain. Nevertheless, there are still avenues – and interest – for the USS Cerritos crew to embark on new adventures.

Star Trek: The Next Generation icon and Commander William Riker actor Jonathan Frakes directed the Strange New Worlds & Lower Decks crossover episode, "Those Old Scientists."

A second crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds offers the most promising chance to see Lower Decks again after it ends with season 5. Given how well-received Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7 , “Those Old Scientists" was, there is scope and precedent for further development of this collaboration. Strange New Worlds season 4 presents the best chance for Star Trek: Lower Decks to make a triumphant return . Both Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks' diverse creativity and genre-blending offer numerous possibilities for an engaging and innovative second crossover, including the potential for a multiple-episode story arc.

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An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th Century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where th... Read all An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th Century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where they belong before they can alter the timeline. An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th Century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where they belong before they can alter the timeline.

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Trivia Commander Ransom (played by Jerry O'Connell ) fawns over Boimler's poster of Number One (played by Rebecca Romijn ), calling her "the hottest Number One ever." Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn are married in real life. Both Romijn's and O'Connell's characters are first officers on a starship.
Goofs Number One shows Pike that Boimler's badge also functions as a communicator and he is unfamiliar with such technology. Pike encountered Starfleet officers using communicator badges ("combadges" as they are colloquially known) in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery (2017) , when Section 31 operatives were seen using them. However, that entire mission has been highly classified, Pike would be legally barred from mentioning that detail and avoids the subject by saying "But flipping it open's the best part".

[the Enterprise senior staff are having a cocktail party in Captain Pike's quarters. They're drinking Orion Hurricanes for the first time. Also, this scene is done in the same animation style as "Star Trek: Lower Decks"]

Nurse Christine Chapel : Mm, what exactly have we been drinking for the last hour?

Dr. M'Benga : [mumbles] I don't know...

Lt. Erica Ortegas : Orion Hurricanes. Karas gave us a bottle of real Orion delaq, so they're genuine.

Captain Christopher Pike : Interesting flavor.

Una Chin-Riley : [examining her hand] Does anyone else feel strange?

Nyota Uhura : Why does everything feel so... two-dimensional?

Spock : [observing his left arm, which appears elongated and is whipping around like a snake] My arms don't normally do this.

Lt. Erica Ortegas : My eyes feel huge. Do my eyes look huge?

Una Chin-Riley , Captain Christopher Pike , Spock , Dr. M'Benga : [bending over to examine Ortegas's eyes] . Hmm...

Dr. M'Benga : What the hell is in these things?

Crazy credits The opening credits which normally shows a montage of the Enterprise in "realistic" CGI is animated à la Lower Decks.
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