Tell Us What You Thought About Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season Premiere

An ideal instance of how we’re within the midst of extra Star Trek than ever proper now could be fairly actually simply as one sequence ends at the moment, one other begins. We already broke down our in depth ideas about that season finale of Star Trek: Picard, however Star Trek: Strange New Worlds additionally boldly went out at the moment with its season premiere. Want to speak spoilers? Well: open hailing frequencies!

There’s a variety of enjoyable and meaty issues happening in “Strange New Worlds,” the self-titled premiere of the sequence. We get to fulfill many of the new Enterprise crew as all of them return from depart between the occasions of Discovery’s explosive second season finale and the beginning of the sequence—notably being launched to the fascinating new Security Chief La’an Noonien-Singh, or Celia Rose Gooding’s delightfully energetic tackle the younger Cadet Nyota Uhura stepping aboard her most iconic tour of responsibility for the primary time—in addition to meet up with among the acquainted faces we noticed again in Discovery. It’s Anson Mount’s Pike and Ethan Peck’s Spock, fairly than Number One (with Rebecca Romijn’s character now ultimately given her full title, Una Chin-Riley), that get the majority of the introspection right here, as we get to see Pike start to grapple together with his personal mortality after seeing his personal future destiny, and Spock start reconciling his human and Vulcan sides when he’s pulled between the duties of Starfleet and his dedication to his new fiancé, T’Pring (performed with relish by Gia Sandhu).

But even when “Strange New Worlds” is a variety of needed set-up, there’s nonetheless time for a really enjoyable little alien journey, as the rationale we don’t get a lot Number One this episode is that the Enterprise known as again into motion early to assist get well her from a primary contact mission gone incorrect. It’s nice, basic Star Trek—officers happening away missions in cool alien disguises to slide right into a pre-warp civilization undetected, with some enjoyable motion. And then, there’s a captivating twist after we study this pre-warp race has needed to take care of the literal fallout of Discovery’s season two finale, discovering the wreckage of warp drives from the Enterprise and Discovery’s battle with Control and… turning them into huge bombs fairly than inadvertently kickstarting their ascension to a space-faring civilization. It’s a intelligent bridge between the drama of Discovery and the extra breezy mission-of-the-week set-up Strange New Worlds goes for, and undoubtedly units the stage for what guarantees to be a enjoyable season of adventures. But what did you consider the present up to now? Did you take pleasure in “Strange New Worlds,” or are you excited to see the place the sequence goes from right here?

Come again subsequent week after we’ll start our common recaps of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, however within the implytime, tell us what you considered the premiere within the feedback beneath. And, try these hyperlinks to see extra of our Strange New Worlds pre-release protection, together with a spoiler-free evaluation of the primary half of the season, and insights from the solid in addition to sequence co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers!

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