Strange Ramblings of an Independent Writer
IMDB.com Much like the first season’s fifth episode, “Spock Amok”, the fifth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds second season is a “hijinks” episode. “Charades” is a focus episode on Spock and Nurse Chapel, with a fair amount of comedic hijinks thrown in. Combining an accident with interdimensional aliens with a tense sit-down with … Continue reading Exploring Humanity – “Strange New Worlds” Season 2, Episode 5
IMDB.com Memories and feelings are the connective tissue to our lives. That maxim is the core of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season Two, Episode Four “Among the Lotus Eaters”. Given the title of the episode and its allusion to the Greek myth of the Lotus, memory was going to be a focal point of … Continue reading Sense of Self – “Strange New Worlds” Season 2, Episode 4
IMDB.com The core question at the heart of “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the third episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds second season, is this: What are you willing to do to set the future right? The third episode poses this question to the security chief, La’an Noonien Singh, and presents her with an … Continue reading To Save a Tyrant – “Strange New Worlds” Season 2, Episode 3
Paramount Plus Star Trek has always been a progressive universe. From the earliest iteration all the way up to the recent shows, Star Trek has pushed progressive ideals in many of its episodes. The latest episode for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, titled “Ad Astra Per Aspera”, joins those ranks by focusing on the trial … Continue reading The Trial of Una Chin-Riley – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2 Episode 2
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”
When someone watches Star Trek, they expect to be transported to alien worlds and science fiction technobabble. What they do not expect is to find themselves in a medieval fantasy that looks like your average trip to a Renaissance Faire. With the eighth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, titled “The Elysian Kingdom”, we … Continue reading A Child’s Storybook – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Episode 8 “The Elysian Kingdom”
There’s a quote I’m rather fond of from The Dresden Files. It’s spoke by Mab, the Faerie Queen of Air and Darkness in the book Changes: “So many terrible things are done for love. For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, … Continue reading The Things We Do for Love – Review of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Episode 7 “The Serene Squall”
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”