Strange Ramblings of an Independent Writer
Paramount Plus A new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is upon us and I couldn’t be more excited. I greatly enjoyed the first season of the show. Strange New Worlds harkens back to old-school Star Trek with its combination of self-contained episodic stories and season-long individual character arcs. My question going into this … Continue reading Star Trek: SNW Season 2, Ep 1 Review
For the season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I was not expecting a time travel episode. But, given that this is Star Trek, a time travel episode was bound to appear sooner or later. When done correctly, such as “Trials and Tribble-ations” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Star Trek IV: The … Continue reading What Is and What Yet May Be – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Episode 10 “A Quality of Mercy”
With only two episodes left, I wasn’t expecting radical changes on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. And then episode nine, titled “All Those Who Wander”, happened and completely knocked me for a loop. One-part haunted house, one-part horror story, one-part reaffirmation, the ninth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ first season managed to effectively … Continue reading A Haunted Ship – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Episode Nine “All Those Who Wander”
Captain Christopher Pike cannot catch a break on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Confronted with his seemingly inevitable fate ten years from the current point in his story, Pike grapples constantly with how to live his life knowing that in a relatively short amount of time, everything he is now will be taken away from … Continue reading The Price is Too High – Recap/Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Episode Six “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”
One of my favorite types of episodes in fantasy and science fiction shows is “the body swap”. When done correctly, such as in Farscape’s season 2 episode “Out of Their Mind”, it can lead to some wonderful comedic moments. The good news is that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ latest episode, “Spock Amock”, carries on … Continue reading A Comedy of Manners in Space – Recap of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season One, Episode Five “Spock Amock”
A person can go through their entire life and not understand or even know what path they are supposed to be on. Some of us wander aimlessly from place to place, job to job, relationship to relationship, and never truly know where we are supposed to be, who we are supposed to be with (if … Continue reading Finding One’s Place in the Universe – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season One, Episode Two “Children of the Comet”
Source: IMDB A spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery was inevitable, given that it was the first new Star Trek series to premiere on CBS All Access (now Paramount Plus) and receive good enough reviews to warrant other shows. A large part of that is due to the show’s second season, which is where the connection … Continue reading The Familiar Formula Still Works – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season One, Episode One “Strange New Worlds”