Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 1 Review, Part 3

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about the epic finale of Strange New Worlds' first season! I wanted to get this published before the second season started so I've made it just under the wire.

I've got three reviews for you this time, covering these three episodes:

• 1-08 - The Elysian Kingdom
  
• 1-09 - All Those Who Wander
  
• 1-10 - A Quality of Mercy
  

Then afterwards I'll talk a little bit about the season overall afterwards. Will I be showering the series with glowing praise or going on an angry rant? The only way to find out is to keep reading until the end. Or I suppose you could just scroll down to the bottom, if you're in a hurry or whatever.

This will have SPOILERS for Picard season 2, the TOS story The Menagerie, and a whole bunch of other episodes. I know I'm writing about Strange New Worlds, but I just want to be certain you know that my spoilers will spread to other Trek series as well. I won't say a thing about anything that happens afterwards though. I mean at the time I'm writing this is the latest season, nothing else has happened past this point, but I've heard a few things about season 2 that I'll keep quiet about.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 1 Review, Part 2

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm finally back to writing about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds first season again. I reviewed the first three episodes in August last year, so this has taken me a little longer than I expected, but at least I'm getting this published before season 2 starts. Barely.

This time around I'll be reviewing four episodes:

• 1-04 - Memento Mori
  
• 1-05 - Spock Amok
  
• 1-06 - Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
  
• 1-07 - The Serene Squall
  

Though first I just need to point out that episode 6 has an awesome title. I've giving it a special mention because the writers went the extra mile and that should be rewarded. I see what they did with Spock Amok as well, but it's not quite as as clever as Prodigy's Time Amok I'm afraid. The live action shows are going to have to step up their game if they want to keep up with the cartoons.

Alright, I'll be dropping SPOILERS for all four of these episodes and any earlier Star Trek episodes that jump to mind while I'm writing about them. Well, I mean when I did write about them, in the past. I scribbled my thoughts down the moment after I watched each episode, which was a while ago now. This means that there won't be any spoilers for later episodes, because I didn't know anything about them at the time.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 1 Review, Part 1

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm giving my thoughts on the first three episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

Strange New Worlds is the third live-action series of the Alex Kurtzman era and the first to return to the episodic style of shows like Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. It's so old school that when I describe it to people, I just say that it's Star Trek. It's about a crew of competent professionals going from world to world on the USS Enterprise, solving space problems and moral dilemmas in around 40 minutes. At least, that's what all the reviews say when they're listing reasons why it's so much better than Discovery and Picard.

From what I can tell, Star Trek fans aren't just happy with how the series has turned out, they're also relieved. It's not going to have have serialised seasons that start spinning their wheels halfway through because there's only enough story for four episodes. It's not going to have examinations of how imperfect the Federation really is. It's not going to have damaged heroes who routinely find themselves at the centre of universe-threatening crises because they're so special. Well, in theory anyway.

Personally I've liked the very serialised Discovery and Picard so far... to a degree, but variety is good and I am 100% for an episodic Trek all about Pike, Spock and Number One. In fact I've been waiting for this since Discovery's second season finale, so my enthusiasm level is high here.

I'll start off by sharing thoughts and SPOILERS for these three episodes:

• 1-01 - Strange New Worlds
  
• 1-02 - Children of the Comet
  
• 1-03 - Ghosts of Illyria
  

Though I'll probably also mention something about the earlier Star Trek series as well, so continue reading at your own risk.